Name: VIII SuperB General Meeting - Orsay
Start: 2009-02-15T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2009-02-18T18:00:00+01:00
Location: LAL, Orsay

VIII SuperB General Meeting - Orsay

from Sunday 15 February 2009 (08:00) to Wednesday 18 February 2009 (18:00)

Monday 9 February 2009
Tuesday 10 February 2009
Wednesday 11 February 2009
Thursday 12 February 2009
Friday 13 February 2009
Saturday 14 February 2009
Sunday 15 February 2009

13:00

13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Welcome

14:10 News, Goals of the Meeting - Marcello Giorgi

14:35 Results from the DAFNE Tests - Catia Milardi

15:00 SuperB Machine - John Seeman (SLAC)

15:25 SuperB Detector - Blair Ratcliff (SLAC)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
16:30 - 17:35
Contributions

16:30 Organization and Goals of the Workshop - Blair Ratcliff (SLAC) Francesco Forti (PI)

16:40 Detector Geometry - Achille Stocchi Matteo Rama (LNF)

17:00 Electronics/DAQ - Dominique Breton (LAL Orsay)

17:20 BaBar D&D - Bill Wisniewski
16:30 - 17:30

Monday 16 February 2009
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Introduction - G. Finocchiaro

09:25 Fast simulation studies of DCH performances in different configurations - Matteo Rama

09:40 "Simulation study of Drift Chamber performance - G. Tatishvili

10:10 Garfield studies - Piero Patteri (LNF)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Plans for TDR - Giuliana Rizzo (PI)

09:15 Testbeam results on MAPS - Stefano Bettarini (PI)

09:35 Testbeam results on Striplets with FSSR2 - Marco Bomben (TS)

09:55 Vertex Detector Modeling in FastSim - David Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 On-going FDIRC test with the Hawaii waveform digitizing electronics in the cosmic ray telescope - G. Varner & J. Va'Vra

09:20 Photon sensor R&D for the Forward PID device - Peter Krizan (Ljubljana Univ. and J. Stefan Institute)

09:40 Studies of SiPMTs for forward PID - Flavio Dal Corso (PD)

10:00 Focusing Aerogel RICH with SiPM photodetectors - Evgeniy Kravchenko (Budker INP)

10:20 PID in FastSim - NICOLAS ARNAUD (LAL ORSAY CNRS-IN2P3)

10:25 AOB - All
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Update on crystal studies - Ren-yuan Zhu (Caltech)

09:30 Status of mechanical property studies - Claudia Cecchi (Perugia)

09:45 Monte Carlo studies of EC performance - Stefano Germani (Perugia)

10:05 A CsI/LYSO endcap configuration - David Hitlin (Caltech)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 General Overview - Gianluigi Cibinetto (Ferrara University)

09:20 Mechanical Design - Vito Carassiti (INFN Ferrara)

09:40 Electronics Design - Roberto Malaguti (INFN Ferrara)

10:00 Fast simulation status - Marcello Rotondo (INFN Padova)

10:15 Full simulation status - Mauro Munerato (Ferrara University)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 BINP Tau-Charm Project Updates - Eugene Levichev (BINP)

09:30 KEKB and SuperKEKB - Yukiyoshi Ohnishi (KEK)

10:00 Tor Vergata Site Overview - Sandro Tomassini (INFN-LNF)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:55
Contributions

11:00 Lab activities at LNF - R. de Sangro

11:15 Setup at UVIC - M. Roney

11:25 Activities for the TDR and definition of the WBS for the DCH - Convener: Giuseppe Finocchiaro (Home Institution:)
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Plans on CMOS MAPS and Pixel with Vertical Integration - Valerio Re (PV)

11:20 Plans for pixel module integration electronics - Mauro Citterio (MI)

11:35 DAQ for SVT - Mauro Villa (BO)

11:50 Low Mass Support and Cooling for Layer0 pixel modules - Filippo Bosi (PI)
11:00 - 11:50
Contributions

