Name: 2011 Linear Collider Workshop of the Americas (ALCPG11)
Start: 2011-03-19T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2011-03-23T18:00:00-07:00
Location: Erb Memorial Union

2011 Linear Collider Workshop of the Americas (ALCPG11)

from Saturday, March 19, 2011 (8:00 AM) to Wednesday, March 23, 2011 (6:00 PM)

Monday, March 14, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: Ballroom
Contributions

8:30 AM Welcome Remarks - Richard President Lariviere

8:40 AM GDE Overview - Barry Barish (GDE)

9:20 AM Detector R&D Overview - Marcel Demarteau (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))

10:00 AM New media for a global message: the ILC communication plan - Leah Hesla (Fermilab)
10:10 AM break
break
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: Ballroom
Contributions

10:30 AM LHC Program - Machine - Lyn Evans (CERN)

11:00 AM LHC Program - Experimental - Prolay Mal (Univ. of Arizona)

11:30 AM Future Plans - Jonathan Bagger (Johns Hopkins University)

12:00 PM Workshop Photo
12:15 PM

12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Boardroom

Lunch
Lunch
12:15 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 100
Contributions

1:30 PM Research Director's Report - Sakue Yamada (KEK)

2:00 PM ILD - Roman Poeschl (LAL Orsay) Ties Behnke (DESY)

2:30 PM SiD - On the Road to the DBD - Marcel Stanitzki (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

3:00 PM Physics and detector studies for CLIC - Felix Sefkow (DESY)
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM CLIC Status - Jean-Pierre Delahaye (CERN)

2:10 PM Baseline Update - Ewan Paterson (SLAC)

2:40 PM GDE R&D Program Status - Marc Ross (FNAL)
3:30 PM Break
Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 100
Contributions

4:00 PM New Physics and Dark Matter - Pearl Sandick (the University of Texas at Austin)

4:30 PM Higgs Physics - Laura Reina (Florida State University)

5:00 PM Tevatron - Mary Convery (Fermilab)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM TDR Organisation - Akira Yamamoto (KEK) Marc Ross (FNAL) Nicholas Walker (DESY)
6:00 PM

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Sunday, March 20, 2011

8:30 AM

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: 350
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Willamette 100
Contributions

8:30 AM New technologies for structural and enviromental monitoring of tracker and vertex systems - Marcos Fernandez Garcia (Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, Grupo de Altas Energias - Cons)

9:00 AM SiD tracking: performance at high energy - Richard Partridge (SLAC)
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Willamette 472, ITS Conf Room
Contributions

8:30 AM Design of a Laser for the Recirculating Cavity - Brent Stuart (LLNL)

9:00 AM Development of Compton backscattering technology in Japan - Tohru Takahashi (Hiroshima University)
Lattice Choice I
Lattice Choice I
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Walnut Room
Contributions

8:30 AM Damping Ring Lattice Choice - Mark Palmer (Cornell University LEPP)

9:00 AM Damping Ring Specifications - Susanna Guiducci (INFN-LNF)

9:30 AM DSB3 Lattice Update - Susanna Guiducci (INFN-LNF)
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Metolius/Owyhee/Coquille
Contributions

8:30 AM Parameters for the ILC e+ - Wei Gai (ANL)

9:00 AM Final layout for the ILC positron source and Central region (via webex) - Norbert Collomb (STFC)

9:30 AM Target/Collimator development (via webex) - Ian Bailey (Cockcroft Institute/ Lancaster University)
Cavity R&D (1)
Cavity R&D (1)
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Fir Room
Contributions

8:30 AM WebEx information of this session

8:31 AM DESY status - Sebastian Aderhold (DESY)

8:45 AM KEK status - Hitoshi Hayano (KEK)

9:00 AM PKU status - Kexin Liu (PKU)

9:15 AM IHEP status - Jie Gao (IHEP)

9:30 AM Optical inspection automation at FNAL - Evgeny Toropov (FNAL)

9:40 AM Recent results on laser remelting to repair pits - Alexander Dzyuba (FNAL)
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Gumwood
Contributions

8:30 AM tentative - Joint with WG6 Beam Dyn
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Maple
Contributions

8:30 AM Planned Schedule for Area System Meetings - Victor Kuchler (Fermilab)

8:45 AM Discussion
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Oak
Contributions

8:30 AM Session organization, webex info

8:40 AM Joint session with WG1
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Willamette 240D, OCO Conf. Room
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Willamette 110
Contributions

8:30 AM Precision measurements of Little Higgs with T-parity parameters at ILC - Eriko Kato (tohoku univ)

