EU Detector Plan Meeting and ASI Kick-off

7 Jan 2026, 14:00 → 9 Jan 2026, 17:00 Europe/Rome

Sala Galilei - Room 131 (ground floor) (INFN Pisa)

Wednesday 7 January

14:00 Registration

EU Detector Plan Technical Discussion: Technical Discussion

1 Introduction to EU detector plan

Speaker: Giovanni Signorelli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

EU Detector Plan status.pdf

2 Status in IT, NL, UL, CH, FI, etc

Speakers: Dr Davide Vaccaro (SRON Leiden), Peter Hargrave

3 GSTP PT, WBS, schedule etc.

4 ASI PT, WBS, schedule etc.

16:30 Self-organized coffee break

5 Detection chain task force

Speaker: Tomotake Matsumura (Kavli IPMU, the Univ. of Tokyo)

6 MDR#2 CDR

Speaker: Giovanni Signorelli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

7 EUDet PO and PoCs

Speaker: Michele Pinchera (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Thursday 8 January

EU Detector Plan Technical Discussion: Horns and Optical design

8 General Requirements

Speakers: Frederick Matsuda (JAXA ISAS), Shugo Oguri (ISAS/JAXA)

9 SLM Technology

Speaker: Mario Zannoni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

January 2026 Pisa meeting LiteBIRD SLM Horn CNR-Bicocca.pdf

10 Platelet technology

Speaker: Dr Cristian Franceschet (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11 Drilled technology

Speaker: Peter Hargrave

12 Filters

11:00 Coffee Break

EU Detector Plan Technical Discussion: Mechanical and thermal structure

13 General design constraints

Speaker: Shugo Oguri (ISAS/JAXA)

14 Various options / Back-of-the-envelope masses

Speaker: Andrea Tartari (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15 MEL and sub-assemblies

Speaker: Saverio Mameli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

2026_08_01_MEL&Sub-ass.pdf

16 Thick silicon capabilities - MW coupling

Speaker: Andrea Mazzolari (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

mazzolari_litebird_8-1-2026.pdf

mazzolari_litebird_8-1-2026.pptx

17 Thermal Aspects

Speakers: Gianluca Morgante (INAF - OAS Bologna), Gianluca Morgante (INAF - IASF Bologna)

13:30 Lunch

EU Detector Plan Technical Discussion: Testing and test facilities

18 What needs to be tested

Speakers: Paolo De Bernardis (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Silvia Masi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

PdB+SM.pdf

19 Test Facilities Design

Speaker: Prof. Francesco Piacentini (Sapienza Università di Roma, Dipartimento di Fisica)

20 LORENTZ test facility at ESTEC

Speaker: Elena Saenz (ESA)

21 EGSE and test interfaces

Speaker: Paolo Dal Bo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

22 Effects of cosmic rays

Speaker: Stefano Della Torre (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

16:30 Coffe break

EU Detector Plan Technical Discussion: Programmatics

23 Summary of discussions

24 Action Items

25 What's next. Follow-up

Lunch: Social Dinner

Friday 9 January

ASI Kick-off Meeting

ASI Detector activity kick-off

11:00 Coffee Break

ASI Kick-off Meeting: Detector Kick-off continued

ASI Detector activity kick-off

13:00 Lunch

EU Detector Plan Technical Discussion: Optional discussion time - Lab visits