Name: XII International Workshop on Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detectors - RICH2025
Start: 2025-09-15T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-09-19T13:30:00+02:00
Location: No location set

XII International Workshop on Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detectors - RICH2025

from Monday, September 15, 2025 (8:00 AM) to Friday, September 19, 2025 (1:30 PM)

Monday, September 15, 2025

8:00 AM

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Room: Foyer
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 8:55 AM
Room: Ketteler-Saal
Contributions

8:30 AM Welcome address - Thomas Nilsson (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH(GSI))

8:45 AM Announcements from the LOC - Jochen Schwiening (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH(GSI))
8:55 AM Session I
Session I
8:55 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: Ketteler-Saal
Contributions

8:55 AM Cherenkov light imaging detectors in current particle and nuclear physics experiments - Kodai Matsuoka (IPNS, KEK)

9:30 AM Operation and performance of the Belle II TOP counter - Marko Staric (J. Stefan Institute)

9:55 AM Operation and performance of the Belle II Aerogel RICH detector - Kristof Spenko (Jozef Stefan Institute)
10:20 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:20 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM Session II
Session II
10:50 AM - 12:05 PM
Room: Ketteler-Saal
Contributions

10:50 AM The LHCb RICH detectors: operations and performance - Giovanni Cavallero (INFN Ferrara)

11:15 AM Performance of the High Momentum Particle IDentification (HMPID) detector during LHC Run 3 - Giacomo Volpe (University and INFN, Bari)

11:40 AM The Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detector of the NA62 experiment at CERN: basic performance and aging effects - Francesca Bucci (INFN Florence)
12:05 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:05 PM - 1:20 PM
1:20 PM Session III
Session III
1:20 PM - 2:10 PM
Room: Ketteler-Saal
Contributions

1:20 PM The CLAS12 RICH detector - marco mirazita (INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati)

1:45 PM Status and Performance of the GlueX DIRC - Justin Stevens (William & Mary)
2:10 PM Session I
Session I
2:10 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Ketteler-Saal
Contributions

2:10 PM In memoriam Grigory Vladimirovich Domogatsky - Greg Hallewell (Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CNRS/IN2P3): emeritus)

2:20 PM Antarctic Ice and Ocean Water as Cherenkov Neutrino Detectors - Francis Halzen (University of Wiscosnin-Madison)

2:55 PM KM3NeT: an Infrastructure for Underwater Cherenkov Neutrino Telescopes - Cristiano Bozza (Università di Salerno e INFN)

3:20 PM Probing the MeV Frontier with IceCube: Supernovae, Transients, and Future Directions - Nora Valtonen-Mattila
3:50 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:50 PM - 4:50 PM
Room: Foyer,
3:50 PM - 4:50 PM
Contributions

3:50 PM Aerogel characterization for RICH applications - Giacomo Volpe (University and INFN, Bari)

3:50 PM First results from a full-scale TORCH prototype - Marion Lehuraux (University of Warwick)

3:50 PM Performance degradation of SiPM sensors under various irradiation fields and recovery via high-temperature annealing - Cristina Ripoli (University of Salerno - INFN)

3:50 PM Two-Stage Gamma-Neutron Source Classification in Water Cherenkov Detectors: Energy Threshold Screening and Machine Learning Pulse Analysis - Christian Sarmiento-Cano (Universidad Industrial de Santander)

3:50 PM The “xpDIRC” Concept for the Next-Generation DIRC Detector - Roman Dzhygadlo (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH(GSI))

3:50 PM Development of a Gas/Aerogel Dual-Radiator RICH Detector for the J-PARC MARQ Spectrometer Using Sipm Technology - Ken Suzuki (The University of Osaka)

3:50 PM Development of a Gaseous Photomultiplication Based Cherenkov Detector Targeting Picosecond Time Resolution - Koichi Ueda (Nagoya University)

3:50 PM Muon Decay as a Robust Long-Term Calibration Method for Water Cherenkov Detectors - Christian Sarmiento-Cano (Universidad Autonoma de Bucaramanga)

3:50 PM ALCOR: a SiPM readout chip for the ePIC-dRICH detector at the EIC - Roberto Preghenella (INFN Sezione di Bologna)

3:50 PM Large Area Picosecond Photodetector for the Upgrade II of the LHCb RICH - Daniel Foulds-Holt (University of Edinburgh)

3:50 PM Performance Evaluation of a Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detector with High-Momentum hadron beams at J-PARC - Taiga Toda (University of Osaka)

