Many thanks to everybody who provided inputs to the proposal

1. Many thanks to everybody who provided inputs to the proposal RD51 Collaboration Meeting, Amsterdam, April 16-18

2. R & D Proposal Outline: Development of Micro-Pattern Gas Detector Technologies (technology-oriented collaboration) 1. Motivation, Main Objectives and Summary 2. Current Trends in Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors 3. Applications (HEP, Astrophysics, Nuclear, Industrial and Medical App.) 4. Future Research Program and Strategy (Technologies, Radiation Hardness, Simulations, Electronics) 5. Technological and System Aspects of MPGD Developments 6. Basic MPGD Experimental Studies and Evaluation 7. Development of Radiation Hard Technologies 8. Detector Simulation 9. MPGD Electronics Developments 10. Collaboration with Industrial Partners 11. Resources and Infrastructure 12. Beam and Irradiation Facilities 13. Scientific Organization and Work Plan RD51 Collaboration Meeting, Amsterdam, April 16-18

3. The RD51 Collaboration Institues: RWTH Aachen (Germany) NIKHEF Amsterdam (Netherlands) University of Texas Arlington TX (US) INP NCSR Demokritos Athens (Greece) Universities of Aveiro and Coimbra (Portugal) IFAE Barcelona (Spain) INFN Bari (Italy) Bonn University (Germany) PTB Braunschweig (Germany) Eotvos University Budapest (Hungary) Uludag University Bursa (Turkey) INFN Cagliari (Italy) MIT Cambridge MA (US) Carleton University and TRIUMF (Canada) AGH UST Cracow (Poland) GSI Darmstadt (Germany) PGE and Panalytical Eindhoven (Netherlands) Ecole des Mines Superior St. Etienne (France) LNF-INFN Frascati (Italy) University of Freiburg (Germany) C-RAD Imaging AB Frösön (Sweden) CERN TS-DEM Geneva (Switzerland) CERN PH Geneva (Switzerland) ATLAS Upgrade Coll. Geneva (Switzerland) Athens Demokritos, Athens National Technical University, Athens University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Bucharest NIPNE, CERN, Harvard University, Naples, Petersburg NPI, University of Science and Technology of China, University of South Carolina, Thessaloniki Aristotle University, Washington University Geneva University (Switzerland) CEA SACLAY Gif sur Yvette (France) LPSC Grenoble (France) DESY FLC Hamburg (Germany) HIP Helsinki (Finland) Saha Institute Kolkata (India) Florida Institute of Technology Melbourne FL (US) University of Montreal (Canada) Technische Universität München (Germany) Yale University New Haven CT (US) TERA FOUNDATION Novara (Italy) Budker Institute Novosibirsk (Russia) IPN  CNRS-IN2P3 Orsay (France) INFN Pisa and University of Siena (Italy) University of Sheffield (UK) Technical University Prague (Czech Republic) Weizmann Institute Rehevot (Israel) INFN and University of Trieste (Italy) Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton NY (US) University of Victoria and TRIUMF (Canada) SMI Vienna (Austria) University of Zaragoza (Spain) ~ 50 institutes declared interest in the MPGD R & D Collaboration http://mpgd.web.cern.ch/mpgd/ RD51 Collaboration Meeting, Amsterdam, April 16-18

4. I. Motivation and Summary • The goal of such a collaboration would be to bundle and coordinate detector development and simulation work. The collaboration will allow: • • Structure, coordinate and focus R&D efforts; • • Share common infrastructure (e.g. test beam, electronics, production and test facilities), develop common test and quality standards; • • Share investment of common projects (e.g. MPGD technology and electronics developments) • • Optimize communication and sharing of knowledge/experience/results • Setup a common maintainable software package for gas detector simulations • Progress in technological and economical aspects (base materials, fabrication methods, industrialization and cost effectiveness) • Developement of New Detector Concepts • • Optimized and Improved detector performance; • • Optimized readout electronics and readout integration with detectors; RD51 Collaboration Meeting, Amsterdam, April 16-18

5. II. Current Trends in Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors (summary of present technologies and experimental results: introduction, design principles and outline of MPGD performances) RD51 Collaboration Meeting, Amsterdam, April 16-18

6. III. Applications (HEP, Astrophysics, Nuclear Physics, Industrial and Medical) • Charged Particle Tracking and Triggering • TPC readout • Calorimetry and Muon Detectors • Photon Detectors (UV and Visible Light Detection) • X-Ray Astronomy • Neutron Detection • Cryogenic Detection RD51 Collaboration Meeting, Amsterdam, April 16-18

