SiD Workshop at SLAC

28 Jan 2008, 08:00 → 30 Jan 2008, 18:00 US/Pacific

Kavli Auditorium

Monday 28 January

09:00 → 10:30 Workshop Introduction

Chair: Harry Weerts
WebEx Meeting Number: 590 245 510
WebEx Password: sidworkshop

09:00 Welcoming Remarks

Speaker: Prof. Steven Kahn (SLAC)

09:15 State of the ILC

Speaker: Dr Barry Barish (GDE)

Slides Barish_SiD_01-08.pdf Barish_SiD_01-08.ppt

09:40 The ILC Detector Program

Speaker: Jim Brau (U. Oregon)

Slides brau_detector_plan.pdf brau_detector_plan.ppt

10:05 Workshop Goals

Speaker: John Jaros (SLAC)

Slides Goals_for_Workshop_012808.pdf Goals_for_Workshop_012808.ppt

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:30 State of SiD and ILC Support

Chair: Andy White
WebEx Meeting Number: 590 245 510
WebEx Password: sidworkshop

11:00 View from DOE

Speaker: Prof. Gerald Blazey (NIU)

Slides SiD_Jan28_2008.pdf SiD_Jan28_2008.ppt

11:25 Panel Discussion on State of SiD Support

Speakers: Prof. Harry Weerts (Argonne National Laboratory), Prof. Hiro Aihara (Tokyo Univ.), Jim Brau (U. Oregon), John Jaros (SLAC), Marcel Demarteau (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL)), Prof. Philip Burrows (Oxford University), Dr Yannis Karyotakis (Lab. d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Phys. des Particules (LAPP/IN2P3/CNRS Uni. de Savoie))

Slides

• sid_uk_funding_jan08.pdf
• sid_uk_funding_jan08.ppt
• slides

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:10 Particle Flow Algorithms

Chair: Jim Brau
WebEx Meeting Number: 590 245 510
WebEx Password: sidworkshop

13:30 Studies of PFA Fundamentals

Speaker: Ron Cassell (SLAC)

Slides Studies_of_PFA_Fundamentals.pdf Studies_of_PFA_Fundamentals.ppt

13:55 PFA Studies in SiD

Speaker: Dr Matthew Charles (The University of Iowa)

Slides mcharles.pdf.pdf

14:20 SiD Global Parameter Optimization using Pandora PFA

Speaker: Mr Marcel Stanitzki (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides pfa-siworkshop-jan2008.pdf

14:45 Cost vs Performance

Speaker: Martin Breidenbach (SLAC)

Slides SiD_Optimization_SLAC_Jan_08.pdf SiD_Optimization_SLAC_Jan_08.ppt

15:10 → 15:40 Break

15:40 → 17:20 Calorimeter

Session Chair: Andrei Nomerotski
WebEx Meeting Number: 590 245 510
WebEx Password: sidworkshop

15:40 ECal R&D Status

Speaker: Prof. Raymond Frey (University of Oregon)

Slides Frey_ecal2.pdf Frey_ecal2.ppt

16:05 HCal R&D Status

Speaker: Prof. Andy White (University of Texas at Arlington)

Slides SiD_SLAC_Workshop_HCal_Status.pdf SiD_SLAC_Workshop_HCal_Status.ppt

16:30 Pros / Cons of Scintillator and Gaseous HCAL Options

Speaker: Vishnu Vikhyat Zutshi (Northern Illinois University)

Slides gas-scint.pdf

16:55 Crystal Calorimetry with Dual Readout

Speaker: Dr Adam Para (Fermilab)

Slides Crystal_Calorimetry_with_Dual_Readout.pdf

18:30 → 20:00 Wine and Cheese Reception

Hosted by the SiD Advisory Committee
Location: Partridge / Green Residence
Address: 12455 Briones Way, Los Altos Hills, CA
Phone: (650) 949-2875

Tuesday 29 January

08:30 → 10:30 Engineering

Session Chair: Marty Breidenbach
WebEx Meeting Number: 590 245 510
WebEx Password: sidworkshop

08:30 Mechanical Engineering Report

Speaker: Kurt Krempetz (Fermilab)

Slides SID_Workshop_1_08r1.pdf SID_Workshop_1_08r1.ppt

Speadsheet SiD_LOI_tasks_Engineering_r4.xls

09:00 Solenoid and Conductor R&D

Speaker: Mr Wesley Craddock (SLAC)

Slides January_29,_2008__SLAC_SiD_Magnet.ppt

09:15 Vertex Detector Mechanics

Speaker: William Cooper (Fermilab)

Slides Vertex_Detector_Mechanics.pdf Vertex_Detector_Mechanics.ppt

09:40 Forward Region Engineering

Speaker: Marco Oriunno (SLAC)

Slides SiDwkspJan2908.pdf SiDwkspJan2908.ppt

10:05 KPix Readout Chip

Speaker: David Strom (Oregon)

Slides kpix29jan08.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:30 Benchmarking Parallel Session

WebEx Meeting Number: 599 595 292
WebEx Password: break-benchmark

11:00 → 12:30 Calorimeter Parallel Session

WebEx Meeting Number: 592 620 529
WebEx Password: break-session11

11:00 DHCAL and MicroMegas at LAPP

Speaker: Catherine Adloff (LAPP, Annecy)

