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Ian Brock (Universitaet Bonn (DE))26/03/2012, 09:00
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Joel Feltesse (DAPNIA)26/03/2012, 09:10
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Iris Abt (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut)26/03/2012, 09:50
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Andre Hoang26/03/2012, 11:00
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Claude Marchand (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))26/03/2012, 11:40
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David Waters (University College London)26/03/2012, 12:20
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Ulf G. Meißner (University of Bonn)26/03/2012, 14:30
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Markus Wobisch (Louisiana Technical University (US))26/03/2012, 14:35
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Karin Daum (University of Wuppertal/DESY)26/03/2012, 15:15
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Daniel De Florian (Laboratorio de Fisica Teorica Departamento de Fisica)26/03/2012, 15:55
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Oliver Kortner (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)26/03/2012, 17:00
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Klaus Johannes Reygers (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))26/03/2012, 17:40
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Barbara Clerbaux (Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)-Inter-University Institute f)26/03/2012, 18:20
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36. Combined inclusive diffractive cross sections measured with forward proton spectrometers at HERAValentina Sola (Universita e INFN (IT))27/03/2012, 09:00Diffraction and vector mesonsA combination of the inclusive diffractive cross section measurements made by the H1 and ZEUS Collaborations at HERA is presented. The analysis uses diffractive deep inelastic scattering data measured by means of proton spectrometers. Correlations of systematic uncertainties are taken into account by the combination method,resulting in improved precision. The combined data cover the range...Go to contribution page
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Werner Vogelsang27/03/2012, 09:00Spin physicsWe give an overview of the recent developments on longitudinal spin physics and the nucleon's helicity structure. We highlight the status of theoretical calculations and the impact of recent data.Go to contribution page
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Hubert Spiesberger (Univ. Mainz)27/03/2012, 09:00Heavy flavoursI present predictions for the inclusive production of D- and B-mesons at the CERN LHC in the general-mass variable-flavor-number scheme at next-to-leading order, an approach which takes into account the finite mass of the heavy quarks. Numerical results are compared to data where available. Measurements at large rapidities have the potential to pin down models of intrinsic charm.Go to contribution page
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Oleg Kuprash (DESY)27/03/2012, 09:00Hadronic final statesIsolated-photon+jet production in ep collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 318 GeV has been measured with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of up to 300 pb-1. Measurements of prompt-photon+jet cross sections are presented as functions of the photon transverse energy and pseudorapidity in a wide range of exchanged-photon virtuality. In addition, differential gamma+jet...Go to contribution page
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Friederike Januschek (DESY)27/03/2012, 09:00Structure functionsThe cross sections for neutral current deep inelastic scattering in e+p collisions with a longitudinally polarised positron beam have been measured using the ZEUS detector at HERA. The single-differential cross-sections dsigma/dQ2, dsigma/dx and dsigma/dy and the double-differential cross sections in Q2 and x are measured in the kinematic region Q2 > 185 GeV2 for both positively and...Go to contribution page
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Franz Herzog (ETH Zurich)27/03/2012, 09:00Electroweak and searchesI will briefly review Standard Model Higgs production and decay mechanisms and report on the status of the art of existing predictions, with major focus on the single Higgs production cross-section.Go to contribution page
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Claudia Gemme (Universita e INFN (IT))27/03/2012, 09:00
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Adam Edward Barton (Lancaster University (GB))27/03/2012, 09:18Heavy flavoursATLAS has studied heavy flavour production in a variety of decay channels and inclusive signatures including charmed mesons, jets originating from b-quarks and inclusive muons and electrons. Differential production cross sections for beauty and charm are extracted from these signatures and compared with a variety of theoretical predictions.Go to contribution page
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Dr Prolay Kumar Mal (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))27/03/2012, 09:18Electroweak and searchesThe experimental results of the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) running at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV are reported, based on a total integrated luminosity of up to 4.9 fb-1 collected by the ATLAS detector in 2011. The search combines several Higgs boson decay channels in the mass range from 110 GeV to 600 GeV and derives upper limits on the...Go to contribution page
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Stefan Schmitt (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))27/03/2012, 09:20Structure functionsAt HERA, deep inelastic scattering progresses have been studied in order to probe the fundamental forces predicted by the standard model and the structure of the proton. One of the most fundamental processes is the elastic production of photons, e p -> e p gamma. For the case where the momentum transfer at the proton vertex is small, but both the electron and the photon have significant...Go to contribution page
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David Salek (CERN)27/03/2012, 09:20Diffraction and vector mesonsFirst measurements are presented of the diffractive cross section $\sigma_{ep \rightarrow eXY}$ at centre-of-mass energies $\sqrt{s}$ of 225 and 252 GeV, together with a precise new measurement at $\sqrt{s}$ of 319 GeV, using data taken with the H1 detector in the years 2006 and 2007. Together with previous H1 data at $\sqrt{s}$ of 301 GeV, the measurements are used to extract the...Go to contribution page
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27/03/2012, 09:20Hadronic final statesPrompt isolated photon pairs production cross sections, as well as direct photon production in association with a heavy (b or c) quark jets are presented. Differential cross sections are presented as a function of several variables. The results are compared with a next-to-leading order perturbative QCD calculations.Go to contribution page
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Thomas Peitzmann (University of Utrecht (NL))27/03/2012, 09:25Future of DIS
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Mr Scott Wolin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)27/03/2012, 09:35Spin physicsThe determination of the gluon polarization within the proton, $\Delta G$, is one of the critical pieces to understanding the proton spin puzzle. Using collisions of polarized protons with $\sqrt{s}=200 \:GeV$ and $\sqrt{s}=500 \:GeV$ at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), PHENIX can access gluons and $\Delta G$ at leading order. Constraints on $\Delta G$ come from measurements of...Go to contribution page
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Wolfram Erdmann (Paul Scherrer Institut (CH))27/03/2012, 09:36Heavy flavoursAbstract missingGo to contribution page
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Emmanuel Sauvan (LAPP (IN2P3/CNRS))27/03/2012, 09:40Diffraction and vector mesonsMeasurements of the cross section for the diffractive process ep -> eXY are presented, where Y is a proton or a low mass proton excitation carrying a fraction 1 − xIP > 0.95 of the incident proton longitudinal momentum and the squared four-momentum transfer at the proton vertex satisfying MY < 1.6 GeV and |t| < 1.0 GeV^2. Using data taken by the H1 experiment, the cross section is measured...Go to contribution page
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Nikolai Skachkov (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU))27/03/2012, 09:40Hadronic final statesPhoton+jets measurements in ppbar Collisions at D0Go to contribution page
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Uta Klein (University of Liverpool (GB))27/03/2012, 09:40Structure functionsMerged abstract: "W/Z production at ATLAS, and constraints on parton density functions" "QCD analysis of the ATLAS W-> lnu and Z ->ll cross-sections measurements and determination of the strange sea density"Go to contribution page
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Pietro Govoni (CERN)27/03/2012, 09:42Electroweak and searchesWe present results of the search for the standard model Higgs boson at CMS.Go to contribution page
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Renaud Le Gac (Universite d'Aix - Marseille II (FR))27/03/2012, 09:50Future of DISThe LHCb experiment is designed to perform high-precision measurements of CP violation and search for New Physics using the enormous flux of beauty and charmed hadrons produced at the LHC. The operation and the results obtained from the data collected in 2010 and 2011 demonstrate that the detector is robust and functioning very well. However, the limit of 1 fb$^{-1}$ of data per year cannot be...Go to contribution page
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Rosa Romita (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))27/03/2012, 09:54Heavy flavoursALICE is the LHC experiment dedicated to the study of the Quark Gluon Plasma (QGP) in Pb-Pb collisions. Heavy quarks are ideal probes to explore the QGP formation and properties, since they experience the full collision history and are expected to be abundantly produced at the LHC. It is of great importance to measure the heavy flavor cross section not only in Pb-Pb collisions, but also in...Go to contribution page
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Richard Polifka (University of Toronto (CA))27/03/2012, 10:00Diffraction and vector mesonsThe cross section of diffractive deep-inelastic scattering ep \rightarrow eXp is measured, where the system X contains at least two jets and the leading final state proton is detected in the H1 Forward Proton Spectrometer. The measurement is performed for fractional proton longitudinal momentum loss xIP < 0.1 and covers the range 0.1 < |t| < 0.7 GeV2 in squared four-momentum transfer...Go to contribution page
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Marcin Stolarski (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)27/03/2012, 10:00Spin physicsA short review of the COMPASS results concerning gluon polarization inside the nucleon, DG/G, is given including two new measurements: Firstly, a DG/G determination in leading order and in three bin of the gluon momentum fraction x_g from asymmetries in high-p$_T$ hadron pair production for Q$^2>$1 (GeV/c)$^2$; secondly, a preliminary next-to-leading order analysis based on open charm...Go to contribution page
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Leonardo Carminati (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))27/03/2012, 10:00Hadronic final statesIsolated prompt photons provide a direct probe of short-distance physics, complementary to that provided by measurements of jets or vector-bosons. The inclusive prompt photon cross section has been measured over a wide range of transverse momenta; the diphoton cross section has also been measured as a function of diphoton mass, total transverse momentum and azimuthal separation; the cross...Go to contribution page
