Name: RPC2012 - XI Workshop on Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors
Start: 2012-02-05T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2012-02-10T17:15:00+01:00
Location: INFN-LNF

RPC2012 - XI Workshop on Resistive Plate Chambers and Related Detectors

from Sunday, 5 February 2012 (08:00) to Friday, 10 February 2012 (17:15)

Monday, 30 January 2012
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Wednesday, 1 February 2012
Thursday, 2 February 2012
Friday, 3 February 2012
Saturday, 4 February 2012
Sunday, 5 February 2012

08:00 Arrivals
Arrivals
08:00 - 00:00
Room: ---

Monday, 6 February 2012

09:30 Registration
Registration
09:30 - 13:30
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36

13:30 Lunch @ Frascati lab Cafeteria (on the ENEA site)
Lunch @ Frascati lab Cafeteria (on the ENEA site)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Frascati lab Cafeteria (on the ENEA site) accross via Fermi, see map
15:00 (Chairperson S. Bianco)
(Chairperson S. Bianco)
15:00 - 16:20
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

15:00 Welcome Address - Umberto Dosselli (LNF)

15:15 Remembering Giuseppe Belli - Giuseppe Iaselli (BA)

15:20 Remembering Anna Piccotti

15:25 Keynote - Rinaldo Santonico (Univ. Tor Vergata and INFN Roma 2)
16:20 (Chairpersons R.Santonico)
(Chairpersons R.Santonico)
16:20 - 19:25
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

16:40 Calibration of the RPC working voltage in the CMS experiment - Silvia Costantini (University of Ghent)

17:00 Performance and Operation of the ATLAS RPC Detector during the 2011 LHC run - Alessandro Polini (BO)

17:20 ATLAS RPC time-of-flight performance - Gabriele Chiodini (INFN Lecce)

18:05 Performance of the ALICE muon trigger system in Pb–Pb collisions - Massimiliano Marchisone (TO)

18:25 Performance of the MRPC-based Time-Of-Flight detector of ALICE at LHC - Andrea Alici (BO)

18:45 Performance and aging of OPERA bakelite RPCs. - Alessandro Paoloni (LNF)

19:05 Results from the ARGO-YBJ experiment - Roberto Iuppa (ROMA2)
20:30 Welcome Cocktail - Villa Grazioli, Grottaferrata
Welcome Cocktail - Villa Grazioli, Grottaferrata
20:30 - 23:30
Room: Villa Grazioli, Grottaferrata
Tuesday, 7 February 2012
09:00 (Chairpersons D. González-Diaz , G. Iaselli)
(Chairpersons D. González-Diaz , G. Iaselli)
09:00 - 12:45
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

09:00 The Extreme Energy Events experiment: cosmics rays, multigap resistive plate chambers and high school students - Marcello Abbrescia (Università and INFN - Bari - Italy)

09:20 R&D and mass production of LMRPC module for the STAR-MTD system - Huangshan Chen (Tsinghua University)

09:40 Aging test of high rate MRPC - Xingming Fan (Tsinghua University)

10:00 Conceptual design of the CBM-TOF wall with real-size high-rate MRPC modules based on the newly developed chinese doped glass - Jingbo WANG (Tsinghua university)

10:20 A Multistrip-MRPC prototype for the CBM Time-of-Flight wall - Ingo Deppner (Pysikalisches Institut der Universität Heidelberg)

11:05 Design and performance of large area, high resolution RPCs for LEPS2 at SPring-8 - Natsuki Tomida (Kyoto University)

11:25 Phenolic Multigap RPCs for high-rate particle triggers in the CMS experiment - Kyong Sei Lee (Korea University)

11:45 Construction and Tests of new Resistive Plate Chambers for the Upgrade of the CMS Endcap System - Lalit Pant (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre)

12:05 Performance of timing-RPC prototypes with relativistic heavy ions - Carlos Paradela Dobarro (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela)

12:25 Study of Angular Distribution of Cosmic Muons using INO-ICAL Prototype Detector at TIFR - Sumanta Pal (TIFR)
13:05 Lunch @ Restaurant Villa Mercede (shuttle from Conference Hall)
Lunch @ Restaurant Villa Mercede (shuttle from Conference Hall)
13:05 - 15:00
Room: Restaurant Villa Mercede (shuttle from Conference Hall)
15:00 (Chairperson G.Iaselli)
(Chairperson G.Iaselli)
15:00 - 15:40
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

15:00 Performance of FOPI MMRPC Barrel in Recent Heavy-Ion Experiments - Mladen Kiš (GSI)

15:20 ATLAS RPC detector as Luminosity monitor - Marcello Bindi (BO)
15:40 (Chairperson M. Abbrescia)
(Chairperson M. Abbrescia)
15:40 - 18:30
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

15:40 Review of Simulation and Modeling - Paulo Fonte (Coimbra)

16:10 Simulation studies on the Effect of SF6 in the RPC gas mixture - Bheesette Satyanarayana (Department of High Energy Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 400005, INDIA)

16:30 RPC simulations from a current stand-point - Diego Gonzalez-Diaz (GSI and Tsinghua University)

