Calor 2008

26 May 2008, 08:00 → 30 May 2008, 18:00 Europe/Rome

Salone Teresiano (Biblioteca Universitaria, Pavia, Italy)

Michele Livan (Universita' di Pavia, INFN Pavia)

The International Conferences on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics (Calor Conference series) address all aspects of calorimetric particle detection and measurement with emphasis in high energy physics experiments. Low and medium energy calorimetry, applications in neutrino physics, astrophysics and medicine are also covered in each conference.

Monday, 26 May

09:30 → 11:15 Conference Opening Session

Chair: Michele Livan (INFN e Universita' Pavia)

09:30 Welcome

10:00 The contributions of the University of Pavia to scientific culture

Speaker: Prof. Paolo Mazzarello (Pavia University)

Slides introduction.ppt

10:30 Physics with calorimeters

Speaker: Prof. Klaus Pretzl (Bern University)

Slides Pretzl.pdf.pdf

11:15 → 13:05 LHC: Overview

Chair: Philippe Bloch (CERN)

11:15 Calorimeters: key detectors for LHC physics

Speaker: Egidio Longo (INFN e Universita' Roma I)

Slides longo.pdf

11:45 The ATLAS LAr calorimeter: an overview

Speaker: Henric Wilkens (CERN)

Slides HW20080526-CALOR.pdf

12:05 The CMS crystal calorimeter

Speaker: Werner Lustermann (ETH Zurich)

Slides CMS-ECAL-Pavia-Lustermann-26May2008.pdf

12:25 The ALICE PHOS Calorimeter

Speaker: Dr Hisayuki Torii (Hiroshima Univ.)

Slides Hisayuki_Torii_calor08.pdf

12:45 LHCb preshower(PS) and Scintillating pad detector (SPD): calibration and monitoring

Speaker: Eduardo Picatoste (Universitat de Barcelona)

Slides LHCb_PS_SPD_calor_2008.ppt

13:05 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:55 LHC: Electromagnetic Calorimeters

Chair: Richard Wigmans (Texas Tech University)

14:00 The LHCb Electromagnetic calorimeter calibration & monitoring

Speaker: Mrs Irina Machikhiligan (ITEP)

Slides Calor08_IrinaMachikhiliyan.pdf

14:20 Studies of the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter performance in the electron test beam

Speaker: Dr Roberta Arcidiacono (INFN e Universita' Torino)

Slides Arcidiacono_26may08.pdf

14:40 Performance of the ATLAS LAr barrel calorimeter in the 2004 combined test beam

Speaker: Nicolas kerschen (University of Sheffield)

Slides kerschen_CALOR_26_05_2008.pdf

15:00 The electronics calibration of the ATLAS LAr Calorimeter and commissioning of the detector with cosmic muon signals

Speaker: Carolina Gabaldon Ruiz (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

Slides CGabaldon_CALOR2008.pdf

15:20 Calibration of the electromagnetic calorimeter of the CMS detector

Speaker: Tommaso Tabarelli de Fatis (MIB)

Slides EcalibCALOR08_V2.ppt

15:40 Performance of CMS ECAL Preshower in 2007 test beam

Speaker: Mr SYUE-WEI LI (National Central University, Taiwan)

Slides Performance_of_CMS_ECAL_Preshower_in_2007_test.pdf

15:55 → 16:25 Coffee Break

16:25 → 18:10 Calorimetric Techniques

Chair: Christophe De La Taille (Universite' de Paris-Sud)

16:25 The ALICE Electromagnetic Calorimeter Project

Speaker: Dr Federico Ronchetti (INFN LNF)

Slides ronchetti-pavia08-2.pdf

16:45 Studies of the effect of charged hadrons on Lead Tungstate crystals

Speaker: Dr Francesca Nessi-Tedaldi (ETH - Zurich)

Slides 080526_CALOR08_FN.pdf 080526_CALOR08_FN.ppt

17:05 The CMS-HF Calorimeters: the radiation hard quartz calorimetry

Speaker: Aldo Penzo (INFN Trieste)

Slides Penzo.ppt

17:30 New crystal technologies for novel calorimeter concepts

Speaker: Dr Paul Lecoq (CERN)

Slides PL-Calor08.pdf

17:50 Crystal Calorimeters in the Next Decade

Speaker: Dr Ren-yuan Zhu (Caltech)

Slides ryz_080526_calor.pdf

19:00 → 21:00 Welcome Buffet

Tuesday, 27 May

09:00 → 10:40 Calorimetric Techniques

Chair: Jan Stark (LPSC Grenoble)

09:00 The electromagnetic calorimeter of the PANDA experiment at FAIR.

