CALICE AHCAL main meeting

10 Dec 2015, 09:00 → 11 Dec 2015, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Bld 1b SemRm 4a (DESY)

Felix Sefkow (DESY), Katja Krueger (DESY)

Thursday 10 December

09:00 → 12:20 Towards the next prototype

09:00 Welcome coffee

09:30 Welcome

Speaker: Felix Sefkow (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

Slides AHCAL-Main-Dec15.pdf

09:40 Lessons from 2015 test beam

Speaker: Katja Krueger (DESY)

Slides AHCALmain2015_testbeam.pdf

10:00 A new stack for electron beam tests

Speaker: Dr Frank Simon (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik)

Slides AbsorberStructure.pdf

10:20 Tile and SiPM studies at Hamburg

Speaker: Erika Garutti (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY))

Slides AHCAL-meeting-UHHReport.pdf

10:40 Tile and SiPM studies at Munich

Speaker: Naomi van der Kolk (MPI)

Slides AHCALmeeting_12_2015.pdf

10:55 Options for alternative scintillator material at Munich

Speaker: Dr Frank Simon (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik)

Slides AlternativeScintillator.pdf

11:05 Scintillator tile studies at Mainz

Speaker: Yong Liu (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)

Slides 20151210_Tile_Studies_Mainz_AHCAL_Main_Meeting_DESY.pdf

11:20 Discussion

11:35 SiPM and tile test facility at Heidelberg

Speaker: Dr Patrick Eckert (Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik)

Slides CALICE_DESY_10.12.2015.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 15:40 Towards the next prototype

13:00 SPIROC2D characterisation

Speaker: Stéphane Callier (OMEGA / IN2P3-CNRS)

Slides CdLT_AHCAL_10dec15.pdf SC_SPIROC2D_measurements_20151210_pdf.pdf

13:20 SPIROC status and plans

Speaker: Dr Christophe de LA TAILLE (OMEGA/IN2P3)

13:40 HBUs, interfaces and power pulsing

Speaker: Mr Mathias Reinecke (DESY)

Slides AHCALelectr_reinecke.pdf

14:00 Plans for ASIC tests at Wuppertal

Speaker: Christian Zeitnitz (Fachbereich C / Physik-Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal-Unknown)

Slides Wuppertal_ASIC_Tests_20151210.pdf

14:10 Towards automated HBU assembly

Speakers: Phi Chau (Mainz University), Yong Liu (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)

Slides 12_10_A6_Towards_Automated_HBU_Assembly_Phi_Meeting_15_12_10v3.pdf Meeting_15_12_10v3.pptx

14:25 DAQ hardware

Speaker: Jiri Kvasnicka (Institute of Physics, ASCR)

Slides 2015-12-10_AHCAL_kvas.odp 2015-12-10_AHCAL_kvas.pdf

14:45 New LDA design

Speaker: Julien Caudron (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz (DE))

Slides 2015_12_10_ahcalworkshop_ldadesign.pdf

15:05 DAQ software

Speaker: Dr Adrian Irles (DESY)

Slides AHCAL_meeting_Dic2015.pdf

15:40 → 16:10 Coffee

16:10 → 18:00 Discussion on schedules and interdependencies

18:00 → 19:00 Funding issues

19:30 → 22:30 Dinner

Friday 11 December

09:00 → 10:40 Further R&D activities

09:00 SiPM and Scintillator characterisation

Speaker: Laszlo Varga (Eotvos Lorand University (HU))

Slides SiPM_and_Scintillator_characterization.pdf

09:20 AHCAL activities in Tokyo

Speaker: Dr Wataru Ootani (ICEPP, Univ. of Tokyo)

Slides TokyoAHCALActivity151211.pdf

09:40 Strip HCAL and further ideas

Speakers: Dr Tohru Takeshita (Shinshu University), Tohru Takeshita (Shinshu University (JP))

Slides HCALMM-2015TT.pdf

10:00 Klaus ASIC

Speaker: Konrad Briggl (KIP Heidelberg)

Slides calice1215_kbriggl.pdf

10:20 SiPM gain studies for adaptive power supply

Speaker: Justas Zalieckas (University of Bergen (NO))

Slides SiPMGainStability.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 coffee

11:10 → 12:50 Analysis

11:10 Combined set-up Si ECAL + AHCAL

Speaker: Dr Frank Simon (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik)

Slides SiWAHCALCombi.pdf

11:30 Combined set-up Scint ECAL + AHCAL

Speaker: Oskar Hartbrich (Bergische Universitaet Wuppertal / DESY FLC)

Slides 2015_12_11_AHCALMAIN.pdf

11:50 Shower timing in GEANT4: Gas vs Scintillator

Speaker: Mr Philipp Goecke (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)

Slides Shower_timing_in_GEANT4_Gas_vs_Scintillator.pdf

12:10 Analogue and (semi-) digital reconstruction

Speaker: Coralie Neubüser (DESY)

Slides 2015_ahcalMainMeeting15.pdf

12:30 AHCAL optimisation in ILD

Speaker: Lan Tran Huong (DESY)

Slides Lan_Optimisation.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 lunch

14:00 → 15:15 Analysis

14:00 First look into 2015 data

Speaker: Eldwan Brianne (DESY)

Slides AHCAL_Main_Meeting_SPSData2015.pdf

14:20 SM HBU performance in 2015 test beam

Speaker: Sascha Christian Krause (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz (DE))

Slides SM_HBU_performance_in_2015_test_beam.pdf

14:40 Software for 2015 data analysis

Speaker: Lan Tran Huong (DESY)

Slides Lan_TBSoftware.pdf

15:00 Discussion on distributed 2015 analysis