Name: XV SuperB General Meeting - Caltech
Start: 2010-12-14T08:00:00-08:00
End: 2010-12-17T18:00:00-08:00
Location: California Institute of Technology

XV SuperB General Meeting - Caltech

from Tuesday, 14 December 2010 (08:00) to Friday, 17 December 2010 (18:00)

Monday, 13 December 2010
Tuesday, 14 December 2010
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: AUD - Baxter Lecture Hall
Contributions

09:00 Welcome

09:05 Project Status - Marcello Giorgi (PI)

09:20 Accelerator Status - Maria Enrica Biagini (LNF)

09:45 Detector Status - Blair Ratcliff (SLAC)

10:10 Computing Status - Armando Fella (CNAF)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: B125 - Baxter Room 125
Contributions

11:00 IR lattice update - Yuri Nosochkov (on the phone) (SLAC)

11:25 Discussion on Lattice issues
11:00 - 12:30
Room: B128 - Baxter Room 128
Contributions

11:00 FDIRC prototype CRT test and its impact on FDIRC at SuperB - Jerry Vavra (SLAC)

11:20 FDIRC MC simulation - Douglas Roberts (University of Maryland) Jerry Vavra (SLAC)

11:40 Mechanics for the CRT test - Massimo Benettoni (PD)

12:00 Barrel electronics - Christophe Beigbeder (LAL)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: B127 - Baxter Room 127
Contributions

11:00 Update on DCH background study with Bruno - Riccardo Cenci (PI)

11:20 Update on FullSim Studies - Dana Lindemann (McGill University)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: B218 - Baxter Room 218
Contributions

11:00 Introduction to the Beam Test - Alessandro Rossi (PG)

11:15 MC studies of the beam test - Stefano Germani

11:30 First look at the test beam data - Alessandro Rossi (PG)

11:45 Results on test beam data - Chih-hsiang Cheng (Caltech)

12:00 Results from CsI on test beam - Bertrand Echenard (California Institute of Technology)

12:15 SIC LYSO crystal - Ren-yuan Zhu (Caltech)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: B237 - Baxter Room 237
Contributions

11:00 General Overview - Gianluigi Cibinetto (FE)

11:15 SiPM characterization, prototype assembly and QC - Wander Baldini (FE)

11:40 Test of neutron damage in Legnaro - Enrico Feltresi (PD)

12:00 Discussion about plan for TDR
11:00 - 12:30
Room: B210 - Baxter Room 210
Contributions

11:00 Introduction - Giuliana Rizzo (PI)

11:10 Update on pixel analog cell design - Lodovico Ratti (PV)

11:30 Simulation of new readout architecture for pixels: triggered version - Filippo Maria Giorgi (BO)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: B210 - Baxter Room 210
Contributions

14:00 updated study of track/B reconstruction vs DCH length - Matteo Rama (LNF)

14:15 B->K(*)nunubar HAD tag vs fwd PID and bwd EMC - Elisa Manoni (PG)

14:35 B->K(*)nunubar and B->tau nu SL tag vs fwd PID and bwd EMC - Luis Alejandro Perez Perez (PI)

14:55 B->tau nu HAD and SL tag vs fwd PID and bwd EMC - Alexander Rakitin (Caltech)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: B127 - Baxter Room 127
Contributions

14:00 TID test of the DS92LV18 SerDes - Raffaele GIORDANO

14:20 Error Correcting Codes for Serial links : an update - Sergio CAVALIERE

14:40 News about FCTS system - Daniel CHARLET

15:00 The SLAC IR2 Computing Test Facility - Steffen Luitz (SLAC)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: B125 - Baxter Room 125
Contributions

14:00 New Geant4 model of the beam pipe and of the SVT L0. Latest backgrounds estimates. - Riccardo Cenci (PI)

14:20 Discussion on MDI Interface Issues
14:00 - 15:30
Room: B218 - Baxter Room 218
Contributions

14:00 B0->KsKsKs - Simon Sitt (LPNHE PARIS)

14:20 Geometric origin of CP violation, CKM and MNS matrices in a SUSY SU(5) x T' mode - Mu-Chun Chen (University of California at Irvine)

14:45 Charm mixing - Rolf Andreassen (University of Cincinnati)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: B125 - Baxter Room 125
Contributions

16:00 IBS Calculations Update - Theo Demma (LNF)