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Kyle Knoepfel (F)27/03/2012, 10:06Electroweak and searchesWe present results from the search for a standard model Higgs boson using up to 10/fb of proton-antiproton collision data produced by the Fermilab Tevatron at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96 TeV. The data were recorded by the CDF and D0 Detectors between March 2001 and September of 2011. Updated results from many exclusive channels as well as the combined Tevatron search are presented.Go to contribution page
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Krzysztof Nowak (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))27/03/2012, 10:10Structure functionsA preliminary global NLO QCD analysis of the HERA data is presented. The following data sets are used in this analysis: the NC and CC inclusive DIS cross sections obtained from the combination of the measurements from H1 and ZEUS based on HERA I and HERA II data at the nominal proton beam energy, the preliminary combined inclusive NC DIS cross sections at reduced proton beam energies,the...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Antoni Szczurek (Cracow, INP & Rzeszow Univ.)27/03/2012, 10:12Heavy flavoursWe discuss charm production at LHC. The production of single $c \bar c$ pairs is calculated in the $k_t$-factorization approach. We use several unintegrated gluon distributions from the literature. Some of them include effect of small-$x$ saturation and fulfill Balitsky-Kovchegov evolution equation. The hadronization is included with the help of fragmentation functions found for the...Go to contribution page
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Aleksandr Azatov27/03/2012, 11:00Electroweak and searchesA review the status of the BSM Higgs (excluding supersymmetry) with particular emphasis on the composite Higgs, the connection to light custodians.Go to contribution page
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Karol Kovarik (KIT)27/03/2012, 11:00Heavy flavoursThe production of a prompt photon in association with a heavy-quark (charm or bottom) jet is a versatile process that can be used to study the structure of the proton and the nucleus. This process is extremely sensitive to the heavy quark PDFs, and can thus directly probe for intrinsic charm or bottom contributions. We present various predictions of this process at different colliders and...Go to contribution page
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Joel Mousseau27/03/2012, 11:00
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Dr maria ubiali (University of Edinburgh)27/03/2012, 11:00Structure functionsA determination of parton distribution functions with reliable estimation of associated uncertainties is a key ingredient for exploiting the full physics potential of the experiments at the LHC collider. On the other hand, measurements from the LHC will provide important constraints on PDFs in kinematic regions which are so far not covered by data included in global analyses. In this talk I...Go to contribution page
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Andrea Banfi (Freiburg U)27/03/2012, 11:00Hadronic final statesWe present accurate (NLL+NNLO) predictions for jet-veto efficiencies for Higgs and Z production at the LHC, obtained with the automated resummation program CAESAR. We discuss all sources of theoretical uncertainties associated to the presented results, highlighting which further calculations would be needed in order to reduce them.Go to contribution page
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Federico Alberto Ceccopieri (Fondazione Angelo Della Riccia Ente Morale)27/03/2012, 11:00Diffraction and vector mesonsA new method for the extraction of diffractive parton distributions is presented which avoids the use of Regge theory ansatz and is in much closer relation with the factorization theorem for diffractive hard processes.Go to contribution page
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Piet J Mulders (VU University)27/03/2012, 11:00Spin physicsTransverse momentum dependent (TMD) distribution and fragmentation functions are described as Fourier transforms of matrix elements containing non-local combinations of quark and gluon fields. While the collinear functions are light-cone correlators in which the non-locality is restricted along the light-cone, the transverse momentum dependent functions are light-front correlators including a...Go to contribution page
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Piotr Kotko27/03/2012, 11:18Heavy flavoursWe present the consistent treatment of heavy quarks in jet production processes in DIS at NLO accuracy. The method is based on the ACOT massive factorization scheme (Aivazis-Collins-Olness-Tung) which is already in use in global fits for PDFs. Extension of this method to jets faces the problem of infra-red singularities, which have to cancel between real and virtual corrections. Moreover,...Go to contribution page
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Javier Fernandez Menendez (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))27/03/2012, 11:18Electroweak and searchesWe present results of searches for the non-standard-model Higgs bosons at CMS.Go to contribution page
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Mrs Sara Taheri Monfared (Semnan university and IPM)27/03/2012, 11:20Diffraction and vector mesonsWe extract diffractive parton distribution functions (DPDFs) and diffractive structure functions from the most recent H1 and ZEUS diffractive DIS data obtained by various methods. We consider Pomeron as an object with parton distribution function, evolving according to the next-to-leading order (NLO) DGLAP equations within the framework of the ‘Fixed Flavour Number Scheme’ (FFNS). Having...Go to contribution page
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Peter Schichtel (ITP)27/03/2012, 11:20Hadronic final statesThe properties of jets are used in many LHC physics searches. Higgs searches use jet vetoes and fixed recoil jet multiplicities. Searches for new physics particles require a careful distinction of decay jets from QCD jet radiation. We show that the exclusive number of jets at hadron colliders can be described with two simple patterns: staircase scaling and Poisson scaling. In photon plus...Go to contribution page
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Sergey Alekhin27/03/2012, 11:25Structure functionsWe present a determination of the nucleon parton distribution functions (ABM11) and the strong coupling constant $\alpha_s$ at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD based on world data for deep-inelastic scattering and fixed-target data for Drell-Yan process. The analysis is performed in the fixed-flavor number scheme for $n_f=3,4,5$ and uses the \MSbar scheme for $\alpha_s$ and the...Go to contribution page
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Jorge G. Morfin (Fermilab)27/03/2012, 11:25Future of DIS
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Christoph Adolph (Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen (DE))27/03/2012, 11:35Spin physicsThe quark content of the nucleon at twist-two level in the collinear case can be fully characterized by three independent distribution functions for each quark flavour: the unpolarized distribution function f1(x), the helicity distribution function g1(x) and the transverse spin distribution function h1(x), also called transversity. The measurements of single spin asymmetries in semi-inclusive...Go to contribution page
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David Calvet (Univ. Blaise Pascal Clermont-Fe. II (FR))27/03/2012, 11:36Heavy flavoursThe inclusive and dijet production cross-sections have been measured for jets containing b-hadrons (b-jets) in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. The b-jets are identified using either a lifetime-based method, where secondary decay vertices of b-hadrons in jets are reconstructed using information from the tracking detectors, or a muon-based method...Go to contribution page
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Bruno Lenzi (CERN)27/03/2012, 11:36Electroweak and searchesThe discovery of a neutral Higgs boson with large decay branching fraction to tau and muon pairs, as well as the discovery of a charged Higgs boson would represent a strong evidence of new physics beyond the Standard Model. The experimental results of the searches for the Higgs bosons beyond the Standard Model with the ATLAS detector are reported. The searches are based on an integrated...Go to contribution page
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Mariusz Sadzikowski (Jagiellonian University)27/03/2012, 11:40Diffraction and vector mesonsHERA data on diffractive DIS show deviations from twist 2 DGLAP predictions below Q^2 5 GeV^2 at low x_P, which may reach up to 100%. These deviations are consistent with higher twists effects extracted from the saturation model. It is a first direct evidence for the higher twists in DIS. This finding affects determination of the diffractive parton densities that are used for the predictions...Go to contribution page
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Adam Yurkewicz (Northern Illinois University (US))27/03/2012, 11:40Hadronic final statesDifferential jet cross sections and distributions have been measure inclusively, in dijet events and in multijet events, using information from the ATLAS calorimeters and tracking detectors. The inclusive jet measurements extend from 20 GeV to 1.5 TeV, and the dijet measurements cover a very wide mass range. Measurements based on tracking alone are sensitive only to the charged-particle...Go to contribution page
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Pedro Jimenez-Delgado (Jefferson Lab)27/03/2012, 11:50Structure functionsDifferent theoretical improvements and the inclusion of alternative data sets in the determination of dynamical parton distribution functions are reported. Highlights in the ongoing developments as well as the role of the input scale in parton analysis are discussed.Go to contribution page
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Dr Markus Diefenthaler (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)27/03/2012, 11:50Future of DISThe E-906/SeaQuest experiment at Fermilab will continue a series of Drell-Yan measurements to explore the antiquark structure of the nucleon and nuclei. To extend existing measurements to larger values of Bjorken-x, a 120 GeV proton beam extracted from Fermilab's main injector is used, resulting in a factor of 50 more luminosity than previous experiments and enabling access to values of x up...Go to contribution page
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Zlatka Georgieva Staykova (University of Antwerp (BE))27/03/2012, 11:54Heavy flavoursThe inclusive photoproduction of D* mesons and of D*-tagged dijets is investigated with the H1 detector at the $ep$ collider HERA. The kinematic region covers small photon virtualities $Q^{2} < 2\ {\rm GeV}^2$ and photon-proton centre-of-mass energies of $100 < W_{\gamma p} < 285\ {\rm GeV}$. Inclusive \dstar\ meson differential cross sections are measured for central rapidities $|\eta(D*)| <...Go to contribution page
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Valentina Santoro (University of Ferrara)27/03/2012, 11:54Electroweak and searchesSeveral types of new-physics models predict the existence of low-mass Higgs states. Previous BABAR searches for leptonic and invisible light-Higgs decays have excluded large regions of model parameter space. We present new searches for hadronic Higgs decays and for a dark-sector Higgs produced in association with a dark gauge boson.Go to contribution page