Speaker: Mr Philippe ROSIER (IPN Orsay)

Slides Rosier.ppt

09:20 Recent results from the DREAM Project

Speaker: Prof. Richard Wigmans (Texas Tech University)

Slides Rwigmans.pdf

09:40 Detection of K+ mesons in segmented electromagnetic calorimeters

Speaker: Dr Derek Glazier (University of Edinburgh)

Slides GlazierCALOR08.pdf

10:00 The NA62 rare kaon decay experiment photon veto system

Speaker: Vito Palladino (INFN e Universita' Napoli)

Slides Calor2008_Vito_Palladino.ppt

10:20 Test beam study of the PANDA Shashlyk calorimeter prototype

Speaker: Dr Dmitry Morozov (Institute for High Energy Physics (Protvino, Russia))

Slides calor08_morozov.pdf calor08_morozov.ppt

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 → 13:00 Calorimetric Techniques

Chair: Paul Lecoq (CERN)

11:10 Construction and tests of a fine granularity lead-scintillating fibers calorimeter

Speaker: Dr Antonio Passeri (INFN e Universita' Roma Tre)

Slides passeri.ppt.ppt

11:30 measurement and simulation of the neutron detection efficiency with a PB-scifi calorimeter

Speaker: Dr Matteo Martini (LNF -INFN)

Slides martini_calor08_2.pdf

11:55 Jet Energy Scale at D0

Speaker: Jeroen Hegeman (NIKHEF)

Slides calor_2008_jhegeman.pdf.pdf

12:15 R&D for a PFA calorimeters

Speaker: Jean Claude Brient

Slides brient.pdf brient.ppt

12:35 The CALICE SciW Calorimeter Prototype

Speaker: Daniel Jeans

Slides jeans_calor08.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:45 New Techniques: Simulation and Particle Flow Calorimetry

Chair: Klaus Pretzl (Bern University)

14:00 Simulation of the 4th concept calorimeter

Speaker: Dr Vito Di Benedetto (INFN Lecce and Università del Salento)

Slides DiBenedettoVCALOR2008.pdf

14:20 The CALICE test beam programme

Speaker: Dr Fabrizio Salvatore (Royal Holloway University of London)

Slides CALICEtbSalvatore.pdf

14:40 Response of the CALICE SiW ECAL prototype to electrons

Speaker: Dr Djamel Eddine Boumediene (Clermont Ferrand)

Slides boumediene.pdf.pdf

15:00 Test of Digital HCAL

Speaker: Dr Jose' Repond (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides repond.pdf repond.ppt.ppt

15:20 Semiconductor sensors for the CALICE SiW EMC and Study of the Cross-talk between Guard Rings and Pixels in the CALICE SiW Prototype

Speaker: Dr Remi Cornat

Slides cornat.pdf.pdf

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 → 18:00 New Techniques: Multi-Readout Calorimetry

Chair: Fabrizio Salvatore (Royal Holloway University of London)

16:15 Effects of temperature dependence of the signals from Lead Tungstate

Speaker: Gabriella Gaudio (INFN Pavia)

Slides gaudio_CALOR08_NT.pdf

16:35 Time profile analysis of photodetector signals in multi read-out calorimetry with GHz samplers

Speaker: Roberto Carosi (INFN e Universita' Pisa)

Slides carosi.pdf

16:55 Separation of BGO/PbWO4 signals into Cherenkov and scintillation component

Speaker: Cecilia Voena (INFN e Universita' Roma I)

Slides voena_bgo.pdf

17:20 Dual-readout Calorimetry with Crystals

Speaker: Davide Pinci (INFN Roma I)

Slides pinci_DualReadoutWithCrystal.pdf

17:40 Estimate of neutrons event-by-event in DREAM

Speaker: Prof. John Hauptman (Iowa State University)

Slides hauptman.pdf.pdf

19:00 → 21:00 Reception at the City Hall

Wednesday, 28 May

09:00 → 10:40 Astrophysics and neutrinos

Chair: Andrea Vacchi (INFN Trieste)

09:00 Calorimeter R&D for the Double Beta Decay Experiment SuperNEMO

Speaker: Dr Matthew Kauer (University College London)

Slides calor08_kauer.ppt

09:20 The ArDM project: A Liquid Argon TPC for Dark Matter Detection

Speaker: Mr Vittorio Boccone (CERN and University of Zurich)

Slides boccone_Calor08.pdf

09:40 Electromagnatic shower reconstruction with emulsion films in the OPERA experiment

Speaker: Dr Frederic Juget (Université de Neuchatel)

