Name: 2 nd SuperB Collaboration Meeting @ INFN-LNF
Start: 2011-12-13T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2011-12-16T13:30:00+01:00
Location: INFN-LNF

2<sup>nd</sup> SuperB Collaboration Meeting @ INFN-LNF

from Tuesday, December 13, 2011 (9:00 AM) to Friday, December 16, 2011 (1:30 PM)

Monday, December 12, 2011
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
9:00 AM Plenary I: Introduction and Status
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome - Vitaliano Chiarella (LNF)

9:10 AM Project Status - Marcello Giorgi (PI)

9:50 AM Accelerator - Eugene Levichev (BINP)
11:00 AM coffee break
coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
11:30 AM Plenary II: Introduction and Status
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

11:30 AM Physics - Marco Ciuchini (ROMA3)

12:00 PM Detector - Blair Ratcliff (SLAC)

12:30 PM Computing - Fabrizio Bianchi (TO)
1:30 PM lunch break
lunch break
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: ENEA canteen
3:00 PM Parallel I: Acc I - Lattice & Design
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Aula Div Acc
Contributions

3:00 PM DAFNE commissioning with KLOE2 - Catia Milardi (INFN-LNF)

3:15 PM SuperB parameters - Pantaleo Raimondi (LNF)

3:30 PM Lattice update - Sergey Sinyatkin (BINP SB RAS)

3:55 PM Dynamic Aperture calculations - Pavel Piminov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)

4:15 PM Frequency maps analisys - Simone Maria Liuzzo (LNF)
Parallel I: Barrel PID
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Aula Seminari
Contributions

3:00 PM FDIRC status - Jerry Vavra (SLAC)

3:20 PM FDIRC shielding - Massimo Benettoni (PD)

3:40 PM He effect in H8500 - Mario Nicola Mazziotta (BA)

3:50 PM Magnet configuration for the H8500 studies - Francesco Loparco (BA)

4:00 PM Preliminary studies with H8500 - Fabio Gargano (BA) Francesco Giordano (BA)

4:10 PM PMT testing - Douglas Roberts (University of Maryland)
Parallel I: DCH
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Aula A-1
Contributions

3:00 PM Update on activities at UVic - Samuel Dejong (University of Victoria)

3:15 PM Overview of the TRIUMF beam test - Christopher Hearty (University of British Columbia/IPP)

3:30 PM dE/dx measurements for PID with TRIUMF beam test - Rocky So (University of British Columbia)

3:45 PM Activities @ LNF and update on Proto2 - I - Giuseppe Finocchiaro (LNF)

4:00 PM Update on Proto2 - II - Marcello Piccolo (LNF)
Parallel I: EMC
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Aula B-1
Contributions

3:00 PM Report from SLAC visit, including mechanical and shipping discussion - Kevin Flood (Caltech)

3:30 PM Report from SLAC visit - Electronics - Valerio Bocci (ROMA1)

3:45 PM Integration questionnaire

3:55 PM Report from Beijing - Pasquale Lubrano (PG)

4:05 PM Test beam "final results" - Elisa Manoni (PG)

4:20 PM If there is time, can move Stefano's "Alternative options" from EMC II to here
Parallel I: IFR
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Aula Conversi
Contributions

3:00 PM General Overview - Gianluigi Cibinetto (FE)

3:15 PM Tests on muon response with different Silicon Photomultipliers - Alessandro Montanari (BO)

3:35 PM The IFR full BIRO layout - Wander Baldini (FE)

4:00 PM Flux Return design - Massimo Benettoni (PD)
Parallel I: SVT
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

3:00 PM Introduction & TDR status - Giuliana Rizzo (PI)

3:10 PM Update on background simulation - Riccardo Cenci (PI)

3:25 PM Update on HDI design and peripheral electronics - Mauro Citterio (MI)

3:40 PM Fastsim studies - Nicola Neri (MI)

3:55 PM Testbeam results: Superpix0 - Hybrid Pixels - Alberto Lusiani (PI)

4:10 PM Testbeam results: Striplets - Laura Fabbri (BO)
4:30 PM coffee break
coffee break
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
5:00 PM Parallel II: Acc I - Lattice & Design
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Aula Div Acc
Contributions

5:00 PM LET with normal modes of BPM - A. Wolski (phone) (Liverpool Univ.)

