ESPP2026 - Strong Interactions Open WG Meetings

14 May 2025, 13:30 → 28 May 2025, 15:00 Europe/Zurich

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Andrea Dainese (INFN - Padova (IT)), Cristinel Diaconu (CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3 (FR)), Chiara Signorile-Signorile

Wednesday 14 May

13:30 → 13:40 Introduction

Speakers: Andrea Dainese (INFN - Padova (IT)), Cristinel Diaconu (CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3 (FR)), Chiara Signorile-Signorile (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik (DE))

13:40 → 15:40 Hot and dense QCD

Conveners: Roberta Arnaldi (Universita e INFN Torino (IT)), Raimond Snellings (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)), Urs Wiedemann (CERN)

13:40 Recap on inputs and benchmarks

Speakers: Roberta Arnaldi (Universita e INFN Torino (IT)), Raimond Snellings (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)), Urs Wiedemann (CERN)

14:00 Heavy flavour probes of the quark-gluon plasma: goals and benchmarks

Speaker: David Dobrigkeit Chinellato (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))

14:30 Thermal radiation from the quark-gluon plasma: goals and benchmarks

Speaker: Gianluca Usai (Universita e INFN, Cagliari (IT))

15:00 Jets and inner structure of the quark-gluon plasma: goals and benchmarks

Speaker: Jasmine Therese Brewer (University of Oxford (GB))

15:30 Discussion

15:40 → 17:30 Internal structure of protons and nuclei

Conveners: Andy Buckley (University of Glasgow (GB)), Nestor Armesto Perez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))

15:40 Recap on inputs and benchmarks

Speakers: Andy Buckley (University of Glasgow (GB)), Nestor Armesto Perez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))

15:50 Proton PDFs

Speakers: Claire Gwenlan (University of Oxford (GB)), Maria Ubiali (University of Cambridge (GB)), Thomas Cridge (DESY)

16:10 Nuclear PDFs

Speaker: Hannu Paukkunen

16:30 TMDs

Speaker: Dr Valerio Bertone (C.E.A. Paris-Saclay)

16:50 Small x (TBC)

17:10 Discussion

17:30 → 18:00 Precision QCD

17:30 QCD@LC

Speaker: Michael Peskin

Wednesday 28 May

09:00 → 09:10 Introduction

Speakers: Andrea Dainese (INFN - Padova (IT)), Cristinel Diaconu (CPPM, Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS/IN2P3 (FR)), Chiara Signorile-Signorile

09:10 → 11:05 Precision QCD

Conveners: David d'Enterria (CERN), Sven-Olaf Moch, Sven-Olaf Moch (Hamburg University (DE))

09:10 Recap on inputs and benchmarks

Speakers: David d'Enterria (CERN), Sven-Olaf Moch (Hamburg University (DE))

09:25 Precision QCD at FCC-ee

Speaker: Pier Francesco Monni (CERN)

09:50 Precision QCD at LHeC

Speakers: Daniel Britzger (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)), Daniel Britzger (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik München)

10:10 Precision QCD at Belle-II/EIC/STCF/...

Speaker: TBA

10:30 Discussion

11:10 → 15:00 QCD connections with astroparticle, hadronic, nuclear physics

Conveners: Antoine Gérardin (CPT Marseille), Valentina Mantovani Sarti (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE)), Marco Pappagallo (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))

11:10 Recap on inputs and benchmarks

Speakers: Antoine Gérardin (CPT Marseille), Valentina Mantovani Sarti (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE)), Marco Pappagallo (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))

11:25 Precision cross-section measurements for cosmic rays physics

Speakers: Fiorenza Donato, Prof. Fiorenza Donato (Torino University)

11:45 Heavy quark spectroscopy: goals and benchmarks

Speaker TBC

Speaker: Prof. Marek Karliner (Tel Aviv University)

12:05 Recent progresses and open challenges on spectroscopy and exotic states from lattice QCD

Speaker TBC

Speaker: Dr David Wilson (Univ. of Cambridge)

12:50 Discussion