RD 51 Collaboration News Leszek Ropelewski CERN Maxim
RD 51 Collaboration News Leszek Ropelewski (CERN), Maxim Titov (CEA Saclay) 80 RD 51 Member Institutes; ~ 450 Participants 10 th RD 51 Collaboration Meeting, Stony Brook, USA, October 1 -4, 2012
10 th RD 51 Collaboration Meeting (Stony Brook, October 1 -4, 2012): https: //indico. cern. ch/conference. Program. py? conf. Id=179611 no WG parallel sessions no WG summaries Monday, October 1 09: 00 - 12: 00 Opening session 14: 00 – 19: 00 WG 1 MPGD Technologies and New Structures 18: 00 - 19: 30 Collaboration Board Meeting Ø Tuesday, October 2 09: 00 - 13: 00 WG 5 - Electronics 14: 30 - 15: 30 WG 7 - Test Beams 15: 30 – 17: 30 WG 6 - Production 18: 00 – 21: 00 Collaboration Dinner Ø Wednesday, October 3 - excursion ØThursday, October 4 09: 00 -13: 00 WG 2 – Physics Issues 14: 00 -18: 30 WG 4 - Simulation & software
Ø 20 – 22 February: RD 51 Collaboration Meeting (CERN) Ø 26 – 27 April: Industrial Applications of Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors (Annecy) Ø 13 June: RD 51 Presentation to LHCC Ø 13 - 15 June: RD 51 Mini-Week (CERN) Ø 1 – 4 October: RD 51 Collaboration Meeting (Stony Brook) Ø NEW: 3 -5 DECEMBER: RD 51 Mini-Week (CERN) RD 51 Official Communications: Ø RD 51 Collaboration Meetings Agenda: http: //rd 51 -public. web. cern. ch/RD 51 -Public/Meetings/Collaboration. Meetings. html Ø CB minutes: https: //espace. cern. ch/test-RD 51/CB%20 meeting%20 minutes/Forms/All. Items. aspx Ø MB minutes: https: //espace. cern. ch/test-RD 51/MB%20 meetings/Forms/All. Items. aspx
LHCC Committee, • RD 51 Report in the LHCC Open Session on June 13, 2012 Draft Minutes http: //indico. cern. ch/conference. Display. py? conf. Id=194183 (CERN/LHCC-2012/008)
Consolidation around common projects: large area MPGD R&D, CERN/MPGD production facility, common electronics developments, software tools, beam tests Large area (MM, GEM, THGEM) Design optimization (e. g. THGEM, Resistive MM) “RD 51 Common Projects” (Generic R&D) WG 2: WG 1: MPGD SRS Electronics WG 5: WG 7: RD 51 Common Test Beam Facility RD 51 WG 4: Software and Simulation WG 6: CERN MPGD Workshop & Industrialization
Feb. 2009 @ CERN: RD 51 GEM & Micromegas & assembly and training Contributions to the EDIT School: 2011 @ CERN; 2012 @ Fermilab Jan. 2010 @ RD 51 Simulation School RD 51
1 x 1 m 2 MM in test beam Large Micro. Megas : built with PCB technology Full size 1 x 2 m 2 MM will be built and tested this year. Industrialization is a next important step. T. Kawamoto – 25/09/2012
Kloe A. Cattai, Detector R&D Talk total area produced GLACIER T 2 K size of the single GEM/m. M foil Si. D HCAL TOTEM a COMPASS foster industrial large scale production 9 A A. Cattai @
https: //espace. cern. ch/test-RD 51/RD 51%20 internal%20 notes/Forms/All. Items. aspx RD 51 Notes: 9 in 2012 17 in 2011; 9 in 2010; 7 in 2009 We encourage everybody to submit results of your work (before journal publication) and internal documentation as RD 51 internal notes
2011: 4 proposals approved under the call for Project Funding from the RD 51 CF Ø Thin and high-pitch laser-etched mesh manufacturing and bulking (Saclay / CERN / Bari) Ø Development of innovative resistive GEM alpha detectors for earthquakes prediction and homeland security (INFN Bari / UNAM, Mexico / INFN Padova / INFN Frascati) Ø MPGDs technology laboratory for training, development, fabrication, applications and innovation (Universidad Antonio Nariño, Columbia / Brookhaven National Laboratory/ Helsinki Institute of Physics / HEPTech / GSI Helmholtzzentrum) Ø A low mass microbulk with real XY strips structure (NCSR Demokritos / Saclay/ Laboratorio de Física Nuclear y Astropartículas, Universidad de Zaragoza / CERN ) See P. Colas, V. Peskov, R. Gutierrez and T. Geralis (plenary talks & status of the Projects) 2012: New Call for 2012 Common Project Proposals extended deadline October 1, 2012 Selection/decision shortly after the RD 51 Collaboration Meeting in October
