ATHENA PID weekly regular meeting

Name: ATHENA PID weekly regular meeting
Start: 2021-08-09T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2021-08-09T13:00:00-04:00
Location: Zoom

Monday 9 Aug 2021, 12:00 → 13:00 US/Eastern

Zoom

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

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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).
  
  we did not request to SWG
  
  manpower support and QA
  need better communication
  
  time-of-flight layers are not in (this is the baseline)
  
  repo will be tagged
  
  communication for the MC exercise over mailing list, last
  
  production webpage? we could put up one.
- 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)
    
    setup a meeting for tomorrow with Dmitry to see status of DIRC simulation, with experts
  - 3
    
    mRICH
    
    Simulation & performance studies
    
    Speaker: Murad Sarsour (Georgia State University)
    
    implemented projective geometry
    needs to fix photons trapped in the lens
    --> setup of the lens is problematic
    
    acceptance does not change with projective geometry
    --> surprised there is no impact
    
    not much from mRICH from this test... will be more like dead material
  - 4
    
    dRICH
    
    Speakers: Christopher Dilks (Duke University), Evaristo Cisbani (Italian National Institute of Heath and Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics)
    
    ATHENA-RICH-vessel_20210811_dallatorre.pptx
    
    very very preliminary geometry in dd4hep.
    
    many sensors in place, probably do not need these many
    
    working on connecting the reconstruction code
    
    separation between aerogel and gas?
    
    what space is behind the RICH?
    we need to double check
    
    how we control the space allocation per detector sub-system? in general? overlaps?
  - 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
    
    Speakers: Chandradoy Chatterjee (INFN Trieste (IT)), Roberto Preghenella (INFN Bologna)
    
    c1.png
    
    chchatte20210809.pptx
  - 8
    
    DAQ
    
    Gathering DAQ requirements from PID WG
    
    Speaker: Alexandre Camsonne (JLAB)
  - 9
    
    LGADs for TOF-PID
    
    simulation & performance studies, design, cost estimate etc.
    
    Speakers: Shuai Yang (Rice University), Prof. Wei Li (Rice University)
  - 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)
  - 11
    
    Pressurised argon for the gaseous RICH
    
    mechanical studies and simulations for a pressurised argon vessel for the forward gas RICH
  - 12
    
    LAPPD option for photon readout
    
    R&D on LAPPD detectors must not be forgotten
    
    Speaker: Silvia Dalla Torre (INFN, Trieste)
  - 13
    
    Barrel eCal with tracking and timing capability
    
    Speakers: Maria Zurek (Argonne National Laboratory), Paul E Reimer (Argonne National Laboratory)
- 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.
- 14
  
  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.