VIII International Conference on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics

VIII International Conference on Calorimetry in High Energy Physics
June 13-19, 1999 Lisbon, Portugal

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Session Conveners

Calorimetry Overview:	B. Aubert (Annecy)
Low and Medium Energy Calorimetry:	F. Fabbri (Frascati)
Ionization Calorimetry:	B. Mansoulié (Saclay)
Calorimetry with Crystals:	R.Y. Zhu (Caltech)
Calorimetry in "Hot" Physics:	M. Pimenta (Lisbon)
Calorimetry for Hadrons and Jets with Cerenkov and Organic Scintillators	A. Musso (Torino)
Calibration and Monitoring:	A. Henriques (CERN)
Calorimetry with Organic Scintillators:	K. Johnson (FSU)
Electronics and DAQ:	J. Colas (Annecy)
Radiation Hardness:	C. Zorn (CEBAF)
Medical Applications:	C. Leroy (Montreal)
Simulation of Calorimeter performance:	P. Loch (Arizona)
Neutrinos and Calorimetry:	S. Ragazzi (Milan)
Calorimeters for Astrophysics:	F. D. Santos (Lisbon)
Calorimetry, Present and Future:	G. Barreira (Lisbon)
Debate: Calorimetry in the Future:	A. Ereditato (Napoli)

Agenda
(Updated on June 10^th, 1999)
Sunday, June 13, 1999
15:00 - 19:00	Registration
Monday, June 14, 1999
8:30 - 8:40	Welcome
Calorimetry Overview
Convener: B. Aubert (Annecy)
Chairman: C. M. Silva
(Reviews)
8:40 - 9:20	P. Sonderegger	Calorimetry: a Historical Introduction
9:20 - 9:50	E. Longo	Calorimetry with Crystals
9:50 - 10:30	K. Pretzl	Cryogenic calorimeters in astro- and particle physics
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
Low and Medium Energy Calorimetry
Convener: F. Fabbri (Frascati)
11:00 - 11:30	S. Bertolucci	Review: Some aspects of Low- and medium-energy calorimetry
11:30 - 11:50	S. Tavernier	New crystals and readout for low energy Calorimetry
11:50 - 12:10	A. Di Domenico	The KLOE lead-scintillating fibres electromagnetic calorimeter for detecting low energy particles at DAPHNE
12:30 - 14:00	LUNCH
14:00 - 14:20	H. Juengst	Energy Calibration of the CsI Crystals of the Neutral Meson Spectrometer (NMS) using Monoenergetic pi⁰ from the Decay of Stopped K⁺
14:20 - 14:35	T. Girard	A Superconducting Transition Radiation Detector
14:35 - 14:55	E. Conti	Liquid Xenon for detecting low and intermediate-energy gamma-rays
Ionization Calorimetry
Convener: B. Mansoulié (Saclay)
15:05 - 15:30	A. Klimentov	The Uranium Hadronic Calorimeter of L3
15:30 - 15:55	S. Palestini	Space charge in ionization detectors and the NA48 Calorimeter
15:55 - 16:15	G. Bernardi	The DZero calorimetry upgrade
16:15 - 16:45	Coffee Break
16:45 - 17:00	J.Y Hostachy	The ATLAS barrel presample construction and tests
17:00 - 17:15	N. Massol	The ATLAS e.m. barrel Calorimeter construction and quality measurements
17:15 - 17:30	J. Troconiz	The ATLAS e.m. end-cap Calorimeter construction and tests
17:30 - 17:50	P. Schacht	Performance of the ATLAS Hadronic end-cap Calorimeter