5:25 PM LET tool for SuperB and SL rings - Simone Maria Liuzzo (LNF)

5:45 PM Options for operating SuperB as a synchrotron light source - Riccardo Bartolini (Diamond, JAI)

6:10 PM SuperB deliverables for Synchrotron Light users - Luca Giannessi (ENEA)
Parallel II: DCH
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Aula A-1
Contributions

5:00 PM DCH structure, stringing strategy - Stefano Lauciani (LNF)

5:15 PM Update on backgrounds in the DCH - Riccardo Cenci (PI)

5:35 PM Update on backgrounds in the DCH - II - Dana Lindemann (McGill University)

5:50 PM Case for FastSim production request - Jean-Francois Caron (The University of British Columbia)

6:00 PM Discussion on TDR - implications of cluster counting
Parallel II: EMC
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Aula B-1
Contributions

5:00 PM Background/radiation studies - Chih-hsiang Cheng (Caltech)

5:15 PM Pileup studies - Daniel Chao (Caltech)

5:30 PM Barrel performance, changes at SuperB - Wenfeng Wang (University of Note Dame)

5:45 PM Crystal roughening studies - Ren-yuan Zhu (Caltech)

6:00 PM Alternative options - Stefano Germani (PG)

6:15 PM Performance of EMC and physics realted studies - Elisa Manoni (PG)
Parallel II: IFR
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Aula Conversi
Contributions

5:00 PM Status of readout electronics - Angelo Cotta Ramusino (FE)

5:20 PM SiPM irradiation tests at LNL - Flavio Dal Corso (PD)

5:40 PM Potential for ITEP contribution in IFR system - Alexey Drutskoy (ITEP)

5:50 PM The Beam Tests at Fermilab: present status and future plan - Wander Baldini (FE)

6:10 PM Discussion and plans for next beam tests
Parallel II: PID TDR chapter
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Aula Seminari
Contributions

5:00 PM Status of the PID TDR chapter - Jerry Vavra (SLAC)

5:20 PM Schedule of the PID barrel activities for the TDR - Mario Nicola Mazziotta (BA)

5:40 PM Status of the barrel PID electronics - Christophe Beigbeder (LAL)
Parallel II: SVT
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

5:00 PM Pixel & inner layer strips analog FE in Pavia - Massimo Manghisoni (PV)

5:15 PM Analog FE for outer layer strips in Milano - Luca Bombelli (MI)

5:45 PM FE chip readout architecture simulation in Bologna - Filippo Maria Giorgi (BO)

6:00 PM Radiation Monitor: Concepts for an Advanced Read Out - Roberto Cardarelli (ROMA2)
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
9:00 AM Parallel III: Acc III - Controls
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Aula Div Acc
Contributions

9:00 AM !CHAOS general introduction - Alessandro Stecchi (LNF)

9:10 AM !CHAOS general architecture - Claudio Bisegni (LNF)

9:35 AM !CHAOS first implementation of the Control Unit - Luca Gennaro Foggetta (LNF)
Parallel III: DCH
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Aula A-1
Contributions

9:00 AM Cluster counting efficiency vs. preamp transfer function - Matteo Mario Beretta (LNF)

9:15 AM Cluster Timing Algorithm for Drift Chamber Readout Electronics - Luigi Cappelli (LNF)

9:30 AM Update on Electronics - Giulietto Felici (LNF)

9:50 AM Discussion on integration questionnaire

10:10 AM Discussion on questionnaire on power supplies
Parallel III: EMC
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Aula B-1
Contributions

9:00 AM Radiation hardness tests - Riccardo Faccini (ROMA1)

9:15 AM Background/radiation estimates - Stefano Germani (PG)

9:30 AM Backward EMC - Gerald Eigen (University of Bergen)

