Agenda



  
Wednesday 18 February, 1998

8:30

Registration (Location: Sala Lauree)

  1. RESULTS and GOALS REVIEW (Location: Aula "Marcello Conversi")

    This session will concentrate on the review of the situation reachable at the end of the first round of scanning.

    Proposal and criticisms talk:

    Chairman: A. Ereditato

    - 10:55 Coffee break -

  2. PHYSICS TOPICS (Location: Aula "Marcello Conversi)

    Four main subjects:
    TRACKING, MOMENTUM/PID, EMULSION and NON-EMULSION specific topics.

    ________________________

    1. TRACKING

      The topic will be split into three parts.

      - CLUSTERING

      Review talk:

          11:25 - An historical review of the signal from CCD and its processing. Clustering procedures, calibrations, distortions will be reviewed, and an explanation of strategies, with emphasis on performances
          (C. Weinheimer) 20'

      Proposal and criticisms talks:

      - PATTERN RECOGNITION

      Review talk:

          11:50 - An historical review of the pattern recognition for track reconstruction, from the alignment techniques to the pattern recognition algorithms and strategies for three-dimensional reconstruction. Vertex reconstruction
          (J. Brunner) 20'

      Proposal and criticisms talks:

      - TRACK FITTING AND VERTEX RECONSTRUCTION

      Review talk:

          12:15 - Track fitting and the treatment of multiple scattering
          (M. De Jong) 20'

      Proposal and criticisms talks:

          12:40 - Communication on the TST drift time measurement
          (P. Gorbounov) 10'

          12:50 - Effects of the distorsion corrections on track reconstruction
          (P. Annis) 10'

      Moderator: P. Gorbounov
      Rapporteur : L. Ludovici

      - 13:00 Lunch -

      ________________________

    2. MOMENTUM (CHARGE/ENERGY), PARTICLE-ID DETERMINATION

      Topic divided in two parts:

      - MOMENTUM

      Review talks:

          14:30 - History of the DT pad alignment, and review of the pattern recognition for bending tracks. Simulated performances and real data results. The ultimate limit in the charge determination for neutrino events and the current situation
          (M. Vanderdonckt) 20'

          14:55 - The ET role will be reviewed, to understand its usage for special events
          (T. Kawamura) 15'

          15:15 - The spectrometer for 1-mu events: efficiency/resolution of the different algorithms. Its performances with neutrino events
          (P. Gorbounov) 20'

      Proposal and criticisms talks:

          15:40 - Hexagonal magnet track reconstruction
          (M. De Jong) 15'

      - 16:00 Coffee break -

      - PARTICLE ID

      Review talks: History and status of the particle ID for

          16:30 - Muons
          (R. Santacesaria) 15'

          16:50 - Hadrons and Electrons in the detector
          (P. Migliozzi) 25'

          17:20 - Particle propagation and track matching
          (M. De Jong) 20'

      Proposal and criticisms talks:

      Moderator: B. Saitta
      Rapporteur : O. Sato

      
        
      ________________________

      Thursday 19 February, 1998

      ________________________

    3. EMULSION ANALYSIS

      Review talk:

          9:00 - Electrons in emulsion
          (G. Romano) 15'

          9:15 - An introductory review of the TS:
          how it works, how it has evolved and how it will be
          (T. Nakano) 15'

      - LOCATION

      Review talks:

          9:30 - Sources of the location inefficiencies of the current TS search
          (T. Toshito) 15'

          9:50 - The Sysal approach (volume scan-back with multitracking):comparison to the TS
          (C. Bozza) 15'

          10:10 - The CERN approach, in comparison with the TS
          (B. Van De Vyver ) 10'

          10:20 - Object oriented track-finding in emulsion images
          (J. Uiterwijk) 10'

      Proposal and criticisms talks:

      - 10:30 Coffee break -

      - DECAY SEARCH

      Review talks:

          11:00 - Achievements and perspectives with the TS, for 1-prong, short kinks, long kinks and C3 decays
          (O. Sato) 15'

