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)

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1 Introduction to the workshop

Speaker: Constantinos Loizides (ORNL)

focal_ws_22june22.pdf

2 Physics Potential with the FOCAL Detector

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

IArsene_FOCALworkshop_2022June22.pdf

3 Status of (n)PDFs and constraints from forward particle production

Speaker: Juan Rojo (VU Amsterdam and Nikhef)

rojo-FoCal-smallxQCD.pdf

4 Signatures of gluon saturation from structure-function measurements

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

FOCAL_workshop_structure_functions-2.pdf

5 Particle Production from CGC - Photons, Hadrons, Dihadrons

Speaker: Jamal Jalilian-Marian

cern-smallx-06-2022.pdf

6 Discussion

12:45 Lunch break

7 Forward dijet production in saturation formalism

Speaker: Piotr Kotko (AGH UST)

Kotko_CERN_FoCal_workshop.pdf

8 Heavy flavor and quarkonium production in the forward region

Speaker: Kazuhiro Watanabe (Subatech)

Focal_Watanabe.pdf

9 Why ALICE FOCAL may be interesting: Some loose thoughts of a theorist

Speaker: Antoni Szczurek

szczurek_FOCAL_2022.pdf

10 UPC, experimental overview and ALICE projections

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

UPCFOCal.pdf

11 Experimental forward results (LHC, RHIC) and (n)PDF sensitivity -- overview

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

FoCalWorkshopNovitzky.pdf

12 Discussion