Name: ePIC Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2025-01-20T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-01-24T18:30:00+01:00
Location: Villa Mondragone, Monte Porzio Catone (RM), Italy

ePIC Collaboration Meeting

from Monday, January 20, 2025 (8:00 AM) to Friday, January 24, 2025 (6:30 PM)

Monday, January 20, 2025

8:00 AM Registration
Registration
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Sala degli Svizzeri
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 1:05 PM
Room: Sala degli Svizzeri
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome from the Rector of Roma Tor Vergata University, Physics Dept. Direcor and INFN Roma Tor Vergata Directors and Local Organizers - Annalisa D'Angelo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

9:15 AM ePIC Collaboration Status - John Lajoie (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

9:45 AM Technical Coordination Report - Silvia Dalla Torre (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:15 AM Software and Computing Report - Markus Diefenthaler (Jefferson Lab)

10:45 AM Analysis Coordination Report - Salvatore Fazio (Universita' della Calabria ed INFN-Cosenza)

11:15 AM Coffee Break

11:45 AM Report from the EIC Project - Elke-Caroline Aschenauer (BNL) Rolf Ent (Jefferson Lab)

12:15 PM EIC Collider Status - Sergei Nagaitsev (Fermilab/U.Chicago)

12:45 PM Summer 2025 EIC School in Spain - Charlotte Van Hulse

12:50 PM Discussion
1:05 PM Photo Contest - Marta Ruspa (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Photo Contest
- Marta Ruspa (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
1:05 PM - 1:15 PM
Room: Sala degli Svizzeri
1:15 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Sala degli Svizzeri
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Sala degli Svizzeri
Contributions

2:00 PM ePIC Collaboration Priorities for 2025 - John Lajoie (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

2:30 PM Small Groups Discussion (ePIC Priorities -> Coordination Priorities)

3:30 PM Reports From Small Groups

4:15 PM Coffee Break

4:45 PM Discussion

5:30 PM Self-Proposed Contributions - John Lajoie (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Silvia Dalla Torre (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Tuesday, January 21, 2025
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Sala del Terrazzo
Contributions

9:00 AM Opening - Satoshi Yano

9:05 AM BTOF overview - Satoshi Yano

9:20 AM FTOF overview - Mathieu Benoit

9:35 AM FF overview - Alexander Jentsch (Brookhaven National Lab)

9:50 AM Sensor - Simone Mazza

10:10 AM EICROC - Dominique Marchand

10:25 AM Electronics - Tonko Ljubicic

10:40 AM Coffee break

10:50 AM BTOF FPC - Takashi Hachiya

11:05 AM Mechanical & Cooling - Sushrut Karmarkar

11:20 AM Assembling - Mathieu Benoit

11:35 AM Simulation - Kentaro Kawade

11:50 AM BNL activity - Souvik Paul

12:05 PM Contribution to BTOF from Japan - Satoshi Yano

12:30 PM Discussion - Satoshi Yano
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Sala del Giardino
Contributions

9:00 AM Progress in jet physics - Brian Page (Brookhaven National Lab)

9:20 AM Particle flow for jet reconstruction - Derek Anderson (Texas A&M University)

10:00 AM Jets & HF projection for early science - Rongrong Ma (BNL)

11:10 AM Hadron-in-jet Collins asymmetry - Kevin Adkins (Morehead)

11:30 AM Secondary vertexing - Bishoy Dongwi (SBU)

11:50 AM Machine learning for D0 reconstruction in ep collisions - Shyam Kumar (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:10 PM Lc reconstruction in ep collisions - Enea Prifti (UIC)
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Sala degli Svizzeri
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome - Ernst Sichtermann (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Georg Viehhauser Laura Gonella (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

9:10 AM MOSAIX Status and EIC-LAS modifications - Joao de Melo

9:35 AM MOSAIX ER2 - EIC-contributed blocks - Grzegorz Deptuch

9:50 AM Ancillary ASIC - SLDO design status - Roy Wastie

10:15 AM Ancillary ASIC - NVG design status - Praful Purohit

10:40 AM Ancillary ASIC - Slow Control design status - Arif Iqbal

11:35 AM Sensor and ancillary ASIC - next steps

11:55 AM MOSAIX characterization - wafer probing status - Leyre Flores

12:20 PM Ancillary ASIC - test preparations - Lukas Tomasek

12:45 PM Testing and characterization - next steps
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Sala del Teatro
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome and Meeting Goals - Fernando Barbosa (JLab) Jeff Landgraf (BNL) Jin Huang (Brookhaven National Lab) Marco Battaglieri (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Markus Diefenthaler (Jefferson Lab) Torre Wenaus

9:15 AM Streaming DAQ Overview - Jeff Landgraf (BNL)