Slides SiD_DHCAL_MicroMegas.pdf SiD_DHCAL_MicroMegas.ppt

11:20 RPC based DHCAL slice test results

Speaker: Dr Jose Repond (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides Repond_SiD_SLAC_Jan_2008.pdf Repond_SiD_SLAC_Jan_2008.ppt

11:40 ECAL MAPS

Speaker: Mr Marcel Stanitzki (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

Slides mapsecal-siworkshop-jan2008.pdf

12:00 HCAL Geometry and Assembly

Speaker: Mr Nicolas Geffroy (LAPP/IN2P3/CNRS/Université de Savoie)

11:00 → 12:30 Muon Parallel Session

WebEx Meeting Number: 598 346 252
WebEx Password: break-muon

11:00 → 12:30 Tracking Parallel Session

WebEx Meeting Number: 590 356 437
WebEx Password: break-track

11:00 Improvements to Tracking Visualization in Wired

Speaker: Cosmin Deaconu (SLAC)

Slides visualization_improvements.pdf.pdf

11:15 Pigtail Design

Speaker: Martin Hoeferkamp (University of New Mexico)

Slides UNM_Pigtail_29jan08.pdf

11:30 Digitization Simulation for Generic Pixel Detectors

Speaker: Dr Nick Sinev (University of Oregon)

Slides PixSim_sinev.pdf PixSim_sinev.ppt

11:45 Latest Advances of the SILC Collaboration

Speaker: Dr Aurore Savoy-Navarro (LPNHE-Paris/CNRS-IN2P3)

Slides SiLC-SiDMeet-0108.pdf

12:10 Round table discussion

Speaker: Marcel Demarteau (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:15 Simulation / PFA Parallel Session

WebEx Meeting Number: 590 356 437
WebEx Password: break-track

13:30 Global Detector Parameter Studies

Speakers: Dr Ray Cowan (M.I.T.), lawrence bronk (MIT)

Slides lbronk_SLAC_Presenation_29Jan2008.pdf SLAC_Presenation.pptx

13:55 Tracking simulation code updates

Speaker: Timothy Nelson (SLAC)

Slides tkn_software_080129.pdf.pdf

15:15 → 15:45 Break

15:45 → 17:50 Benchmarking, Simulations, and Tracking

Chair: Marcel Stanitzki
WebEx Meeting Number: 590 245 510
WebEx Password: sidworkshop

15:45 Benchmarking Status

Speaker: Dr Timothy Barklow (SLAC)

Slides benchmarking_status_barklow_29jan2008.pdf benchmarking_status_barklow_29jan2008.ppt

16:10 Simulation Status

Speaker: Norman Graf (SLAC)

Slides 080129_SiD_Sim_Graf.ppt

16:35 Tracking Simulation Issues

Speaker: Dr Robert Kutschke (Fermilab)

Slides 080129.key.tgz 080129.pdf

17:00 Tracker R&D Status

Speaker: Timothy Nelson (SLAC)

Slides SiD_Tracker_Status.pdf

17:25 Vertex R&D Status and System Issues

Speaker: Dr Ronald Lipton (Fermilab)

Slides rl_sid_jan08.pdf

19:00 → 20:30 Collaboration Dinner

No host collaboration dinner
Cost: $35/person for 10 course meal + 1 beer
Location: Hunan Gardens Restaurant
Address: 3345 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, CA
Phone: (650) 565-8868

Wednesday 30 January

08:30 → 10:10 Electronics, Forward, Muon, and Machine

Chair: Tom Markiewicz
WebEx Meeting Number: 590 245 510
WebEx Password: sidworkshop

08:30 Electrical Engineering Report

Speaker: Dr Gunther Haller (SLAC)

Slides Haller-SiD-SLAC-Jan-08-v1.pdf Haller-SiD-SLAC-Jan-08-v1.ppt

08:55 Forward Detector R&D Status and Plans

Speaker: Bill Morse (BNL)

Slides SiD_FCAL.pdf SiD_FCAL.ppt

09:20 Muon Detector R&D Status and Plans

Speaker: H. Eugene Fisk (Fermilab)

Slides LC_Scintillator-based_Muon_Studies_1_29_2008c.pdf LC_Scintillator-based_Muon_Studies_1_29_2008c.ppt

09:45 IP and Bunch Parameters for Various Linear Colliders

Speaker: Dr Andrei Seryi (SLAC)

Slides IP_pars_ILC&LCs_Seryi_30Jan08.pdf IP_pars_ILC&LCs_Seryi_30Jan08.ppt

10:10 → 10:40 Break

10:40 → 13:00 Future Plans for SiD

Session Chair: John Jaros
WebEx Meeting Number: 590 245 510
WebEx Password: sidworkshop

10:40 Panel Discussion on Subsystem Plans

Speakers: Dr Andrei Nomerotski (University of Oxford), Dong Su (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center), Marcel Demarteau (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL)), Prof. Raymond Frey (University of Oregon), Vishnu Vikhyat Zutshi (Northern Illinois University)

Slides

• BenchmarkingPlans_20080130.pdf
• BenchmarkingPlans_20080130.ppt
• ECal_RD_prospects.pdf
• sid-hcal-panel.pdf
• slides

11:40 What Next?

12:25 Closing Remarks

Speaker: Prof. Harry Weerts (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides closing_questions_hw.pdf closing_questions_hw.ppt