9:45 AM The BGO alternative - Davide Pinci (ROMA1)

10:00 AM TDR discussion
Parallel III: IFR
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Aula Conversi
Contributions

9:00 AM Beam test data analysis - Marcello Rotondo (PD)

9:25 AM Background simulation studies - Valentina Santoro (FE)

9:50 AM TDR preparation
Parallel III: SVT
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

9:00 AM Update on activities in Strasbourg - Isabelle Ripp-Baudot (IPHC, CNRS/IN2P3, Strasbourg)

9:15 AM Update on activities in UK - Adrian Bevan (Queen Mary)

9:30 AM Update on sensor and fanout design in Trieste - Luciano Bosisio (TS)

9:45 AM SVT Mechanics - Filippo Bosi (PI)
Parallel III: other PID topics, including simulation & background
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Aula Seminari
Contributions

9:00 AM FDIRC background analysis using the latest FullSim production - Luis Alejandro Perez Perez (PI)

9:20 AM CRT simulation status - Douglas Roberts (University of Maryland)

9:40 AM Preliminary results of the front-end block of the 16-channel WaveCatcher board - Dominique Breton (LAL ORSAY) Jihane Maalmi (cNRS-LAL)

10:00 AM Studies on H8500 PMT - Gabriele Simi (PD)
11:00 AM coffee break
coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
11:30 AM Parallel IV: Acc IV - Beam Test Facility
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Room: Aula Seminari
Contributions

11:30 AM New Science at the Spallation Neutron Source - Ian Anderson (Oak Ridge)

12:30 PM FACET at SLAC - Uli Wienands (SLAC)

1:00 PM SuperBTF:studies for an extracted beam and neutron facility - Lina Quintieri (LNF)
Parallel IV: Detector - ETD I
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

11:30 AM Summary of CERN meeting – TDR writing - Dominique Breton (LAL ORSAY)

12:10 PM Summary of the coding analysis for the SuperB links - Sergio Cavaliere (Napoli)

12:30 PM Status of FCTS and ECS systems - Daniel Charlet

12:50 PM First feedback from the power supply questionnaire - Gianluigi Pessina
Parallel V: Computing - Distrib. Computing
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Room: Aula Conversi
Contributions

11:30 AM Production tools status - Luca Tomassetti (FE)

11:40 AM Distributed computing status - Armando Fella (PI)

11:55 AM Dirac evaluation - Bruno Santeramo (BA)

12:10 PM Data access R&D status - Giacinto Donvito (BA)

12:25 PM Monitor system status - Silvio Pardi (NA)

12:40 PM Discussion
1:30 PM lunch break
lunch break
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: ENEA canteen
3:00 PM Parallel IV: Computing - Distrib. Computing - Ganga hands on session
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Aula Conversi
Contributions

3:00 PM Ganga system introduction - Armando Fella (PI)

3:15 PM Ganga hands on time - Armando Fella (PI) Luca Tomassetti (FE)
Parallel V: Det + Acc V - MDI & Background
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

3:00 PM First doublet system update - Pasquale Fabbricatore (GE)

3:25 PM Test of QD0 - Riccardo Musenich (GE)

3:45 PM Update on QD0 design - Eugenio Paoloni (PI)

4:15 PM Radiation Map & Beam debris energy releases inside the Cyostat - Alejandro Perez
Parallel V: Physics
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Aula Seminari
Contributions

3:00 PM Plans for B -> K(*) nu nu - Elisa Manoni (PG)

3:20 PM B -> K phi phi at SuperB - Marcin Chrzaszcz (Institute of nuclear physics)

3:35 PM Status of tau studies - Alberto Cervelli (PI)

4:00 PM Planning for fastsim studies/MC production - ALL
4:30 PM coffee break
coffee break
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
5:00 PM Parallel VI: Comp - SW + Collaborative Tools
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Aula Conversi
Contributions