          11:20 - Results from semi-automatic scanning for cross-checks
          (M.G. Catanesi) 15'

      Proposal and criticisms talks:

          11:40 - Rawdata vs. online DST
          (P. Zucchelli) 15'

          12:00 - Search for decays in volume images
          (G. Rosa) 15'

      - SPECIAL EVENTS ANALYSIS

      Review talk:

          12:15 - Charm physics in emulsion
          (J. Herin) 20'

      Proposal and criticisms talks:

          12:40 - Scanning procedure for charm events analysis in phase II
          (O. Melzer) 20'

      - 13:00 Lunch -

          14:30 - True inefficiencies of different steps
          (G.Brooijmans) 15'

          14:50 - Kinematical reconstruction
          (B. Saitta) 20'

      Moderator: K. Niwa
      Rapporteur : J. Panman

      ________________________

    4. NON-EMULSION TOPICS

      Review talks:

          15:20 - Non-emulsion Physics review
          (R. VanDantzig) 20'

          15:45 - Beam physics in Phase II
          (V. Palladino) 20'

          16:10 - Physics status of the simulation programs
          (P. Righini) 15'

      Proposal and criticisms talks:

      Moderator: P.F. Loverre
      Rapporteur : R. VanDantzig

    - 16:30 Coffee break -

    ________________________

  3. SOFTWARE ASPECTS

    This session will concentrate on offline software and MonteCarlo.
    A detailed review of the elements composing our simulation chain.
    Emphasis on the technical aspects:

    ________________________

    - PACKAGES

    Review talks:

        17:00 - GBEAM: organisation and structure
        (S. Sorrentino) 20'

        17:25 - JETTA and RESQUE
        (S. Ricciardi) 20'

    
    
    - Vocal Concert -
    of the Chorus of "La Sapienza" physics students,
    conducted by Prof. P. Camiz
    Department of Physics, Aula "E. Amaldi"
    hours:18:30

     
     
    - Social Dinner -
    hours:20:00

    
    
    
    
    ________________________

    Friday 20 February, 1998

    ________________________

        9:00 - EFICASS
        (M. G. Catanesi) 20'

        9:25 - CHORAL
        (G. Fiorillo) 20'

    - DATA HANDLING

    Review talks:

        9:50 - Calorimeter calibration
        (M. Messina) 20'

        10:15 - Calibration, Geometry, Bookkeeping databases
        (D. Cussans) 20'

    - 10:40 Coffee break -

        11:10 - Production scheme
        (D. Cussans) 20'

        11:35 - Interactive analysis tools
        (M v. Donckt) 20'

        12:00 - Emulsion data handling
        (R. Santacesaria) 20'

    Proposal talks:

    Moderator: M. Zeirek
    Rapporteur: D. Cussans

    - 13:00 Lunch -

  4. SUMMARY, PLANNING AND INVESTMENTS FOR PHASE II PREPARATION

        14:30 - Tracking (L. Ludovici) - 20'
        14:55 - Momenta and PID (O. Sato) - 20'
        15:20 - Emulsion analysis (J. Panman) - 20'
        15:45 - Non-Emulsion analysis (R. VanDantzig) - 20'

    - 16:10 Coffee break -

        16:40 - Software (D. Cussans) - 20'
        16:55 - Phase II organization (H. Meinhard/P. Zucchelli) - 30'
        17:35 - Conclusions (P. Strolin) 20'
        18:00 - Workshop end

Chairman: P. Strolin

________________________

Agenda by

H. Meinhard
L. Ludovici
G. Rosa
R. Santacesaria
P. Strolin
P. Zucchelli

________________________

Saturday 21 February, 1998

________________________

- The "Roman Forum": -
the ruins of the political, commercial and religious center of the ancient city of Rome
Visit guided by Dr. M. Filippa, archeologist
Meeting point: 9:45, Metro Linea B, "Colosseo" stop




Back to the Workshop Home Page