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Leszek Motyka (Jagellonian Univerisity)27/03/2012, 12:00Diffraction and vector mesonsWe present new results on determination of higher twist contributions in diffractive DIS and compare them to the inclusive DIS case. In both cases the framework for the estimates is provided by the saturation model. We discuss the methods of higher twist extraction from the saturation model and compare the results for DIS and DDIS. We point out a striking difference in higher twist importance...Go to contribution page
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Francesca Giordano (U)27/03/2012, 12:00Spin physicsThe azimuthal $\cos\phi$ and $\cos2\phi$ modulations of the distribution of hadrons produced in unpolarized semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering of electrons and positrons off hydrogen and deuterium targets have been measuread at the HERMES experiment. For the first time these modulations were determined in a four-dimensional kinematic space for positively and negatively charged pions and...Go to contribution page
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Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))27/03/2012, 12:00Hadronic final statesJets and multi-jets at large rapidities in p-p collisions at the LHCGo to contribution page
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Emilien Chapon (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEN Saclay)-Unknown-Unknown)27/03/2012, 12:12Electroweak and searchesIn Beyond Standard Model (BSM) theories such as supersymmetry, the electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism predicts one or several Higgs bosons with different couplings and masses compared to the Standard Model one. We will present the constraints on BSM theories coming from searches for exotic Higgs bosons from the CDF and D0 collaborations at the Tevatron. In addition, other bump searches...Go to contribution page
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Irakli Garishvili (Lawrence Livermore Nat. Laboratory (US))27/03/2012, 12:12Heavy flavoursHeavy flavor quarks are produced in the early stages of heavy ion collisions and serve as an important probe of the strongly interacting deconfined medium believed to be produced in these collisions at RHIC. Measuring observables such as Nuclear Modification Factor and Elliptic Flow for open heavy flavor production can help in quantifying medium effects. Measurement of heavy flavor...Go to contribution page
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Dr Gerhard Mallot (CERN)27/03/2012, 12:15Future of DISCOMPASS at CERN is preparing for a new series of measurements on the nucleon structure comprising deep virtual Compton scattering and hard exclusive meson production using muon beams, as well as Drell-Yan reactions using a polarised proton target and a negative pion beam. The former will mainly constrain the generalized parton distribution H and determine the transverse size of the nucleon,...Go to contribution page
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290. Uncertainties in Determining Parton Distributions at Large x: Results from the CJ CollaborationCynthia Keppel (Hampton University)27/03/2012, 12:15Structure functionsThe results of a global next-to-leading order fit of parton distribution functions in which cuts on W and Q are relaxed, thereby including more data at high values of x, will be reported. Effects of target mass corrections (TMC), higher twist contributions, and nuclear corrections for deuterium data are significant in the large-x region. The leading twist parton distributions are found to...Go to contribution page
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Jennifer Smillie27/03/2012, 12:20Hadronic final statesThe theoretical description of multi-jet final states is an issue of great importance at the LHC. The High Energy Jets (HEJ) framework offers a new approach to this and provides an all-order resummation of the dominant contributions from wide-angle QCD radiation. I will give a brief introduction to the framework and then show comparisons to early data from ATLAS and CMS analyses and...Go to contribution page
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Johannes Bluemlein (DESY)27/03/2012, 12:35Structure functionsWe report on a QCD re-analysis of the unpolarized non-singlet world data data in the valence region up to $O(\alpha_s^{3(4)})$ correlated to the value of the strong coupling constant $\alpha_s(M_Z2)$ and the higher twist contributions. We investigate contributions of twist $\tau = 3$ and higher to the polarized structure functions $g_1(x,Q2)$ and $g_2(x,Q2)$.Go to contribution page
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Dr Erik Brücken (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))27/03/2012, 14:00Diffraction and vector mesonsWe report central exclusive production results studied at the Run II Collider Detector at Fermilab with focus on our recently published paper on the first observation of exclusive γγ production in pp ̄ collisions at √s = 1.96 TeV at the Tevatron. In particular, starting from earlier studies by the CDF collaboration, we discuss exclusive dijet, dilepton, Z, J/Ψ and χc productions and finally...Go to contribution page
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Ganna Dolinska (Kiev University)27/03/2012, 14:00Heavy flavoursThe production of D*, D+, D0, Ds and Lambda_c charm hadrons and their antiparticles in ep scattering at HERA was studied with the ZEUS detector using the full HERA II data set. The measurement has been performed in the photoproduction regime. The fractions of c quarks hadronising as a particular charm hadron, f(c -> D, Lambda_c), were derived in the visible kinematic range. The obtained...Go to contribution page
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Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University)27/03/2012, 14:00Structure functionsI discuss latest developments in the CTEQ-TEA PDF analysis: NNLO PDFs, benchmarking of NLO and NNLO cross sections included in the global fits, analysis of constraints on PDFs with the method of PDF-induced correlations.Go to contribution page
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Ennio Salvioni (Universita e INFN (IT))27/03/2012, 14:00Electroweak and searchesWe present the implications of recent LHC results on some classes of Z' and W' models. We also remark how the strongest bounds (coming for example from searches for Z' -> dileptons and W' -> lepton + neutrino) do not apply to some theoretically motivated resonances, and discuss where signals from such states would appear.Go to contribution page
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Feng Yuan (LBL)27/03/2012, 14:00Future of DIS/spin physics
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Nikolai Skachkov (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU))27/03/2012, 14:00Hadronic final statesW/Z+jets measurements at D0Go to contribution page
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Martin Weber (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))27/03/2012, 14:18Electroweak and searchesSearches for new physics with leptons and/or jets at CMSGo to contribution page
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Alexander Mitov (CERN)27/03/2012, 14:18Heavy flavoursThe current state of the art in top-pair production is based on threshold resummation on top of the exact NLO result. We will examine the role - and the limitations - of the soft-gluon approximation in describing precision top-pair production at hadron colliders. We will demonstrate that the only way to substantially improve our knowledge of this observable is through fixed order calculation...Go to contribution page
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Dermot Moran (Univ Manchester)27/03/2012, 14:20Diffraction and vector mesonsWe report on studies of exclusive dimuon production, using LHCb experimental data. Exclusively produced muon pairs can be produced by two photon fusion (a QED process ideally suited to obtaining a precise integrated luminosity measure), or by resonance production. We show results for exclusive dimuon production, and observations of the exclusive J/psi. psi‘ and chi_c states, obtained with data...Go to contribution page
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Lorenzo Ortolan27/03/2012, 14:20Hadronic final statesInclusive Z boson plus jets cross sections, as well as bottom jet production in association with a Z-boson cross sections, are measured in a final state where the Z boson has decayed in two muons or electrons. Results are based on $\sim 9$ fb$ ^{-1}$ of data in $\rm p\bar{p}$ collisions at $\rm \sqrt{s}$ = 1.96 TeV collected with the CDF detector in Run II. Differential cross sections...Go to contribution page
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Rodolfo Sassot (Universidad de Buenos Aires)27/03/2012, 14:25Structure functionsWe present a new global QCD analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions and their uncertainties. In addition to the most commonly analyzed data sets for deep inelastic scattering of charged leptons off nuclei and Drell-Yan di-lepton production, we include also measurements for neutrino nuclei scattering as well as inclusive pion production in deuteron gold collisions. The analysis is...Go to contribution page
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Tom Burton (BNL)27/03/2012, 14:25Future of DIS/spin physics
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Nikolaos Kidonakis (Kennesaw State University)27/03/2012, 14:36Heavy flavoursI present theoretical results at approximate NNLO for top quark production at the LHC at 7 and 8 TeV energy. Total cross sections are shown for ttbar production and single top production in the t and s channels and via associated tW production.Top quark transverse momentum and rapidity distributions are also presented.Go to contribution page
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Antonio Policicchio (INFN Cosenza)27/03/2012, 14:36Electroweak and searchesWe present the most recent results of searches beyond the Standard Model with leptons and /or jets conducted by the ATLAS collaboration based on several inverse femtobarns of data.Go to contribution page
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Wenbo Li (Peking University (CN))27/03/2012, 14:40Diffraction and vector mesonsWe present the search for exclusive diphoton production and the measurement of exclusive dilepton production, based on the data recorded by the CMS experiment at the LHC in 2010. An upper limit on the cross section is set for exclusive diphoton production, which is compared with the QCD perturbative theory predictions using different PDF sets. The exclusive dielectron production provides...Go to contribution page
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Camille Belanger-Champagne (McGill University (CA))27/03/2012, 14:40Hadronic final statesThe production of jets in association with a W or Z boson in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV is an important process to understand in QCD. The cross section, differential in several kinematics variables, has been measured up to high jet multiplicities and compared to new higher-order QCD calculations. The ratio of (Z + a single jet)/(W + a single jet) can provide a very precise test of...Go to contribution page
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Karol Kovarik (University of Karlsruhe)27/03/2012, 14:45Structure functionsA global NPDF analysis of the combined charged-lepton DIS, DY and neutrino DIS data finds a tension between the nuclear correction factors in nA DIS and ℓA DIS. We explore possible sources of this tension by comparing the input PDFs used by different nuclear global fitting groups, and also compute ratios of experimental observables which (largely) minimize any theoretical bias. We also...Go to contribution page