9:00 AM Analysis of the hadronic Higgs branching ratios for the ZH -> llqq channel at the ILC - Nina Herder (Uni Bonn)

9:30 AM To prove SUSY, we'll need the ILC - Maxim Perelstein (Cornell)
10:00 AM break
break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Willamette 412
Contributions

10:30 AM FCAL Update - Wolfgang Lohmann (DESY)

10:50 AM BeamCal ASIC - A Abusleme (U. Chile)

11:10 AM Update of test beam results of Beam Calorimeter GaAs prototype - Olga Novgorodova (M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University)

11:30 AM Update on CLIC detector forward region studies - Konrad Elsener (CERN)
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Willamette 350, Mobio Conf Room
Contributions

10:30 AM Status of ILD software - Frank Gaede (DESY)

10:50 AM Status of SiD software - Jeremy McCormick (SLAC)

11:10 AM Software Status - Tony Johnson (SLAC)

11:30 AM javaRoot - Jan Strube (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
Lattice Choice II
Lattice Choice II
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

10:30 AM DMC3 Lattice Update - Dou WANG (IHEP) Jie Gao (IHEP)

11:00 AM Lattice Studies and Straight Specification - David Rubin (Cornell University)

11:30 AM Dynamic Aperture Studies - Yipeng Sun (Unknown)
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

10:30 AM FC development - Jeff Gronberg (LLNL) Tom Piggott (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

10:50 AM Target vacuum testing - Jeff Gronberg (LLNL) Tom Piggott (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

11:10 AM Update on the simulations - Wanming Liu (Argonne National Lab)

11:30 AM PSIM update and Radiation activations (via webex) - Andriy Ushakov (DESY Zeuthen)
Cavity R&D (2)
Cavity R&D (2)
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Fir Room
Contributions

10:30 AM WebEx information of this session

10:31 AM Cornell status - Curtis Crawford (Cornell)

10:45 AM Jlab status - Rongli Geng (Jefferson Lab)

11:00 AM Automatic pattern recognition on cavity surface - Mark Wenskat (DESY)

11:10 AM Replica and local grinding - Ken Watanabe (KEK)

11:20 AM Mechanical polishing - Charlie Cooper (FNAL)

11:30 AM FNAL status/Global ILC cavity database update - Camille Ginsburg (FNAL)
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Gumwood
Contributions

10:30 AM tent - joint w IP Beam Instrum
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Maple
Contributions

10:30 AM Current and Proposed Shaft Layouts and Implications - Tom Lackowski (FNAL)

11:00 AM Discussion
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Oak
Contributions

10:30 AM Discussion on TDR plans and review organization

11:10 AM Discussion on 1 TeV upgrade
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Willamette 240D, OCO Conf. Room
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Willamette 110
Contributions

10:30 AM ILC prospects for measuring Higgs self-coupling through the full simulation study of ZHH channel - Junping Tian (Tsinghua University)

11:00 AM Study of Higgs branching fraction measurement - Hiroaki Ono (Nippon Dental University)

11:30 AM Measuring the top Yukawa coupling at the 500 GeV ILC - Ryo Yonamine (Sokendai)
12:00 PM

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Boardroom

lunch
lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Willamette 472, ITS Conf Room
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Willamette 100
Contributions

1:30 PM Developments in Si-W Calorimeter Interconnections and Sensor Assembly - Michael Woods (UC Davis)

1:50 PM KPiX readout chip status and application to Si-W ECAL - Peter Radloff (University of Oregon)

2:10 PM Hadron physics with a highly granular Si-W ECAL - Roman Poeschl (LAL Orsay)

2:30 PM Towards a technological prototype of the Si-W ECAL - Roman Poeschl (LAL Orsay)

2:50 PM Scintillator ECAL test beam analysis - Tohru Takeshita (Shinshu University)
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Willamette 412
Contributions

1:30 PM Webex Info for this session

1:31 PM SiD MDI - Marco Oriunno (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

2:00 PM ILD MDI - Karsten Buesser (DESY)

2:30 PM KEK Vibration Analysis and Belle Roll In Scheme - Hiroshi Yamaoka (KEK) Toshiaki Tauchi (KEK)

2:50 PM Vibration Measurements and Transfer Functions at SLAC - Kirk Bertsche (SLAC)

3:05 PM Discussion and planning: Detailed work list & milestones to preparing for the DBR
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Willamette 350, Mobio Conf Room
Contributions

1:30 PM Progress with pixelised readout of gaseous detectors - Jan Timmermans (NIKHEF)