17:50 - 18:10	P. Loch	Testbeam results for the ATLAS forward Calorimeter
Tuesday, June 15, 1999
Calorimetry with Crystals
Convener: R.Y. Zhu (Caltech)
8:30 - 8:50	B. G. Cheon	CsI(Tl) Calorimeter for BELLE
8:50 - 9:05	K. Ueno	Performance of BGO EFC for BELLE
9:05 - 9:25	F. Maas	PbF₂ Calorimeter for MAMI
9:25 - 9:45	J. Fay	Performance of L3 BGO ECAL
9:45 - 10:00	E. Conti	Experimental evidence of infrared scintillation in crystals
10:00 - 10:20	R. Y. Zhu	Crystal Technologies for Linear Collider
10:20 - 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:05	U. Holm	A Small Compact PbWO ECAL for ZEUS
11:05 - 11:25	P. Bloch	CMS PbWO₄ ECAL
11:25 - 11:45	M. Diemoz	Progress of CMS PbWO₄ Crystals
11:45 - 12:00	E. Auffray	CMS ECAL Construction and Quality
12:00 - 12:15	C. Gargiulo	Mechanical Design for CMS Barrel
12:15 - 12:30	P. Baillon	Precise temperature regulation
12:30 - 14:00	LUNCH
Calorimetry in "Hot" Physics
Convener: M. Pimenta (Lisbon)
(Reviews)
14:00 - 14:30	O. Callot	Calorimetry at High Energy e⁺e^- collider: Experience from LEP II
15:00 - 15:15	P. Gonçalves	Gamma Gamma (Gamma) Final states at LEP
14:30 - 15:00	R. Yoshida	HERA Collider Physics and Calorimetry
15:45 - 16:15	P. Sinervo	Calorimetry in Top Quark Physics
15:15 - 15:45	Kaushik De	Optimizing Calorimeters to Search for Supersymmetry
16:30 - 17:00	Coffee Break
Calorimetry for Hadrons and Jets with Cerenkov and Organic Scintillators
Convener: A. Musso (Torino)
17:00 - 17:30	R. Wigmans	Review: Cerenkov calorimetry
17:30 - 17:50	M. Gallio	The Zero Degree Calorimeters for the ALICE experiment
17:50 - 18:15	J. Ward	Precision Measurements of Particle Masses using Jets at LEP2
18:15 - 18:30	M. Cobal	Results from an expanded combined test of an e.m. Liquid Argon Calorimeter with a Hadronic Scintillating-Tile Calorimeter for the ATLAS Experiment
18:30 - 18:45	B. Di Girolamo	A weighting technique to improve the energy resolution of the ATLAS Tilecal hadronic calorimeter
18:45 - 19:05	W. Wu	CMS Hadron calorimeter and its physics capability
Wednesday, June 16, 1999
Calibration and Monitoring
Convener: A. Henriques (CERN)
8:30 - 8:45	I. Matchikhilian	The HERA-b ECAL Monitoring System and Calibration procedures
8:45 - 9:00	C. Polly	Performance of the Pb/Scifi Calorimeter system in the BNL Muon g-2 experiment
9:00 - 9:15	M. Gataullin	Calibration of L3 BGO Electromagnetic Calorimeter
9:15 - 9:30	J. Rander	The Monitoring System for the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter
9:30 - 9:45	J. Naumann	H1 Liquid Argon Calorimeter Energy Scale Progress
9:45 - 10:05	K. Frame	Recent improvements in the Jet energy scale determination at D0
10:05 - 10:20	L. Serin	Calibration of the ATLAS Liquid Argon Electromagnetic Calorimeter
10:20 - 10:35	M. J. Varanda	Calibration and Monitoring of the Tilecal Calorimeter with the ¹³⁷Cs source and muons
10:35 - 11:05	Coffee Break
11:05 - 22:00	EXCURSION
Thursday, June 17, 1999