17:10 Charge signal diffusion through resistive strip read-outs. - Javier Galan (CEA Saclay)

17:30 The CMS RPC performance and simulation - Roumyana Mileva Hadjiiska (University of Sofia)

17:50 A multigap RPC based detector for gamma rays - Borislav Pavlov (University of Sofia)

18:10 Simulations of an innovative ToF detector for high energy neutrons based on iron-less RPCs - Machado JORGE (Centro de Física Nuclear da Universidade de Lisboa, 1649‐003 Lisboa, Portugal))
18:30
18:30 - 19:30
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

18:30 Response of the DHCAL to Hadrons and Positrons - Burak Bilki (Argonne National Laboratory)

18:31 The on-line monitoring of the ALICE Muon Trigger at LHC - yongwook baek (LPC, Univ. Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France)

18:32 Electronics and data acquisition systems for the RPC based INO ICAL detector - Satyanarayana Bheesette (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)

18:33 Study of RPCs for autonomous stations in cosmic ray research - Luis Lopes (Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (LIP))

18:34 Analysis of the radiation background in the CMS RPCs - Mircho rodozov (PhD student)

18:35 The RPC hits in the CMS muon reconstruction - Minsuk Kim (postdoc)

18:36 Operational experience of the GGM at the CMS Experiment - Stefano Colafranceschi (LNF)

18:37 RPC monitoring tools in the CMS experiment - Umberto Maria Riccardo Berzano (PV)

18:38 Analysis of the front structure of EAS with the HADES tRPC wall - Georgy Kornakov (Univ. Santiago de Compostela)

18:39 Resistive Plate Chambers in the ARGO-YBJ experiment: operational features, monitoring and control - Paolo Camarri (ROMA2)

18:40 A model for the chemistry of defects in bakelite plates exposed to high-radiation environment - Ferdinando Felli (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell'INFN and Sapienza Universita` di Roma)

18:41 Development of 1 mm low resistivity Bakelite plate for thin-gap RPC detector - Liang HAN (Univ. of Science & Technology of China (USTC))

18:42 TDC Readout Board v3 - Grzegorz Korcyl (Jagiellonian University)

18:43 CAD: A Current-Mode Amplifier and Discriminator ASIC for MRPC-TOF Detectors - Xin ZHOU (TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY)

18:44 An improved gas distribution system for the ATLAS RPCs - Enrico Pastori (RM2)

18:45 Gas purifiers for closed-loop gas systems - Carla Lupi (Sapienza Universita` di Roma)

18:46 Tests of gas contaminants and interaction with materials in closed loop recirculation systems - Stefano Colafranceschi (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell'INFN, Sapienza Universita' di Roma and CERN)

18:47 A study of gas mixtures and HV feedback in a RPC single-gap monitoring system - Cristian Vendittozzi (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell'INFN and Sapienza Universita` di Roma)
19:30 Meeting of the IAC - Room B1 Bldg 36
Meeting of the IAC - Room B1 Bldg 36
19:30 - 20:00
Room: Room B1, Building 36

20:30 Meeting of the IAC - Al Fico, Grottaferrata - Taxi transportation from LNF-Bldg. 36
Meeting of the IAC - Al Fico, Grottaferrata - Taxi transportation from LNF-Bldg. 36
20:30 - 23:00
Room: Al Fico, Grottaferrata
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
09:00 (Chairpersons A. Sharma, A. Musso)
(Chairpersons A. Sharma, A. Musso)
09:00 - 12:30
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

09:00 Ageing and conductivity of electrodes of high rate RPCs from an ion conductivity approach - Miguel Morales (Univ. Santiago de Compostela)

09:20 Cavern background measurement with the ATLAS RPC system - Giulio Aielli (ROMA2)

09:40 Study on Surface Asperities in Bakelite-RPC - Nayana Majumdar (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)

10:00 Preliminary results on optimization of gas flow rate for RPCs - Suresh Kalmani (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

10:20 Development of small, easy to build and low gas consumming timing RPCs - Miguel Morales (Univ. Santiago de Compostela)

11:10 Long Term Validation of the Optimal Filters Configuration for the Resistive Plate Chambers Gas System at the Large Hadron Collider Experiments - Beatrice Mandelli (CERN)

11:30 QUALITY ASSURANCE OF LARGE AREA RPC DETECTOR : TECHNIQUES FOR MEASUREMENT OF GAS LEAK RATE - AVINASH JOSHI (ALPHA PNEUMATICS)

11:50 Surface resistivity measurements and related performance studies of the Bakelite RPC detectors - Saikat Biswas (GSI, Darmstadt)

12:10 Production of RPC gaps for CMS upgrade - Sung Keun Park (Korea University)
12:30 Lunch @ Foyer Aula Touschek
Lunch @ Foyer Aula Touschek
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Foyer Aula Touschek

13:30 Social Tour and Refreshment @ Rome - Galleria Borghese, Museo di Zoologia
Social Tour and Refreshment @ Rome - Galleria Borghese, Museo di Zoologia
13:30 - 20:00
Room: Galleria Borghese and Zoology Museum
Thursday, 9 February 2012
09:00 (Chairpersons R. Cardarelli, P. Dupieux)
(Chairpersons R. Cardarelli, P. Dupieux)
09:00 - 13:15
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