11:00 Forward TOF counter (beam test results and out related issues) - J. Va'Vra

11:20 MCP aging - E. Kravchenko

11:35 Electronics R&D in Orsay - D. Breton & V. Tocut
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 IFR R&D Status in Ferrara - Wander Baldini (INFN Ferrara)

11:30 IFR R&D Status in Padova - Flavio Dal Corso (INFN Padova)
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 Crab Waist at DAFNE: Numerical vs Experimental Results - Mikhail Zobov (INFN-LNF)

11:30 Lattice Overview - Pantaleo Raimondi (LNF)

12:00 Dynamic Aperture for SuperB - Eugene Levichev (BINP)

12:30 Injection system - Roberto Boni (LNF)
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 SuperB GRID: starting work - Armando Fella (CNAF)

11:20 Discussion

11:40 TDR WBS status - Mauro Morandin (INFN)
11:00 - 11:50
Contributions

11:00 Rear endcap update - Gerald Eigen (University of Bergen)

11:20 Test beam options - Claudia Cecchi (Perugia) Gerald Eigen (University of Bergen)

11:35 Discussion of TDR
11:50

11:50 - 12:30

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 NMSSM - Florian Domingo (LPT)

14:20 Effective theory approach to the LFV - Asmaa ABADA (LPT)

14:40 b-->s transitions - Tobias Hurth (CERN)

15:00 SUSY-GUT - Jon Parry (Kavli Institute, China)
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 PacTrk overview - David Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

14:15 Hit confusion - Doug Roberts (U. Maryland)

14:30 EMC - Chih-hsiang Cheng (Caltech)

14:45 IFR - marcello rotondo (INFN Padova)

14:50 Update of DIRC simulation - Brian Meadows (University of Cincinnati)

15:00 Aerogel PID - Evgeniy Kravchenko (Budker INP)

15:10 PID in FastSim - NICOLAS ARNAUD (LAL ORSAY CNRS-IN2P3)
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 IR Design & SR Backgrounds - Michael Sullivan (SLAC)

14:30 QD0 Design - Simona Bettoni (CERN)

15:00 Single Beam Backgrounds - Manuela Boscolo (INFN-LNF)

15:30 Luminosity Backgrounds - Eugenio Paoloni (PI)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 18:30
Contributions

16:00 SVT studies - Nicola Neri (Universita' di Pisa & INFN)

16:10 study of deltaT in B->Kspi0 - Gabriele Simi (UMD College Park, MD)

16:20 study of B and D vertexing - Aritoki Suzuki (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:30 mu/pi separation using TOF in DIRC - Brian Meadows (University of Cincinnati)

16:40 physics case of forw. PID - Achille Stocchi Leonid Burmistrov (LAL)

17:00 Breco in FastSim. Impact of PID - Elisa Manoni (PG)

17:15 endcap EMC - plans - Chih-hsiang Cheng (Caltech) Elisa Manoni (PG)

17:35 IFR optimization strategy - Gianluigi Cibinetto (FE) marcello rotondo (INFN Padova)

17:45 AFit - Adrian Bevan (Queen Mary, U. London)
16:00 - 18:10
Contributions

16:00 IR Design Status - Michael Sullivan (SLAC)

16:20 Luminosity Measurements at DAFNE - Nicolas Arnaud (LAL ORSAY CNRS-IN2P3)

16:50 HER IR Optics with Spin Rotator - Walter Wittmer (SLAC)

17:10 Fast Luminosity Feedback - Kirk Bertsche (SLAC)

17:30 Fast Luminosity Feedback 2 - Alessandro Drago (LNF)

17:50 Application of Normal Forms Analisys to SuperB - Diego Quatraro (CERN)
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Core development of Full Simulation - A. Di Simone (Roma II)

16:20 Status of Background simulation - E. Paoloni (Pisa)

