Name: Vancouver Linear Collider Workshop/GDE Meeting
Start: 2006-07-19T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2006-07-22T20:00:00+02:00
Location: UBC, Vancouver, Canada

Vancouver Linear Collider Workshop/GDE Meeting

from Wednesday 19 July 2006 (08:00) to Saturday 22 July 2006 (20:00)

Monday 17 July 2006
Tuesday 18 July 2006
Wednesday 19 July 2006
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Room: SUB ballroom
Contributions

08:30 Opening - Alan Astbury (President, IUPAP. University of Victoria)

08:40 The Physics Case for the ILC - Joseph Lykken (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

09:20 GDE Report - Barry Barish (Director, GDE)
10:00 break
break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 12:30
Room: SUB ballroom
Contributions

10:30 Comments from DOE Office of High Energy Physics - Paul Grannis (DOE)

10:35 EPP2010 Report - Ritchie Patterson (Cornell University)

11:15 CERN Council Strategy Group Report - Ken Peach (Oxford University)

12:00 Communications and Outreach - Judy Jackson (Fermilab Office of Public Affairs)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 I - Instrum. and MDI
I - Instrum. and MDI
13:30 - 15:30
Room: SUB 211
Contributions

13:30 Forward Calorimeters for Bhabha Scattering and Pair Measurements - Wolfgang Lohmann (DESY, Zeuthen)

13:50 Monitoring the ILC Bunch Characteristics with Beam-strahlung Measurements - William Morse (BNL)

14:10 Comparison of the 14/20 mrad and 2mrad extraction lines - Eric Torrence (Oregon) Ken Moffeit (SLAC)

14:30 Backscattered Synchrotron Radiation in 2 mRad Extraction Line - Eric Torrence (Oregon) Takashi Maruyama (SLAC)

14:45 MDI Discussion
I - software
I - software
13:30 - 15:30
Room: SUB 207/9
Contributions

13:30 Tracking Preamble - Bruce Schumm

13:40 Using the TRF tracking toolkit - Norman Graf (SLAC)

13:55 Track fitting, resolution limits and detector optimisation - Nick Sinev

14:10 Outer-Detector Tracking Studies for the SiD - Fred Blanc (University of Colorado)

14:25 Seed-based Tracking Algorithm for SiD - Richard Partridge (Off-White University)

14:40 Tracking Studies at Santa Cruz - Bruce Schumm

14:55 TPC Reconstruction Framework using LCIO and Marlin - Christian Hansen (University of Victoria)

15:10 Vertex Tools for the ILC - Joel Goldstein (RAL)

15:20 ILC Vertexing Software Requirements - Norman Graf (SLAC)
13:30 - 15:30
Room: SUB ballroom
Contributions

13:30 DCB Report - Peter Garbincius (FNAL)

14:00 CCB Report - Nobu Toge (KEK)

14:20 Technical Systems/ Vacuum Report - John Noonan (ANL)

14:35 Technical Systems/ Magnets Report - John Tompkins (FNAL)

14:50 Technical Systems/ Cryomodule Report - Norihito Ohuchi (KEK)

15:10 Technical Systems/ Cavity Report - Dieter Proch (DESY)
I
I
13:30 - 15:30
Room: SUB 205
Contributions

13:30 Triple Higgs Coupling Error Versus Jet Energy Resolution - Timothy Barklow (SLAC)

14:00 Higgs Boson Decay into Pairs of Leptons: Signal and Backgrounds - Ed Berger (ANL)

14:30 The NMSSM h --> aa Scenario - Jack Gunion (UC Davis)
15:30 break
break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: SUB 211
Contributions

16:00 Scint/MAPMT muon prototype operation - Bob Abrams (Indiana University)

16:15 RPC muon option for SiD - Henry Band (University of Wisconsin)

16:30 Muon simulation - Caroline Milstene (FNAL)

16:45 SiPM development - Giovanni Pauletta (INFN - Pisa)