16:20 E Cloud Simulations Update - Theo Demma (LNF)

16:40 Polarization Results from Zgoubi - Nicolas Monseu (LPSC, Grenoble, France)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: B210 - Baxter Room 210
Contributions

16:00 Effect of the B field on efficiency and resolution - Rolf Andreassen (University of Cincinnati)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: B127 - Baxter Room 127
Contributions

16:00 Trigger Considerations - Steffen Luitz (SLAC)

16:20 Discussion about trigger
Wednesday, 15 December 2010
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: B125 - Baxter Room 125
Contributions

09:00 Report on the 2nd Geological Survey at LNF - Sandro Tomassini (LNF)

09:25 Report from Site Parameters Committee - Pantaleo Raimondi (LNF)

09:50 Synchrotron Light Beamlines - Walter Wittmer (on the phone) (SLAC)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: B25 - Baxter Room 25
Contributions

09:00 Distributed Storage R&D - Giacinto Donvito (INFN)

09:30 Report from CHEP - Armando Fella (CNAF)

09:50 Report from IEEE - Luca Tomassetti (FE)

10:10 Discussion and Planning
09:00 - 10:30
Room: B127 - Baxter Room 127
Contributions

09:00 Update on LNF lab activities - Giuseppe Finocchiaro (LNF)

09:20 Update on lab activities in Canada - Christopher Hearty (University of British Columbia/IPP)

09:40 DCH front-end status - Giulietto Felici (LNF)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: B218 - Baxter Room 218
Contributions

09:00 Update on mechanics - michel lebeau (infn)

09:15 MIP studies with test beam data - Davide Pinci (RM1)

09:30 Update on electronics - Valerio Bocci (RM1)

09:45 Study of PID forward and Backward EMC with fastsim in B to K*nunu - Elisa Manoni (PG)

10:00 Backward EMC study with fastsim in B to tau nu - Alexander Rakitin (Caltech)

10:15 Update on backward EMC - Gerald Eigen (University of Bergen)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: B237 - Baxter Room 237
Contributions

09:00 Prototype installation and beam test - Gianluigi Cibinetto (FE)

09:25 First results from beam test - Mauro Munerato (FE)

09:50 Discussion about beam test
09:00 - 10:30
Room: B210 - Baxter Room 210
Contributions

09:00 First results on hybrid pixel front-end with sensor - Stefano Bettarini (PI)

09:20 Update on pixel bus and pixel module interfaces - Mauro Citterio (MI)

09:40 SVT Background Update - Riccardo Cenci (PI)

10:00 Layer0 support & SVT Mechanics (TBC) - Filippo Bosi (PI)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: B128 - Baxter Room 128
Contributions

09:00 LAL test bench for PMTs - Dominique Breton (LAL ORSAY)

09:20 Quick Report on Radiation Hardness studies on Silicon G-APDs - Enrico Feltresi (PD)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: B125 - Baxter Room 125
Contributions

11:00 Vibration Studies - Kirk Bertsche (SLAC)

11:20 Vibration Measurements at LNF - LAURENT BRUNETTI (LAPP-IN2P3-CNRS, Université de Savoie)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: B210 - Baxter Room 210
Contributions

11:00 Introductory Remarks - Abolhassan Jawahery (University of Maryland)

11:05 Physics Impact of Forward PID - Matteo Rama (LNF)

11:55 Test Beam Study of Impact FPID on F-EMC - Stefano Germani (PG)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: B125 - Baxter Room 125
Contributions

14:00 Background Studies - Michael Sullivan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

14:30 Background Studies - Luis Alejandro Perez Perez (PI)

14:50 QD0 - Eugenio Paoloni (PI)

15:10 Wakefield Calculations for the IR - Stephen Weathersby (on the phone) (SLAC)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: B218 - Baxter Room 218
Contributions

14:00 Backward EMC TOF - Chih-hsiang Cheng (Caltech)

14:15 Backward EMC - Gerald Eigen (University of Bergen)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: B237 - Baxter Room 237
Contributions

14:00 Production status - Luca Tomassetti (INFN-Ferrara)

14:20 Distributed production system PnP - Armando Fella

15:00 Personal production report - Konstantin Shougaev (SLAC)

15:10 Discussion
14:00 - 15:30
Room: B210 - Baxter Room 210
Contributions

14:00 Introduction FTOF (+ Cost Estimate) - Achille Stocchi (LAL - Université Paris Sud and IN2p3/CNRS) NICOLAS ARNAUD (LAL ORSAY CNRS-IN2P3)