Slides OPERA_CALOR08.ppt

10:00 SciBar Detector for SciBooNE

Speaker: Mr Hideyuki Takei (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

Slides calor2008_takei.pdf

10:20 The electromagnetic calorimeter (EC) at SciBooNE

Speaker: Dr Camillo mariani (Columbia University)

Slides mariani.pdf.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 → 13:00 Astrophysics and neutrinos

Chair: Inés Gil Botella (CIEMAT)

11:10 The ANTARES underwater neutrino telescope

Speaker: Dr Oleg Kalekin (Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, University of Erlangen)

Slides Kalekin_Calor08.ppt

11:30 Atmospheric Calorimetry above 10^19 eV: Shooting Lasers at the Pierre Auger Cosmic-Ray Observatory

Speaker: Prof. Lawrence Wiencke (Colorado School of Mines)

Slides CALOR08-Wiencke.pdf

11:45 Results of the Pierre Auger Observatory on Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays

Speaker: Dr Julio Lozano Bahilo (University of Granada)

Slides PAO_results_UHECR.ppt

12:00 Performance of the PAMELA Silicon-Tungsten Imaging Calorimeter in Space

Speaker: Dr Valter Bonvicini (INFN e Universita' Trieste)

Slides Bonvicini_2.ppt

12:20 The Mini-Calorimeter onboard AGILE: the first year in space

Speaker: Dr Martino Marisaldi (INAF-IASF Bologna)

Slides presentazione_Marisaldi_MCAL_CALOR08_v2.pdf

12:40 The AMS-02 3D Imaging calorimeter : a tool for cosmic ray physics in space

Speaker: Dr Corinne Goy (LAPP)

Slides goy-calor08.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 lunch

14:00 → 18:00 Guided tour to Certosa di Pavia

Thursday, 29 May

09:00 → 10:40 LHC: Hadronic Calorimeters

Chair: Laurent Serin (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire / IN2P3/ CNRS)

09:00 The ATLAS Tile Calorimeter: Commissioning and Preparation for Collisions

Speaker: Oleg Solovyanov (IHEP, Protvino, Russia)

Slides CALOR2008-TileComm.ppt

09:20 The LHCb Hadronic Calorimeter performance and calibration

Speaker: Iouri Guz (IHEP)

Slides guz_LHCb_HCAL.ppt

09:40 CMS HCAL Installation and Commissioning

Speaker: Dr Kerem Cankocak (Iowa University)

Slides pavia_kerem_Hcal.pdf

10:00 The CMS Barrel Calorimeter Response to Particle Beams from 2 to 350 GeV/c

Speaker: Dr Efe Yazgan (Texas Tech University)

Slides EfeYazganCalor2008.pdf

10:20 ATLAS Tile Calorimeter performance for single particles in beam tests

Speaker: Dr Tomas Davidek (IPNP, Charles University in Prague)

Slides pion_response_pavia_2.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 → 13:10 LHC

Chair: Ren-yuan Zhu (Caltech)

11:10 Performance of the ATLAS Forward Calorimeter

Speaker: Louise Heelan (Carleton University)

Slides LHeelan_Calor2008.pdf

11:30 Performance of the combined zero degree calorimeter for CMS

Speaker: Oleg Grachov (University of Kansas)

Slides Grachov_CALOR2008.pdf

11:50 Commissioning and calibration of the ALICE Zero Degree Calorimeters

Speaker: Dr Nora De Marco (INFN Torino)

Slides DeMarco.pdf

12:10 Calorimetry triggering in ATLAS

Speaker: Olga Igonkina (Nikhef)

Slides calor2008.pdf

12:30 CMS Electromagnetic Trigger commissioning

Speaker: Pascal Paganini (LLR-IN2P3-CNRS)

Slides PaganiniPavia.pdf

12:50 Triggering with the LHCb calorimeters

Speaker: Regis Lefevre (LPC Clermont)

Slides RegisLefevre_Calor2008.ppt

13:10 → 14:00 lunch

14:00 → 15:45 Simulation

Chair: Adele Rimoldi (INFN e Universita' di Pavia)

14:00 Progress in hadronic physics modeling in Geant4

Speaker: Gunter Folger (CERN)

Slides calor.pdf

14:20 The response of the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter to pions and protons

Speaker: Dr Margar Simonyan (LAPP)

Slides margar_calor08.pdf

14:40 GEANT4 Physics Evaluation with Testbeam Data of the ATLAS Hadronic End-Cap Calorimeter

Speaker: Andrey Kiryunin (MPI for Physics, Munich)