5:00 PM Status of the Collaborative Tools

5:20 PM Status of the CMake build system

5:40 PM Introduction to Intel TBB

5:55 PM Report on FNAL workshop on concurrency in the multicore era

6:15 PM Parallelization and Legacy code: a preliminary work on EvtGen
Parallel VI: Det + Acc VI - MDI & Background
5:00 PM - 6:50 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

5:00 PM Update on IR design and future plans - Michael Sullivan (phone) (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

5:20 PM Beam lifetime and backgrounds simulation studies at SuperB - Manuela Boscolo (LNF)

5:40 PM Beam-beam backgrounds - Cecile Rimbault (LAL-IN2P3/CNRS)

6:00 PM Background studies in the detector - Luis Alejandro Perez Perez (PI)

6:20 PM Compton backscattering polarimeter and energy measurement - Dario Moricciani (ROMA2)

6:35 PM SVT Radiation Monitor - Roberto Cardarelli
Parallel VI: Physics
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Aula Seminari
Contributions

5:00 PM BaBar Low-Multiplicity Triggers for New Physics - Yury Kolomensky (UC Berkeley/LBNL)

5:30 PM TDR planning discussion - ALL Adrian Bevan (Queen Mary)
7:30 PM Buffet Dinner
Buffet Dinner
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: Villa Mondragone
Thursday, December 15, 2011
9:00 AM Parallel VII: Acc VII - Injection & Site
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Aula Div Acc
Contributions

9:00 AM Injection system update - Susanna Guiducci (LNF)

9:25 AM CSR in SuperKEKB and SuperB DR - D. Zhou (Phone) (KEK)

9:50 AM Positron linac - Alessandro Variola (LAL IN2P3 CNRS)

10:10 AM Measurement and Vibration Studies on the Final Focus Doublet at DAφNE - Sandro Tomassini (LNF)

10:35 AM General discussion on lattice & injection - Group
Parallel VII: Computing - FullSim & Background
9:00 AM - 11:25 AM
Room: Aula Conversi
Contributions

9:00 AM Nov. 2011 production report - Luis Alejandro Perez Perez (PI)

9:15 AM EMC Background report - Stefano Germani (PG)

9:35 AM FTOF Background report - leonid Burmistrov (LaL)

9:55 AM FDIRC Background report - Luis Alejandro Perez Perez (PI)

10:15 AM IFR Background report - Valentina Santoro (FE)

10:35 AM Latest Bruno developments - Andrea Di Simone (ROMA2)

10:50 AM Comparison of FDIRC Background Prediction Methodologies. - Jerry Vavra (SLAC)

11:05 AM TDR MDI section
Parallel VII: Detector - ETD II
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

9:00 AM Status of SVT front-end electronics - Mauro Villa

9:20 AM Status of DCH front-end electronics - Giulietto Felici (LNF)

9:40 AM Status of PID front-end electronics - Christophe Beigbeder (LAL)

10:00 AM Status of EMC front-end electronics - Valerio Bocci (ROMA1)

10:20 AM Status of IFR front-end electronics - Angelo Cotta Ramusino (FE)

10:40 AM An introduction to CLARO : a fast Front-End ASIC for Photomultipliers - Claudio Gotti (Milano Bicocca)
Parallel VII: Physics
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Aula Seminari
Contributions

9:00 AM Charm mixing at threshold - Nicola Neri (MI)

9:25 AM Electroweak Physics at SuperB: Update - Michael Roney (University of Victoria)
11:00 AM coffee break
coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
11:30 AM Parallel VIII: Acc VIII - Feedbacks & Timing
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Room: Aula Div Acc
Contributions

11:30 AM Feedback update - Alessandro Drago (LNF)

11:55 AM SuperB timing specifications - Alessandro Drago (LNF)

12:20 PM Timing studies for SuperB - Marco Angelo Bellato (PD)
Parallel VIII: Computing + Phys - Physics Tools
11:30 AM - 1:35 PM
Room: Aula Seminari
Contributions

11:30 AM Overview - Matteo Rama (LNF)

11:40 AM FastSim - BaBar FullSim comparison with HAD Breco - Elisa Manoni (PG)