14:30 CRT Experiments: Set-Up/Electronic - Dominique Breton (LAL ORSAY)

14:55 CRT Experiments: Results of Data Analysis - leonid Burmistrov (LaL)

15:20 CRT Experiments: Next Step for this Experiment - Achille Stocchi (LAL - Université Paris Sud and IN2p3/CNRS)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00

16:00

16:00 - 17:30
Room: B125 - Baxter Room 125
16:00 - 17:30
Room: B218 - Baxter Room 218
Contributions

16:00 Backward EMC (cont'd) - Gerald Eigen (University of Bergen)

16:30 Task Force Discussion
16:00 - 17:30
Room: B210 - Baxter Room 210
Contributions

16:00 FARICH & Responses to TF Questions - Evgeniy Kravchenko (Budker INP)

16:40 Pixelated TOF & Responses to TF Questions - Jerry Vavra (SLAC)
Thursday, 16 December 2010
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: B125 - Baxter Room 125
Contributions

09:00 New Feedback Commissioning - Alessandro Drago (on the phone) (LNF)

09:25 Tests on LET at DIAMOND - Simone Maria Liuzzo (on the phone) (Università di Pisa)

09:45 Second Order Alfa-C - Alexander Novokhatski (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: B210 - Baxter Room 210
09:00 - 10:30
Room: B127 - Baxter Room 127
Contributions

09:00 Status of SVT front-end electronics - Filippo Maria Giorgi (BO)

09:15 Status of DCH front-end electronics - Marcello Piccolo

09:30 Status of PID front-end electronics - Christophe Beigbeder

09:45 Status of EMC front-end electronics - Valerio BOCCI

10:00 Status of IFR front-end electronics - Angelo COTTA-RAMUSINO
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00

11:00

11:00 - 12:30
Room: B125 - Baxter Room 125
11:00 - 12:30
Room: B218 - Baxter Room 218
Contributions

11:00 FastSim Development status and plans - David Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

11:20 CMake status - Marco Corvo (PD)

11:40 CDash - Stefano Longo (PD)

12:00 FastSim documentation and publication plans - discussion - All Matteo Rama (LNF)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: B127 - Baxter Room 127

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00

14:00

14:00 - 15:30
Room: B125 - Baxter Room 125
14:00 - 15:30
Room: B218 - Baxter Room 218
Contributions

14:00 Bruno: latest developments. - Alejandro Perez (INFN-Pisa)

14:20 SVT & DCH backgrounds on the latest IR / lattice layout. - Riccardo Cenci (PI)

14:35 EMC: a first look to the new full sim production (TBC). - Stefano Germani

14:50 IFR backgrounds: neutron flux studies (TBC). - Mauro Munerato

15:05 Background simulation: next steps
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: B125 - Baxter Room 125
Contributions

16:00 Overall TDR plan+regional Work Pkgs

17:00 Summary of Sub-Groups Work
16:00 - 18:30
Room: B210 - Baxter Room 210

19:30 Dinner at the Athenaeum
Dinner at the Athenaeum
19:30 - 22:00
Friday, 17 December 2010
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 Minimal Flavor Violation and New Flavor Physics at the Weak Scale - Mark Wise (Caltech)
10:00
10:00 - 10:30
Contributions

10:00 SVT - Giuliana Rizzo (PI)

10:15 DCH - Giuseppe Finocchiaro (LNF) Michael Roney (University of Victoria)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 PID - Jerry Vavra (SLAC) NICOLAS ARNAUD (LAL ORSAY CNRS-IN2P3)

11:15 EMC - Claudia Cecchi (PG) Frank Porter (Caltech)

11:30 IFR - Roberto Calabrese (FE)

11:45 ETD - Dominique Breton (LAL ORSAY) Steffen Luitz (SLAC) Umberto Marconi (BO)

12:00 Computing - Fabrizio Bianchi (TO)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 MDI - Luis Alejandro Perez Perez (PI)

14:15 Accelerator Overall Summary - Maria Enrica Biagini (LNF)

14:45 Accelerator IR Summary - Michael Sullivan (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

15:05 Project Outlook - Marcello Giorgi (PI)

15:30 Workshop Group Photo
15:30 Ajdourn
Ajdourn
15:30 - 16:00

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