09:00 A comparison of gaseous detectors for high rate tracking and triggering applications at high luminosity colliders - Archana SHARMA (CERN)

09:30 Performance of the ALICE RPC-based muon trigger system in the first two years of data taking at the LHC - Francesco Bossù (Università deglli Studi e INFN Torino) Martino Gagliardi (INFN Sezione di Torino)

09:50 The RPC based muon trigger of the CMS Experiment - Karol Bunkowski (Warsaw University)

10:10 TRIGGER RATE DEPENDENCE AND GAS MIXTURE OF MRPC FOR THE LEPS2 EXPERIMENT AT SPRING-8, JAPAN - Chia-Yu Hsieh (Institute of Physics,Acdemia Sinica, Taipei, 115, Taiwan)

10:30 The RPC based proposal for the ATLAS forward muon trigger upgrade in view of super-LHC - Junjie Zhu (University of Michigan)

11:15 The phase 1 extension of the CMS endcap Resistive Plate Chamber system - Michael Tytgat (UGent)

11:35 Thin-gap RPC Test Results - Liang HAN (University of Science and Technology of China (USTC))

11:55 Test for upgrading the RPCs at very high counting rate - Lorenzo Paolozzi (INFN - Roma2)

12:15 Ceramic Resistive Plate Chambers for High Rate Environments - Alejandro Laso Garcia (Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf)

12:35 High counting rate, differential, strip read-out, multi gap RPC - Mihai Petrovici (National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering)

12:55 CMS RPC project overview - Pierluigi Paolucci (NA)
13:15 Lunch @ Restaurant Villa Mercede (shuttle from Conference)
Lunch @ Restaurant Villa Mercede (shuttle from Conference)
13:15 - 15:15
Room: Restaurant Villa Mercede (shuttle from Conference)
15:15 (Chairpersons R. Cardarelli, P. Dupieux)
(Chairpersons R. Cardarelli, P. Dupieux)
15:15 - 15:55
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

15:15 Proposed Trigger Scheme for the ICAL Detector of India-based Neutrino Observatory - Sudeshna Dasgupta (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

15:35 A fast electronics for RPC based precision tracking muon trigger at high luminosity LHC - Roberto Cardarelli (ROMA2)
15:55 (Chairpersons P. Fonte, V. Peskov)
(Chairpersons P. Fonte, V. Peskov)
15:55 - 19:15
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

15:55 Resistive microstrip and microdot detectors: a novel approach in developing spark protected micropattern detectors - Vladimir Peskov (CERN)

16:15 Development of spark-resistance MICROMEGAS with resistive anode strips - Marcin Byszewski

16:35 SiOx coated plastic fiber optic sensor for gas monitoring in RPC - Sabrina GRASSINI (Politecnico di Torino)

16:55 Use of fiber optic technology for Relative Humidity monitoring in RPC detectors - michele caponero (enea; infn)

17:35 Technical design of the RPC-based ToF wall (iTOF) for the R3B experiment at FAIR - Enrique Casarejos (University of Vigo, Spain)

17:55 Construction of a Digital Hadron Calorimeter with Resistive Plate Chambers - Lei Xia (Argonne National Laboratory)

18:15 Calibration of the DHCAL - Jose Repond (Argonne National Laboratory)

18:35 Development of large GRPC for an ultra-granular Semi-Digital Hadronic Calorimeter - imad laktineh (ipnl)

18:55 Performance of the HADES-TOF RPC wall in a Au-Au beam - Alberto Blanco Castro (LIP-Coimbra)
20:30 Social Dinner - Villa Tuscolana Frascati
Social Dinner - Villa Tuscolana Frascati
20:30 - 23:30
Room: Villa Tuscolana Frascati
Friday, 10 February 2012
09:00 (Chairperson Sung Park)
(Chairperson Sung Park)
09:00 - 10:20
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

09:00 Muon scattering tomography with resistive plate chambers - Paolo Baesso (University of Bristol)

09:20 A 2m x 0.5m prototype of a MRPC-based neutron detector with steel converter plates - Marko Roeder (Institut für Kern- und Teilchenphysik, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, Institut für Strahlenphysik, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany)

09:40 TOFtracker: combination of time-of-flight and high-accuracy bidimensional tracking in a single gaseous detector - Paulo Fonte (LIP-Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas)

10:00 A Free-Streaming Readout for the CBM Time of Flight wall - Pierre-Alain Loizeau (Physikalisches Institut der Universität Heidelberg)
10:20 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:20 - 10:40
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
10:40
10:40 - 12:55
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

10:40 Challenges of RPCs and Resistive Micropattern Detectors in the Coming Years - Vladimir Peskov (CERN)
12:55 Lunch @ Hotel Flora (upon request on Thursday)
Lunch @ Hotel Flora (upon request on Thursday)
12:55 - 13:55
Room: Hotel Flora

13:55 Departures
Departures
13:55 - 16:55
Room: the BUS to Fiumicino will leave at 13.00 from Hotel FLORA