VIII SuperB General Meeting - Orsay

15 feb 2009, 08:00 → 18 feb 2009, 18:00 Europe/Rome

LAL, Orsay

Workshop website - Rooms schedule

domenica 15 febbraio

13:00 → 14:00 Opening the registration and coffee

<font color="blue">Location: Bldg 200</font>

14:00 → 16:00 Plenary I: News, Goals of the Meeting

<font color="blue">Location: AUDITORIUM</font>

14:00 Welcome

Slides welcome.ppt

14:10 News, Goals of the Meeting

Relatore: Marcello Giorgi

Slides ORSAY-FEB15-09-V1.ppt

14:35 Results from the DAFNE Tests

Relatore: Sig.ra Catia Milardi

Slides Milardi_superB_Feb_09.ppt

15:00 SuperB Machine

Relatore: John Seeman (SLAC)

Slides Seeman_Super-B_Overview_Orsay__Feb_15_2009_FIN.ppt

15:25 SuperB Detector

Relatore: Dr. Blair Ratcliff (SLAC)

Slides Orsay_Detector_status.ppt

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:30 Parallel I: Warming up - Accelerator

<font color="blue">Location: SALLE BLEUE</font>

slides Plan_for_Feb2009.ppt

16:30 → 17:35 Parallel I: Warming up - Detector

<font color="blue">Location: AUDITORIUM</font>

16:30 Organization and Goals of the Workshop

Relatori: Dr. Blair Ratcliff (SLAC), Francesco Forti (PI)

Slides 20090215_Forti_Detector_Warmup_Workshop_Goals.ppt

16:40 Detector Geometry

Relatori: Achille Stocchi, Matteo Rama (LNF)

Slides DGWG-Orsay.ppt

17:00 Electronics/DAQ

Relatore: Sig. Dominique Breton (LAL Orsay)

Slides Electronics_SuperB.ppt

17:20 BaBar D&D

Relatore: Bill Wisniewski

Slides WisniewskiOrsay.pdf

lunedì 16 febbraio

09:00 → 10:30 Parallel II - Accelerator

<font color="blue">Location: AUDITORIUM</font>

09:00 BINP Tau-Charm Project Updates

Relatore: Eugene Levichev (BINP)

Slides Levichev_CT_Update.ppt

09:30 KEKB and SuperKEKB

Relatore: Yukiyoshi Ohnishi (KEK)

Slides SuperBWS-Ohnishi.ppt

10:00 Tor Vergata Site Overview

Relatore: Sandro Tomassini (INFN-LNF)

Slides SUPERB_SITE_overview.ppt

09:00 → 10:30 Parallel II - DCH

<font color="blue">Location: SALLE 100 - BAT 208</font>

09:00 Introduction

Relatore: G. Finocchiaro

Slides DCHfnc_1st_detectorParallel.pdf

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

Relatore: Matteo Rama

Slides dch_study.pdf

09:40 "Simulation study of Drift Chamber performance

Relatore: G. Tatishvili

Slides DCH_Tatishvili.pdf

10:10 Garfield studies

Relatore: Piero Patteri (LNF)

09:00 → 10:30 Parallel II - EMC

<font color="blue">Location: SALLE 129</font>

09:00 Update on crystal studies

Relatore: Ren-yuan Zhu (Caltech)

Slides ryz_090216_lyso_SuperB.pdf

09:30 Status of mechanical property studies

Relatore: Claudia Cecchi (Perugia)

Slides Mechanics.pptx

09:45 Monte Carlo studies of EC performance

Relatore: Stefano Germani (Perugia)

Slides FwdECAL_G4_160209.pdf

10:05 A CsI/LYSO endcap configuration

Relatore: David Hitlin (Caltech)

Slides Hitlin_Orsay.pptx.pptx

09:00 → 10:30 Parallel II - IFR

<font color="blue">Location: SALLE 166</font>

09:00 General Overview

Relatore: Gianluigi Cibinetto (Ferrara University)

