ATHENA PID weekly regular meeting

Name: ATHENA PID weekly regular meeting
Start: 2021-05-31T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2021-05-31T13:00:00-04:00
Location: Zoom

Monday 31 May 2021, 12:00 → 13:00 US/Eastern

Zoom

Frank Geurts (Rice University), Roberto Preghenella (INFN Bologna), Thomas Hemmick (Stony Brook University)

Description

ATHENA Particle Identification Working Group

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- 1
  
  Weekly news
  
  Conveners briefly update with news, comments and new directions from the Steering Committee (if any).
- Roundtable updates
  
  Updates from the main efforts with details about the progress in the activity. Please, be short and prepare a few (maximum three) slides focusing on what has been achieved since the last meeting.
  - 2
    
    DIRC
    
    Advice on design, simulation, performance issues
    
    Speakers: Grzegorz Kalicy (CUA), Joe Schwiening (GSI)
    
    20210531-DIRCAT-Greg.pdf
  - 3
    
    mRICH
    
    Simulation & performance studies
    
    Speaker: Murad Sarsour (Georgia State University)
    
    very important to know momentum and direction of tracks.
    nice to see what to expect there from tracking.
    
    ask to setup a meeting with tracking group.
  - 4
    
    dRICH
  - 5
    
    Low momentum PID with GridPix
    
    Speaker: Prakhar Garg (Stony Brook University)
  - 6
    
    Low momentum PID with TOF
    
    Speaker: Wenqing Fan
  - 7
    
    B field impact on forward RICH
    
    Speaker: Chandradoy Chatterjee (INFN Trieste (IT))
    
    b167cde7-6fd7-4719-a518-baf6b4b7d294.pdf
    
    try to change number of detected photons
    
    requirement for e/pi separation at 25 GeV, there is idea to have TRD and combined response.
    
    another field map is coming
  - 8
    
    DAQ
    
    Gathering DAQ requirements from PID WG
    
    Speaker: Alexandre Camsonne (JLAB)
    
    check the mailing list
  - 9
    
    LGADs for TOF-PID
    
    simulation & performance studies, design, cost estimate etc.
    
    Speaker: Prof. Wei Li (Rice University)
    
    no news
  - 10
    
    SiPM for RICH optical readout
    
    R&D on SiPM as an option for the readout of the forward RICH
    
    Speaker: Roberto Preghenella (INFN Bologna)
    
    no news
  - 11
    
    Pressurised argon for the gaseous RICH
    
    mechanical studies and simulations for a pressurised argon vessel for the forward gas RICH
    
    ATHENA-PID_20210531_vessel.pptx
    
    Elke: if we want to have high-pressure RICH, need to talk now to safety experts... very demanding rules.
    Elke will find out who is the best person at BNL and JLab, and then a meeting is organised.
    
    Starting name: Mike Sieverts
  - 12
    
    LAPPD option for photon readout
    
    R&D on LAPPD detectors must not be forgotten
    
    Speaker: Silvia Dalla Torre (INFN, Trieste)
    
    no update.
    it will be like that for some time.
    
    there is test-beam effort at Fermilab.
    Alexander Kiselev is the head, coupled with mRICH
- Presentations
  
  This is time devoted to a longer discussion with a presentation of work done or to be done, if there is any and if there is the need for that.
- 13
  
  AoB
  
  In case there is any other business to discuss, we can take it here. If discussion takes longer than 5 minutes, it means that it needs a proper space and will be point for next week.