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, February 5, 2012 (8:00 AM) to Friday, February 10, 2012 (5:15 PM)

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

8:00 AM Arrivals
Arrivals
8:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Room: ---

Monday, February 6, 2012

9:30 AM Registration
Registration
9:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36

1:30 PM Lunch @ Frascati lab Cafeteria (on the ENEA site)
Lunch @ Frascati lab Cafeteria (on the ENEA site)
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Frascati lab Cafeteria (on the ENEA site) accross via Fermi, see map
3:00 PM Opening: (Chairperson S. Bianco)
(Chairperson S. Bianco)
3:00 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

3:00 PM Welcome Address - Umberto Dosselli (LNF)

3:15 PM Remembering Giuseppe Belli - Giuseppe Iaselli (BA)

3:20 PM Remembering Anna Piccotti

3:25 PM Keynote - Rinaldo Santonico (Univ. Tor Vergata and INFN Roma 2)
4:20 PM Performance of RPC systems: (Chairpersons R.Santonico)
(Chairpersons R.Santonico)
4:20 PM - 7:25 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

4:40 PM Calibration of the RPC working voltage in the CMS experiment - Silvia Costantini (University of Ghent)

5:00 PM Performance and Operation of the ATLAS RPC Detector during the 2011 LHC run - Alessandro Polini (BO)

5:20 PM ATLAS RPC time-of-flight performance - Gabriele Chiodini (INFN Lecce)

6:05 PM Performance of the ALICE muon trigger system in Pb–Pb collisions - Massimiliano Marchisone (TO)

6:25 PM Performance of the MRPC-based Time-Of-Flight detector of ALICE at LHC - Andrea Alici (BO)

6:45 PM Performance and aging of OPERA bakelite RPCs. - Alessandro Paoloni (LNF)

7:05 PM Results from the ARGO-YBJ experiment - Roberto Iuppa (ROMA2)
8:30 PM Welcome Cocktail - Villa Grazioli, Grottaferrata
Welcome Cocktail - Villa Grazioli, Grottaferrata
8:30 PM - 11:30 PM
Room: Villa Grazioli, Grottaferrata
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
9:00 AM Performance of RPC systems: (Chairpersons D. González-Diaz , G. Iaselli)
(Chairpersons D. González-Diaz , G. Iaselli)
9:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

9:00 AM The Extreme Energy Events experiment: cosmics rays, multigap resistive plate chambers and high school students - Marcello Abbrescia (Università and INFN - Bari - Italy)

9:20 AM R&D and mass production of LMRPC module for the STAR-MTD system - Huangshan Chen (Tsinghua University)

9:40 AM Aging test of high rate MRPC - Xingming Fan (Tsinghua University)

10:00 AM 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 AM A Multistrip-MRPC prototype for the CBM Time-of-Flight wall - Ingo Deppner (Pysikalisches Institut der Universität Heidelberg)

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

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

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

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

12:25 PM Study of Angular Distribution of Cosmic Muons using INO-ICAL Prototype Detector at TIFR - Sumanta Pal (TIFR)
1:05 PM Lunch @ Restaurant Villa Mercede (shuttle from Conference Hall)
Lunch @ Restaurant Villa Mercede (shuttle from Conference Hall)
1:05 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Restaurant Villa Mercede (shuttle from Conference Hall)
3:00 PM Performance of RPC systems: (Chairperson G.Iaselli)
(Chairperson G.Iaselli)
3:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

3:00 PM Performance of FOPI MMRPC Barrel in Recent Heavy-Ion Experiments - Mladen Kiš (GSI)

3:20 PM ATLAS RPC detector as Luminosity monitor - Marcello Bindi (BO)
3:40 PM Simulations and modeling: (Chairperson M. Abbrescia)
(Chairperson M. Abbrescia)
3:40 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

3:40 PM Review of Simulation and Modeling - Paulo Fonte (Coimbra)

4:10 PM 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)