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Dr Salvatore Fazio (Brookhaven National Laboratory)27/03/2012, 14:50Future of DIS/spin physics
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Kate Shaw (Abdus Salam Int. Cent. Theor. Phys. (IT))27/03/2012, 14:54Heavy flavoursWe present measurements of the production of top quarks in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The cross section of pair-produced top quarks is measured in several channels, including the single lepton, dilepton and all hadronic channel, some using information from b-tagging.Go to contribution page
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Sushil Chauhan (University of California Davis (US))27/03/2012, 14:54Electroweak and searchesSearches for large extra dimensions, Leptoquarks and heavy quarks at CMSGo to contribution page
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Dr Marek Tasevsky (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))27/03/2012, 15:00Diffraction and vector mesonsWe investigate the prospects for Central Exclusive Diffractive (CED) production of BSM Higgs bosons at the LHC using forward proton detectors installed at 220~m and 420~m distance around ATLAS and / or CMS. We update a previous analysis for the MSSM taking into account improvements in the theoretical calculations and the most recent exclusion bounds from the LHC. We extend the MSSM...Go to contribution page
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Frank Siegert (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg (DE))27/03/2012, 15:00Hadronic final statesThe MC@NLO method as implemented in the Sherpa MC generator is presented using the production of W-bosons in conjunction with up to three jets as an example. Corresponding results computed at next-to leading order in QCD and including parton shower corrections are compared to recent experimental data from the Large Hadron Collider.Go to contribution page
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Clara Salas (IFT, Madrid)27/03/2012, 15:05Structure functionsThe proton structure function F_2 is studied in the low x regime using BFKL evolution instead of the usual DGLAP approach, suited for large values of the DIS x variable. The NLL analysis requires the inclusion of running coupling effects which lead to off-diagonal terms in the BFKL kernel that need to be treated carefully. We also introduce an all-orders resummation that improves the...Go to contribution page
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Antonio Tropiano (Universita e INFN (IT))27/03/2012, 15:12Heavy flavoursWe present precise measurements of the top quark pair production cross section at 7 TeV, performed using CMS data collected in 2010-2011. The total cross section is measured in the lepton+jets, dilepton and fully hadronic channels, including the tau-dilepton and tau+jets modes. The results are combined and confronted with precise theory calculations. We also obtain an indirect constraint...Go to contribution page
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Dr Loic Quertenmont (CERN)27/03/2012, 15:12Electroweak and searchesSearch for heavy stable particles in CMSGo to contribution page
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Dieter Mueller (BNL and Ruhr-University Bochum)27/03/2012, 15:15Future of DIS/spin physicsWe discuss the access of generalized parton distributions (GPDs) from deeply virtual Compton scattering (DVCS) and deeply virtual meson production. We also illustrate that DVCS measurements at a future high-luminosity electron-ion-collider provide insight in both the transverse distribution of sea quarks and gluons as well as the...Go to contribution page
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Adrien Besse (L)27/03/2012, 15:20Diffraction and vector mesonsExclusive leptoproduction of vector mesons has been the subject of recent significant progress, both theoretically and experimentally. In particular, the hard regime with a highly virtual photon exchange allows to separate a short distance dominated amplitude of hard subprocess from suitably defined hadronic objects. However, a consistent picture is still missing, in particular for...Go to contribution page
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Stefan Prestel (L)27/03/2012, 15:20Hadronic final statesWe present the recent implementation of CKKW-L merging inside Pythia8, and comment on the treatment of multiparton interactions in the context of matrix element merging. Since multiple interactions inside Pythia8 are fully interleaved with space- and time-like showers, care has to be taken when allowing for MPI. Further, we will discuss the uncertainties of the implementation.Go to contribution page
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Hannes Jung (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))27/03/2012, 15:25Structure functionsWe present a new determination of the un-integrated PDF using the combined HERA data. We obtain acceptable chi*2/ndf. We find that for a good description of HERA data the gluon splitting function including non-singular terms as well as kinematic constraints and NLO alphas are necessary. We determine for the first time a full set of uncertainty uPDFs which allow to study the uPDF...Go to contribution page
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Jiahang Zhong (University of Oxford (GB))27/03/2012, 15:30Electroweak and searchesThe addition of one or more heavy quarks is a natural extension to the Standard Model. Fourth generation heavy quarks can be produced at the LHC at rates that can be observed in the 2011 data samples. The talk presents results from searches\'a0performed by the ATLAS collaboration for fourth generation quarks decaying via several potential decay channels.Go to contribution page
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Karel Soustruznik (C)27/03/2012, 15:30Heavy flavoursWe present measurements of the cross sections for the production of top-antitop quark pair production via the strong interaction and for the production of single top quarks via the weak interaction in proton-antiproton collisions at sqrt(s)=1.96 TeV using data corresponding to integrated luminosities of up to 5.4 fb-1. The data were collected with the D0 detector at the Fermilab Tevatron...Go to contribution page
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Marco Stratmann (Univ. Regensburg/Univ. Wuerzburg)27/03/2012, 15:40Future of DIS/spin physics
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Simon Plaetzer (DESY Hamburg)27/03/2012, 15:40Hadronic final statesParton shower Monte Carlos are by now standard tools to simulate hadronic final states. Having seen a tremendous improvement of combining parton showers and fixed order calculations in recent years, efforts are now underway to improve the shower approximations themselves, as well. In this contribution we will present first steps towards including subleading colour contributions into...Go to contribution page
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Emilien Chapon (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEN Saclay)-Unknown-Unknown)27/03/2012, 15:40Diffraction and vector mesonsWe study the W/Z pair production via two-photon exchange at the LHC and give the sensitivities on trilinear and quartic gauge anomalous couplings between photons and W/Z bosons. Tagging the protons in the final state in the ATLAS Forward Physics detectors as an example allows to improve the reach on anomalous couplings by four orders of magnitude reaching the values predicted by...Go to contribution page
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Konstantinos Vellidis (University of Athens (GR))27/03/2012, 15:48Heavy flavoursThe study of the dynamics of top-quark pair production in proton-proton and proton-antiproton collisions plays an important role in the understanding of parton interactions at large Bjorken-x. It tests the assumptions of the standard model and of quantum chromodynamics at the electroweak scale and beyond. The CDF data set is an ideal sample for measuring observables sensitive to the...Go to contribution page
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Christian Andreas Jung (TU Dortmund), Christian Andreas Jung (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))27/03/2012, 16:30Heavy flavoursWe present a measurement of the top-quark mass in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. The top mass is determined by making use of a two-dimensional template method in the single lepton channel. An indirect extraction of the top-quark mass from the measurement of the cross-section is also presented.Go to contribution page
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Torben Ferber (Hamburg University)27/03/2012, 16:30Electroweak and searchesThe OPERA neutrino experiment at the underground Gran Sasso Laboratory has measured the velocity of neutrinos from the CERN CNGS beam over a baseline of about 730 km with much higher accuracy than previous studies conducted with accelerator neutrinos. The measurement is based on high-statistics data taken by OPERA in the years 2009, 2010 and 2011. Dedicated upgrades of the CNGS timing system...Go to contribution page
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Giovanni Antonio Chirilli (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL))27/03/2012, 16:30Structure functionsI will present an analytic expression in momentum space of the next-to-leading order photon impact factor for small-x deep inelastic scattering. The result is calculated using the operator product expansion in Wilson lines.Go to contribution page
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Prof. Bernd Surrow (MIT)27/03/2012, 16:30Spin physicsThe STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory is carrying out a spin physics program in high-energy polarized proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=200\,$GeV and $\sqrt{s}=500\,$GeV to gain a deeper insight into the spin structure and dynamics of the proton. The completion of the first $\sqrt{s}=500\,$GeV polarized proton run in 2009 opened a new...Go to contribution page
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Benedikt Zihlmann (J)27/03/2012, 16:30
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Dr Michal Deak (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)27/03/2012, 16:30Hadronic final statesWe present a subtraction method for including next to leading order corrections to a 2 to 2 jet production process in kt-factorisation equivalent to a jet matching procedure in Monte Carlo generators. We study the improvement in soft cut dependance.Go to contribution page
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Prof. Otto Nachtmann (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Heidelberg)27/03/2012, 16:45Structure functionsThe DIS structure functions are expressed, in a rigorous way, as correlation functions in a quantum field theory containing a parameter r. It is shown that low x physics corresponds to the theory in the limit of r going to zero where the theory develops a large correlation length. This indicates critical behaviour. The data on F2 are analysed in a geometric way and values for the critical...Go to contribution page
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Sergey Sibiryakov (Institute for Nuclear Research of RAS)27/03/2012, 16:48Electroweak and searchesWe review the theoretical implications of the OPERA results, with particular emphasis on the consistency with other tests of special relativity (directly or through quantum effects in the charged lepton sector) and the difficulties in construction of models satisfying all constraints.Go to contribution page
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Tim Head (The University of Manchester), Timothy Head (University of Manchester)27/03/2012, 16:48Heavy flavoursMerged abstract: "Measurement of the top quark mass at D0" "Measurements of top quark properties at D0"Go to contribution page
