DRD1 Collaboration meeting in Warsaw

Europe/Warsaw
Warsaw University of Technology ul. Rektorska 4, 00-614 Warsaw Poland
André Cortez (CAMK PAN)
Description

Third Announcement - Information available at the end of the page

Warsaw welcomes the DRD1 Collaboration

This year's 6th edition of the DRD1 Collaboration Meeting will take place in Warsaw (the first one outside CERN) and will gather researchers from all over the world working on topics related to gas radiation detector development.

Image: Cezary Warś © City of Warsaw 

DRD1 Collaboration Meeting will be hosted by Astrocent and Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CAMK PAN) on 06-10 October 2025.

 

DRD1 Collaboration Meeting will be primarily an in-person event, but the talks are also planned to be broadcast via Zoom (connection details will be added at the bottom of this page).

 

The main topics addressed will be:

  • Detector technologies (MPGD, RPC, Wire-based, etc.)
  • Detector physics
  • Detector performance
  • Simulation and software
  • Electronics
  • New materials and Production techniques
  • Applications and Future perspectives
  • Industrialization

 

Important dates:

  • 15 April: start of registration for the DRD1 Collaboration
    meeting and young researchers grant application. 
  • 1 August: deadline for young researchers grant
    application (decisions on the selected applicants will be
    announced by September 1, 2025). 
    Note: in order to register you will need an Indico account.
  • 5 September: deadline for payment of early-registration
    fee for on-site participation.
     
  • 26 September (by 16:00 CET): end of registration and
    payment of late-registration fee for on-site participation. 

    Early-registration fee: 220 EUR (until September 5, 2025)
    Late-registration fee: 350 EUR (from September 5 to September 26, 2025)

 

 

Local Organising Committee:

  • André Cortez (Astrocent NCAC PAS, Warsaw)   Chair
  • Maryna Chernyshova (NCBJ, Warsaw)
  • Mikołaj Cwiok (University of Warsaw, Warsaw)
  • Wojciech Dominik (University of Warsaw, Warsaw)
  • Yuliya Hoika (Astrocent, NCAC PAS, Warsaw)
  • Marcin Kuźniak (Astrocent NCAC PAS, Warsaw)
  • Dagmara Rozpędzik (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)
  • Masayuki Wada (Astrocent NCAC PAS, Warsaw)
  • Diego Rodas (Astrocent NCAC PAS, Warsaw)


Honorary members:

  • Leszek Roszkowski (Director of Astrocent at NCAC PAS, Warsaw)
  • Rafał Moderski (Director of NCAC PAS, Warsaw)

 

Organisers: Astrocent NCAC PAS

 

 

News about DRD1 Collaboration Meeting will also be shared via a newsletter and on social media profiles.

This project has received funding from the Teaming for Excellence project “Astrocent Plus - Particle Astrophysics Science and Technology Centre” funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the grant agreement No 101137080.

 

 