17:00 Muon detector status - LDC - Marcello Piccolo (INFN - Frascati)

17:15 GPD development - Bob Wilson (Colorado State)

17:30 Scint/SiPM prototype operation - Dhiman Chakraborty (Northern Illinois University)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: SUB 212
Contributions

16:00 It's Not Just A Good Idea - Education and Outreach in Particle Physics - Randy Ruchti (University of Notre Dame and NSF)

16:25 High School Teacher's Perspective - Philip Freeman (Richmond High School and TRIUMF)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: SUB ballroom
Contributions

16:00 Technical Systems/ RF Power Report - Shigeki Fukuda (KEK)

16:20 Technical Systems/ Instrumentation Report - Marc Ross (SLAC)

16:40 Technical Systems/ Dumps & Collimators Report - Thomas Markiewicz (SLAC)

16:55 Technical Systems/ Accelerator Physics Report - Kiyoshi Kubo (KEK)

17:10 Global Systems/ Commissioning and Ops Report - Thomas Himel (SLAC)
I
I
16:00 - 18:00
Room: SUB 207/9
Contributions

16:00 LHC Physics Prospects of Interest at the ILC - Georges Azuelos (Universite de Montreal/TRIUMF)

16:30 Discovery and Identification of New Gauge Bosons at the LHC and ILC - Steve Godfrey (Carleton University)

17:00 Top quark couplings - Yukawa, SM and anomalous - for LHC vs. ILC. - Aurelio Juste (Fermilab)
II
II
16:00 - 18:00
Room: SUB 205

18:30 Reception
Reception
18:30 - 20:30
Room: Sage
Thursday 20 July 2006
08:30 I
I
08:30 - 10:00
Room: SUB 212A
Contributions

08:30 Simulation & Reconstruction Overview - Norman Graf (SLAC)

08:40 slic - Jeremy Mccormick (Unknown)

09:00 org.lcsim - Tony Johnson

09:20 Cluster Finding Comparisons & QA - Ron Cassell
08:30 - 10:00
Room: SUB 211
Contributions

08:30 Introduction - Jae Yu (University of Texas at Arlington)

08:35 US Muon Beam Test Activities and Plans - Bob Abrams (Indiana University)

08:55 CALICE Beam Test Status and Plans - Andy White (University of Texas at Arlington)

09:15 US Calorimeter Beam Test Status and Plans - Jose Repond (Argonne National Laboratory)

09:35 FNAL Beam Test Facility Status and Plans - Erik Ramberg (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
II - Silicon
II - Silicon
08:30 - 10:00
Room: SUB 207/9
Contributions

08:30 SiD Tracker Design: Status and Plans - Tim Nelson (SLAC)

08:55 Recent Progress in Tracker Alignment R&D at Michigan - Keith Riles (University of Michigan)

09:20 Long Shaping Time Silicon Readout at Santa Cruz - Bruce Schumm (UC Santa Cruz)
08:30 - 10:00
Room: SUB ballroom
Contributions

08:30 Global Systems/ Controls Report - John Carwardine (Argonne National Laboratory)

08:50 Global Systems/ Cryogenics Report - Tom Peterson (FNAL)

09:10 Global Systems/ CF&S Report - Victor Kuchler (Fermilab)

09:40 Global Systems/ Installation Report - Fred Asiri (SLAC)
III
III
08:30 - 10:00
Room: SUB 205
Contributions

08:30 High Precision Calculations for the MSSM Higgs Sector: FeynHiggs2.4 - Sven Heinemeyer (Univ. de Zaragoza)

09:00 Radiative Corrections to Higgs Production at the ILC - HongSheng Hou (Carleton U.)
10:00 break
break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 I
I
10:30 - 12:30
Room: SUB 212A
Contributions

10:30 Silicon-tungsten ECal - Recent Results and Plans - Marty Breidenbach (SLAC)

10:55 The Multi-Pixel Photon Counter for the GLD Calorimeter Readout - Satoru Uozumi (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