4:30 PM RPC simulations from a current stand-point - Diego Gonzalez-Diaz (GSI and Tsinghua University)

5:10 PM Charge signal diffusion through resistive strip read-outs. - Javier Galan (CEA Saclay)

5:30 PM The CMS RPC performance and simulation - Roumyana Mileva Hadjiiska (University of Sofia)

5:50 PM A multigap RPC based detector for gamma rays - Borislav Pavlov (University of Sofia)

6:10 PM 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))
6:30 PM Poster session
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

6:30 PM Response of the DHCAL to Hadrons and Positrons - Burak Bilki (Argonne National Laboratory)

6:31 PM The on-line monitoring of the ALICE Muon Trigger at LHC - yongwook baek (LPC, Univ. Blaise Pascal, CNRS-IN2P3, Clermont-Ferrand, France)

6:32 PM Electronics and data acquisition systems for the RPC based INO ICAL detector - Satyanarayana Bheesette (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)

6:33 PM Study of RPCs for autonomous stations in cosmic ray research - Luis Lopes (Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (LIP))

6:34 PM Analysis of the radiation background in the CMS RPCs - Mircho rodozov (PhD student)

6:35 PM The RPC hits in the CMS muon reconstruction - Minsuk Kim (postdoc)

6:36 PM Operational experience of the GGM at the CMS Experiment - Stefano Colafranceschi (LNF)

6:37 PM RPC monitoring tools in the CMS experiment - Umberto Maria Riccardo Berzano (PV)

6:38 PM Analysis of the front structure of EAS with the HADES tRPC wall - Georgy Kornakov (Univ. Santiago de Compostela)

6:39 PM Resistive Plate Chambers in the ARGO-YBJ experiment: operational features, monitoring and control - Paolo Camarri (ROMA2)

6:40 PM 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)

6:41 PM Development of 1 mm low resistivity Bakelite plate for thin-gap RPC detector - Liang HAN (Univ. of Science & Technology of China (USTC))

6:42 PM TDC Readout Board v3 - Grzegorz Korcyl (Jagiellonian University)

6:43 PM CAD: A Current-Mode Amplifier and Discriminator ASIC for MRPC-TOF Detectors - Xin ZHOU (TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY)

6:44 PM An improved gas distribution system for the ATLAS RPCs - Enrico Pastori (RM2)

6:45 PM Gas purifiers for closed-loop gas systems - Carla Lupi (Sapienza Universita` di Roma)

6:46 PM 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)

6:47 PM 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)
7:30 PM Meeting of the IAC - Room B1 Bldg 36
Meeting of the IAC - Room B1 Bldg 36
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Room B1, Building 36

8:30 PM 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
8:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Room: Al Fico, Grottaferrata
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
9:00 AM Ageing and interactions with materials: (Chairpersons A. Sharma, A. Musso)
(Chairpersons A. Sharma, A. Musso)
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

9:00 AM Ageing and conductivity of electrodes of high rate RPCs from an ion conductivity approach - Miguel Morales (Univ. Santiago de Compostela)

9:20 AM Cavern background measurement with the ATLAS RPC system - Giulio Aielli (ROMA2)

9:40 AM Study on Surface Asperities in Bakelite-RPC - Nayana Majumdar (Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics)

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

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

11:10 AM 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 AM QUALITY ASSURANCE OF LARGE AREA RPC DETECTOR : TECHNIQUES FOR MEASUREMENT OF GAS LEAK RATE - AVINASH JOSHI (ALPHA PNEUMATICS)

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

12:10 PM Production of RPC gaps for CMS upgrade - Sung Keun Park (Korea University)
12:30 PM Lunch @ Foyer Aula Touschek
Lunch @ Foyer Aula Touschek
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Foyer Aula Touschek