3:50 PM Optimized optical design of the LHCb RICH detectors for Upgrade-II - Elisabetta Spadaro Norella (University and INFN of Genoa)

3:50 PM Water Cherenkov Detectors in Precision Agriculture: A Novel Approach for High-Resolution Soil Moisture Monitoring - Christian Sarmiento-Cano (Universidad Industrial de Santander)

3:50 PM Mirror System and Mirror Alignment Monitoring of the CBM RICH Detector - Sven Peter (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen(JuLGi-2PI))

3:50 PM Conceptual Design of PID Detectors for the EicC Spectrometer - Xin Li (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

3:50 PM Performance evaluation in different environments of the MCP-PMT for the TOP counter in the Belle II experiment - Ryotaro Komori (Nagoya University)

3:50 PM CalAliMon: In-Situ Rayleigh-Scattering based Calibration Alignmnent and Monitoring system for the future LHCb RICH upgrades - Roberta Cardinale (University and INFN Genova) Viacheslav Duk (INFN Perugia) alessandro petrolini (iniversita` di Genova and INFN - Italy)

3:50 PM The LS3 Enhancement of the RICH detectors - Vlad-Mihai Placinta (IFIN-HH)

3:50 PM High-Precision Timing Characterization of MCP-PMT Using Front-End ASIC and TDC ASIC - Cong Guo (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

3:50 PM Characterization of Aerogel Radiators for RICH Detectors Using Optical Coherence Tomography - Avani Bhardwaj

3:50 PM The AdvCam project: Designing the future cameras for the Large-Sized Telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory - Cornelia Arcaro

3:50 PM High-Count-Rate Saturation Behavior in MCP-PMT: An Experimental Study - Kuinian Li (Xi'an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

3:50 PM SiPM-based RICH detector at an upgraded Compressed Baryonic Matter experiment - Jesus Pena Rodriguez (Bergische Universität Wuppertal(BUW))

3:50 PM Studies for the Upgrade of Belle II Aerogel RICH - Shunsuke KUROKAWA (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

3:50 PM R&D of Fast Timing MCP-PMT with PbF2 Window - Cong Guo (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

3:50 PM MANTRA: Measuring anti-neutron energy with the TOP counter of Belle II - Shanette De La Motte (INFN Torino)

3:50 PM iactsim: a CUDA-accelerated simulation framework for IACTs - Davide Mollica (INAF)

3:50 PM Characterization of SiPMs for the LHCb RICH Detectors Upgrade-II - marco guarise (Università e INFN, Ferrara (IT))

3:50 PM CBM RICH ring reconstruction using machine learning - Martin Beyer (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen(JULGi))

3:50 PM Simulation Study for Particle Identification with the dRICH of the ePIC Experiment at the EIC - Tiziano Boasso (University and INFN Trieste)

3:50 PM The mRICH detector for the mCBM prototype Experiment - Abhishek Anil Deshmukh (Bergische Universität Wuppertal(BUW))

3:50 PM Research on High-Precision Time-Resolved Detectors Coupled with fast Scintillation Crystals and fast PMTs - Cong Guo (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

3:50 PM The FastRICH ASIC for next-generation RICH detectors - Floris Keizer (CERN)

3:50 PM A compact Cherenkov detector for measurement of the high energy anti deuteron flux in cosmic rays - Federico Testa (Università degli Studi di Torino)

3:50 PM spadRICH: Developing Digital Analog SiPMs as Candidate Photodetectors for Future RICH Detectors - Rok Dolenec (Jožef Stafan Institute)

3:50 PM A cryogenic RICH detector demonstrator for SiPM operation with integrated flex-PCB electronics - Lorenzo Malentacca (CERN)

3:50 PM Characterisation of a Novel Photodetector Configuration for Water Cherenkov Detectors - Jazmin Stewart (University of Leicester)

3:50 PM Rate capability and transient gain drop of an single photon timing detector - Amelia Markfort

3:50 PM MCP-PMT Innovations at Incom - Mark Popecki (Incom, Inc.)
4:50 PM Session II
Session II
4:50 PM - 6:35 PM
Room: Ketteler-Saal
Contributions

4:50 PM HUNT : An ultra-large-scale neutrino astronomy telescope - MINGJUN CHEN (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

5:15 PM JUNO’s Water Cherenkov Detector - Cong Guo (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

