UPC 2023: International workshop on the physics of Ultra Peripheral Collisions

from Sunday 10 December 2023 (03:00) to Friday 15 December 2023 (23:00)
Playa del Carmen

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
10 Dec 2023
11 Dec 2023
12 Dec 2023
13 Dec 2023
14 Dec 2023
15 Dec 2023
AM
08:00 Student registration   ()
09:00 Welcome to the student day at UPC 2023 - Daniel Tapia Takaki (University of Kansas)   ()
09:15 Review of HERA results from an experimental point of view - Prof. Jesus Guillermo Contreras Nuno (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))   ()
10:30 --- Break ---
11:00 Review of main QCD ideas - Anna Maria Stasto (Pennsylvania State University (US))   ()
08:00 Registration   ()
09:00
First plenary - Daniel Tapia Takaki (University of Kansas) (until 09:40) ()
09:00 Welcome and introductions - Daniel Tapia Takaki (University of Kansas)   ()
09:10 Historical introduction to ultra peripheral collisions - Carlos Bertulani (Texas A&M University-Commece)   ()
09:40
Reports from the RHIC and LHC experiments - Joakim Nystrand (University of Bergen (NO)) Tuomas Lappi (until 10:40) ()
09:40 Latest UPC Results at STAR - Dr David Tlusty (Creighton University)   ()
10:10 Recent results on ultra-peripheral collisions with the ALICE experiment - David Grund (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))   ()
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:10
Reports from the RHIC and LHC experiments - Janet Elizabeth Seger (Creighton University (US)) Eugenio Scapparone (INFN-Bologna(IT)) (until 12:40) ()
11:10 Recent results from ultra-peripheral lead-lead collisions with ATLAS - Klaudia Maj (AGH University of Krakow (PL))   ()
11:40 Overview of latest UPC results from CMS - Dr Georgios Krintiras (The University of Kansas (US))   ()
12:10 Latest LHCb UPC results - Cesar Luiz Da Silva (Los Alamos National Laboratory (US))   ()
09:00
Vector meson photoproduction -Dr Jan Cepila (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ)) Antoni Szczurek (until 10:30) ()
09:00 Vector meson production as a tool to search for gluon saturation from pA to eA to UPC - Farid Salazar (UCLA/UCB/LBNL)   ()
09:30 Quantum mechanics in coherent photoproduction: the limits of coherence, and multiple vector mesons - Spencer Robert Klein (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))   ()
10:00 Angular modulation of photon-induced $J/\psi$ and lepton pair production in heavy ion collisions at STAR - Kaiyang Wang (University of Science and Technology of China)   ()
10:15 Measurement of the impact-parameter dependent azimuthal anisotropy in coherent rho0 photoproduction with ALICE - Andrea Giovanni Riffero (University and INFN Torino (IT))   ()
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:15
Vector meson photoproduction - Cesar Luiz Da Silva (Los Alamos National Laboratory (US)) Spencer Robert Klein (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) (until 12:45) ()
11:15 Photoproduction measurements in UPC at STAR - Jaroslav Adam (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))   ()
11:30 Photoproduction of J/$\psi$ in UPC accompanied by neutron emission - Luis Alcerro Alcerro (The University of Kansas (US))   ()
11:45 Exclusive $J/\psi$ Photoproduction and Entanglement-Enabled Spin Interference in Ultra-Peripheral Collisions at STAR - ASHIK IKBAL   ()
12:00 Double Parton Scattering in Ultraperipheral Collisions - Bruna Stahlhöfer (UFSC)   ()
12:15 Azimuthal angle distributions of leptons in the Wigner function approach - Wolfgang Schaefer   ()
09:00
UPC and saturation - Martin Hentschinski (DESY Hamburg) Michael Winn (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) (until 10:30) ()
09:00 Saturation effects in exclusive heavy vector meson photoproduction at the LHC - Jani Penttala (UCLA)   ()
09:30 Probing gluon saturation via diffractive jets in nucleus-nucleus UPCs - Edmond Iancu (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))   ()
10:00 Single and double inclusive hadron production in Ultra-Peripheral Collisions: Next to Leading Order Corrections - Jamal Jalilian-Marian (Baruch College, CUNY)   ()