11:55 AM fDIRC development status and plan - NICOLAS ARNAUD (LAL ORSAY CNRS-IN2P3)

12:10 PM EMC development status and plans - Chih-hsiang Cheng (Caltech)

12:25 PM IFR development status and plans - Marcello Rotondo (PD)

12:40 PM FastSim tools for charm threshold running - Gianluca Inguglia (Queen Mary University of London)
Parallel VIII: Detector - ETD III
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

11:30 AM Status of trigger electronics - Antonio Budano
1:30 PM lunch break
lunch break
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: ENEA canteen
3:00 PM Parallel IX: Acc IX - Collective Effects & Polarization
3:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: Aula Div Acc
Contributions

3:00 PM Macroparticle simulation of IBS in SuperB - Theo Demma (LNF)

3:20 PM Update on e-cloud simulations for SuperB - Theo Demma (LNF)

3:40 PM Clearing electrodes studies at DAFNE - Alessandro Drago (LNF)

3:55 PM Studies on new materials and coatings for e-cloud mitigation @ LNF - Roberto Cimino (LNF)

4:10 PM Polarization at SuperB - Ivan Koop (BINP)

4:30 PM Spin tracking at SuperB - Nicolas Monseu (LPSC, Grenoble, France)
Parallel IX: Computing - Planning
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Aula Conversi
Contributions

3:00 PM SuperB Distributed Tier1 - Giacinto Donvito (BA)
Parallel IX: Integration
3:00 PM - 4:35 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

3:00 PM Update on Experimental Hall & Status of Integration - Fabrizio Raffaelli (PI)

3:20 PM Magnet Plans - Pasquale Fabbricatore (GE)

3:35 PM IFR - Vittore Carassiti (FE)

3:50 PM EMC Status of Mechanical Studies - Corrado Gargiulo (ROMA1)

4:05 PM DIRC Update - Massimo Benettoni (PD)

4:20 PM DCH Status of the Design - Stefano Lauciani (LNF)
4:30 PM coffee break
coffee break
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
5:00 PM Parallel X: Acc X - Work Organization
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Aula Div Acc
Contributions

5:00 PM Work Packages structure - Levichev/Biagini

5:20 PM Discussion on organization of work for TDR
Parallel X: Detector Summaries
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

5:00 PM Det Summaries: SVT - Valerio Re (PV)

5:15 PM Det Summaries: DCH - Giuseppe Finocchiaro (LNF)

5:30 PM Det Summaries: PID - Jerry Vavra (SLAC) NICOLAS ARNAUD (LAL ORSAY CNRS-IN2P3)

5:45 PM Det Summaries: EMC - Claudia Cecchi (PG) Frank Porter (Caltech)

6:05 PM Det Summaries: IFR - Gianluigi Cibinetto (FE)
6:30 PM SuperB Detector Proto-Council
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

6:30 PM Introduction

6:45 PM Election of the Proto-Council Vice-Chairperson

7:00 PM Nomination of Designated Chair and New Members of the Speaker's Bureau

7:15 PM Ratification of New Institutions

7:30 PM Presentation of the Constitution Draft. Discussion

7:45 PM AOB
Friday, December 16, 2011
9:00 AM Plenary III: Summaries and Outlook I
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

9:00 AM Plenary III - Computing - Silvio Pardi (NA)

9:30 AM Plenary III - Physics - John Walsh (PI)

9:50 AM Plenary III - ETD - Umberto Marconi (BO)

10:10 AM Plenary III - Integration - Fabrizio Raffaelli (PI)

10:30 AM Plenary III - Detector Outlook - Francesco Forti (PI)
11:00 AM coffee break
coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
11:30 AM Plenary IV: Summaries and Outlook II
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
Room: Aula B. Touschek, Bldg 36
Contributions

11:30 AM Plenary IV - Accelerator Design - Maria Enrica Biagini (LNF)

12:00 PM Plenary IV - IR and MDI - Eugenio Paoloni (PI)

12:30 PM Plenary IV - Accel Organization - Eugene Levichev (BINP)

12:50 PM Plenary IV - Project Outlook

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