LUXE Steering Board #11

Wednesday 27 Aug 2025, 11:00 → 13:00 Europe/Berlin

Federico Meloni (DESY), Jenny List (DESY), Matthew Wing (FTX (Technol. zukuenft. Teilchenph. Experim.))

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Meeting ID: 939 7287 8124
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1 Introduction, news and items for discussion

Speakers: Federico Meloni (DESY), Jenny List (DESY), Matthew Wing (UCL), Matthew Wing (FTX (Technol. zukuenft. Teilchenph. Experim.))

2 Status of ELBEX

Speakers: Louis Helary (DESY - FTX), Ruth Magdalena Jacobs (FHR (Bereichsreferent FH))

3 Laser status

Speakers: Matt Zepf (Helmholtz Institut Jena), Matt Zepf (Eur.UPEX)

4 Theory and simulation status

Speakers: Ben King (University of Plymouth), Ben King (None), Thomas Blackburn (None), Tom Blackburn (University of Gothenburg), Tom Blackburn (University of Gothenburg)

5 Software & analysis status

Speakers: Daniel Seipt (Helmholtz Institut Jena), Noam Tal Hod (Weizmann Institute of Science), Oleksandr Borysov (DESY), Ruth Magdalena Jacobs (FHR (Bereichsreferent FH))

Fastsim Impressions.pdf

6 Electron detection system status

Speakers: Ivo Schulthess (FTX (FTX Fachgruppe SLB)), Ruth Magdalena Jacobs (FHR (Bereichsreferent FH))

• simulation (Ptarmigan + Geant4) of E320 running (Luke)
• summer student is making progress in the beam parameter correlation analysis (Karim)
• analyzing ARES Cherenkov data to gain an understanding of the detector characteristics
  • charge scans
  • angle scans
  • different SiPM

 

• for the collaboration meeting
  • two talks:
    • LUXE Electron Detection System - Simulations and beam conditions at EDS@E320 (1st, Luke)
    • LUXE Electron Detection System - Technical details and current challenges (2nd, Ivo)
  • third talk on GFM (Ivo)

7 Positron detection system status

Speakers: Halina Abramowicz (FTX (FTX Fachgruppe AST)), Oleksandr Borysov (DESY)

8 Photon detection system

Speakers: Prof. Gianluca Sarri (None), Gianluca Sarri (Queen's University Belfast), Marco Bruschi (INFN and University of Bologna)

9 Computing & DAQ status

Speakers: Federico Meloni (DESY), Matthew Wing (FTX (Technol. zukuenft. Teilchenph. Experim.)), Matthew Wing (UCL)

Docker image for software distribution

• include lxsim, xsuite, ptarmigan, dd4hep geometries
• plan to discuss at collaboration meeting what else to include

 

LCS document feedback very hard to get

• discuss weizmann's comments at collaboration meeting
• need to identify a strategy to retrieve input from calorimetry

10 Discussion