9:45 AM Discussion

10:15 AM Special Case: Design Ideas for an Online Data Reduction System for the dRICH Detector - Alessandro Lonardo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:35 AM Discussion

11:30 AM Group Discussion: Interface Requirements Between Streaming DAQ and Computing

12:30 PM Use Case: Data Inputs and Requirements for Physics Analysis - Rosi Reed (Lehigh University) Salvatore Fazio (Universita' della Calabria ed INFN-Cosenza)

12:45 PM Discussion
1:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Sala degli Svizzeri
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Sala del Teatro
Contributions

2:00 PM Introduction and Current status of ePIC's design - Rahul Sharma (BNL)

2:30 PM Central Detector Installation and Support with GST and IST - Andreas Jung (Purdue University) Andy Jung

3:00 PM Modifications to IR and its influence on Far detectors - Andrii Natochii (BNL)

3:25 PM A new approach to cooling in ePIC [postpone to second session] - Andy Jung

4:30 PM Update about geometry exchange between Simulations & Engineers - Chao Peng (ANL)

4:50 PM Design Updates on LFHCal - Elliot Fountain (Oak Ridge National Lab)

5:10 PM ToF Mechanics and Design - Sushrut Karmarkar (Purdue University)

5:30 PM Backward EM Calorimeter Mechanics and Design - Julien Bettane (IJCLab)
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Sala degli Svizzeri
Contributions

2:00 PM Testing and characterization - next steps (continued)

2:20 PM Sensor and ancillary ASIC power dissipation estimates - Iain Sedgwick

2:45 PM SVT power dissipation - Georg Viehhauser

3:00 PM SVT cooling - Nicole Apadula

3:25 PM Data rates - Jo Schambach

4:35 PM IB prototyping, FEA, and plans - Domenico Elia (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Maria Teresa Camerlingo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Rosario Turrisi (INFN-PD)
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Sala del Giardino
Contributions

2:00 PM Introduction - Matt Posik (Temple University)

2:05 PM Fitting and Propagation in ACTS - Andreas Stefl

2:35 PM Tracking Resolutions via Residual and Covariance Methods - Matt Posik (Temple University)

3:05 PM Angular Resolutions via Hit Extrapolation - Kentaro Kawade

3:35 PM Discussion Session 1

4:30 PM Open Tasks - Matt Posik (Temple University)

4:50 PM Discusssion Session 2 and Planning
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Sala del Terrazzo
Contributions

2:00 PM Use Case: Processing (Super)Timeframes - Nathan Brei (Jefferson Lab)

2:20 PM Discussion

2:50 PM Use Case: Simulations and AI-Driven Enhancements - Ray Ren (BNL)

3:10 PM Discussion

3:25 PM Use Case: Autonomous Alignment and Calibration - Jin Huang (Brookhaven National Lab)

3:45 PM Discussion

4:30 PM Group Discussion: Development of Streaming DAQ and Computing - Jeff Landgraf (BNL) Markus Diefenthaler (Jefferson Lab)
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 1:25 PM
Room: Sala degli Svizzeri
Contributions

9:00 AM Introduction and Setting the Stage - Salvatore Fazio (Universita' della Calabria ed INFN-Cosenza)

9:10 AM Configuration and Capabilities for the Phase-1 EIC - Elke-Caroline Aschenauer (BNL)

9:40 AM Theory: TMDs and GPDs with early data - Alessandro Bacchetta (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:10 AM Theory: Opportunities for first EIC physics - Maria Zurita (Complutense University of Madrid)

10:40 AM Social Excursion Information - Annalisa D'Angelo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:10 AM SIDIS Early Science Plans - Ralf Seidl (RIKEN) Stefan Diehl (2nd Physics Institute JLU Giessen)

11:30 AM Jets/HF Early Science Plans - Rongrong Ma (BNL)

11:50 AM Plans with exclusive and diffractive probes - Raphael Dupre (IPN Orsay) Zhoudunming Tu (BNL)

12:10 PM Open Mic (5' Flash Talks) - Miguel Arratia (University of California, Riverside)

12:40 PM Discussion of Future Early Science Deliverables - Salvatore Fazio (Universita' della Calabria ed INFN-Cosenza)
1:25 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:25 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Sala degli Svizzeri

2:00 PM

2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Musei Vaticani
Thursday, January 23, 2025
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Sala del Giardino
Contributions

9:00 AM Introduction - Dmitry Kalinkin (University of Kentucky) Karthik Suresh Simon Gardner

9:20 AM Hacking (in-person and online)
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Sala del Terrazzo
Contributions

9:00 AM Introduction - Raphaël Dupré (IJCLab - CNRS - Univ. Paris-Saclay) Zhoudunming Tu (BNL)

9:15 AM DVCS Analysis - Oliver Jevons

9:45 AM DEMP Analysis - Stephen Kay

10:15 AM DVMP analysis - Olaiya Olokunboyo

11:30 AM Double proton tagging from helium-3 - Win Lin (Stony Brook University)