Slides introIFRLAL2.pdf

09:20 Mechanical Design

Relatore: Vito Carassiti (INFN Ferrara)

Slides ifrVito.pdf

09:40 Electronics Design

Relatore: Roberto Malaguti (INFN Ferrara)

Slides IFR_electronics_malaguti.pdf

10:00 Fast simulation status

Relatore: Marcello Rotondo (INFN Padova)

Slides slides_fastifr.pdf

10:15 Full simulation status

Relatore: Mauro Munerato (Ferrara University)

Slides munerato_16Feb.pdf

09:00 → 10:30 Parallel II - PID

<font color="blue">Location: SALLE 101</font>

09:00 On-going FDIRC test with the Hawaii waveform digitizing electronics in the cosmic ray telescope

Relatore: G. Varner & J. Va'Vra

Slides Vavra_Varner_FDIRC.pdf

09:20 Photon sensor R&D for the Forward PID device

Relatore: Prof. Peter Krizan (Ljubljana Univ. and J. Stefan Institute)

Slides superb-paris-0209-krizan.pdf superb-paris-0209-krizan.ppt

09:40 Studies of SiPMTs for forward PID

Relatore: Flavio Dal Corso (PD)

Slides SiPM_at_PD.pdf

10:00 Focusing Aerogel RICH with SiPM photodetectors

Relatore: Dr. Evgeniy Kravchenko (Budker INP)

Slides KravchenkoOrsay.pdf KravchenkoOrsay.ppt

10:20 PID in FastSim

Relatore: Dr. NICOLAS ARNAUD (LAL ORSAY CNRS-IN2P3)

Slides nicolas.pdf.pdf

10:25 AOB

Relatore: All

09:00 → 10:30 Parallel II - SVT

<font color="blue">Location: SALLE BLEUE</font>

09:00 Plans for TDR

Relatore: Giuliana Rizzo (PI)

Slides svt_rizzo_paris_16022009.ppt

09:15 Testbeam results on MAPS

Relatore: Stefano Bettarini (PI)

Slides SuperB16012009Paris.ppt

09:35 Testbeam results on Striplets with FSSR2

Relatore: Marco Bomben (TS)

Slides bomben-Paris-striplets-090216.pdf

09:55 Vertex Detector Modeling in FastSim

Relatore: Dr. David Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

Slides Svt_FastSim.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 13:00 Parallel III - Accelerator

<font color="blue">Location: AUDITORIUM - BLDG 200</font>

11:00 Crab Waist at DAFNE: Numerical vs Experimental Results

Relatore: Mikhail Zobov (INFN-LNF)

Slides SuperB_Paris_Zobov.ppt

11:30 Lattice Overview

Relatore: Pantaleo Raimondi (LNF)

Slides Lattice_studies.ppt

12:00 Dynamic Aperture for SuperB

Relatore: Eugene Levichev (BINP)

Slides Levichev_SuperB_DA.ppt

12:30 Injection system

Relatore: Roberto Boni (LNF)

Slides SuperB_Injection_System.ppt

11:00 → 12:30 Parallel III - Computing

<font color="blue">Location: Salle Verte - Bldg 209</font>

11:00 SuperB GRID: starting work

Relatore: Armando Fella (CNAF)

Slides sb-grid_A_Fella.pdf

11:20 Discussion

11:40 TDR WBS status

Relatore: Mauro Morandin (INFN)

Spreadsheet Computing_TDR_WBS_v1.0.xls

11:00 → 12:55 Parallel III - DCH

<font color="blue">Location: Salle 100 - Bldg 208</font>

11:00 Lab activities at LNF

Relatore: R. de Sangro

Slides desangro.pdf

11:15 Setup at UVIC

Relatore: M. Roney

Slides UVicSuperBFeb09.pdf

11:25 Activities for the TDR and definition of the WBS for the DCH

Relatore: Convener: Giuseppe Finocchiaro (Home Institution:)

