Workshop: Exploration of small-x structure of nuclei and signals of saturation in forward measurements at the LHC

Wednesday Jun 22, 2022, 9:00 AM → 5:45 PM Europe/Zurich

40/S2-C01 - Salle Curie (CERN)

Please register for this workshop if you intend to participate on site. If you are planning to participate online, no registration is needed.

10:30 AM → 10:35 AM Introduction to the workshop

Speaker: Constantinos Loizides (ORNL)

focal_ws_22june22.pdf

10:40 AM → 10:55 AM Physics Potential with the FOCAL Detector

Speaker: Ionut Cristian Arsene (University of Oslo (NO))

IArsene_FOCALworkshop_2022June22.pdf

11:00 AM → 11:25 AM Status of (n)PDFs and constraints from forward particle production

Speaker: Juan Rojo (VU Amsterdam and Nikhef)

rojo-FoCal-smallxQCD.pdf

11:30 AM → 11:55 AM Signatures of gluon saturation from structure-function measurements

Speaker: Heikki Mäntysaari (University of Jyvaskyla (FI))

FOCAL_workshop_structure_functions-2.pdf

12:00 PM → 12:25 PM Particle Production from CGC - Photons, Hadrons, Dihadrons

Speaker: Jamal Jalilian-Marian

cern-smallx-06-2022.pdf

12:30 PM → 12:45 PM Discussion

12:45 PM → 1:45 PM Lunch break

1:45 PM → 2:00 PM Forward dijet production in saturation formalism

Speaker: Piotr Kotko (AGH UST)

Kotko_CERN_FoCal_workshop.pdf

2:05 PM → 2:20 PM Heavy flavor and quarkonium production in the forward region

Speaker: Kazuhiro Watanabe (Subatech)

Focal_Watanabe.pdf

2:25 PM → 2:50 PM Why ALICE FOCAL may be interesting: Some loose thoughts of a theorist

Speaker: Antoni Szczurek

szczurek_FOCAL_2022.pdf

2:55 PM → 3:10 PM UPC, experimental overview and ALICE projections

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

UPCFOCal.pdf

3:15 PM → 3:40 PM Experimental forward results (LHC, RHIC) and (n)PDF sensitivity -- overview

Speaker: Norbert Novitzky (University of Tsukuba (JP))

FoCalWorkshopNovitzky.pdf

3:45 PM → 4:15 PM Discussion