11:20 Outline of GLD-CAL beam test plan - Saori Itoh

11:45 Development of a Scintillator-Tungsten Electromagnetic Calorimeter with Silicon Photomultipliers - Joseph Proulx (University of Colorado at Boulder)

12:10 Investigating pi0 KinematicFits - Graham Wilson (KU)
II - Testbeam Reports
II - Testbeam Reports
10:30 - 12:30
Room: SUB 215
Contributions

10:30 ATF Status - Junji Urakawa (KEK)

10:50 ESA Testbeam Program Overview - Stewart Boogert (UCL)

11:05 ESA T-488: Fast Feedback - Phil Burrows (Oxford)

11:25 ESA T-474: BPM spectrometer - Bino Maiheu (UCL)

11:45 ESA T-475: Synch detector report - Eric Torrence (Oregon)

11:55 ESA EMI and Bunch Length studies - Nick Sinev (Oregon)
III - TPC
III - TPC
10:30 - 12:30
Room: SUB 207/9
Contributions

10:30 Status Report of Non-Homogenous Magnetic Field Study - Jason Abernathy (University of Victoria)

10:50 MPGD-TPC Resolution Studies with Charge Dispersion in a Test Beam - Madhu Dixit (Carleton University)

11:10 Studies with the Cornell/Purdue prototype TPC - Dan Peterson (Cornell University)

11:30 Silicon Pixel Readout for a TPC - Jan Timmermans (NIKHEF)

11:50 Transition of TPC R&D to the Next Phase of Work - Ron Settles (MPI Munich)
10:30 - 12:30
Room: SUB ballroom
Contributions

10:30 Area Systems/ Electron Source Report - Axel Brachmann (SLAC)

10:45 Area Systems/ Positron Source Report - John Sheppard (SLAC)

11:05 Area Systems/ Damping Ring Report - Susanna Guiducci (INFN)

11:25 Area Systems/ RTML Report - Peter Tenenbaum (SLAC)

11:40 Area Systems/ Main Linac Report - Nikolay Solyak (FNAL)

12:10 Area Systems/ BDS Report - Andrei Seryi (SLAC)
IV
IV
10:30 - 12:30
Room: SUB 205
Contributions

10:30 Higher Curvature Effects in the ADD & RS Models - Tom Rizzo (SLAC)

11:00 A Model-Independent Approach to 2HDM Physics - Howard Haber (UC Santa Cruz)
12:30 lunch
lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 I
I
13:30 - 15:30
Room: SUB ballroom
Contributions

13:30 ALCPG report - Jim Brau (University of Oregon)

14:00 Preparations for an ILC site in the Americas - Maury Tigner (LEPP, Cornell University)

14:30 ILC/LHC connection - Sven Heinemeyer (Universität Karlsruhe)

15:00 ILC/Cosmology connection - Ted Baltz (SLAC)
13:30 - 15:30
Room: SUB 211
13:30 - 15:30
Room: SUB 205
Contributions

13:30 Discuss progress and agenda

14:00 meet with CF&S

14:45 meet with Instrumentation TS
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Henn 202

13:30 - 15:30
Room: SUB 213
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Henn 201
Contributions

14:30 Joint Meeting with Installations Group

15:00 Joint Meeting with RF TS Group
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Henn 304

13:30 - 15:30
Room: SUB 212A

13:30 - 15:30
Room: Henn 302

13:30 - 15:30
Room: SUB 215

13:30 - 15:30
Room: SUB 209
13:30 - 15:30
Room: SUB 207
Contributions

13:30 Electron Source Status and Plans - Axel Brachmann (SLAC)

14:10 Undulator e+ Source Status and Plans - John Sheppard (SLAC)

14:50 Compton e+ Source Status and Plans - Masao Kuriki (KEK)
15:30 break
break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 II
II
16:00 - 18:00
Room: SUB ballroom
Contributions

