Forward QCD: open questions and future directions

23 May 2022, 09:00 → 24 May 2022, 19:10 US/Central

Ritchie Hall, Room 164 (Lawrence, Kansas)

Daniel Tapia Takaki (University of Kansas)

This is the 2nd workshop on forward QCD in Lawrence, Kansas. This meeting will bring together experimental and theoretical physicists to discuss the physics, detector technologies, latest research progress, and future plans and new ideas on several topics related to low-x QCD, forward physics, diffraction, and ultra-peripheral collisions. Particular attention will be given to open questions and future directions at RHIC, JLab, LHC and the EIC.

The event will be on campus at Ritchie Hall, Room 164. 

Contrary to ordinary workshops, at Forward QCD most of the talks are required to be student lecture-type presentations, with ample time for questions and discussions. Speakers give one or two mini-lectures. The list of invited speakers will be announced soon. Proposals for contributed talks are also accepted provided they follow the mini-lecture format. 

It will be an in-person meeting only. We recommend that you arrive on Sunday, May 22. All the talks will be 25+5 minutes, with no parallel talks. 

This workshop will be followed by the ALICE USA meeting organized at KU from May 25-27, 2022.

Students and postdocs are exempted from the registration fee. For senior colleagues, the registration fee is $50. It includes a welcome reception, coffee breaks and proceedings. Only cash will be accepted as a form of payment. 

Monday 23 May

09:00 → 09:10 Welcome

09:10 → 09:50 A historical introduction to ultra-peripheral collisions

Speaker: Joakim Nystrand (University of Bergen (NO))

Nystrand1.pdf

09:50 → 10:30 Exclusive J/psi photoproduction in ultraperipheral Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC to next-to-leading order perturbative QCD

Speakers: Chris Flett, Chris Flett (The University of Liverpool)

cflett_fwdQCD.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:30 UPC physics, LHC results from Run 2

Speaker: Jesus Guillermo Contreras Nuno (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))

11:30 → 12:00 Photoproduction in semi-central nuclear collisions

Speaker: Joakim Nystrand (University of Bergen (NO))

Nystrand2.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 UPC physics and prospects at RHIC

Speaker: Zhoudunming Tu (BNL)

talks_ztu_final.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 14:25 Odderon Observation: the comparison of $pp$ and $p\bar{p}$ differential cross sections using D0 and TOTEM

Speaker: Timothy Raben

14:25 → 14:55 BFKL Pomeron, high gluon densities and their imprint in exclusive vector meson production

Speaker: Martin Hentschinski (Universidad de las Americas, Puebla)

lawrence_22.pdf

14:55 → 15:15 Hard color-singlet exchange in dijet events at 13 TeV

Speaker: Cristian Baldenegro Barrera (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet)

baldenegro.pdf

15:15 → 15:35 Mueller-Tang jets at NLO and the violation of BFKL factorization

Speaker: Federico Deganutti

forwardQCD.pdf

15:35 → 16:00 UPC studies, interplay between QCD, QED and BSM searches

Speaker: Georgios Krintiras (The University of Kansas (US))

Forward QCD_ open questions and future directions.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 16:50 Exploring femtoscopy as a measurement tool for ultra-peripheral collisions

Speakers: Christopher Anson, Christopher Anson (Creighton University)

CAnson_ForwardQCDWorkshop.pdf

16:50 → 16:55 IANN-QCD

Speaker: Daniel Tapia Takaki (University of Kansas)

DTT- FWD QCD.pdf

17:00 → 18:00 Welcome drink at MCLain's Market

Tuesday 24 May

09:00 → 10:00 Introduction to EIC Science and its Status

Speaker: Abhay Deshpande

10:00 → 10:30 ECCE physics and detectors

Speaker: Friederike Bock (Oak Ridge National Laboratory - (US))

forwardqcd2022.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:30 Physics and detectors for diffractive physics at the EIC

Speaker: Spencer Robert Klein (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

DiffractivePhysicsatthe EIC.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Fast detectors for polarimetry at the EIC

Speaker: Tommaso Isidori (The University of Kansas (US))

ForwardQCD_May22.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 ZDC detectors for LHC and EIC

Speaker: Quan Wang (The University of Kansas (US))

ZDC_ForwardQCD.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 14:20 ECCE jet physics

Speaker: Nicolas Schmidt (Oak Ridge National Laboratory - (US))

ECCE_Jets.pdf

14:20 → 14:40 Far forward detectors at the EIC

Speaker: Michael Murray (The University of Kansas (US))

Murray_ForwardQCD.pdf

14:40 → 15:10 RHICf experiment for forward QCD studies

Speaker: Yuji Goto (RIKEN (JP))

Goto_Kansas2022.pdf

15:10 → 15:40 The FoCal project at the ALICE experiment

Speaker: Ian Gardner Bearden (University of Copenhagen (DK))

FoCal-IGB.pdf

15:40 → 16:00 Photon/weak boson physics with Focal

Speaker: Florian Jonas (Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster (DE))

isolatedphotonsFOCAL_FlorianJonas.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 → 17:10 Tour to the Natural History Museum (only for non-KU people)