Registration
General Registration
Participants
    • Registration
    • 10:30
      Coffee Break
    • Plenary Session (Introduction)
    • 12:30
      Lunch
    • Working Group 1: Technological Aspects and Developments of New Detector Structures, Common Characterization and Physics Issues
      Conveners: Emilio Radicioni, Ingo Deppner, Luca Moleri (Weizmann Institute of Science), Michael Tytgat, Paul Colas, Peter Wintz
      • 1
        New extremely light straw tube detector with a non-woven graphite-textile
        Speaker: Hajime Nishiguchi (KEK)
      • 2
        Picosec : Photocathode studies and multichannel analysis
        Speakers: Francesco Guerra, Marta Lisowska (CERN)
      • 3
        Field-Assisted Transparent Gaseous Electroluminescence Multipliers - Updates
        Speakers: André Cortez (CAMK PAN), Diego Rodas
      • 4
        Beam monitoring with an optically read out GEM-based detector
        Speaker: Lukas Lazek (ETH Zurich)
      • 5
        THGEM with resistive plate anode: Signal shape and gain optimization
        Speaker: Arpan Maity (Weizman Institute)
      • 16:05
        Coffee break
    • 16:05
      Coffee Break
    • Working Group 1: Technological Aspects and Developments of New Detector Structures, Common Characterization and Physics Issues
    • Welcome & Poster Session
    • Working Group 2: Applications
      Conveners: Diego Gonzalez Diaz, Francisco Garcia, Gabriela Pugliese, Giulio Aielli, Riccardo Farinelli
    • 10:30
      Coffee Break
    • Working Group 2: Applications
    • 12:30
      Lunch
    • Working Group 3: Gas and material studies
      Conveners: Alessandra Pastore, Beatrice Mandelli, Francesco Renga, Gianfranco Morello, Stefan Roth
      • 6
        Welcome
        Speakers: Alessandra Pastore (INFN Bari), Beatrice Mandelli, Francesco Renga, Gianfranco Morello, Stefan Roth
      • 7
        Impact of trace amounts of water on the stability of MPGDs
        Speaker: Piotr Gasik (GSI/FAIR and Tu Darmstadt)
      • 8
        Oxygen and isopropyl alcohol as additives in drift chamber gas mixtures
        Speaker: Francesco Renga
      • 9
        TBD
        Speakers: Gianluca Rigoletti, Ori Salomon
      • 10
        TBD
        Speaker: Filomena Santos (LIP)
    • 16:00
      Coffee Break
    • Working Group 3: Gas and material studies
      • 11
        Timing performance of Picosec Micromegas with environmental-friendly gas mixtures
        Speakers: Ilaria Vai, Matteo Brunoldi
      • 12
        Unveiling Surface Chemistry and Ageing Pathways of GEMs through > In-Situ Surface Spectroscopy
        Speaker: Tiago Fiorini da Silva
    • Working Group 4: Detector physics, simulations, and software tools: Steve Biagi memorial session
      Conveners: Djunes Janssens, Marcello Abbrescia, Maryna Borysova, Ozkan Sahin, Paolo Fonte, Piet Verwilligen, Rob Veenhof, Supratik Mukheopadhyay
      • 13
        the word from RD51/DRD1 Management
      • 14
        Archana Sharma (online)
      • 15
        Heinrich Schindler
      • 16
        Rob / Djunes
      • 17
        Steve’s last years
        Speaker: Marnik Metting van Rijn (ETH Zurich | High Voltage Laboratory)
    • 10:30
      Coffee Break
    • Working Group 4: Detector physics, simulations, and software tools
      Convener: Maryna Borysova
      • 18
        Update on AIDA proposal
        Speaker: Piet Verwilligen (INFN Bari)
      • 19
        Summer student project Djunes/Tom
      • 20
        Capacitive sharing
      • 21
        A modelisation of the response of a gaseous TPC optically readout

        The CYGNO collaboration is developing a gaseous time projection chamber
        with optical readout of a triple-GEM stack for directional dark matter
        searches. While this technique provides detailed reconstruction of event
        topology, it requires operation at high gain of the amplification stage,
        where nonlinearities in the GEM response become significant. We present
        a model developed to describe these nonlinear effects and compare the
        simulated results with experimental data

        Speaker: Davide Pinci (INFN - Roma)
      • 22
        The modeling of rate effects in RPCs

        Abstract:This work introduces Markov modelling to describe how resistive plate chambers (RPC) deteriorate under uniform background irradiation. The model works for high irradiation rates and arbitrary charge spectra. Applied to M. Abbrescia’s single-cell RPC model (RC circuit), it agrees with Monte Carlo simulations and can also describe RPCs with polarizable resistive layers and in two dimensions. Including streamer-like events (large charge) allows the model to match experimental efficiency curves, showing that these events cause the reduction of the efficiency plateau at high irradiation rates. For eco-friendly gas mixtures, this means suppressing streamers is key for reaching high-rate capability.

        Speaker: Dario Stocco (ETH Zürich)
    • Management Board
    • 13:00
      Lunch
    • Social Activity
    • Working Group 6: Detector Manufacturing and Production
      Conveners: Alain Delbart, Fabien Jeanneau, Gabriel Charles, Giuseppe Iaselli, Rui De Oliveira
    • 10:30
      Coffee Break
    • Working Group 7: Common test facilities
      Conveners: Karl Floethner, Katerina Kuznetsova, Roberto Guida, Yorgos Tsipolitis
    • 12:30
      Lunch
    • Collaboration Board
      Conveners: Anna Colaleo, Leszek Ropelewski
    • 15:00
      Coffee Break
    • Working Group 5: Electronics for gaseous detectors
      Conveners: Hans Muller, Lucian Scharenberg, Maxim Gouzevitch, Michael Lupberger, Sorin Martoiu
    • Gala Dinner
    • Working Group 8: Knowledge Transfer, Training, Career Promotion
      Conveners: Elisabetta Baracchini, Florian Maximilian Brunbauer (CERN), Mauro Iodice, Raheema Hafeji
    • 11:00
      Coffee Break
    • 11:30
      Farewell Message
    • 12:30
      Lunch
    • Scientific Activity