Slides DCH_TDR_WBS.pdf

11:00 → 11:50 Parallel III - EMC

<font color="blue">Location: SALLE 129</font>

11:00 Rear endcap update

Relatore: Prof. Gerald Eigen (University of Bergen)

Slides Eigen_orsay.ppt.ppt

11:20 Test beam options

Relatori: Claudia Cecchi (Perugia), Prof. Gerald Eigen (University of Bergen)

Slides BT.pptx

11:35 Discussion of TDR

11:00 → 12:30 Parallel III - IFR

<font color="blue">Location: Salle 166 - Bdlg 200</font>

11:00 IFR R&D Status in Ferrara

Relatore: Wander Baldini (INFN Ferrara)

Slides orsay_baldini.pdf

11:30 IFR R&D Status in Padova

Relatore: Flavio Dal Corso (INFN Padova)

Slides dal_corso.pdf

11:00 → 11:50 Parallel III - PID

<font color="blue">Location: Salle 101 - Bldg 200</font>

11:00 Forward TOF counter (beam test results and out related issues)

Relatore: J. Va'Vra

Slides Vavra_Forward_TOF.pdf

11:20 MCP aging

Relatore: E. Kravchenko

Slides kravchenkoMCPPMTOrsay.pdf kravchenkoMCPPMTOrsay.ppt

11:35 Electronics R&D in Orsay

Relatore: D. Breton & V. Tocut

Slides

• SAM_PID.ppt
• vanessa.pdf.pdf
• vanessa.ppt.PPT

11:00 → 12:30 Parallel III - SVT

<font color="blue">Location: Salle bleue Bldg 200</font>

11:00 Plans on CMOS MAPS and Pixel with Vertical Integration

Relatore: Valerio Re (PV)

Slides Re_Parigi_160209.ppt

11:20 Plans for pixel module integration electronics

Relatore: Mauro Citterio (MI)

Slides Mauro_Orsay_February_2009.ppt

11:35 DAQ for SVT

Relatore: Mauro Villa (BO)

Slides MeetingParigi160209_svt.ppt

11:50 Low Mass Support and Cooling for Layer0 pixel modules

Relatore: Filippo Bosi (PI)

Slides bosi_parigi_16-2-2009.ppt

11:50 → 12:30 Parallel III - PID/EMC

<font color="blue">Location: SALLE 101</font>

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 16:00 Parallel IV - Joint Session Machine Detector Interface

<font color="blue">Location: AUDITORIUM - Bldg 200</font>

14:00 IR Design & SR Backgrounds

Relatore: Michael Sullivan (SLAC)

Slides sullivan_IR_Design_SR.ppt

14:30 QD0 Design

Relatore: Simona Bettoni (CERN)

Slides SimonaBettoniQD0_97_2003.ppt

15:00 Single Beam Backgrounds

Relatore: Manuela Boscolo (INFN-LNF)

Slides bkg_mboscolo_orsay.pdf

15:30 Luminosity Backgrounds

Relatore: Eugenio Paoloni (PI)

Slides Orsay_backgrounds_MDI.pdf

14:00 → 15:30 Parallel IV - Physics

<font color="blue">Location: Salle 101 - Bldg 200</font>

14:00 NMSSM

Relatore: Florian Domingo (LPT)

Slides F.Domingo_NMSSM.pdf

14:20 Effective theory approach to the LFV

Relatore: Asmaa ABADA (LPT)

Slides abada_ET.pdf

14:40 b-->s transitions

Relatore: Tobias Hurth (CERN)

Slides Tobias_Hurth.pdf

15:00 SUSY-GUT

Relatore: Jon Parry (Kavli Institute, China)

Slides jparry_SUSYGUT.pdf

14:00 → 15:30 Parallel IV -Computing: fast simulation

<font color="blue">Location: Salle 129 - Bldg 200</font>

14:00 PacTrk overview

Relatore: Dr. David Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

Slides PacTrk_status.pdf

14:15 Hit confusion

Relatore: Doug Roberts (U. Maryland)