7. IV. Research Program Objectives Main Objective of the R&D Program is: • Advance technological development and applications • of the Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors • This can be most effectively realized by the creation of technology-oriented MPGD collaboration. Other Objectives of the R&D Program are: • Evaluate performance of different MPGD technologies (including fabrication • methods, industrialization and cost effectiveness). • --- To make recommendations to experiments about the suitability of MPGD • technology for particular application, based on the optimal material budget, detector • structure and operational conditions and on quality control procedures; • Develop radiation hard gaseous detectors that can operate beyond the • limits of present devices. • • Development of common maintainable software package for the • MPGD simulation. • • Collect requirements for MPGD electronics; optimize readout integration • with detectors. RD51 Collaboration Meeting, Amsterdam, April 16-18

8. IV. Research Program Scientific Strategy and Organization • In order to reach the objectives and to share the resources of participating institutes, the followingscientific strategieshave been identified: • Technological MPGD Developments and Basic Experimental • Studies for each of the manufacturing techniques: • (Micromegas; GEM; THGEM / RETGEM; Ingrid/CMOS; RPC) • Development of Radiation Hard Technologies. • • Detector Simulation • • Electronics Developments RD51 Collaboration Meeting, Amsterdam, April 16-18

9. V. Technological Aspects of MPGD Developments Objective: Optimization of fabrication methods, development of new geometries and techniques, industrialization and cost effective production. • Development of Large Area Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors •  Large area modules, material budget reduction • Optimization of fabrication methods •  Bulk micromegas, microbulk Micromegas, single-mask GEM, … • Further Developments of New Geometries & Techniques •  THGEM, RETGEM, MHSP, charge-dispersive readout, Ingrid • MPGD Production Industrialization • Cost effective production, larger quantities RD51 Collaboration Meeting, Amsterdam, April 16-18

10. VI. Basic MPGD Studies & Evaluation (application-driven) Objective: Evaluate performance of different MPGD detectors, development of common standards and comparison of different technologies • Evaluation and Optimization of MPGD technologies, depending on application • Photon detector R&D, tracking detector R&D, astrophysics detector R&D, muon detector & calorimetry R&D, nuclear physics detector R&D, medical application R&D, cryogenic detectors R&D,… • Development of Common Test Standards • comparison of different technologies in different laboratories RD51 Collaboration Meeting, Amsterdam, April 16-18

11. VII. Development of Radiation Hard Technologies Objective: Develop Radiation Hard Gaseous Detectors operating beyond the limits of present devices Continuation of systematic studies on aging, focusing on specific needs of MPGD: • Development of radiation hard inner tracker and muon systems for the sLHC • cleanliness requirements, validation tests for final detector modules, • gas system construction, working remedies, … • Validate test procedures for reliable extrapolation from laboratory • aging studies to real experimental conditions •  Radiation type and dose, gas flow, electric field, current density, etc… • Generic Aging and Materials Radiation Hardness Studies •  create database of “radiation hard” (depending on application) • commercially available materials RD51 Collaboration Meeting, Amsterdam, April 16-18

12. VIII. Detector Simulation Objective: Development of common maintainable software package for MPGD simulation • Development of Common Platform for Detector Simulation: •  Integrating gas-based detector simulation (Magboltz, Garfield, Heed) to Geant4 •  Interface to ROOT (graphics, access to superior statistical methods) • Development of Algorithms (in the domain of very small structures) •  Finite element methods vs integral equations • Simulation Improvements • Electron transport for small scale structures, penning transfers, ionization processes • Simplified Electronics Modeliing RD51 Collaboration Meeting, Amsterdam, April 16-18

13. IX. MPGD Electronics Developments Objective: Synthesize MPGD FEE into a number of readout approaches, optimize readout integration with detectors • Collect FEE requirements, synthesize into a number of readout approaches •  granularity (large granularity - conventional readout (ALTRO), many developments – • highly segmented pixel readout) and application (tracking, triggering, photon detection) • Development of Portable Multichannel Systems for Detector Studies •  provide small area MPGD coupled to portable electronics (USB readout) • Development of new CMOS readout chips (Timepix2, Gossipo,…) • Development of large area MPGD with CMOS readout RD51 Collaboration Meeting, Amsterdam, April 16-18

14. XI. Resources and Infrastructure XII. Beam and Irradiation Facilities • Develop and Maintain • Permanent RD51 Setups • in: • Irradiation faclities • (large areas) • Test Beam-line  see M. Capeans Talk RD51 Collaboration Meeting, Amsterdam, April 16-18

15. XIII. RD51 Collaboration Organization (proposal structure): RD51 Collaboration Meeting, Amsterdam, April 16-18