Slides geant4_hec.pdf

15:00 MC comparison in the ATLAS Combined test-beam

Speaker: Peter Speckmayer (CERN)

Slides calor08.pdf calor08.ppt

15:20 CALICE scintillator HCAL - electromagnetic and hadronic shower analysis

Speaker: Erika Garutti (DESY)

Slides Erika_Garutti.pdf.pdf Erika_Garutti.ppt.ppt

15:45 → 16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 → 18:00 Simulation

Chair: Tancredi Carli (CERN)

16:15 Performance of the ATLAS Liquid Argon Endcap Calorimeter in Beam Tests

Speaker: Mr Pavol Strizenec (IEP SAS Kosice)

Slides strizenec_atlas_endcaptb.odp.odp strizenec_atlas_endcaptb.pdf.pdf

16:35 Overview on ATLAS Hadronic Calibration

Speaker: Guennadi Pospelov (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik)

16:50 Validation of the ATLAS Hadronic Calibration in scheme in Beam Tests (End-Cap)

Speaker: Teresa Barillari (MPI, Munich)

Slides TeresaPavia0508.pdf

17:00 Test of the ATLAS Pion Calibration Scheme in the ATLAS Combined Test-Beam

Speaker: Francesco Spano (Columbia University)

Slides SpanoCALOR08.pdf

17:20 Fast shower simulation in ATLAS Calorimeter

Speaker: Dr Ringaile Placakyte (DESY)

Slides calor08.pdf

17:40 Fine shashlik simulation from tests results

Speaker: Mikhael Prokudin (ITEP)

Slides calor08_29.pdf

19:00 → 21:00 Social Dinner

Friday, 30 May

09:00 → 10:40 Calorimetric Techniques

Chair: John Hauptman (Iowa State)

09:00 Towards a realistic calorimeter with SiPM readout

Speaker: Felix Sefkow (DESY)

Slides Sefkow.pdf Sefkow.ppt

09:20 Calibration and monitoring of a scintillator HCAL with SiPMs

Speaker: Angela Lucaci-Timoce (DESY)

Slides lucaci-Calor08.pdf

09:40 Design and performance of 2nd generation readout ASICS for CALICE/EUDET technological prototypes

Speaker: Christophe De la Taille (Universite' de Paris-Sud)

Slides cdlt_calor08.pdf cdlt_calor08.ppt

10:00 CALICE: status of a data acquisition system for the ILC calorimeters

Speaker: Dr Valeria Bartsch (University College London)

Slides Bartsch.pdf

10:20 A digital hadronic calormiter with a new readout generation.

Speaker: Imad Laktineh (IPNL)

Slides ILaktineh.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 → 13:00 Operating Calorimeters

Chair: Willis Sakumoto (University of Rochester)

11:15 The Performance and Operation of the D0 Calorimeter

Speaker: Mr Daniel Duggan (Florida State University)

Slides CALOR08_D0Ops.pdf.pdf

11:39 Belle EM Calorimeter and its sBelle Upgrade

Speaker: Dr Isamu nakamura (KEK)

Slides talk.pdf

12:03 Performance and Operation of the Crystal Calorimeter of the BaBar Detector

Speaker: Mr Andy Ruland (University of Texas at Austin)

Slides Ruland_Calor08.pdf.pdf

12:22 Calibration of the BaBar CsI(TL) Calorimeter

Speaker: Dr Joerg Marks (Physikalisches Institut, University of Heidelberg)

Slides Calor2008BabarCalibration.pdf

12:41 The Crystal-Barrel/TAPS-Experiment at ELSA

Speaker: Mr Christoph Wendel (HISKP Universität Bonn)

Slides ChWendel.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 lunch

14:00 → 15:45 Operating Calorimeters

Chair: Dean Schamberger (State University of New York at Stony Brook)

14:00 CDF Calorimetry

Speaker: Giovanni Pauletta (Università di Udine)

Slides Pauletta.pdf

14:24 STAR Detector Calorimetry

Speaker: Dr William W. Jacobs (Indiana University Cyclotron Facility/Dept. of Physics)

Slides STAR_Calor08_wwj.ppt

14:48 Status of Electromagnetic Calorimeter in BESIII（Beijing Spectrometer ）

Speaker: Prof. Li Zhou (Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) Chinese Academy of Science)

Slides calor-zhoul.ppt.ppt

15:07 Calorimeters for absolute luminosity measurement at upgraded DAFNE

Speaker: Paolo Branchini (INFN Roma Tre)

Slides Branchini.pdf Branchini.ppt

15:26 The MEG liquid xenon calorimeter

Speaker: Giovanni Gallucci (INFN Pisa)

Slides Gallucci.ppt