Slides HitMerge.pdf

14:30 EMC

Relatore: Dr. Chih-hsiang Cheng (Caltech)

Slides fastsim_emc.pdf

14:45 IFR

Relatore: Dr. marcello rotondo (INFN Padova)

Slides ifr_pid.pdf

14:50 Update of DIRC simulation

Relatore: Prof. Brian Meadows (University of Cincinnati)

Slides rolf.pdf rolf.ppt

15:00 Aerogel PID

Relatore: Dr. Evgeniy Kravchenko (Budker INP)

Slides KravchenkoOrsay.ppt

15:10 PID in FastSim

Relatore: Dr. NICOLAS ARNAUD (LAL ORSAY CNRS-IN2P3)

Slides nicolas.pdf.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 18:10 Parallel V - Accelerator

<font color="blue">Location: Salle 01 - Bldg 200</font>

16:00 IR Design Status

Relatore: Michael Sullivan (SLAC)

Slides sullivan_IR_Design_Status.ppt

16:20 Luminosity Measurements at DAFNE

Relatore: Nicolas Arnaud (LAL ORSAY CNRS-IN2P3)

Slides Nicolas.pdf.pdf

16:50 HER IR Optics with Spin Rotator

Relatore: Walter Wittmer (SLAC)

Slides Walter_HER_IR_Optics_with_Spin_Rotator.pdf

17:10 Fast Luminosity Feedback

Relatore: Kirk Bertsche (SLAC)

Slides FastLumiFdbkParis.pdf

17:30 Fast Luminosity Feedback 2

Relatore: Alessandro Drago (LNF)

Slides fast_ip_feedback.pdf

17:50 Application of Normal Forms Analisys to SuperB

Relatore: Diego Quatraro (CERN)

Slides Quatraro.pdf

16:00 → 17:30 Parallel V - Computing: Full Simulation

<font color="blue">Location: Salle 129 - Bldg 200</font>

16:00 Core development of Full Simulation

Relatore: A. Di Simone (Roma II)

16:20 Status of Background simulation

Relatore: E. Paoloni (Pisa)

16:40 Status and requirements from Subdetectors

Relatore: Subdetector representatives

17:00 Plans of future works

Relatore: (All)

16:00 → 19:00 Parallel V - detector electronics

<font color="blue">Location: AUDITORIUM - Bldg 200</font>

16:00 Modelisation of SuperB Front-End Electronics

Relatore: Dominique Breton, Jihane Maalmi (LAL)

Slides Orsay_Parallel_short_160209.ppt

16:15 A simple and convenient tool for behavioral simulation

Relatore: Sergio Cavaliere (INFN-NA)

Slides Cavaliere_Orsay.pdf

16:30 Defining high speed serial links for SuperB

Relatore: A. Aloisio, R. Giordano (Napoli)

Slides Defining_serial_links_SuperB_v2.ppt

16:45 SVT front-end electronics

Relatore: Mauro Villa (BO)

Slides MeetingParigi160209_svtele.ppt

17:00 Calorimeter front-end electronics

Relatore: Martin Kocian

Slides kocian.pdf

17:15 IFR front-end electronics

Relatore: Roberto Malaguti (INFN Ferrara)

17:30 Ongoing R&D in Orsay/Saclay on ps time measurement

Relatore: Dominique Breton (LAL)

Slides SAM_SuperB.ppt

17:45 R&D for PID front-end electronics

Relatore: Gary Varner (Hawaii), Jerry Va'vra (SLAC)

Slides Varner_PID_Readout_RnD.pdf

16:00 → 18:30 Parallel V - detector geometry group

<font color="blue">Location: Salle 166 - Bldg 200</font>

16:00 SVT studies

Relatore: Dr. Nicola Neri (Universita' di Pisa & INFN)

Slides paris09.pdf

16:10 study of deltaT in B->Kspi0

Relatore: Dr. Gabriele Simi (UMD College Park, MD)

