7th International Workshop on Ring Imaging Cherenkov detectors (RICH 2010)

from Sunday, 2 May 2010 (10:30) to Friday, 7 May 2010 (16:00)
Oustau Calendal Conference Center

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
2 May 2010
3 May 2010
4 May 2010
5 May 2010
6 May 2010
7 May 2010
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08:15 --- Registration ---
09:00
Welcome messages (until 09:30) ()
09:00 Welcome by CPPM Director - Eric KAJFASZ (CPPM)   ()
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09:10 Welcome (others) - N. N.   ()
09:30 Cherenkov light imaging fundamentals and recent developments - Dr Jurgen Engelfried (Instituto de Fisica, Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, Mexico)   ()
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10:30 --- coffee break ---
11:00
Cherenkov Imaging in particle and in nuclear physics experiments (until 13:00) ()
11:00 The ALICE High Momentum Particle Identification system:an overview after the first LHC run. - Dr Paolo Martinengo (CERN)   ()
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11:30 The Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detectors of the LHCb Experiment - Prof. Franz Muheim (University of Edinburgh)   ()
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12:00 The experience of building and operating COMPASS RICH-1 - Dr Fulvio Tessarotto (INFN - Trieste)   ()
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12:30 Design, Construction, Operation and Performance of the Hadron Blind Detector for the PHENIX Experiment at RHIC - Prof. Itzhak Tserruya (Weizmann Institute of Science)   ()
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09:00
Cherenkov detectors in astroparticle physics (until 10:15) ()
09:00 A new 1 km**2 EAS Cherenkov Array in the Tunka Valley - Dr Bayarto Lubsandorzhiev (Institute for Nuclear Research of RAS)   ()
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09:25 The Cerenkov Telescope Array - Dr Jean-Francois Glicenstein (CEA)   ()
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09:50 The KM3NeT neutrino telescope - Prof. Ulrich Katz (ECAP / University of Erlangen)   ()
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10:15
Poster Session 1 (Summary) (until 10:35) ()
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10:15 Application of Geiger-mode photo sensors in Cherenkov detectors - Dr Johann Marton (Stefan Meyer Institute)   ()
10:15 Background radiation measurement with Water Cherenkov Detectors - Xavier Bertou (Centro Atomico Bariloche)   ()
10:15 Calibration and Optimization techniques for a Very Large Volume Cherenkov Neutrino Detector using Extensive Air Showers - Dr Antonios Leisos (Hellenic Open University)   ()
Poster
10:15 Cherenkov, Co-operation with International Scientific Community. - Mrs Elena Pavlovna Cherenkova (P.N.Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Russia, Moscow, Leninskiy prospekt, 53)   ()
10:15 Comparison of Candidate Secondary Electron Emission Materials - Prof. Valentin Ivanov (Muons, Inc.)   ()
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10:15 Detector and Electronics R&D for picosecond resolution, single photon detection and imaging - Mr Thomas Conneely (University of Leicester and Photek LTD)   ()
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10:15 FACT - the first Cherenkov Telescope using a G-APD Camera for TeV Gamma-ray Astronomy - Mr Thomas Krähenbühl (ETH Zurich)   ()
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10:15 Gain and Time Resolution Simulations in Saturated MCP Pores - Prof. Valentin Ivanov (Muons, Inc.)   ()
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10:15 Large area photodetectors for Astroparticle Physics Cherenkov arrays: PMTs vs HPDs - Dr Bayarto Lubsandorzhiev (Institute for Nuclear Research of RAS)   ()
10:15 New Electronics for the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Dr Serguei Vorobiov (LPTA UMR 5207 CNRS & UM2)   ()
10:15 Novel Large Format Sealed Tube Microchannel Plate Detectors for Cherenkov Timing and Imaging - Dr Oswald Siegmund (University of California)   ()
10:15 Photonis MCP-PMT as a Light Sensor in the Belle II Aerogel Radiator RICH - Prof. Peter Krizan (University of Ljubljana and J. Stefan Institute)   ()