Calorimetry with Organic Scintillators
Convener: K. Johnson (FSU)



8:30 - 8:55	J. Proudfoot	Review:Calorimetry using Organic Scintillators. "A Sideways Perspective"
9:00 - 9:15	A. Gomes	The Tilecal calorimeter for ATLAS
9:15 - 9:30	I. Koultchitski	Hadronic Shower Development in Iron-Scintillator Tile Calorimetry
9:35 - 9:55	V. Hagopian	The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Hadron Calorimeter
9:55 - 10:10	A. Pellegrino	Present status of calorimetry at ZEUS
10:15 - 10:30	G. Lopez	The Forward Plug Calorimeter for the ZEUS experiment at HERA
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:15	S. Shuvalov	HERA-B Electromagnetic Calorimeter
11:15 - 11:30	M. Paganoni	Test Beam results for a longitudinal segmented e.m. Calorimeter
11:30 - 11:55	F. Fabbri	The outer em calorimeter of FOCUS at Fermilab
11:55 - 12:10	E. Guschin	Status of development of preshower detector for LHCb experiment
12:10 - 12:25	A. Stellberger	The H1 VLQ-Spectrometer - Track-Cluster Matching in the sub-mm region
12:30 - 14:00	LUNCH
Electronics and DAQ
Convener: J. Colas (Annecy)
14:00 - 14:25	C. de la Taille	Review: Front-End Electronics in Fast Calorimetry
14:25 - 14:40	L. Kurchaninov	Cold electronics for the liquid Argon Hadronic endcap of ATLAS
14:40 - 14:55	J. Hoff	SMQIE challenges associated with a low frequency charge integrator and digitizer for the CDF II Calorimeter
14:55 - 15:15	R. Maracek	Upgrade of the H1 Calorimeter Electronics and Trigger
15:15 - 15:30	P. Amaral	CDF level 1 Calorimeter Trigger
15:30 - 15:45	B. Giacobbe	First results with the pretrigger system of HERA-B experiment
15:45 - 16:00	T. Monteiro	Recent development in the CMS Calorimeter trigger electronics and DAQ system
16:00 - 16:15	D. Galli	The electromagnetic Calorimeter DAQ and Monitor system of HERA-B
16:15 - 16:30	J. M. Seixas	A remote neural discriminator for the scintillating Tile Calorimeter of ATLAS
16:30 - 17:00	Coffee Break
Radiation Hardness
Convener: C. Zorn (CEBAF)
17:00 - 17:25	U. Holm	Review: Radiation damage of plastic scintillators and consequences for calorimetry
17:25 - 17:40	K. Wick	Radiation hardness studies with a movable ⁶⁰Co source at the ZEUS detector
17:40 - 17:55	M. David	Radiation damage studies of WLS fibres for the TILECAL
17:55 - 18:10	C. Leroy	Radiation hardness studies of components of the ATLAS forward and Hadronic End Cap calorimeters at Dubna
20:00 - 22:00	CONFERENCE DINNER
Friday, June 18, 1999
Medical Applications
Convener: C. Leroy (Montreal)
8:30 - 8:55	P. Lecoq	Review: New Scintillating Crystals for Medical Imaging
8:55 - 9:10	I. Lopes	Positron Emission Tomography Instrumentation: Development of a Detector based on Liquid Xenon
9:10 - 9:35	C. Ma	Monte Carlo application in radiation dosimetry and radiotherapy
9:35 - 9:50	G. Mora	Monte Carlo dose calculations in a phantom irradiated with typical beams of radiotherapy
9:50 - 10:05	L. Peralta	Monte Carlo simulation of a linear accelerator treatment head EGS4 and MCNP-4B intercomparison
10:15 - 10:45	Coffee Break
Simulation of Calorimeter Performance
Convener: P. Loch (Arizona)
10:45 - 11:00	J. Apostolakis	Geant4's Kernel Capabilities in its Production Phase
11:00 - 11:15	J. P. Wellisch	On Hadronic Shower Simulation
11:15 - 11:30	A. Kiryunin	Performance of the ATLAS Hadronic End-cap Calorimeter
11:30 - 11:45	J. B. Hansen	Physics Potential and Performance of the ATLAS Electromagnetic Calorimeter
11:45 - 12:00	B. Mansoulié	Measurement of the photon direction in the ATLAS Electromagnetic Calorimeter with the Help of Neutral Networks
12:00 - 12:15	I. Korolko	Simulation of Calorimeter Performance: LHC-b Calorimeters
12:15 - 12:30	B. Braizinha	Efficiency Calibration of Gamma-Ray detectors by Monte Carlo Methods
13:00 - 14:30	LUNCH
Neutrinos and Calorimetry
Convener: S. Ragazzi (Milan)
14:30 - 15:00	A. Para	Review: Calorimetry in Neutrino Physics
15:00 - 15:15	M. R. Gomes	Measurement of the ¹⁸⁷Re Beta decay Spectrum with a Geometrically-metastable Superconducting Detector
15:15 - 15:30	J. Maneira	BOREXINO - A new calorimeter for low energy solar neutrinos
15:30 - 15:45	C. Montanari	The ICARUS LAr TPC: High Precision Imaging and Calorimetry for Large Underground Detectors
15:45 - 16:00	S. Buontempo	Performance of the CHORUS calorimeter with neutrino events
16:10 - 16:40	Coffee Break
Calorimeters for Astrophysics
Convener: F. D. Santos (Lisbon)
16:40 - 17:10	P. Spillantini	Review: Calorimetry for Cosmic rays in space
17:10 -17:30	T. Parnell	A Thin Sampling Calorimeter for Cosmic Ray Spectral Measurements to 10¹⁵ eV (ICA)
17:30 - 17:50	J. Milke	A Warm-Liquid Calorimeter for Cosmic-Ray Hadrons
17:50 - 18:10	M. Kobal	Thinning of High-Energy Cosmic-Ray Air-Showers
18:10 - 18:30	J. Collar	Large Mass SDD's for Dark Matter Searches
Saturday, June 19, 1999
Calorimetry: Present and Future
Convener: G. Barreira (Lisbon)
9:00 - 9:30	J. P. Revol	Energy Amplifier
9:30 - 10:00	J. Engelen	LHC Program
10:00 - 10:30	A. Bettini	Gran Sasso Program
10:30 - 11:00	Y. Fukuda	Observation of neutrinos at Super-Kamiokande
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
Debate: Calorimetry in the Future
Led by: A. Ereditato (Napoli)
11:30 - 13:00	F. Cervelli,	INFN Pisa
	B. Mansoulié,	Saclay
	T. Parnell,	Univ. Alabama in Huntsville
	J. Proudfoot,	Argonne National Lab.
	S. Ragazzi,	INFN, Milano (To be confirmed)
	R. Wigmans	Texas Tech. University
	R. Zhu	Caltech
13:00 - 13:05	Closing remarks
13:05 - 14:30	LUNCH

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