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Mr Maxim Malyshev (SINP MSU)27/03/2012, 16:50Hadronic final statesIn the framework of the kt-factorization approach, the production of unpolarized Drell-Yan lepton pair at high energies is studied. The consideration is based on the O(alpha) and $O(alpha alpha_s) off-shell partonic matrix elements with virtual photon and Z boson exchange. The calculations include leptonic decays of Z bosons with full spin correlations as well as gamma - Z interference. The...Go to contribution page
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Antonio Vilela Pereira (Universita e INFN (IT))27/03/2012, 16:50Diffraction and vector mesonsThe talk will present CMS measurements on diffractive W and dijet production in p-p collisions at 0.9, 2.36 and 7 TeV.Go to contribution page
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Keith Griffioen (C)27/03/2012, 16:55Future of DISWith the doubling of the Jefferson Lab beam energy and the complete rebuilding of the CLAS spectrometer underway, a full experimental program is already approved for Hall B. The components of this program relevant to deep-inelastic scattering will be discussed.Go to contribution page
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Emanuele Roberto Nocera (Universita degli Studi di Milano and INFN, Milano)27/03/2012, 17:00Spin physicsWe present a preliminary determination of a set of polarized parton distributions of the nucleon, at next-to-leading order, from a global set of deep-inelastic scattering data. The determination is based on the NNPDF methodology: a Monte Carlo sampling with neural networks used as unbiased interpolants. This method, which has already been applied to a...Go to contribution page
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Carlo Ewerz (ExtreMe Matter Institute EMMI, GSI, and Heidelberg University)27/03/2012, 17:00Structure functionsFrom the new measurement of F_L at HERA we derive fixed-Q^2 averages <F_L/F_2>. We compare these with bounds which are rigorous in the framework of the standard dipole picture. The bounds are sharpened by including information on the charm structure function F_2^(c). Within the experimental errors the bounds are respected by the data. But for 3.5 GeV^2 <= Q^2 <= 20 GeV^2 the central values of...Go to contribution page
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Minoru Hirose (Osaka University (JP)), Minoru Hirose (Osaka University)27/03/2012, 17:06Heavy flavoursMerged abstract: "Top quark properties" "Top quark pair properties"Go to contribution page
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Hayk Pirumov (PI Heidelberg)27/03/2012, 17:06Electroweak and searchesMerged abstract of: "Search for Contact Interactions in ep Collisions at HERA" "Search for First Generation Leptoquarks in ep Collisions at HERA"Go to contribution page
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Daniel Wilhelm (Mainz U)27/03/2012, 17:10Hadronic final statesWe discuss the differential cross sections for electroweak gauge-boson and Higgs production at small and very small transverse momentum q_T. Large logarithms are resummed using soft-collinear effective theory. The collinear anomaly generates a non-perturbative scale q^∗, which protects the processes from receiving large long-distance hadronic contributions. A numerical comparison of our...Go to contribution page
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Dr Mickey Chiu (Brookhaven National Lab)27/03/2012, 17:10Diffraction and vector mesonsOne of the fundamental goals of the PHENIX experiment is to understand the structure of cold nuclear matter, since this serves as the initial state for heavy-ion collisions. Knowing the initial state is vital for interpreting measurements from heavy-ion collisions. Moreover, the structure of the cold nucleus by itself is interesting since it is a test-bed for our understanding of QCD. In...Go to contribution page
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Dr Polina Kravchenko (DESY)27/03/2012, 17:20Spin physicsFinal measurements are reported on the double-spin asymmetries for a longitudinally polarized hydrogen and deuterium targets at HERMES using the27.6 GeV HERA lepton beam. The kinematic dependences of the longitudinal semi-inclusive asymmetry simultaneously on Bjorken-x and hadron transverse momentum p_h, and Bjorken-x and the hadron energy fraction z are explored. Additionally, the hadron...Go to contribution page
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Krzysztof Kutak (I)27/03/2012, 17:20Structure functionsMotivated by the explored nowadays at LHC the regime of QCD where both the total energy of collision and momenta transfers are high, we investigate evolution equations of high energy factorization. In order to study such effects like parton saturation in final states one is inevitably lead to investigate how to combine physics of the BK and CCFM evolution equations. In this letter we obtain a...Go to contribution page
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Mr Kalyan Allada (Jefferson Lab)27/03/2012, 17:20Future of DISOne of the cleanest ways to access the Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD) parton distribution functions of the nucleon is to measure single (SSA) and double spin asymmetries (DSA) in semi-inclusive DIS reactions using polarized nucleon targets. The Jefferson Lab 12 GeV upgrade will provide a unique opportunity to perform such precision measurements and to map these multi-dimensional PDFs. In...Go to contribution page
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Stefano Antonelli (Universita e INFN)27/03/2012, 17:24Electroweak and searchesMerged abstract of: "Search for Single-Top Production in ep Collisions at HERA" "A search for resonance decays to lepton+jet at HERA and limits on leptoquarks"Go to contribution page
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Sven-Olaf Moch (Unknown)27/03/2012, 17:24Heavy flavoursWe discuss heavy-flavor production in association with one jet hadronic collisions matched to parton shower Monte Carlo programs at next-to-leading order QCD with account of top-quark decays and spin correlations in the decay products. The calculation builds on existing results for the radiative corrections to heavy-quark plus one jet production and uses the POWHEG BOX for the interface to...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Antoni Szczurek (Institute of Nuclear Physics Krakow (Poland))27/03/2012, 17:30Diffraction and vector mesonsWe discuss central exclusive production of $W^+W^-$ pairs in proton-proton collisions at LHC. Several observables related to this process are calculated. Predictions for the total cross section and differential distributions in rapidity and transverse momentum of $W^{\pm}$ and $WW$ invariant mass are presented. We show results for different polarization states of the final $W^{\pm}$ bosons....Go to contribution page
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Jason Gallicchio (UC Davis)27/03/2012, 17:30Hadronic final statesDistinguishing light-quark jets from gluon jets on an event-by-event basis could significantly enhance the reach for many new physics searches at the Large Hadron Collider. Through an exhaustive search of existing and novel jet substructure observables, we find that a multivariate approach can filter out over 95% of the gluon jets while keeping more than half of the light-quark jets. Moreover,...Go to contribution page
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Franco Buccella (Unknown)27/03/2012, 17:35Structure functionsFirst we recall the basic physical features of the parton distribution functions (PDF) in the quantum statistical approach of the nucleon. Several predictions from next-to-leading QCD calculations using these PDF are compared with recent experimental results: deep inelastic scattering from HERA, hadronic reactions from Tevatron and RHIC, neutrino data and also polarized data obtained by...Go to contribution page
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Young Jin Kim (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)27/03/2012, 17:40Spin physicsA major direction of the physics program at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is to explore the origin of proton spin structure. Parity violating single spin asymmetries, $A_L$, for $W$-bosons in longitudinally polarized $p + p$ collisions at a center of mass energy of $\sqrt{s}$ = 500 GeV will give access to the flavor separated quark and...Go to contribution page
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Mauro Piccini (Universita e INFN (IT))27/03/2012, 17:42Electroweak and searchesMerged abstract: "High precision measurement of the form factors of the semileptonic decays K+- -> pi0 l+- nu (Kl3)" "Rare kaon decay measurements with NA62 minimum bias data." "First Measurement of the very rare Decay K+ -> pi+ pi0 e+ e-" "Lepton Universality Tests in Kaon Decays at NA62"Go to contribution page
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Adam Kardos (University of Debrecen)27/03/2012, 17:42Heavy flavoursAiming at better understanding of the properties of top quarks, we focus on top--antitop+X production at the LHC, with X being a vector, or scalar/pseudoscalar boson. We show predictions obtained by PowHel, a computing framework based upon the POWHEG-BOX program with input obtained from HELAC-NLO. The POWHEG-BOX generates event files according to the Les-Houches accord, and uses the POWHEG...Go to contribution page
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Daniel Andreas Britzger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen)27/03/2012, 17:50Hadronic final statesNew results on normalised inclusive jet, di-jet and trijet differential cross sections in neutral current deep-inelastic ep scattering (DIS) based on a regularised unfolding procedure are presented. Detector effects like acceptance and migrations as well as statistical correlations between the multi-jets and the inclusive DIS events are taken into account in this procedure. The DIS phase space...Go to contribution page
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ewald paul (P)27/03/2012, 18:10Hadronic final statesDifferential inclusive-jet cross sections have been measured in photoproduction for boson virtualities Q2 < 1 GeV2 with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 300 pb-1. Jets were identified in the laboratory using the kt cluster algorithm in the longitudinally inclusive mode. Cross sections are presented as functions of the jet pseudorapidity, etajet,and the jet...Go to contribution page
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Sara Collins (University of Regensburg)28/03/2012, 08:30Spin physicsFlavour singlet contributions to the nucleon spin are elusive due to the fact that they cannot be determined directly in experiment but require extrapolations to the small x region. Direct calculations of these contributions are possible using Lattice QCD, however, they pose a significant computational challenge due to the presence of disconnected quark line diagrams. I report on...Go to contribution page
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Albert Bursche (University of Zurich), Albert Bursche (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))28/03/2012, 08:30Hadronic final states/diffraction and vector mesons
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Johannes Bluemlein (DESY, Zeuthen)28/03/2012, 08:30Heavy flavours/structure functionsWe report on recent results obtained for the massive Wilson coefficients which contribute to the structure function $F_2(x,Q2)$ at $O(\alpha_s2)$ and $O(\alpha_s3)$ in the region $Q2/m2 \gsim 10$ for general values of the Mellin variable $N$ as well as to corresponding operator matrix elements emerging in FVNSs.Go to contribution page