Slides talk.pdf talk.pdf

16:20 study of B and D vertexing

Relatore: Sig. Aritoki Suzuki (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Slides Aritoki_feb16.pdf

16:30 mu/pi separation using TOF in DIRC

Relatore: Prof. Brian Meadows (University of Cincinnati)

Slides meadows.mu_separation.pdf meadows.mu_separation.ppt

16:40 physics case of forw. PID

Relatori: Achille Stocchi, Leonid Burmistrov (LAL)

17:00 Breco in FastSim. Impact of PID

Relatore: Elisa Manoni (PG)

Slides elisa_breco.pdf

17:15 endcap EMC - plans

Relatori: Dr. Chih-hsiang Cheng (Caltech), Elisa Manoni (PG)

Slides emc_endcap_cheng.pdf

17:35 IFR optimization strategy

Relatori: Gianluigi Cibinetto (FE), Dr. marcello rotondo (INFN Padova)

Slides ifr_geom.pdf

17:45 AFit

Relatore: Adrian Bevan (Queen Mary, U. London)

Slides afit_overview.pdf

This talk provides an introducton to a fitting/analysis interface to RooFit and TMVA. The interface is available as a stand-alone package that can be compiled against ROOTv5.20, and comes with exampls of how to do a simple branching fraction fit, and how to set up a time-dependent CP violation PDF. More details, including the source code and a user guide, are available from http://pprc.qmul.ac.uk/~bevan/afit/

19:00 → 22:00 Reception

martedì 17 febbraio

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary II - Future Flavour Physics Projects

<font color="blue">Location: AUDITORIUM - Bldg 200</font>

09:00 Physics Case of SuperLHCB

Relatore: Andrey Goloutvin

09:30 Super KEK B Project

Relatore: Christoph Schwanda

10:00 SuperB Program

Relatore: Marco Ciuchini

Slides Ciuchini.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:50 Plenary III - Session with Funding Agencies Representatives

<font color="blue">Location: AUDITORIUM - Bldg 200</font>

11:00 The European strategy

Relatore: S. Stapnes

11:20 SuperB : view from INFN

Relatore: R. Petronzio

Slides Petronzio.ppt

11:50 Round Table of funding agencies

Relatori: D. Mc Farlane, J. Fuster, M. Spiro, P. Petronzio, S. Skrinsky, S. Stapnes

12:20 Discussion

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Parallel VI - Accelerator

<font color="blue">Location: Salle 101 - Bldg 200</font>

14:00 Intra Beam Scattering Calculations

Relatore: Susanna Guiducci (LNF)

Slides IBS_Guiducci.pdf.pdf IBS_Guiducci.ppt.ppt

14:20 Electron Cloud Instability

Relatore: Theo Demma (INFN-LNF)

Slides ecloud_SuperB.ppt

Video movie.avi

14:40 Coherent Synchrotron Radiation Calculations

Relatore: Gabriele Bassi (Cockcroft Institute)

Slides SUPERB_TALK_Bassi.pdf

15:00 RF System Parameters and Impedance Budget

Relatore: Alexander Novokhatski (SLAC)

Slides SN_SLAC_RF_Imp.pdf

14:00 → 15:30 Parallel VI - Joint Detector + Computing

<font color="blue">Location: AUDITORIUM - Bldg 200</font>

14:00 From the Frascati Workshop to the TDR

Relatore: Mauro Morandin (INFN)

Slides morandin_17feb09.pdf

14:20 Collaborative Tools

Relatore: Dr. Fabrizio Murtas (LNF)

Slides tool_collaorativi_new.ppt

14:40 Fast Simulation

Relatore: Dr. David Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

Slides FastSim_status.pdf

15:00 Full Simulation

Relatore: Andrea Di Simone (RM2)

Slides 20090217SuperbParigi.pdf

14:00 → 15:55 Parallel VI - Physics

<font color="blue">Location: Salle 129 - Bldg</font>

14:00 B ->D exclusive

Relatore: Benoit Blossier (LPT)

Slides superbblossier.pdf

14:25 Comments on hadronic form factors in exclusive B and D decays

Relatore: Alex Khodjamirian (University of Siegen)

Slides Khodjamirian.pdf

14:50 Soft photon issues of leptonic B decays

Relatore: Damir Becirevic (LPT)

Slides Damir.pdf

15:10 Leptonic B/D decays

Relatore: Benjamin Hass (LPT)

Slides Haas.pdf

15:25 B-->Kpipi gamma, an interesting channel for SuperB ?

