pA@LHC

chaired by Urs Wiedemann (CERN), Mark Strikman (Penn State University), Carlos Albert Salgado Lopez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))
from to (Europe/Zurich)
at CERN ( 4-3-006 - TH Conference Room )
Description
The aim of this one-week workshop is to discuss expectations and open questions of the physics of proton-nucleus collisions in light of the upcoming p-Pb run at the LHC.  
Support Email: Urs.Wiedemann@cern.ch
Go to day
  • Monday, 4 June 2012
    • 09:00 - 16:00 pA@LHC: Machine and experimental capabilities
      • 09:00 pA in the LHC machine 30'
        Speaker: Dr. John Jowett (CERN)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 09:30 ALICE plans for pA data taking 30'
        Speaker: Dr. Alberica Toia (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 10:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 10:30 Lessons from p(D)+Au at AGS, SPS and RHIC that will make pA at LHC a major milestone 45'
        Speaker: Miklos Gyulassy (Columbia University)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 11:15 Lessons from d-Au at RHIC for pA@LHC 45'
        Speaker: Larry McLerran (BNL)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 12:00 Common Discussion of presentations by Miklos Gyulassy and Larry McLerran 30'
        Speaker: Urs Wiedemann (CERN)
      • 14:00 CMS plans for data taking 30'
        Speakers: Ferenc Sikler (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU)), Ferenc Sikler (Wigner RCP, Budapest (HU))
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 14:30 Totem plans for pA data taking 20'
        Speaker: Kenneth Osterberg (University of Helsinki)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 14:50 LHCb plans for data taking 20'
        Speaker: Michael Schmelling (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (DE))
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 15:10 ATLAS plans for pA data taking 20'
        Speaker: Alexander Milov (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 15:30 LHCf plans for pA data taking 20'
        Speaker: Koji Noda (Universita e INFN (IT))
        Material: Slides pdf file
  • Tuesday, 5 June 2012
    • 09:00 - 12:30 Constraining nuclear parton distribution functions in pA@LHC
      • 09:00 PDF-fits: recent developments 1h0'
        Speaker: Juan Rojo Chacon (CERN)
        Material: Slides unknown type file pdf file
      • 10:00 Spatial Dependence of nPDFs 20'
        Speaker: Ilkka Helenius (Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP)-Univ. of Helsinki, Fac. of S)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 10:20 npdfs (and nFFs) in DSSZ 20'
        Speaker: Maria Zurita (Buenos Aires University)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 10:40 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:10 R_pA for single hadron production 30'
        Speaker: Jianwei Qiu (Brookhaven National Lab)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 11:40 Forward rapidity observables (dihadron correlations and single inclusive hadron production) in pA at LHC 20'
        Speaker: Bowen Xiao (Pennsylvania State University)
        Material: Slides pdf file
    • 14:00 - 15:30 Discussion session: centrality measurements in pA
      Convener: Dr. Alberica Toia (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))
      • 14:00 Discussion contributions 1h30'
        Speakers: Dr. Alberica Toia (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE)), Brian Cole (Columbia University (US)), Chiara Oppedisano (Universita e INFN (IT)), David Hofman (University of Illinois at Chicago (US)), Mark Strikman, Ferenc Sikler (Wigner RCP, Budapest (HU))
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  • Wednesday, 6 June 2012
    • 09:00 - 12:30 Small-x saturation physics in pA@LHC
      Material: slides pdf file
      • 09:00 CGC expectations for pA @ LHC 1h0'
        Speaker: Jamal Jalilian-Marian (Baruch College)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 10:00 Saturation in central-forward jet production in p-Pb collisions at LHC 20'
        Speaker: Sebastian Sapeta
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 10:20 Heavy-quarkonium suppression in p-A collisions from medium-induced gluon radiation 20'
        Speaker: Francois Arleo (LAPTH, Annecy-le-Vieux)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 10:40 Coffee Break 20'
      • 11:00 Forward Particle Production 30'
        Speaker: Alexander Kovner (University of Connecticut)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 11:30 Inclusive hadron and prompt photon in pA at LHC from the CGC 30'
        Speaker: Amir Rezaeian
        Material: Slides pdf file
  • Thursday, 7 June 2012
    • 09:00 - 12:30 pA benchmark measurements for AA
      • 09:00 The use of pA for benchmarking AA collisions 1h0'
        Speaker: Xin-Nian Wang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
        Material: Slides powerpoint file pdf file
      • 10:00 Wounded constituents in proton-nucleus collisions 30'
        Speaker: Andrzej Bialas (Jagellonian U., Cracow, Poland)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 20'
      • 10:50 CGC predictions for RpA, multiplicities and KNO scaling in pA@LHC 30'
        Speaker: Adrian Dumitru (Baruch College (City University of New York))
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 11:20 A-dependence of Z-production 30'
        Speaker: Jianwei Qiu (Brookhaven National Lab)
        Material: Slides pdf file
      • 11:50 Color coherence effects in medium-induced radiation in pA 30'
        Speaker: Carlos Albert Salgado Lopez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))
        Material: Slides pdf file
    • 14:15 - 15:30 Very forward physics in pA
      • 14:30 Very forward physics in pA - theory 1h0'
        Speaker: Mark Strikman
        Material: Slides pdf file