16:40 Status and requirements from Subdetectors - Subdetector representatives

17:00 Plans of future works - (All)
16:00 - 19:00
Contributions

16:00 Modelisation of SuperB Front-End Electronics - Dominique Breton, Jihane Maalmi (LAL)

16:15 A simple and convenient tool for behavioral simulation - Sergio Cavaliere (INFN-NA)

16:30 Defining high speed serial links for SuperB - A. Aloisio, R. Giordano (Napoli)

16:45 SVT front-end electronics - Mauro Villa (BO)

17:00 Calorimeter front-end electronics - Martin Kocian

17:15 IFR front-end electronics - Roberto Malaguti (INFN Ferrara)

17:30 Ongoing R&D in Orsay/Saclay on ps time measurement - Dominique Breton (LAL)

17:45 R&D for PID front-end electronics - Gary Varner (Hawaii), Jerry Va'vra (SLAC)
19:00 Reception
Reception
19:00 - 22:00
Tuesday 17 February 2009
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Physics Case of SuperLHCB - Andrey Goloutvin

09:30 Super KEK B Project - Christoph Schwanda

10:00 SuperB Program - Marco Ciuchini
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:50
Contributions

11:00 The European strategy - S. Stapnes

11:20 SuperB : view from INFN - R. Petronzio

11:50 Round Table of funding agencies - D. Mc Farlane J. Fuster M. Spiro P. Petronzio S. Skrinsky S. Stapnes

12:20 Discussion
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 From the Frascati Workshop to the TDR - Mauro Morandin (INFN)

14:20 Collaborative Tools - Fabrizio Murtas (LNF)

14:40 Fast Simulation - David Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

15:00 Full Simulation - Andrea Di Simone (RM2)
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Intra Beam Scattering Calculations - Susanna Guiducci (LNF)

14:20 Electron Cloud Instability - Theo Demma (INFN-LNF)

14:40 Coherent Synchrotron Radiation Calculations - Gabriele Bassi (Cockcroft Institute)

15:00 RF System Parameters and Impedance Budget - Alexander Novokhatski (SLAC)
14:00 - 15:55
Contributions

14:00 B ->D exclusive - Benoit Blossier (LPT)

14:25 Comments on hadronic form factors in exclusive B and D decays - Alex Khodjamirian (University of Siegen)

14:50 Soft photon issues of leptonic B decays - Damir Becirevic (LPT)

15:10 Leptonic B/D decays - Benjamin Hass (LPT)

15:25 B-->Kpipi gamma, an interesting channel for SuperB ? - Pablo Del AmomSanchez (LPNHE Paris)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Physics Updates for Warwick - Achille Stocchi

16:20 Benchmark Channels for Detector Geometry Decisions - Matteo Rama (LNF)

16:40 Detector Simulation Tools for Physics - Matteo Rama (LNF)
16:00 - 17:40
Contributions

16:00 PEP Hardware - Michael Sullivan (SLAC)

16:20 Low emittance tuning - Maria Enrica Biagini (LNF)

16:50 Feedback System Design - Alessandro Drago (LNF)

17:20 Polarised Positron Source - alessandro variola (LAL IN2P3 CNRS)
Wednesday 18 February 2009
09:00
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 SVT

09:20 DCH

09:40 PID

10:00 EMC

10:20 IFR

10:40 Electronics
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Discussion on Future Work for Mini-MAC & Collaboration Topics
09:00 - 10:30

09:00 - 10:30

10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 Summary of Physics Sessions - Achille Stocchi (LAL - Univeriste Paris Sud and IN2p3/CNRS)

11:25 Summary of Accelerator Sessions - Maria Enrica Biagini (LNF)

11:50 Summary of Detector Sessions - Francesco Forti (PI)

12:15 Summary of Computing Sessions - Mauro Morandin (INFN)

12:40 Closeout - Guy Wormser (LAL)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00

14:00

14:00 - 15:30

14:00 - 17:30

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