LHC Forward Physics December 2024 Workshop

12 Dec 2024, 09:00 → 13 Dec 2024, 18:20 Europe/Zurich

4/2-037 - TH meeting room (CERN)

Christophe Royon (The University of Kansas (US)), Jesse Liu (University of Cambridge), Murilo Santana Rangel (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (BR))

The 12-13 December 2024 two-day workshop of the LHC Physics Centre at CERN (LPCC) Forward Physics Working Group provides a forum at CERN for experimental collaborations and theorists to meet and exchange latest results across all topics of forward physics at the LHC. 

Forward physics is a diverse program at the LHC that requires innovative instrumentation and unique techniques to measure high-rapidity particles missed by standard central detectors. Special instrumentation ranges from near-beam spectrometers to zero degree calorimeters. Recent results have witnessed a remarkable breadth of advances underscoring the creativity of this community:

• definitive elastic scattering measurements, 
• nonperturbative dynamics of the strong force,
• forward proton and neutron scattering,
• photon fusion production,
• collider neutrino measurements,
• searches for prompt and long-lived particles beyond the Standard Model,
• synergies with cosmic-ray observatories.

These developments open future opportunities to develop in exciting new directions.

This series of inter-experiment workshops provides a regular exchange of latest LHC results, ideas and techniques between experimentalists and theorists, sharpening open questions to chart future developments. We are a vibrant international community drawn to the richness of forward physics, where newcomers and early-career researchers are especially welcome to showcase their science.

 

Thursday 12 December

1 Welcome

Speakers: Christophe Royon (The University of Kansas (US)), Jesse Liu (University of Cambridge), Murilo Santana Rangel (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (BR))

2 Status of ATLAS ZDC detector

Speaker: Brian Andrew Cole (Columbia University (US))

3 Theory overview: neutrino DIS at LHC

Speaker: Juan Rojo Chacon (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))

4 Saturation effects in vector meson production

Speaker: Christophe Royon (The University of Kansas (US))

5 Saturation effects in single-inclusive heavy hadron production

Speaker: Mr Jarno Johannes Vierros (The University of Kansas (US))

6 Discussion

12:30 Lunch break

7 Statua of CMS ZDC detector and data taking

8 Searching for saturation in forward dijet production at the LHC

Speaker: Krzysztof Kutak (Instytut Fizyki Jadrowej Polskiej Akademii Nauk)

9 Zero-bias new particle searches and other machine learning applications for UPCs

Speaker: Simone Ragoni (Creighton University (US))

10 On the "nucleon radii"

Speaker: Vladimir Petrov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR))

Friday 13 December

11 Tau g-2 with hadron dissociation and soft survival in Superchic

Speaker: Dr Lucian Harland-Lang (University College London)