ATHENA PID weekly regular meeting

Monday 23 Aug 2021, 12:00 → 13:00 US/Eastern

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

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1 Weekly news

Conveners briefly update with news, comments and new directions from the Steering Committee (if any).

simulation runs with dRICH with the biggest possible setup.

mRICH is there, has photons, some modules removed.

DIRC is not the real DIRC, but stands for material, no photons, just pure quartz bars.
does it have the inner radius matching the actual one?
that might be the reason why mRICH boxes are removed (up to 90 cm)

currently DIRC inner radius is 95 cm in simulation.

some 7 cm have been added between ECAL and DIRC for future upgrades (?) 

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)

working to prepare a plan for disassembly of BaBar DIRC bars.
prepared several scenarios, time to review by project people.

disassembly --> length can be changed? answer was never no, but...

3 mRICH

Simulation & performance studies

Speaker: Murad Sarsour (Georgia State University)

4 dRICH

Speakers: Christopher Dilks (Duke University), Evaristo Cisbani (Italian National Institute of Heath and Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics)

main progress in making the optics better, still working on that.
hopefully better setup soon

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)

8 DAQ

Gathering DAQ requirements from PID WG

Speaker: Alexandre Camsonne (JLAB)

important for next Friday

9 LGADs for TOF-PID

simulation & performance studies, design, cost estimate etc.

Speakers: Prof. Wei Li (Rice University), Shuai Yang (Rice University), Prof. Zhenyu Ye (University of Illinois at Chicago), Zhangbu Xu (BNL), Frank Geurts (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

Elke looking for engineer for evaluation, to see if feasible for collider detector.
 

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.