12:00 PM Diffractive PDF - Hadi Hashamipour (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:30 PM Discussion Session
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Sala del Teatro
Contributions

9:00 AM Introduction and Relevance of grounding - Fernando Barbosa (JLab)

9:25 AM Introduction to C-composites in ePIC and their electrical conductivity - Sushrut Karmarkar (Purdue University)

9:50 AM Examples of detector grounding: COMPASS RICH grounding Scheme - Fulvio Tessarotto (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:15 AM Examples of detector grounding: ATLAS grounding coordination for Si trackers - Christian Zeitniz

11:40 AM Examples of detector grounding: sPHENIX TPC grounding - Takao Sakaguchi

12:05 PM A new approach to cooling in ePIC [Canceled] - Andreas Jung (Purdue University) Andy Jung Andy Jung (Purdue University)
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Sala degli Svizzeri
Contributions

9:30 AM OB prototyping, FEA, and plans - Adam Huddart Georg Viehhauser

10:10 AM Disks prototyping, FEA, and plans - Nicole Apadula

10:45 AM IB, OB, disks - discussion - Domenico Elia (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Georg Viehhauser Nicole Apadula

11:35 AM IB readout and SVT RDO board development - Jo Schambach

12:30 PM OB & Disk readout - James Glover
1:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Sala degli Svizzeri

1:30 PM Guided Tour of Villa Mondragone
Guided Tour of Villa Mondragone
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: Sala degli Svizzeri
2:15 PM Agenda on ePIC Indico (Link in Materials)
Agenda on ePIC Indico (Link in Materials)
2:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Sala degli Svizzeri
Contributions

2:15 PM CC Agenda is available on the ePIC Indico Site (Link in Materials)
7:30 PM Social Dinner at Noah Restaurant - Piazza Mazzini, 6 Frascati
Social Dinner at Noah Restaurant - Piazza Mazzini, 6 Frascati
7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Room: Sala degli Svizzeri
Friday, January 24, 2025
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Sala del Giardino
Contributions

9:00 AM Introduction - Annalisa D'Angelo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Francesco Bossù (CEA-Saclay)

9:05 AM MPGD Readout Electronics update - Irakly - Irakli Mandjavidze (CEA)

9:30 AM Status of SALSA ASIC design - Damien Neyret (CEA Saclay IRFU/SPhN)

9:50 AM FrontEnd and ReadOut Emulation platform - Roberto Ammendola (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:10 AM FEB Form Factor constraints for Cymbal - Francesco Bossù (CEA-Saclay)

10:20 AM FEB Form Factor constraints for BOT - Seung Joon Lee (Jefferson Laboratory)

10:30 AM FEB Form Factor constraints for ECT - Seung Joon Lee (Jefferson Laboratory) Stefano Gramigna (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:40 AM Discussion on FEB design

11:15 AM Status report on MPGD-Cymbal - Francesco Bossù (CEA-Saclay)

11:40 AM Status report on MPGD-ECT - Annalisa D'Angelo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:05 PM Status report on MPGD-BOT - Kondo Gnanvo (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF))

12:30 PM MPGD detectors development at INFN-LNF - Giovanni Bencivenni (LNF)
9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Sala del Teatro
9:00 AM - 1:05 PM
Room: Sala degli Svizzeri
Contributions

9:05 AM FPC status and vendor selection - Marcello Borri

9:35 AM IB powering - James Glover Jo Schambach

9:55 AM OB and Disk powering and grounding - James Glover

10:30 AM Data and slow control transmission - Grzegorz Deptuch

11:35 AM Simulations - Ernst Sichtermann (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Shujie Li

12:00 PM Next steps
10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Sala del Terrazzo
Contributions

10:00 AM Kinematic Reconstruction - Stephen Maple

10:30 AM Discussion Session

11:45 AM How to perform ePIC analysis - Alexander Jentsch (Brookhaven National Lab)

12:15 PM Discussion Session
1:05 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:05 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Sala degli Svizzeri
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: Sala degli Svizzeri
Contributions

2:00 PM ePIC Outreach - Elke-Caroline Aschenauer (BNL) Marta Ruspa (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

2:15 PM TC Office Priorities and Goals - Silvia Dalla Torre (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

2:45 PM Software and Computing Priorities and Goals - Markus Diefenthaler (Jefferson Lab)

3:15 PM Analysis Priorities and Goals - Salvatore Fazio (Universita' della Calabria ed INFN-Cosenza)

3:45 PM Discussion of ePIC Priorities and Goals

4:30 PM Farewell - John Lajoie (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Silvia Dalla Torre (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
4:40 PM Tea Break
Tea Break
4:40 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Sala degli Svizzeri

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