16:00 DCR: Physics section - Klaus Moenig (DESY)

16:40 DCR: Detector section - Akiya Miyamoto (KEK)

17:20 Introduction to the BCD - Gerry Dugan (Cornell/GDE)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: SUB 212
Contributions

16:00 Relationship between Science Centres and Scientists - Kevin Kearn (Science World -- Vancouver)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: SUB 211
16:00 - 18:00
Room: SUB 205
Contributions

16:00 meet with Beam dumps & collimators TS

16:45 meet with Magnets TS

17:30 meet with Design Control Board (also past 18:00 if needed)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Henn 202

16:00 - 18:00
Room: SUB 213
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Henn 201
Contributions

16:00 Open Discussions
16:00 - 18:00
Room: SUB 212A

16:00 - 18:00
Room: Henn 302

16:00 - 18:00
Room: SUB 215

16:00 - 18:00
Room: SUB 209
16:00 - 18:00
Room: SUB 207
Contributions

16:00 EuroTev e+ Source Activities - Jim Clarke

16:30 e+ Target and AMD Status and Plans - Jeff Gronberg (LLNL)

17:00 e+ Undulator Considerations - A. Mikhailichenko

17:30 e+ Beyond Vancouver
19:30
19:30 - 21:30
Room: SUB ballroom
Contributions

19:30 Town Hall Meeting
Friday 21 July 2006
08:30 II
II
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Henn 202
Contributions

08:30 Update on the GEM Digital HCal - Jae Yu (UTA)

08:50 Construction of a Hadron Calorimeter Prototype Section with Resistive Plate Chambers - Jose' Repond (Argonne National Laboratory)

09:10 Tile scintillator HCal R&D - Dhiman Chakraborty (NIU)

09:30 Calorimetry Plans for the 4th Concept - John Hauptman (Iowa State)
I
I
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Henn 301
Contributions

08:30 CMOS Pixel R&D at U Hawaii - Marlon Barbero (U Hawaii)

08:50 Monolithic Pixel R&D at LBNL - Devis Contarato (LBNL)

09:10 Backthinning of CMOS Pixel Sensors - Benjamin Hooberman (LBNL)

09:25 SOI Detectors and 3D MultiTier Electronics R&D at Fermilab - Ronald Lipton (Fermilab)

09:40 Chrono Pixel R&D with Sarnoff - David Strom (U Oregon)
08:30 - 10:15
Room: SUB 212A
Contributions

08:30 Intro/highlights from GDE mtg -- D.A-K, H.Y, A.S

08:45 Highlights from IPBI IR/MDI ALCPG sessions -- Torrence

09:05 IR magnets design -- Parker, Tompkins

09:20 Tunnels and IR hall configuration -- Asiri, Baldy

09:35 Updates from forward region design -- Lohmann

09:45 Crab cavity design -- Peter McIntosh, Burt, Goudket, Koeth, Jones

09:55 Updates from GG community -- Gronberg, Moenig

10:05 Message from GDE CCB on GG -- Nobu Toge
08:30 - 10:00
Room: SUB ballroom

08:30 - 10:00
Room: SUB 213

08:30 - 10:00
Room: SUB 215

08:30 - 10:00
Room: SUB 207

08:30 - 10:00
Room: SUB 211

08:30 - 10:00
Room: SUB 205

08:30 - 09:30
Room: Gage M2/3

08:30 - 10:00
Room: SUB 212

08:30 - 10:00
Room: SUB 209
II
II
08:30 - 10:00
Room: Henn 201
Contributions

08:30 LHC and ILC Measurements of Strong Electroweak Symmetry Breaking - Tim Barklow (SLAC)

09:00 Combined LHC/ILC Analysis of a SUSY Scenario with Heavy Sfermions - Gudrid MOORTGAT-PICK (CERN)

09:30 Optimal Observables for Events with Missing Energy - Bob McElrath (University of California, Davis)
10:00 break
break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 II - Cal & PFA
II - Cal & PFA
10:30 - 12:30
Room: Henn 200
Contributions