5:40 PM The Design and Performance of Multi-PMT Modules for the Hyper-Kamiokande Experiment - Andrzej Rychter (Warsaw University of Technology)

6:05 PM The AMS-02 RICH detector: status, latest results, and physics prospects - Jianan Xiao (CERN)
7:00 PM

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: Foyer, Courtyard
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
8:30 AM Session III
Session III
8:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: Ketteler-Saal
Contributions

8:30 AM Announcements from the LOC - Jochen Schwiening (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH(GSI))

8:35 AM Cherenkov Detector Arrays in LHAASO and Updated Physics Results - Zhen Cao (Institute of High Energy Physics)

9:00 AM Status of the Pierre Auger Observatory - Markus Cristinziani (Center for Particle Physics Siegen, Universität Siegen)

9:25 AM From a Network to a Networking: The Evolution of the Latin American Giant Observatory - Christian Sarmiento-Cano (Universidad Industrial de Santander)
9:50 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
9:50 AM - 10:20 AM
10:20 AM Session IV
Session IV
10:20 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Ketteler-Saal
Contributions

10:20 AM Status of the Southern Wide-field Gamma-Ray Observatory - Hazal Goksu (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)

10:45 AM Status of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory - Igor Oya (CIEMAT)

11:10 AM LACT: Status and Future Plans - Shoushan Zhang (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS)

11:35 AM Direct comparison of SiPM and PMT operation under bright background and perspectives of using truly digital sensors - Razmik Mirzoyan (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)
12:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
1:15 PM Session V
Session V
1:15 PM - 1:40 PM
Room: Ketteler-Saal
Contributions

1:15 PM Overcoming the physical limits of Cherenkov telescopes - Sebastian Achim Mueller (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)
1:40 PM Session 1
Session 1
1:40 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Ketteler-Saal
Contributions

1:40 PM Recent advances and trends in pattern recognition and data analysis for RICH detectors - Luka Santelj (Jozef Stefan Institute & University of Ljubljana)

2:15 PM High level performance of the NA62 RICH detector - Viacheslav Duk (INFN Perugia)

2:40 PM Primary vertex time reconstruction using the LHCb RICH detectors - Abhinaba Upadhyay (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland and Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary)

3:05 PM Online AI-based distributed data reduction for the dual-radiator RICH detector in the ePIC experiment - Cristian Rossi (INFN, Sezione di Roma, Italy)
3:40 PM Conference Photo, Coffee break + poster session
Conference Photo, Coffee break + poster session
3:40 PM - 4:40 PM
Room: Foyer, Kardinal-Volk-Saal
4:40 PM Session II
Session II
4:40 PM - 5:05 PM
Room: Ketteler-Saal
Contributions

4:40 PM The ARC compact RICH detector: reconstruction and performance - Serena Pezzulo (INFN and University of Genova)
5:05 PM Session I
Session I
5:05 PM - 6:20 PM
Room: Ketteler-Saal
Contributions

5:05 PM Status and Perspectives of CMOS SPAD-based single photon detectors - Claudio Bruschini (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)

5:40 PM SiPM radiation hardness and perspectives for new developments - Rok Pestotnik (Jožef Stefan Institute)
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
8:30 AM Session II
Session II
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Ketteler-Saal
Contributions

8:30 AM Annoucements from the LOC - Jochen Schwiening (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH(GSI))

8:35 AM The SiPM readout plane for the ePIC-dRICH photodetector at the EIC: overview and beam test results - Nicola Rubini (INFN Bologna)

9:00 AM Transmission Dynodes: Enhancing Vacuum Photodetectors - Jon Lapington (University of Leicester)

9:25 AM Status and Perspectives of MCP-based photodetectors - Alexander Kiselev (Brookhaven National Lab)
10:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM Session III
Session III
10:30 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: Ketteler-Saal
Contributions

10:30 AM Experiences with series produced Microchannel-Plate PMTs for the PANDA Barrel DIRC - Katja Gumbert (Universität Erlangen(UErl))

10:55 AM Long-term performance of non-ALD MCP-PMTs in the high-radiation environment of ALICE - Yury Melikyan (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))

11:20 AM Exploring New Avenues for Particle Detection with LAPPDs and WbLS in ANNIE: Milestones and Firsts - Matthew Wetstein (Iowa State University)

11:45 AM Development and characterization of hybrid MCP-PMT with embedded Timepix4 ASIC - Edoardo Franzoso (INFN Sezione di Ferrara)
12:10 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:10 PM - 1:20 PM

