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

Wednesday 22 Jun 2022, 09:00 → 17:45 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 → 10:35 Introduction to the workshop

Speaker: Constantinos Loizides (ORNL)

focal_ws_22june22.pdf

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

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

IArsene_FOCALworkshop_2022June22.pdf

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

Speaker: Juan Rojo (VU Amsterdam and Nikhef)

rojo-FoCal-smallxQCD.pdf

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

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

FOCAL_workshop_structure_functions-2.pdf

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

Speaker: Jamal Jalilian-Marian

cern-smallx-06-2022.pdf

12:30 → 12:45 Discussion

12:45 → 13:45 Lunch break

13:45 → 14:00 Forward dijet production in saturation formalism

Speaker: Piotr Kotko (AGH UST)

Kotko_CERN_FoCal_workshop.pdf

14:05 → 14:20 Heavy flavor and quarkonium production in the forward region

Speaker: Kazuhiro Watanabe (Subatech)

Focal_Watanabe.pdf

14:25 → 14:50 Why ALICE FOCAL may be interesting: Some loose thoughts of a theorist

Speaker: Antoni Szczurek

szczurek_FOCAL_2022.pdf

14:55 → 15:10 UPC, experimental overview and ALICE projections

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

UPCFOCal.pdf

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

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

FoCalWorkshopNovitzky.pdf

15:45 → 16:15 Discussion