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10:15 Pinhole Camera for Observation of Transient Luminous Events in the Atmosphere. - Dr oscar martinez (Universidad autonoma de puebla)   ()
10:15 PMT Characterisation for the KM3NeT Project - Dr Oleg Kalekin (Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics)   ()
10:15 Thick-COBRA, a New Thick-Hole Concept for Ion Back Flow Reduction - Joao Veloso (I3N, Physics Department - University of Aveiro)   ()
10:35 --- Coffee break / Poster Session 1 ---
11:00
Cherenkov detectors in astroparticle physics (until 11:25) ()
11:00 Results of the prototype camera for FACT - Mr Thomas Krähenbühl (ETH Zurich)   ()
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11:25 Status and perspectives of solid state photon detectors - Dr Samo Korpar (University of Maribor, Slovenia)   ()
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09:00
Photon detection for Cherenkov Counters - gaseous devices (until 09:50) ()
09:00 R&D on CsI-TGEM based photodetector - Dr Vladimir Peskov (CERN, Geneva (Switzerland) and UNAM Mexico)   ()
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09:25 Progress towards a THGEM-based detector of single photons - Dr Stefano Levorato (INFN sez. di Trieste)   ()
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09:50 Status and perspectives of Vacuum-based photon detectors - Prof. Toru Iijima (Nagoya University)   ()
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10:35 --- Coffee break / Poster Session 1 cont'd ---
11:05
Photon detection for Cherenkov Counters - vacuum based devices (until 12:00) ()
11:05 Systematic Studies of Microchannel Plate PMTs - Albert Lehmann (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)   ()
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11:35 Development of Sub-Nanosecond, High Gain Structures for Time-Of-Flight Ring Imaging in Large Area Detectors - Dr Matthew Wetstein (Argonne National Laboratory / Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago)   ()
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09:00
Technological aspects of Cherenkov detectors (until 10:00) ()
09:00 The use of saturated fluorocarbon fluids in high energy physics - Dr Gregory Hallewell (Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille)   ()
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09:30 The ALICE HMPID Detector Control system, its evolution towards an expert and adaptative system - Dr Giacinto de Cataldo (INFN sez. Bari Italy and CERN CH)   ()
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10:00
Poster Session 2 (Summary) (until 10:20) ()
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10:00 A Focussing Disc DIRC for PANDA - Mr Euan Cowie (University of Glasgow)   ()
Poster
10:00 Correlation Phenomena in the Cherenkov Radiation of multiply charged Ions - Prof. Vyacheslav Malyshevsky (Southern Federal University)   ()
10:00 Design of a disc DIRC detector for the WASA experiment - Dr Klaus Föhl (Universität Gießen)   ()
10:00 Development of a CBM-RICH prototype in Pusan - Mr JunGyu YI (Pusan National University)   ()
10:00 GPUs for fast triggering and pattern matching at the CERN experiment NA62 - Dr Gianluca Lamanna (SNS & INFN Pisa)   ()
10:00 Magnetic calibration of the LHCb RICH detectors - Dr Andrew Powell (University of Oxford)   ()
Poster
10:00 Performance of the FARICH-detector for the ALICE HMPID system at CERN - Mr Dmitry Finogeev (Andreevich)   ()
10:00 Prototype tests for a DIRC detector at the WASA-at-COSY experiment - Mr Adrian Schmidt (Physikalisches Institut IV, Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg)   ()
10:00 Results from first beam tests for the development of a RICH detector for CBM - Dr Juergen Eschke (GSI Darmstadt)   ()
10:00 Silica Aerogel Cherenkov Counter for beta decay measurements - Prof. Gianpiero Gervino (Dipartimento di Fisica Sperimentale di Torino and INFN Torino)   ()
10:00 Software Developement of PANDA barrel DIRC - Dr Dipanwita Dutta (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)   ()
Poster
10:00 Status of aerogel production in Novosibirsk - Dr Alexander Danilyuk (Boreskov Institute of Catalysis)   ()
10:00 Study of Transparent Silica Aerogel with High Refractive Index - Dr Ichiro Adachi (KEK)   ()
Poster