10:30 Development of a Particle Flow Algorithm at Argonne - Lei Xia (Argonne National Laboratory)

10:45 PFA reconstruction with Directed Tree Clustering - Dhiman Chakraborty (Northern Illinois University)

11:00 PFA at Iowa - Matthew Charles

11:15 Individual Particle Reconstruction - Stephen Magill (Argonne National Laboratory)

11:30 Reconstruction Studies for a Scintillator-Tungsten Electromagnetic - Joseph Proulx

11:45 New Calorimeter Geometry in GLD Full Simulator and Performance Test - Hiroaki Ono (Niigata University)

12:00 Performance of Realistic PFA for GLD detector - Tamaki Yoshioka (ICEPP, Univ. of Tokyo)
10:30 - 12:30
Room: SUB 212A
Contributions

10:30 Reserved

11:00 Mtg. with Operations Global group

11:30 Mtg. with Installation Global group

12:00 Mtg. with Controls Global group

12:29 Agenda for the afternoon of July 21st
10:30 - 12:30
Room: SUB ballroom

10:30 - 12:30
Room: SUB 213

10:30 - 12:30
Room: SUB 215

10:30 - 12:30
Room: SUB 207

10:30 - 12:30
Room: SUB 211

10:30 - 12:30
Room: SUB 205

10:30 - 12:30
Room: SUB 212

10:30 - 12:30
Room: SUB 209
I
I
10:30 - 12:30
Room: Henn 202
Contributions

10:30 Recent Results and Status of Direct Detection Dark Matter Experiments - Jodi Cooley

11:00 Liquid noble gas detectors and the race to a very large scale dark matter experiment - Tom Shutt

11:30 CP-Violation and the Origin of Matter: What Can We Learn from the Linear Collider? - Michael Ramsey-Musolf

12:00 Indirect Detection of Dark Matter - Larry Wai
I
I
10:30 - 12:30
Room: Henn 301
Contributions

10:30 Bootstrapping Multiparton One-Loop Amplitudes - Carola Berger (SLAC)

10:55 Precise Prediction of MW in the MSSM - Sven Heinemeyer (Universidad de Zaragoza)

11:20 Threshold Resummation in Momentum Space from Effective Field Theories - Thomas Becher (Fermilab)

11:45 Indirect Sensitivities to the Terascale: ILC Prospects - Sven Heinemeyer (Universidad de Zaragoza)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Henn 201
Contributions

13:30 Linear collider simulation software - Norman Graf (SLAC)

14:10 Linear collider reconstuction software - Hartwig Albrecht (DESY)

14:50 Particle Flow review - Steve Magill (Argonne National Laboratory)
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Henn 202
Contributions

13:30 Probing the Supersymmetric Origin of Matter at the ILC - Marcela Carena (Fermilab)

14:10 Determining the parameters of the Lagrangian - Dirk Zerwas

14:50 QCD and precision calculations at the ILC - Doreen Wackeroth
13:30 - 15:30
Room: SUB 211

13:30 - 15:30
Room: SUB 215

13:30 - 15:30
Room: Henn 301

13:30 - 15:30
Room: SUB 213

13:30 - 15:30
Room: SUB 209

13:30 - 15:30
Room: SUB 207

13:30 - 15:30
Room: Henn 304

13:30 - 15:30
Room: Henn 302

13:30 - 15:30
Room: SUB 205

15:30 break
break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Henn 201
Contributions

16:00 EUDET report - Joachim Mnich (DESY)

16:30 JSPS report - Hitoshi Yamamoto (Tohoku University)

16:50 DOE support for detectors - Paul Grannis (DOE)

17:20 NSF support for detectors - Jon Kotcher (NSF)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Henn 202
Contributions

16:00 What if the LHC finds only a Higgs? - Heather Logan

16:40 Correlating flavor physics with precision ILC measurements - Gilad Perez
16:00 - 18:00
Room: SUB 211

