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VI Workshop on Resistive Plate Chambers

and Related Detectors

 

 

Programme

 

 

 

 

26th November

8h 30

Registration

Opening Session

Chairman:   A. Policarpo

9h10

Welcome

9h20

Opening talk

Session I: Physics & Simulation

Chairman:   V. Peskov

9h40

G. Aielli

Logistic Saturated Avalanche Model

10h00

W. Riegler

Detailed Models for Timing and Crosstalk in Resistive Plate Chambers

10h20

C. Lippmann

Space Charge Effects and Induced Signals in Resistive Plate Chambers

10h40

A. Mangiarotti

The Time Response Function of Spark Counters

11h00

Coffee Break

11h20

V. Golovatyuk

Laser beam studies of RPC behaviour in avalanche mode

11h40

T. Takahashi

Optical study of the features of the streamer images in RPC

Session II: Ageing & Gas Mixtures

Chairman:   R. Santonico

12h00

M. Cwiok

Effect of oiling and gas composition on the stability of the RPC operation

12h20

A. Paoloni

RPC operation at high temperature

12h40

Y. Teramoto

Study of the effect of water vapor on a glass RPC with and without freon

13h00

Lunch

15h00

A. Yamaguchi

Freonless gas mixtures for glass RPC operated in streamer mode

Session III: Timing

Chairman:   Y. Pestov

15h20

C. Finck

Shielded timing GRPC's

15h40

P. Fonte

Single-Gap Timing RPCs with Bidimensional Position Sensitive Readout for Very Accurate TOF systems

16h00

M. Petrovici

Symmetric Multistrip RPC

16h20

Y. Sviridov

Study of Thin Glass RPCs as Prototypes of HARP TOF Detectors

16h40

Coffee Break

Session IV: Other R&D topics

Chairman:   P. Dupieux

17h00

D. Autiero

Test results from a prototype RPC setup for the OPERA Target Tracker

17h20

V. Barret

Spatial resolution of RPC in streamer mode

17h40

R. Guida

RPC Neutron sensitivity

21h00

Conference Dinner

 

 

 

 

27th November

Session IV: Other R&D topics

Chairman:   P. Dupieux

9h00

V. Peskov

Potencial of RPC's for tracking

9h20

A. Blanco

Perspectives for positron emission tomography (PET) with RPCs

Session V: Large Systems I

Chairman:   S. Patricelli

9h40

A. Ferretti

Ageing tests on the low-resistivity RPC for the ALICE dimuon arm

10h00

M. Iacovacci

Performance of the RPCs for the ARGO detector operated at the YangBaJing laboratory (4300 m a.s.l).

10h20

R. Perrino

Assembling Facility of the ATLAS RPCs

10h40

B. Liberti

Test of ATLAS RPCs Front-End Electronics

11h00

Coffee Break

Session VI: Posters
Chairman:   R. Cardarelli

11h10

P1

P. Dupieux

A new discrimination technique for better timing performances of single gap RPCs in streamer mode

P2

S. Mari

Study of the performance of standard RPC chambers as a function of bakelite temperature.

P3

R. Messi

The RPC Detector of the LHCb Muon System

P4

G. Pugliese

Ageing studies for the RPCs of the CMS Muon Trigger detector

P5

G. Sehkniaidze

Cosmic ray tests of RPCs for the ATLAS experiment

P6

A. Semak

Time resolution of four 0.3mm gap RPC with constant fraction discriminator.

P7

P. Vitulo

Neutron Single Event Upset cross section on CMS FE chips from thermal energy to 60 MeV

P8

M. Ambrosio

Performance of Glass RPC with industrial silk-screening coated electrodes

P9 G.C.  Trinchero A Study of New Techniques for Large Scale Glass RPC production
P10 C. Gustavino Performance of a readout system for MONOLITH
Session VII: Large Systems II
Chairman:  A. Yamaguchi

11h50

C. Lu

Mechanisms affecting Performance of the BaBar RPC Chambers and Searches for Remediation 

12h10

J. G. Wang

A study of Energy lose and Radiation for RPC detector at Belle/KEKB

12h30

Z. Aftab

Test beam Results of the Forward RPC Prototype Chamber for the CMS Muon Detector

12h50

G. Bruno

The RPC system for the CMS experiment at the LHC

13h10

Lunch

Session VIII: Large Systems III
Chairman:   G. Iaselli

15h00

A. Colaleo

First results on the MB2 barrel muon station for the CMS detector.

15h20

S. Park

Final Design and the Beam test of the Forward Resistive Plate Chamber for CMS/LHC Experiments

15h40

J. Wotschack

The RPC time-of-flight system of the HARP experiment

16h00

D. Della Volpe

Results of long term performance and subsequent laboratory tests of RPCs of the L3 forward-backward muon spectrometer.

16h20

G. Ganis

Preliminary results from an aging test of a prototype RPC for the LHCb muon system

16h40

Coffee Break

Session IX: Large Systems IV
Chairman:   S. Ratti 

17h00

G. Gustavino

Analysis of the performance of the MONOLITH prototype at LNGS

17h20

S. Dusini

Design and prototype tests of the RPC system for the OPERA spectrometers

17h40

J. Lamas Valverde

A Single Time of flight tray based on Multigap resistive plate chambers for the STAR experiment at RHIC

18h00

Conclusions

 

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