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Dr Kieran Boyle (RIKEN BNL Research Center)28/03/2012, 08:30Future of DISDuring 12 years of operations, PHENIX has measured the gluon helicity structure of the proton, probed the proton transverse spin structure, studied effects in cold nuclear matter, discovered a strongly coupled QGP and has studied many of its basic properties. In parallel with ongoing luminosity upgrades at RHIC, PHENIX is in the process of planning and commissioning a series of upgrades in...Go to contribution page
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Mr Felix Bruemmer (Heidelberg University)28/03/2012, 08:30Electroweak and searchesThe LHC is closing in on the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. The null results from superparticle searches, and the preliminary evidence for a 124-126 GeV Higgs, severely constrain various popular minimal scenarios. In this talk I will review these constraints, and point out how the LHC results can still be accommodated within the MSSM. The resulting superparticle mass spectra may...Go to contribution page
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Saeid Paktinat Mehdiabadi (School of Particles and Accelerator Inst. for Res. in Fundam. S)28/03/2012, 08:48Electroweak and searchesWe present results of searches for SUSY production at CMS in events containing hadronic jets and missing energy. Various discriminants based on the event kinematics are employed to suppress standard-model backgrounds. The results are interpreted in the context of the Constrained Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, and of a number of "simplified models.Go to contribution page
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Fred Olness (Southern Methodist University)28/03/2012, 08:50Heavy flavours/structure functionsWe analyze the properties of the ACOT scheme for heavy quark production and make use of the MS-bar massless results at NNLO and N3LO for the structure functions F2 and FL in neutral current deep-inelastic scattering to estimate the higher order corrections. For this purpose we decouple the heavy quark mass entering the phase space from the one entering the dynamics of the short distance...Go to contribution page
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Hamlet Zohrabian28/03/2012, 08:50Hadronic final states/diffraction and vector mesonsThe production of photons at very small angles with respect to the proton beam direction is studied in deep-inelastic positron-proton scattering at HERA. The data are taken with the H1 detector in the years 2006 and 2007 and correspond to an integrated luminosity of $126 \mathrm{pb}^{-1}$. The analysis covers the range of negative four momentum transfer squared at the positron vertex...Go to contribution page
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Ed Nissen (JLab)28/03/2012, 08:55Future of DIS
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Mayya Golembiovskaya (DESY)28/03/2012, 09:05Spin physicsThe HERMES experiment at DESY, Hamburg collected a set of data on hard exclusive vector meson (rho,phi,omega) leptoproduction using the 27.6 GeV self-polarized lepton beam of HERA accelerator and longitudinally or transversely polarized or unpolarized gas target. The latest results on spin density matrix elements of exclusive phi meson production using the full statistics collected at HERMES,...Go to contribution page
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Martin Niegel (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))28/03/2012, 09:06Electroweak and searchesWe present results of searches for SUSY production at CMS in events with lepton signatures. These include final states with single isolated leptons, Z bosons decaying to lepton pairs, non-resonant same- and opposite-sign lepton pairs, and three or more isolated leptons. The results are used to exclude previously unexplored regions of the supersymmetric parameter space assuming R-parity...Go to contribution page
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Lidia Goerlich (High Energy Department-Henryk Niewodniczanski Inst. Nucl. Physic)28/03/2012, 09:10Hadronic final states/diffraction and vector mesonsDeep-inelastic positron-proton scattering events at low photon virtuality Q^2 with a forward jet, produced at small angles with respect to the proton beam, are measured with the H1 detector at HERA. A subsample of events with an additional jet in the central region is also studied. For both samples differential cross sections and normalised distributions are measured as a function of the...Go to contribution page
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Sven-Olaf Moch (DESY, Zeuthen)28/03/2012, 09:10Heavy flavours/structure functionsWe present exact results for the heavy-quark structure functions in deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) in different kinematical regimes and to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbative QCD. We combine the behavior near threshold, in the high-energy limit and at asymptotically large $Q2 \gg m2$ to derive approximate expressions at NNLO accuracy. The remaining theoretical uncertainties...Go to contribution page
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Vadim Ptitsyn (B)28/03/2012, 09:20Future of DISThe accelerator design of future high-energy high-luminosity electron-hadron collider at RHIC called eRHIC is presented. We plan adding energy recovery linacs to accelerate the electron beam to 20 (potentially 30) GeV and to collide the electrons with hadrons in RHIC. The center-of-mass energy of eRHIC will range from 30 to 200 GeV. The luminosity exceeding 10^34 cm^-2 s^-1 can be achieved in...Go to contribution page
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Carsten Peter Meyer (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet Mainz (DE))28/03/2012, 09:24Electroweak and searchesSearches for supersymmetry at the LHC also embrace signatures from R-parity violating processes. These can be final states with resonant or non-resonant lepton flavour violation or multiple leptons. The talk presents recent results from searches for R-partity violation in events containing leptons based on data recorded in 2011 by the ATLAS detector.Go to contribution page
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Francesco Hautmann (University of Oxford (GB))28/03/2012, 09:30Hadronic final states/diffraction and vector mesonsWe discuss QCD aspects of forward jet hadroproduction, including issues on factorization at large rapidities; shower Monte Carlo implementations; the role of forward jet and energy flow measurements at the LHC to investigate contributions to parton showers from large-angle gluon radiation and from multiple parton interactions.Go to contribution page
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Mr Martin Leitgab (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)28/03/2012, 09:30Spin physicsFragmentation functions (FFs) describe the formation of final state particles from a partonic initial state. Precise knowledge of these functions is a key ingredient in accessing quantities such as the nucleon spin structure in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering and proton proton collisions. However, fragmentation functions can currently not be determined from first principles Quantum...Go to contribution page
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Isabella Bierenbaum (University Hamburg)28/03/2012, 09:30Heavy flavours/structure functionsI report on the calculation of the one-loop correction to the soft-gluon current with massive fermions. This current is process independent and controls the singular behavior of one-loop massive QCD amplitudes in the limit when one external gluon becomes soft. It therefore constitutes a necessary ingredient for the numerical evaluation of observables with massive fermions at hadron colliders...Go to contribution page
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Federica Legger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen)28/03/2012, 09:42Electroweak and searchesSearches for supersymmetric squarks and gluinos in events containing jets, missing transverse momentum with or without leptons are presented. The results are based on the full data sample (5 fb-1) recorded in 2011 at sqrt(s)=7 TeV cebtre-of-mass energy by the ATLAS experiment at the LHC.Go to contribution page
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Simone Marzani (IPPP / Durham University)28/03/2012, 09:50Hadronic final states/diffraction and vector mesonsI discuss jet vetoes as a means of probing colour flow in hard scattering processes in hadronic collisions. As an example, I describe a calculation of the dijet cross-section with a jet veto which resums the leading logarithms of the veto scale and it is matched to a fixed-order computation. I compare this prediction to the measurement performed by the ATLAS collaboration as well as to other...Go to contribution page
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José Daniel Madrigal (IFT UAM/CSIC, Madrid)28/03/2012, 10:30Hadronic final states/diffraction and vector mesonsPerturbative N=4 SYM computations for dijet production within the BFKL regime are shown to approach closely QCD predictions for suitable observables sensitive to the Möbius invariance of Regge limit. This similarity is strengthened by an appropriate choice of renormalization scale.Go to contribution page
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Cynthia Keppel (Hampton University)28/03/2012, 10:30
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Andrii Gizhko (Kiev University + DESY)28/03/2012, 10:30Heavy flavours/structure functionsCharm production has been measured with the ZEUS detector in deep inelastic ep scattering at HERA. The measurement is based on the full reconstruction of the decay chain D*->D0pis, D0->Kpi and exploits the full HERA II statistics. Differential cross sections have been measured. The kinematic range is 1.5 GeV < pT(D*) < 10GeV, |eta(D*)| < 1.5, 5 < Q2 < 1000GeV2 and 0.02 < y <...Go to contribution page
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Paolo Lodone (Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa)28/03/2012, 10:30Electroweak and searchesWe review the status of motivated beyond-MSSM scenarios in the light of the first searches at the LHC. In particular, we discuss the consequences for model building of a Higgs boson at about 125 GeV and of taking seriously the excess in the direct CP violation in the charm sector.Go to contribution page
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Dr Jian-Wei Qiu (Brookhaven National Lab)28/03/2012, 10:30Spin physicsLarge transverse single spin asymmetries (SSAs) of cross sections with a large momentum transfer in high energy collisions were once thought impossible in QCD. With over 30 years of experimental as well as theoretical efforts, large SSAs are not only possible in QCD, but also carry extremely valuable information on the motion and structure of quarks and gluons inside a polarized hadron. In...Go to contribution page
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Vladislav Libov (DESY)28/03/2012, 10:48Heavy flavours/structure functionsCharm production in deep inelastic scattering has been measured with the ZEUS detector using the full HERA II data set. The charm content in events with a jet has been extracted using the decay length significance and invariant mass of secondary vertices. Differential cross sections as a function of Q2, Bjoerken x, ET(jet) and eta(jet) were measured and compared to theoretical predictions....Go to contribution page
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Carlos Chavez Barajas (CERN)28/03/2012, 10:48Electroweak and searchesSupersymmetry with large mixing between left and right scalar fermions predicts that the lightest partners of the SM fermions belong to the third generation. Moreover, naturalness arguments favour stop masses not too far from that of the top quark. The talk presents results from searches for gluino mediated sbottom and stop production, direct sbottom production, and gluino and squark mediated...Go to contribution page