Legal documents required for the SRS distribution to the RD 51 institute are prepared and has to be signed by CERN Directorate (Sergio Bertolucci) every institute has to sign this document with RD 51 before getting SRS from CERN THGEM Technology – ELTOS S. p. A. (Italy) PRINT ELECTRONICS (Israel) GEM Technology • New Flex (Korea, Seoul) • Tech-ETCH (USA, Boston) • Techtra (Wroclaw, Poland) • Scienergy (Japan, Tokyo) • Keerthi Industries (India) • Micro. Metal Gmb. N (Germany, Muellheim) New developments / results: Micromegas Technology • TRIANGLE LABS (USA, Nevada) • ELTOS S. p. A. (Italy) • SOMACIS (Italy, Castelfidarco) • CIREA (France, CHOLET) Ø Summary of Recent Contacts with New. Flex, ELTOS, Techtra, Cirea
Ø The initial validity of the present RD 51 Mo. U covers the period until the 31 st of December 2013 ØIf RD 51 would like to continue beyond 2013 need to ask for extension LHCC and CERN Research Board (RB); Ø Preliminary discussions with LHCC will not need to write new RD 51 proposal prepare executive summary (10 -15 pages) to describe future RD 51 program ØReceived a lot of contributions from individual groups and RD 51 WG conveners – THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR INPUTS ! Ø Document to be submitted to the LHCC by the November’ 2012 extension discussed/(approved) by LHCC/RB in March/June 2013
Ø Generic R&D (new structures, ideas, detector physics) – RD 51 Common Projects (WG 2) Ø Applications – new proposal: organization of series of specialized workshops disseminating MPGD applications beyond fundamental physics – RD 51, potential users and industry (e. g. dosimetry, neutron detection, medical physics, …) (WG 3) Ø Development and Maintenance of Software & Simulation Tools; basic studies & software support for the RD 51 community (WG 4) Circulate draft Executive Summary – middle of October 2012; Ø Development and Maintenance of the SRS Electronics (WG 5) Ø MPGD Industrialization - GEM, Microgemas, Thick GEM (WG 6) Ø Maintenance of the RD 51 Test-Beam Infrastructure (WG 7) Ø MPGD Education and Training – new proposal: organization of schools for students and newcomers & academic training outside CERN, covering specific areas of the RD 51/MPGD activities
10 th RD 51 Collaboration Meeting (Stony Brook, October 1 -4, 2012): https: //indico. cern. ch/conference. Program. py? conf. Id=179611 Monday, October 1 - 09: 00 - 12: 00 Opening session 09: 00 -09: 10 Opening and Welcome (K. Dehmelt) 09: 10 – 09: 40 RD 51 Collaboration News (L. Ropelewski/ M. Titov) 09: 40 - 09: 45 MPGD 2013 Conference in Spain (Y. Giomataris) 09: 45 – 09: 55 - Development of innovative resistive GEM alpha detectors for earthquakes (V. Peskov) 09: 50 – 10: 05 - A low mass microbulk with real XY strips (T. Geralis) 10: 05 – 10: 15 - Thin and high-pitch laser-etched mesh manufacturing and bulking (P. Colas) 10: 15 – 10: 25 MPGDs technology laboratory for training, development, fabrication, applications and innovations in Colombia (R. Gutierrez) 10: 25 -10: 45 Coffee Break 10: 45 – 11: 15 Recent developments with Gridpix (J. Timmermans) 11: 15 – 12: 00 Detector Technologies in PHENIX at RHIC: Past Developments and Future Plans (Th. Hemmick)
- Slides: 15