Relatore: Pablo Del AmomSanchez (LPNHE Paris)

Slides KPiPiGamma_SuperBLAL.ppt

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:40 Parallel VII - Accelerator

<font color="blue">Location: Salle 101 - Bldg 200</font>

16:00 PEP Hardware

Relatore: Michael Sullivan (SLAC)

Slides Seeman-Sullivan_PEP-II_Hardware_Orsay__Feb_17_2009_v1.ppt

16:20 Low emittance tuning

Relatore: Maria Enrica Biagini (LNF)

Slides Low_emittance_tuning.ppt

16:50 Feedback System Design

Relatore: Alessandro Drago (LNF)

Slides Feedback_system_design.pdf

17:20 Polarised Positron Source

Relatore: Dr. alessandro variola (LAL IN2P3 CNRS)

Slides superB_variola.ppt

16:00 → 17:30 Parallel VII - Joint Detector + Physics

<font color="blue">Location: AUDITORIUM - Bldg 200</font>

16:00 Physics Updates for Warwick

Relatore: Achille Stocchi

Slides Physics-Detector-Orsay.ppt

16:20 Benchmark Channels for Detector Geometry Decisions

Relatore: Matteo Rama (LNF)

Slides dgwg_summary.pdf

16:40 Detector Simulation Tools for Physics

Relatore: Matteo Rama (LNF)

Slides phystools.pdf

mercoledì 18 febbraio

09:00 → 10:30 Parallel VIII - Organisational Issues - Accelerator

<font color="blue">Location: Salle 101 - Bldg 200</font>

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

Slides Discussion_on_organization.ppt

09:00 → 10:30 Parallel VIII - Organisational Issues - Computing

<font color="blue">Location: Salle 166 - Bldg 200</font>

09:00 → 11:00 Parallel VIII - Organisational Issues - Detector

<font color="blue">Location: AUDITORIUM - Bldg 200</font>

slides PID.ppt

09:00 SVT

Slides SVT-Rizzo.pdf

09:20 DCH

Slides DCH.pdf

09:40 PID

Slides PID.pdf

10:00 EMC

Slides EMC-Hitlin.pdf

10:20 IFR

Slides IFR.pdf

10:40 Electronics

Slides Electronics.pdf

09:00 → 10:30 Parallel VIII - Organisational Issues - Physics

<font color="blue">Location: Salle 129 - Bldg 200</font>

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 13:00 Plenary IV - Summary of the Parallel Sessions

<font color="blue">Location: AUDITORIUM</font>

11:00 Summary of Physics Sessions

Relatore: Prof. Achille Stocchi (LAL - Univeriste Paris Sud and IN2p3/CNRS)

Slides Plenary-Physics.ppt

11:25 Summary of Accelerator Sessions

Relatore: Maria Enrica Biagini (LNF)

Slides Summary_accelerator.ppt

11:50 Summary of Detector Sessions

Relatore: Francesco Forti (PI)

Slides 20090218_Forti_Summary_of_Parallel_Detector.ppt

12:15 Summary of Computing Sessions

Relatore: Mauro Morandin (INFN)

Slides morandin_18feb09.pdf

12:40 Closeout

Relatore: Guy Wormser (LAL)

Slides SuperB_closeout.ppt

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 17:30 Executive Committees

<font color="blue">Location: AUDITORIUM</font>

14:00 → 15:30 Proto Technical Board Meeting