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David Zaslavsky (Penn State University)28/03/2012, 10:50Hadronic final states/diffraction and vector mesonsWe investigate the effects of the saturation boundary on small-x evolution at the next-to-leading order accuracy and beyond. We demonstrate that the instabilities of the next-to-leading order BFKL evolution are not cured by the presence of the nonlinear saturation effects, and a resummation of the higher order corrections is therefore needed for the nonlinear evolution. The renormalization...Go to contribution page
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Dr Matthew Lamont (BNL)28/03/2012, 10:55Future of DISThe STAR experiment is one of the flagship experiments at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider at Brookhaven Lab. Since starting to take data at the turn of the century, STAR’s large acceptance and measurement capabilities have proved to be vital in terms of characterising the QGP soup produced in heavy-ion collisions and heading towards a measurement of the proton spin in polarised p+p...Go to contribution page
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Dr Yousef Makdisi (Brookhaven National Laboratory)28/03/2012, 11:05Spin physicsUtilizing the RHIC polarized proton collider with transverse spin the PHENIX detector carried out cross section and asymmetry measurements in inclusive pizero and eta production at mid rapidity |n| < 0.35 using the central EM calorimeters where vanishing asymmetries were found. However, significant pizero and eta asymmetries were measured in the forward rapidity 3.1 < n < 3.9 using the MPC...Go to contribution page
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Eva Hennekemper (Uni Heidelberg)28/03/2012, 11:06Heavy flavours/structure functionsInclusive production of D* mesons in deep-inelastic ep scattering at HERA is studied in the range 5 < Q^2 <100 GeV^2 of the photon virtuality and 0.02 < y < 0.7 of the inelasticity of the scattering process. The observed phase space for the D* meson is p_T(D*) > 1.25 GeV and |eta(D*)| < 1.8. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 348 pb^{-1} collected with the H1 detector....Go to contribution page
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Louise Heelan (University of Texas at Arlington (US))28/03/2012, 11:06Electroweak and searchesNaturalness arguments for weak-scale supersymmetry favour supersymmetric partners of the Higgs and electroweak gauge bosons, so-called gauginos, with masses not too far from those of their Standard Model counterparts. Gauginos with masses less than a few hundred GeV can give rise to direct pair production rates at the LHC that can be observed in the data sample recorded in 2011 by the ATLAS...Go to contribution page
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Dr Martin Hentschinski (IFT UAM/CSIC Madrid)28/03/2012, 11:10Hadronic final states/diffraction and vector mesonsWe report on recent progress in the evaluation of next-to-leading order (NLO) corrections to forward-backward jet observables, using Lipatov's QCD high energy effective action. We calculate both real and virtual corrections to the quark induced forward jet vertex at NLO, making use of a new regularization method and a subtraction mechanism. We also present the real NLO corrections to the...Go to contribution page
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Dongwook Jang (Carnegie-Mellon University (US))28/03/2012, 11:24Electroweak and searchesWe present results of searches for SUSY production at CMS in events with one or two isolated photons. The results are interpreted in terms of gauge-mediation models, with the gravitino as the lightest supersymmetric particle.Go to contribution page
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David d'Enterria (CERN)28/03/2012, 11:30Structure functionsThe impact of isolated-photon data from proton-(anti)proton collisions at RHIC, SppbarS, Tevatron and LHC energies, on the parton distribution functions of the proton is studied using a recently developed Bayesian reweighting method. The impact on the gluon density of the 35 existing isolated-gamma measurements is quantified using next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbative QCD calculations...Go to contribution page
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Susan Cheatham (McGill University (CA))28/03/2012, 11:30Heavy flavoursThe production of Quarkonium is an important testing ground for QCD calculations. The J/ psi and Upsilon production cross-sections are measured in proton-proton collisions at the ATLAS detector. Differential cross sections as a function of transverse momentum and pseudorapidity will be presented. The fraction of J/\psi produced in $B$-hadron decays are also measured and the differential...Go to contribution page
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Andreas Vogt (University of Liverpool)28/03/2012, 11:30Hadronic final states/diffraction and vector mesonsRecently a method has been developed to extend the resummation of large-x double logarithms in inclusive DIS and semi-inclusive e^+e^- annihilation (SIA) to terms and quantities not addressed by the soft-gluon exponentiation. The N^nLL (leading log, next-to-leading log etc) resummation is based on N^nLO fixed-order results, the large-x structure of DIS and SIA in dimensional regularization and...Go to contribution page
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Vincent Sulkosky (MIT)28/03/2012, 11:30Spin physicsJefferson Lab experiment E06-010 measured the target-single spin (SSA) and double spin asymmetries (DSA) in semi-inclusive deep inelastic pion electroproduction on a transversely polarized He-3 target. The measured asymmetry (A_UT) is sensitive to the nucleon transversity and Sivers distribution functions, whereas the measured A_LT asymmetry is related to the transverse momentum...Go to contribution page
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Armen Bunyatyan (DESY)28/03/2012, 11:35Future of DIS
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Alexis Kalogeropoulos (Inter-University Institute for High Energies (BE))28/03/2012, 11:42Electroweak and searchesWe present results of searches for SUSY production at CMS in events containing hadronic jets and missing energy. The tagging of heavy flavor in the jets is used both to distinguish standard-model components, and for sensitivity to those SUSY models that lead to final states rich in heavy-flavored particles.Go to contribution page
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Daniele Fasanella (Universita e INFN (IT)), Daniele Fasanella (INFN)28/03/2012, 11:48Heavy flavoursAbstract missingGo to contribution page
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Voica Ana Maria Radescu (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))28/03/2012, 11:50Structure functionsHERAFitter, a common initiative of the H1 and ZEUS collaborations, is an open source software package which provides a framework for precision QCD analyses, based on the evolution package of QCDNUM. The beta-release of the HERAFItter package contains a set of programs to fit inclusive deep inelastic scattering cross section data from HERA as well as Drell-Yan and inclusive jet processes, which...Go to contribution page
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Markus Diehl (DESY)28/03/2012, 13:30Diffraction and vector mesons/spin physicsThe spatial distribution of partons in the proton or a nucleus can be probed in suitable exclusive scattering processes. I review the theoretical foundation and the physics interest of this idea, and I report on recent performance estimates for parton imaging in the proton at an Electron-Ion collider.Go to contribution page
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Ferenc Sikler (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU))28/03/2012, 13:30Hadronic final statesInclusive hadron production (multiplicities and spectra) in p-p collisions in CMSGo to contribution page
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Prof. Bernd Kniehl (Univ. Hamburg)28/03/2012, 13:30Heavy flavoursWe study the polarization observables of $J/\psi$ hadroproduction at NLO in NRQCD, including the $^3\!P_J^{[8]}$ channel. Exploiting the color-octet long-distance matrix elements previously extracted through a global fit to unpolarized $J/\psi$ production data, we provide theoretical predictions in the helicity and Collins-Soper frames and compare them with data from CDF and ALICE. The...Go to contribution page
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Alessandro Polini (Universita e INFN (IT))28/03/2012, 13:30Future of DIS
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Gennaro Corcella28/03/2012, 13:30Electroweak and searches/structure functionsSearching for heavy neutral gauge bosons Z', predicted in extensions of the Standard Model based on a U(1)' gauge symmetry, is among the main new physics investigations undertaken by the experiments at the Tevatron and at the Large Hadron Collider. I will discuss study Z' phenomenology at hadron colliders according to several U(1)'-based models and in the Sequential Standard Model. In...Go to contribution page
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Ionut Cristian Arsene (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))28/03/2012, 13:48Heavy flavoursDue to their large mass, heavy quark pairs are considered to be produced in the first instants of the collision in hard scatterings of partons which can be described perturbatively. However, the bound states of these pairs are produced via soft non-perturbative processes. The interplay between the perturbative and non-perturbative processes involved in quarkonium production makes this...Go to contribution page
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Hugh Skottowe (Harvard University (US))28/03/2012, 13:48Electroweak and searches/structure functionsDiboson cross sections have been measure for all combinations of W,Z and isolated photons. The cross sections are measured in kinematic regions defined by the decay kinematics, in some cases including vetoes on additional jets. The measurements are also extrapolated to the full phase space using theoretical calculations of the acceptance, and are additionally used to place contsraints...Go to contribution page
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Markward Britsch (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (DE))28/03/2012, 13:50Hadronic final statesDue to its unique pseudorapidity coverage and the possibility of providing measurements at low transverse momenta, the LHCb detector allows unique insight into particle production in the forward region at the LHC. The latest LHCb soft-QCD results, the measurements of charged particle multiplicity at 7 TeV and the measurement of the p/p, K-/K+, π-/π+, (p+p)/(π-+π+), (K-+K+)/( π-+π+ )...Go to contribution page
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Hervé MOUTARDE (I)28/03/2012, 13:55Diffraction and vector mesons/spin physicsWe present some recent results on the analysis of hard scattering processes in the framework of Generalized Parton Distributions. In particular we compute DVCS observables on unpolarized targets with the Kroll - Goloskokov model (suited to DVMP analysis). We also discuss NLO contributions to DVCS and TCS processes for various kinematic settings (collider and fixed target experiments).Go to contribution page
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Santiago Folgueras (Universidad de Oviedo (ES))28/03/2012, 14:06Electroweak and searches/structure functionsWe present studies of diboson production in pp collisions at 7 TeV center-of-mass energy based on data recorded by the CMS detector at the LHC in 2010 and 2011. These include precise measurements of W and Z production in association with a photon and of WW production, WZ and ZZ productions at the LHC. The leptonic decay modes of the W and Z bosons are used. The results are interpreted in...Go to contribution page