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
UPC and saturation - Anisa Khatun (The University of Kansas (US)) Edmond Iancu (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) (until 12:15) ()
11:00 The Correlated Spatial Structure of the Proton: Two-body densities as a framework for dynamical imaging - Zaki Panjsheeri   ()
11:15 The ratio of Psi(2s) and J/Psi exclusive photoproduction cross-sections as a tool to detect non-linear QCD evolution - Martin Hentschinski (Universidad de las Americas, Puebla)   ()
11:45 UPC dijets at small-x: interplay of Color Glass Condensate and Sudakov resummation - Cyrille Marquet (CPHT - Ecole Polytechnique)   ()
08:00 --- Mentoring breakfast ---
09:00
Inclusive photonuclear interactions -Dr Ilkka Helenius (University of Jyväskylä) Jamal Jalilian-Marian (until 10:30) ()
09:00 Resummation at small x and implications for virtual photon scattering - Anna Maria Stasto (Pennsylvania State University (US))   ()
09:30 'Rapidity gaps in UPC: status and perspectives’’ - Mark Strikman (Pennsylvania State University (US))   ()
10:00 Inclusive and diffractive dijet photoproduction in ultraperipheral Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC - Vadim Guzey (University of Jyvaskyla)   ()
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Inclusive photonuclear interactions -Dr David Tlusty (Creighton University) Mariola Klusek-Gawenda (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences) (until 12:30) ()
11:00 Collision geometry in UPC dijet production - Petja Paakkinen   ()
11:30 Measurement of dijet production in UPC with the ATLAS detector - Blair Daniel Seidlitz (Columbia University (US))   ()
12:00 Axion Physics in UPC and LbyL Scattering - Mr César Omar Ramírez Álvarez (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla)   ()
09:00
Monte Carlo models - Cyrille Marquet (CPHT - Ecole Polytechnique) Minjung Kim (University of California Berkeley (US)) (until 10:30) ()
09:00 Photon-photon collisions with the gamma-UPC MC generator - David d'Enterria (CERN)   ()
09:30 Photo-nuclear collisions in Pythia 8 - Dr Ilkka Helenius (University of Jyväskylä)   ()
10:00 Novel aspects of particle production in UPCs - Dr Fernando Navarra (University of São Paulo, Brazil)   ()
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Monte Carlo models - Carlos Bertulani (Texas A&M University-Commece) Jaroslav Adam (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ)) (until 12:30) ()
11:00 The STARlight Monte Carlo - Joakim Nystrand (University of Bergen (NO))   ()
11:30 Lepton pair production in UPCs - Yajin Zhou (Shandong University, China)   ()
12:00 I.ANN QCD: The Inter-American Network of Networks of QCD - Daniel Tapia Takaki (University of Kansas)   ()
12:15 Event advertising   ()
PM
12:15 --- Afternoon break ---
15:30 Review of UPC from an experimental point of view - Prof. Jesus Guillermo Contreras Nuno (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))   ()
16:45 --- Coffee break ---
17:15 Overview of the EIC - Anna Maria Stasto (Pennsylvania State University (US))   ()
18:30 Time for networking   ()
19:30 --- Dinner ---
12:40 --- Afternoon break ---
15:30
Discussion session - Paul Newman (University of Birmingham (GB)) Bjoern Schenke (Brookhaven National Lab) (until 16:00) ()
16:00
Vector meson photoproduction -Dr Heikki Mäntysaari (University of Jyväskylä) Aleksandr Bylinkin (University of Bergen (NO)) (until 17:00) ()
16:00 Theory overview of vector meson photo production - Bjoern Schenke (Brookhaven National Lab)   ()
16:30 Energy dependence of J/ψ in UPCs at the LHC - Michael Winn (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))   ()
17:00 --- Coffee breaK ---
18:00
Vector meson photoproduction - Michael Murray (The University of Kansas (US)) Gerardo Herrera Corral (Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN (MX)) (until 19:15) ()
18:00 Vector meson production using Balitsky-Kovchegov equation including the dipole orientation - Dr Jan Cepila (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))   ()
18:30 Coherent photoproduction of light vector meson off nuclear targets using the color dipole approach - Emmanuel Gräve de Oliveira (UFSC, Brazil)   ()