10:00 Tailoring the Radiation Hardness of Fused Silica - Dr Matthias Hoek (University of Glasgow)   ()
Poster
10:00 The Barrel DIRC of the PANDA Experiment at FAIR - Dr Jochen Schwiening (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)   ()
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10:00 The Cherenkov radiator system of the High Momentum Particle IDentification detector of the ALICE experiment at CERN-LHC - Dr PASTORE COSIMO (POLITECNICO DI BARI & INFN)   ()
10:00 The CLAS12 large area RICH detector - Dr Marco Contalbrigo (INFN Ferrara)   ()
10:00 The influence of gas refractive index to the RICH detector accuracy - Dr Miroslav Sulc (Technical University of Liberec)   ()
Poster
10:00 The LHCb RICH silica aerogel performance with LHC data - Mr Davide L. Perego (Universita Milano-Bicocca and INFN)   ()
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10:00 The LHCb RICH upgrade plans - Mr Kim Young Min (Edinburgh University)   ()
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10:00 Tools and Methods for simulation and evaluation of Very Large Volume Cherenkov Neutrino detectors - Dr Antonios Leisos (Hellenic Open University) Dr Apostolos Tsirigotis (Hellenic Open University)   ()
Poster
10:00 VHMPID detector for the ALICE experiment upgrade at LHC: simulation results from mirror segmentation studies - Dr Giacomo Volpe (Università degli Studi di Bari & INFN Sezione di Bari)   ()
10:20 --- Coffee break / Poster Session 2 ---
10:50
Technological aspects of Cherenkov detectors (until 11:45) ()
10:50 Alignment and monitoring of the LHCb RICH detectors with data - Mr Christopher Blanks (Imperial College, London)   ()
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11:20 Mirrors alignment control at Compass RICH-1 detector - Mr Lukas Steiger (Technical University of Liberec)   ()
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11:45
Pattern recognition and data analysis (until 13:00) ()
11:45 Measuring the masses of the charged hadrons using a RICH as a precision velocity spectrometer - Peter Cooper (Fermilab)   ()
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12:10 Method of identification of rings in spectra from RICH detectors using the deconvolution based pattern recognition algorithm - Dr Vladislav Matoušek (Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences)   ()
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12:35 Pattern recognition for TOP counter - Mr Marko Staric (Jozef Stefan Institute Slovenia)   ()
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09:20
Research and Development for future detectors (until 10:50) ()
09:20 The VHMPID RICH upgrade project for ALICE at LHC - Dr Antonello Di Mauro (CERN)   ()
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09:45 New Focusing DIRC for Super B - Dr Jerry Vavra (SLAC)   ()
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10:10 R&D towards the MEMPHYS detector - Prof. Thomas Patzak (Université Paris Diderot Paris 7)   ()
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10:50 --- Coffee break / Poster Session 2 cont'd ---
11:20
Research and Development for future detectors (until 12:30) ()
11:20 Focusing Aerogel RICH for particle identification and momentum measurement. - Dr Evgeniy Kravchenko (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)   ()
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11:45 Development of a RICH detector for electron identification in CBM - Dr Claudia Hoehne (GSI - for the CBM collaboration)   ()
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12:05 TOP counter prototype R&D - Dr Kenji Inami (Nagoya university)   ()
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PM
12:00 --- Arrivals ---
18:00 --- Registration ---
20:00 --- Welcome Apéritif ---
13:00 --- lunch ---
14:30
Cherenkov Imaging in particle and in nuclear physics experiments (until 15:00) ()
14:30 The NA62 RICH detector - Dr Massimo Lenti (INFN)   ()
Slides
15:00
Cherenkov detectors in astroparticle physics (until 16:00) ()
15:00 Astrophysics with the H.E.S.S. Cherenkov Telescopes - Dr Petter Hofverberg (MPI-K Heidelberg)   ()
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15:30 The ANTARES Deep-Sea Neutrino Telescope: Operation and Calibration - Dr Heide Costantini (INFN-Genova)   ()