1:30 PM Social Tour and Refreshment @ Rome - Galleria Borghese, Museo di Zoologia
Social Tour and Refreshment @ Rome - Galleria Borghese, Museo di Zoologia
1:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Galleria Borghese and Zoology Museum
Thursday, February 9, 2012
9:00 AM Triggering at high rates: (Chairpersons R. Cardarelli, P. Dupieux)
(Chairpersons R. Cardarelli, P. Dupieux)
9:00 AM - 1:15 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

9:00 AM A comparison of gaseous detectors for high rate tracking and triggering applications at high luminosity colliders - Archana SHARMA (CERN)

9:30 AM 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)

9:50 AM The RPC based muon trigger of the CMS Experiment - Karol Bunkowski (Warsaw University)

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:55 PM CMS RPC project overview - Pierluigi Paolucci (NA)
1:15 PM Lunch @ Restaurant Villa Mercede (shuttle from Conference)
Lunch @ Restaurant Villa Mercede (shuttle from Conference)
1:15 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Restaurant Villa Mercede (shuttle from Conference)
3:15 PM Triggering at high rates: (Chairpersons R. Cardarelli, P. Dupieux)
(Chairpersons R. Cardarelli, P. Dupieux)
3:15 PM - 3:55 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

3:15 PM Proposed Trigger Scheme for the ICAL Detector of India-based Neutrino Observatory - Sudeshna Dasgupta (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

3:35 PM A fast electronics for RPC based precision tracking muon trigger at high luminosity LHC - Roberto Cardarelli (ROMA2)
3:55 PM New ideas: (Chairpersons P. Fonte, V. Peskov)
(Chairpersons P. Fonte, V. Peskov)
3:55 PM - 7:15 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

3:55 PM Resistive microstrip and microdot detectors: a novel approach in developing spark protected micropattern detectors - Vladimir Peskov (CERN)

4:15 PM Development of spark-resistance MICROMEGAS with resistive anode strips - Marcin Byszewski

4:35 PM SiOx coated plastic fiber optic sensor for gas monitoring in RPC - Sabrina GRASSINI (Politecnico di Torino)

4:55 PM Use of fiber optic technology for Relative Humidity monitoring in RPC detectors - michele caponero (enea; infn)

5:35 PM Technical design of the RPC-based ToF wall (iTOF) for the R3B experiment at FAIR - Enrique Casarejos (University of Vigo, Spain)

5:55 PM Construction of a Digital Hadron Calorimeter with Resistive Plate Chambers - Lei Xia (Argonne National Laboratory)

6:15 PM Calibration of the DHCAL - Jose Repond (Argonne National Laboratory)

6:35 PM Development of large GRPC for an ultra-granular Semi-Digital Hadronic Calorimeter - imad laktineh (ipnl)

6:55 PM Performance of the HADES-TOF RPC wall in a Au-Au beam - Alberto Blanco Castro (LIP-Coimbra)
8:30 PM Social Dinner - Villa Tuscolana Frascati
Social Dinner - Villa Tuscolana Frascati
8:30 PM - 11:30 PM
Room: Villa Tuscolana Frascati
Friday, February 10, 2012
9:00 AM New ideas: (Chairperson Sung Park)
(Chairperson Sung Park)
9:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

9:00 AM Muon scattering tomography with resistive plate chambers - Paolo Baesso (University of Bristol)

9:20 AM 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)

9:40 AM 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 AM A Free-Streaming Readout for the CBM Time of Flight wall - Pierre-Alain Loizeau (Physikalisches Institut der Universität Heidelberg)
10:20 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:20 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
10:40 AM Closing
10:40 AM - 12:55 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

10:40 AM Challenges of RPCs and Resistive Micropattern Detectors in the Coming Years - Vladimir Peskov (CERN)
12:55 PM Lunch @ Hotel Flora (upon request on Thursday)
Lunch @ Hotel Flora (upon request on Thursday)
12:55 PM - 1:55 PM
Room: Hotel Flora

1:55 PM Departures
Departures
1:55 PM - 4:55 PM
Room: the BUS to Fiumicino will leave at 13.00 from Hotel FLORA

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