18:45 K+K- photoproduction in ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE - Minjung Kim (University of California Berkeley (US))   ()
19:00 Exclusive photoproduction of excited quarkonia in ultraperipheral collisions - Haimon Trebien (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina)   ()
19:30 --- Welcome reception: 1 hour cocktail-style party. It does not substitute the dinner. At the jungle behind the theater ---
12:45 --- Afternoon break ---
15:30 Discussion session - Mark Strikman (Pennsylvania State University (US)) James Daniel Brandenburg (Ohio State University) Michael Winn (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))   ()
16:00
Two-photon interactions - Mariola Kłusek-Gawenda (IFJ PAS) Prof. James Brandenburg (Ohio State University) (until 17:30) ()
16:00 Photon photon physics at the LHC - Christophe Royon (The University of Kansas (US))   ()
16:30 Measurement of dilepton production from photon fusion processes in UPC in Pb+Pb collisions with the ATLAS detector - Iwona Grabowska-Bold (AGH University of Krakow (PL))   ()
17:00 Lepton Pair Production via Two-Photon Process in UPC at STAR - Wangmei Zha (University of Science and Technology of China (CN))   ()
17:30 --- Coffee break ---
18:00
Two-photon interactions - Klaudia Maj (AGH University of Krakow (PL)) Christophe Royon (The University of Kansas (US)) (until 19:15) ()
18:00 Initial electromagnetic field dependence of photon-induced production in isobaric collisions at STAR - Kaifeng Shen   ()
18:15 Observation of the $\gamma \gamma \rightarrow \tau \tau $ production in PbPb collisions with the CMS experiment - Matthew Nickel (The University of Kansas (US))   ()
18:30 Four-pion state in UPC - Mariola Klusek-Gawenda (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences)   ()
19:30 --- Dinner ---
12:15 --- Afternoon break and excursion. ---
19:00 --- Dinner ---
12:30 --- Afternoon break ---
15:30 IPC meeting   ()
17:00
Photoproduction in peripheral collisions - Wolfgang Schaefer Charlotte Van Hulse (until 19:40) ()
17:00 Single and double ratio of elastic vector meson production to inclusive hadron production cross section as a possible signal of saturation in UPCs - Huachen Sun (Ohio State University)   ()
17:30 Photoproduction of J/ψ and dileptons in events with nuclear overlap with ALICE - Nicolas Bizé (Subatech - Nantes Université)   ()
18:00 Dimuon production at low transverse momentum in peripheral Au+Au collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_{\rm NN}}}$ = 200 GeV at STAR - Ziyang Li   ()
18:30 Measurements of the properties of photonuclear events in UPC with the ATLAS detector - Sruthy Jyothi Das (University of Colorado Boulder (US))   ()
19:30 --- Conference dinner ---
12:30 --- Afternoon break ---
16:00 Discussion session - Zhoudunming Tu Vadim Guzey (University of Jyvaskyla) Charlotte Van Hulse (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))   ()
16:30
Future RHIC and experiments, and the EIC - Tommaso Isidori (The University of Kansas (US)) Vadim Guzey (University of Jyvaskyla) (until 17:30) ()
16:30 A Forward Calorimeter in ALICE - Ionut Cristian Arsene (University of Oslo (NO))   ()
17:00 Light-by-light scattering in ultraperipheral collisions of heavy ions with future FoCal and ALICE 3 detectors - Antoni Szczurek   ()
17:30 --- Coffee break ---
18:00
Future RHIC and experiments, and the EIC -Dr Zhoudunming Tu (BNL) Iwona Grabowska-Bold (AGH University of Krakow (PL)) (until 19:15) ()
18:00 UPC physics with ALICE in Run 3 - Anisa Khatun (The University of Kansas (US))   ()
18:15 Exclusive $\eta_c$ production by $\gamma \gamma^*$ interactions in electron-ion collisions - Izabela Babiarz (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences)   ()
18:45 Exclusive Vector Meson Physics at the EIC - Nathaly Santiesteban (University of New Hampshire)   ()
19:15 UPC 2025 presentation - Dr Heikki Mäntysaari (University of Jyväskylä) Ilkka Helenius (Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP)-Univ. of Helsinki, Fac. of S)   ()
19:25 Closing remarks - Daniel Tapia Takaki (University of Kansas)   ()
20:00 --- Dinner ---