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16:00 --- coffee break ---
16:30
Cherenkov detectors in astroparticle physics (until 18:30) ()
16:30 Gigaton Volume Detector in Lake Baikal - Dr Vladimir Aynutdinov (INR RAS)   ()
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17:00 The Major Atmospheric Gamma Ray Imaging Cherenkov Telescope - Dr Markus Garczarczyk (IAC)   ()
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17:30 The AMS~02 RICH detector: performance during ground-based data taking at CERN - Mr Rui Pereira (LIP Lisbon)   ()
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12:15
Photon detection for Cherenkov Counters - solid state and hybrid devices (until 13:05) ()
12:15 Operating the Hybrid Photon Detectors in the LHCb RICH counters - Mr Ross Young (Edinburgh University)   ()
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12:40 Module of Silicon Photomultipliers as a single photon detector of Cherenkov photons - Dr Rok Pestotnik (Jozef Stefan Institute)   ()
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13:05 --- lunch ---
14:30
Photon detection for Cherenkov Counters - solid state and hybrid devices (until 14:55) ()
14:30 Study of 144 Channel Multi-Anode Hybrid Avalanche Photo-Detector For the Belle-II RICH Counter - Dr Ichiro Adachi (KEK)   ()
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14:55 Status and perspectives of gaseous photon detectors - Dr Silvia Dalla Torre (INFN - Trieste)   ()
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15:40
Photon detection for Cherenkov Counters - gaseous devices (until 16:35) ()
15:40 THGEM/CsI: a potential UV-photon detector for RICH - Amos Breskin (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)   ()
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16:10 Development of a gaseous PMT with micro-pattern gas detectors - Prof. Takayuki SUMIYOSHI (Tokyo Metropolitan University)   ()
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16:35 --- Coffee break / Poster Session 1 cont'd ---
17:05 Other PID techniques - Dr Jerry Vavra (SLAC)   ()
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17:50 Recent advances in the development of gaseous detectors and MPGDs   ()
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12:00
Novel Cherenkov imaging techniques (until 13:00) ()
12:00 Particle Identification for the PANDA Detector - Dr Carsten Schwarz (GSI)   ()
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12:30 Detector concept combining Cherenkov and TOF information - Mr Mat Charles (Universiy of Oxford)   ()
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13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Novel Cherenkov imaging techniques (until 15:00) ()
14:30 The time-of-propagation counter for Belle II - Mr Kurtis Nishimura (University of Hawaii)   ()
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15:00 Technology issues in the Cherenkov light imaging - Prof. Clara Matteuzzi Matteuzzi (INFN and Universita Milano-Bicocca)   ()
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15:50
Bandol wine Tasting, Concert and Banquet (until 23:00) ()
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Boat visit to 'Les Calanques de Cassis' (until 17:00) ()
Explanations on Calanques
17:00 --- Coffee break / Poster Session 2 cont'd ---
17:30
Pattern recognition and data analysis (until 18:15) ()
17:30 Particle identification with a track fit chi-square - Dr Ferenc Sikler (KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics)   ()
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17:55 Reconstruction and Particle Identification Performance of the LHCb RICH detector - Dr Andrew Powell (University of Oxford)   ()
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18:40
Research and Development for future detectors (until 19:10) ()
18:40 GasToF: A picosecond resolution ToF detector at the LHC. - Krzysztof Piotrzkowski (UCLouvain/CERN)   ()
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19:20
RICH2010 ISAC Closed Meeting (until 20:20) ()
12:30 Workshop highlights - Dr Blair Ratcliff (SLAC)   ()
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13:15 Thanks, Closeout, announcement of location of next RICH workshop - Dr Eugenio Nappi (INFN)   ()
13:20 --- Departures ---