16:00 - 18:00
Room: SUB 215

16:00 - 18:00
Room: Henn 301

16:00 - 18:00
Room: SUB 213

16:00 - 18:00
Room: SUB 209

16:00 - 18:00
Room: SUB 207

16:00 - 18:00
Room: Henn 304

16:00 - 18:00
Room: Henn 302

16:00 - 18:00
Room: SUB 205

18:00 Pre-banquet Reception
Pre-banquet Reception
18:00 - 19:00
Room: SUB Party Room & Courtyard

19:00 Banquet
Banquet
19:00 - 22:00
Room: SUB ballroom
Saturday 22 July 2006
08:30 II
II
08:30 - 10:00
Room: SUB 205
Contributions

08:30 LCFI Sensor and Mechanics R&D - Joel Goldstein (RAL)

08:50 The ILC Vertex Tracker White Paper Proposal - Marco Battaglia (UC Berkeley and LBNL)

09:00 Round Table on Mid-Term Goals and Planning: Sensor, Mechanics and Software
08:30 - 10:00
Room: SUB ballroom
Contributions

08:30 RDB report - Eckhard Elsen (DESY)

09:15 R&D Status/ Damping Rings - Andrzej Wolski (Daresbury Lab)
08:30 - 10:00
Room: SUB 213
II
II
08:30 - 10:00
Room: SUB 212A
Contributions

08:30 Little Higgs Dark Matter - Andrew Noble

09:00 Supernova Neutrinos - Gilad Perez

09:30 Supersymmetric origin of matter: the non-minimal case and the ILC - Csaba Balazs
II
II
08:30 - 10:00
Room: SUB 207/9
Contributions

08:30 Top-pair Production in Randall-Sundrum Models - Erin De Pree (The College of William and Mary)

08:55 On Top Threshold and ttH at 500 GeV - Andre Hoang (MPI Munich)

09:20 Towards a Fast Top Threshold Event Generator - Filimon Gournaris (University College London)
10:00 break
break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 Physics summary
Physics summary
10:30 - 12:30
Room: SUB 207/9
Contributions

10:30 Terascale summary - Jack Gunion (UC Davis)

11:10 Precision summary - Aurelio Juste (FNAL)

11:35 ILC/LHC summary - William Trischuk (University of Toronto)

12:00 Cosmology summary - Dan Hooper (FNAL)
10:30 - 12:30
Room: SUB ballroom
Contributions

10:30 Main Linac Power - Chris Adolphsen (SLAC)

11:00 Positron Source - J. Clarke (Daresbury)

11:30 R&D Status of BDS - Deepa Angal-Kalinin (CCLRC Daresbury)

12:00 Emittance Preservation - Jeffrey Smith (Cornell University)
10:30 - 12:30
Room: SUB 213

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Detector summary
Detector summary
13:30 - 15:30
Room: SUB 207/9
Contributions

13:30 Vertex and Tracking summary - Tim Nelson (SLAC)

14:05 Calorimetery, Muon system, and PID summary - Jose Repond (ANL)

14:40 Testbeam summary - Jae Yu (Univ. of Texas at Arlington)

14:55 IPBI/IR/MDI summary - Eric Torrence (University of Oregon)

15:10 Software session summary - Norman Graf (SLAC)
13:30 - 15:30
Room: SUB ballroom
Contributions

13:30 R&D Status/ Main Linac Cavities - Kenji Saito (KEK)

14:00 R&D Task Force Report/ Task Force S0/S1 - Lutz Lilje (DESY)

14:45 R&D Task Force Report/ Task Force S2 - Thomas Himel (SLAC)
13:30 - 15:30
Room: SUB 213

15:30 break
break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: SUB ballroom
Contributions

16:00 GDE summary - Barry Barish (Director, GDE)

16:45 The Way Forward - Pier Oddone (Director, FNAL)

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