2:00 PM Development of a low-material TPC endplate for ILD - Daniel Peterson (Cornell)

2:30 PM Progress on ILC Tracking R&D at SCIPP - Bruce Schumm

3:00 PM Vertex Detector and Silicon Tracker Power and Cabling Considerations - William Cooper (Fermilab)
Lattice Choice III
Lattice Choice III
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Walnut Room
Contributions

1:30 PM DR Lattice Evaluation and Choice - Mark Palmer (Cornell University LEPP) Susanna Guiducci (INFN-LNF)
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Metolius/Owyhee/Coquille
Contributions

1:30 PM Integrated Li-Lens and Target system (via webex) - Alexander Mikhailichenko (Cornell University, LEPP)

1:50 PM Truly Conventional e+ source - Tohru Takahashi (Hiroshima University)

2:10 PM Results of the Hybrid target experiment - Tohru Takahashi (Hiroshima University)

2:30 PM TDR Discussion
HLRF
HLRF
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Fir Room
Contributions

1:30 PM WebEx information of this session

1:31 PM KCS review and R&D - Christopher Nantista (SLAC)

2:00 PM DRFS review and R&D - Shigeki Fukuda (KEK)

2:30 PM S1-Global DRFS results - Shinichiro Michizono (KEK)

3:00 PM discussion
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Gumwood
Contributions

1:30 PM Joint with IR-MDI - MDI, Vibration, RDR work plan
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Maple
Contributions

1:30 PM Joint Session with MDI/Detectors
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Oak
Contributions

1:30 PM webex information

2:00 PM Discussion

2:30 PM Design of the beamlines in central area for new baseline (SB2009) - Nikolay Solyak (FNAL)

3:00 PM Main linac emittance simulation in low energy operation - Kiyoshi Kubo (KEK)
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Willamette 240D, OCO Conf. Room
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Willamette 110
Contributions

2:00 PM Top quark form factors in e+e- -> t tbar - Michael Peskin (SLAC, Stanford University)

2:30 PM Top Tagging - Brock Tweedie (Boston University)

3:00 PM Top pair and single top cross sections at Tevatron and LHC energies - Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw University)
3:30 PM break
break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: 472, ITS Conf. Room
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Willamette 100
Contributions

4:00 PM Construction and testing of the DHCAL - Jacob Smith (University of Texas at Arlington/Argonne National Laboratory)

4:20 PM Noise measurements with the DHCAL - Lei Xia (Argonne National Laboratory)

4:40 PM Calibration of the DHCAL with muons - Jose Repond (Argonne National Laboratory)

5:00 PM Positron and pion responses in the DHCAL - Burak Bilki (University of Iowa-Unknown-Unknown)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Willamette 412
Contributions

4:00 PM Japanese Site Description - Toshiaki Tauchi (KEK) Yasuhiro Sugimoto (KEK)

4:20 PM CFS Design Update: from RDR to TDR - Tom Lackowski (FNAL)

4:40 PM CFS design studies at CERN for the Interaction Region - John Andrew Osborne (CERN)

5:00 PM Discussion and planning: Detailed work list & milestones to preparing for the DBR (Continued)
4:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Willamette 350, Mobio Conf Room
Contributions

4:00 PM SiD Tracking - Richard Partridge (SLAC)

4:20 PM New Tracking code for ILD - Steve Aplin (DESY)

4:40 PM FPCCD digitizer and reconstruction - daisuke kamai (tohoku university)

4:55 PM Status of LCFIVertex I: Progress in vertex finding, flavor-tagging neural-net framework - Tomohiko Tanabe (University of Tokyo)

5:15 PM Status of LCFIVertex II: Application to a many-jet environment with a new jet clustering algorithm - Taikan SUEHARA (The University of Tokyo)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Cavity surface and material research - Lance Cooley (FNAL)

4:25 PM Cavity shape and configuration - Kenji Saito (KEK)

4:50 PM Cavity process and the general R&D plan/proposals - Rongli Geng (Jefferson Lab)

5:15 PM Optimum ML cavity performance: gradient, Q0, and other ML parameters - Chris Adolphsen (SLAC)
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Willamette 240D, OCO Conf. Room
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Willamette 110
Contributions

4:00 PM Precision Extraction of alpha_s in SCET - Riccardo Abbate (MIT)

4:30 PM WZ+jet, Wgamma+jet with anomalous couplings - Christoph Englert (Heidelberg University)

5:00 PM SUSY QCD corrections to bH production - Sally Dawson (BNL)