1:30 PM

1:30 PM - 7:00 PM

7:00 PM

7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Thursday, September 18, 2025
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 9:25 AM
Room: Ketteler-Saal
Contributions

8:30 AM Announcements from the LOC - Jochen Schwiening (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH(GSI))

8:35 AM Characterisation of LAPPD - Rok Dolenec (Jožef Stafan Institute)

9:00 AM Studies of LAPPD and HRPPD photodetectors for Cherenkov imaging application - Jinky Agarwala (INFN Trieste)
9:25 AM Session I
Session I
9:25 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Ketteler-Saal
Contributions

9:25 AM The DRD4 Collaboration for research and development on photon detectors and particle identification techniques - Massimiliano Fiorini (INFN and University of Ferrara)
10:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Foyer
10:30 AM Session I
Session I
10:30 AM - 11:55 AM
Room: Ketteler-Saal
Contributions

10:30 AM R&D Developments in Cherenkov Imaging Technologies for Particle Identification Systems in Future Experiments - Chandradoy Chatterjee (INFN Trieste)

11:05 AM Status of the CBM RICH detector towards first beam in 2028 - Christian Pauly (Bergische Universität Wuppertal(BUW))

11:30 AM Status of the PANDA DIRC Detectors - Albert Lehmann (Universität Erlangen(UErl))
12:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
1:15 PM Session II
Session II
1:15 PM - 3:20 PM
Room: Ketteler-Saal
Contributions

1:15 PM The ePIC dual-radiator RICH detector - Marco Contalbrigo (INFN Ferrara)

1:40 PM A Proximity-Focusing RICH Detector for the ePIC Experiment at the EIC - Brian Page (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

2:05 PM hpDIRC Detector Development for the ePIC Experiment at the Electron-Ion Collider - Greg Kalicy (CUA)

2:30 PM The Upgrade II of the LHCb RICH system - Claudio Gotti (INFN Milano-Bicocca)

2:55 PM TORCH detector concept and design - Marion Lehuraux (University of Warwick)
3:30 PM Coffee break + poster session
Coffee break + poster session
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Foyer, Kardinal-Volk-Saal
4:30 PM Session III
Session III
4:30 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: Ketteler-Saal
Contributions

4:30 PM A DIRC-like TOF detector for PID at STCF - Xuesen Lin (USTC)

4:55 PM Designing the ALICE 3 bRICH detector: simulation studies and beam test results - Nicola Nicassio (CERN, University and INFN, Bari, Italy)

5:20 PM A RICH detector for the ALADDIN experiment - Elisabetta Spadaro Norella (University and INFN of Genoa)
5:45 PM Session II
Session II
5:45 PM - 6:10 PM
Room: Ketteler-Saal
Contributions

5:45 PM Perspectives for the “green” use of fluorocarbons in Cherenkov gas radiators. - Greg Hallewell (Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CNRS/IN2P3): emeritus)
6:30 PM

6:30 PM - 7:45 PM
Room: closed
Friday, September 19, 2025
8:30 AM Session II
Session II
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Ketteler-Saal
Contributions

8:30 AM Announcements from the LOC - Jochen Schwiening (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH(GSI))

8:35 AM Front-End electronics for RICH detectors: general requirements, design criteria and examples of current projects - Floris Keizer (CERN)

9:10 AM The ePIC dRICH radiator gas - Fulvio Tessarotto (INFN - Trieste)

9:35 AM Nuova Officina Assergi: the inNOvAtive facility for the production of large area Silicon photodetectors - Andrea Marasciulli (INFN-LNGS)
10:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Foyer
10:30 AM Session IV
Session IV
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: Ketteler-Saal
Contributions

10:30 AM An integrated housing with active cooling for Silicon Photomultipliers arrays in next generation of Ring Imaging Cherenkov Detectors - Roberta Cardinale (University and INFN Genova)

10:55 AM Efficient and precise Cherenkov-based charged particle timing using SiPMs - Mario Nicola Mazziotta (INFN Bari)

11:20 AM Developing hydrophobic silica aerogels for Cherenkov detectors - Makoto Tabata (Chiba University)
11:45 AM
11:45 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: Ketteler-Saal
Contributions

11:45 AM Announcement of the early career award winners - Eugenio Nappi (INFN)

11:50 AM Conference summary - Eugenio Nappi (INFN)
12:10 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:10 PM - 1:10 PM