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Mr Akihisa Takahara (CNS, University of Tokyo and JRA RIKEN)28/03/2012, 14:06Heavy flavoursTitle:J/psi Photoproduction in ultra-peripheral Au+Au collisions measured by RHIC-PHENIX. Ultra-peripheral collisions are heavy-ion collisions with impact parameter larger than twice the nuclear radius. Since there is no nuclear overlap, strong interactions cannot occur and ions interact through photon-ion (coherent), photon-nucleus (incoherent), and photon photon...Go to contribution page
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Rogelio Tomas Garcia (CERN)28/03/2012, 14:10Future of DIS
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Ms Nour Makke (Trieste UNiversity, INFN)28/03/2012, 14:10Hadronic final statesFragmentation functions, which turn partons into non-perturbative hadronic bound states in hard-scattering reactions, play a very important role in our understanding of the proton structure. Currently, our knowledge of fragmentation functions originates mainly from existing global QCD analyses which are mostly based on inclusive measurements in electron-positron annihilation process. While...Go to contribution page
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Dr Valery Lyuboshitz (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia)28/03/2012, 14:15Diffraction and vector mesons/spin physicsThe structure of the nucleon charge-exchange process n + p --> p + n is investigated basing on the isotopic invariance of the nucleon-nucleon scattering. Using the operator of permutation of the spin projections of the neutron and proton, the connection between the spin matrices, describing the amplitude of the nucleon charge-exchange process at zero angle and the amplitude of...Go to contribution page
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Manuel Kambeitz28/03/2012, 14:24Heavy flavoursWe report recent studies on heavy flavor production in 1.96 TeV proton-antiproton collisions collected by the CDF detector. These include a new measurement of the spin-alignment of Y mesons using dimuon decays in 6.7 fb^-1 of data. This measurement is the first to report the full angular distributions of dimuons as functions of Y transverse momentum in both the Collins–Soper and s–channel...Go to contribution page
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Mika Vesterinen (University of Manchester)28/03/2012, 14:24Electroweak and searches/structure functionsWZ/WW at the Tevatron (including WW/WZ+jets)Go to contribution page
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Mr Gevorg Karyan (A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory)28/03/2012, 14:30Hadronic final statesHadron multiplicity ratios in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering have been measured on neon, krypton and xenon targets relative to deuterium using the 27.6 GeV beam of HERA at the HERMES experiment. They are presented for pions (π+, π-), kaons (K+, K-), protons and anti-protons as a function of the virtual photon energy ν, its virtuality Q2, the fractional hadron energy z and the...Go to contribution page
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Morgan Murray (U)28/03/2012, 14:35Diffraction and vector mesons/spin physicsDeeply Virtual Compton Scattering represents the best experimental channel through which to understand Generalised Parton Distributions. The HERMES experiment measured the most diverse set of DVCS results of any experiment; this talk discusses the most recent sets of DVCS results released by HERMES and the unique experimental conditions found at HERMES that facilitated the measurements....Go to contribution page
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Klaus Dehmelt (Stony Brook University USA)28/03/2012, 14:40Future of DISeRHIC is a proposed high luminosity, polarized Electron Ion Collider (EIC), which would make use of the existing RHIC infrastructure. eRHIC is a triple IP collider, with the possibility of using the two existing, but upgraded IP detectors and a dedicated eRHIC detector. A detector has to be designed that can make use of present knowledge and experience gained from the HERA detectors, but has...Go to contribution page
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Giovanni Sabatino (Universita degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata (IT))28/03/2012, 14:42Heavy flavoursStudies of quarkonia production in the forward region provide important tests of NRQCD. During 2010 and 2011 the LHCb experiment has collected a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1 fb-1 in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)= 7 TeV. We present studies based on 40 to 1000 fb-1 of data, including the production of the J/psi, psi(2S), Chi_c charmonium together with Upsilon...Go to contribution page
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Tom Riddick28/03/2012, 14:42Electroweak and searches/structure functionsThe CDF collaboration has analyzed 2.2 fb-1 of Run II electron and muon data for a new precise determination of the mass of the W boson. The result is 80.387 +/- 0.019 GeV/c2, which is more precise than the combination of all preceding measurements. An update from D0 is also expected.Go to contribution page
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Iris Abt (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut)28/03/2012, 14:50Hadronic final statesScaled momentum distributions for the strange hadrons K0s and Lambda/Lambdabar were measured in deep inelastic ep scattering with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 330 pb-1. The evolution of these distributions with the photon virtuality, Q2, was studied in the kinematic region 10 < Q2 < 40000 GeV2 and 0.001 < x < 0.75, where x is the Bjorken scaling variable....Go to contribution page
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Dr Daria Sokhan (in2p3)28/03/2012, 14:55Diffraction and vector mesons/spin physicsGeneralised Parton Distributions (GPDs) offer an insight into the three-dimensional structure of the nucleon and its internal dynamics, relating the transverse position of quarks to their longitudinal momentum. Two effective means of accessing GPDs are Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering (DVCS) and Meson Production (DVMP), in which a high energy electron scatters from a single quark in the...Go to contribution page
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Jolanta Brodzicka (INP Krakow)28/03/2012, 15:00Heavy flavoursWe present recent results on charmonium and charmonium-like states studied by the Belle experiment at the KEK-B e+e- collider. After years of interesting discoveries in the field of hadron spectroscopy, Belle continues the research by measuring new final states produced in various processes accessible at the B-Factories. Main motivation is to complete the spectrum of charmonia...Go to contribution page
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Takuya Nobe (Tokyo Institute of Technology (JP))28/03/2012, 15:00Electroweak and searches/structure functionsA search for events ep-> ep Z0 has been performed in ep collisions at HERA using the ZEUS detector. The search is based on the entire HERA-I and HERA-II data set, amounting to 0.49 fb-1 of integrated luminosity. The Z0 was searched in the di-jet decay mode with elastic condition defined by etamax < 3, where etamax is defined as the pseudorapidity of the energy deposit in the calorimeter...Go to contribution page
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Alexander Bazilevsky (B)28/03/2012, 15:05Future of DISAddition of a high intensity polarized electron beam facility which could realize Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) research with one of the RHIC beams is one of the future upgrades to the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) presently under consideration. To take a full advantage of such machine evolution, after more than a decade of exciting physics results, both with heavy ion and polarized...Go to contribution page
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Dr Valery Lyuboshitz (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia)28/03/2012, 15:10Hadronic final statesThe phenomenological structure of inclusive cross sections of the production of two neutral K mesons in hadron-hadron, hadron-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus collisions is investigated taking into account the strangeness conservation in strong and electromagnetic interactions. Relations describing the dependence of the correlations of two short-lived and two long-lived neutral kaons $K^0_S...Go to contribution page
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Heiner Wollny (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))28/03/2012, 15:15Diffraction and vector mesons/spin physicsNew results for the transverse target spin azimuthal asymmetry $A_{UT}^{\sin(\phi-\phi_S})$ for hard exclusive $\rho^0$-meson production on a transversely polarised NH$_3$ target will be presented. The measurement was performed in 2007 and 2010 with the COMPASS detector using the 160\,GeV/$c$ muon beam of the SPS at CERN. The asymmetry is sensitive to the nucleon helicity-flip generalised...Go to contribution page
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Elisa Fioravanti (INFN Ferrara)28/03/2012, 15:18Heavy flavoursCharmonium and charmonium-like states are a unique system for studying QCD and possibly exotic bound states. We present new results on such states, which are created in two-photon fusion or in electron-positron collisions and decaying into a variety of final states, including psi pi pi, eta_c pi pi, and J/psi omega.Go to contribution page
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Umberto Tamponi (Torino)28/03/2012, 16:00Heavy flavoursThe Belle collaboration recently reported the discovery of the p-wave Bottomonium singlets, hb(1P) and hb(2P), the surprising observation of resonant substructure in Y(5S) --> pi+pi-Y(nS), hb(mP) (n=1-3, m=1,2), and the first observation of the radiative transition hb(1P) --> gamma etab(1S) in 121.4 1/fb of data collected near the Upsilon(5S) resonance at the KEKB asymmetric-energy e^+e^-...Go to contribution page
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Rohini Godbole (Centre for Theoretical Studies (CTS))28/03/2012, 16:00Future of DIS
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Jacek Ciborowski (University of Warsaw)28/03/2012, 16:00Diffraction and vector mesonsThe exclusive photoproduction reaction gamma p -> Upsilon(1S) p has been studied with the ZEUS detector in ep collisions at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 468pb-1. The measurement covers the kinematic range 60 < W < 220 GeV and Q2 < 1 GeV2, where W is the photon--proton centre-of-mass energy and Q2 is the photon virtuality. The exponential slope, b, of the t dependence of the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Feng Yuan (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)28/03/2012, 16:00Spin physicsIn this talk, we will summarize recent developments on the orbital angular momentum of partons in nucleon, from various observables in high energy processes, including generalized parton distributions, transverse momentum dependent parton distributions, etc.Go to contribution page
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Adam Robert Davison (University College London (UK))28/03/2012, 16:00Hadronic final statesThe internal structure of jets produced in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy provides a direct test of QCD calculations of gluon and quark radiation, as well as having sensitivity to hadronisation and underlying event. The transverse energy distribution around the jet core has been measured, as well as the fragmentation of a jet into charged particles. Jet shapes -...Go to contribution page
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Martin Hentschinski (Autonoma University Madrid/CSIC)28/03/2012, 16:00Electroweak and searches/structure functionsWe study W/Z/DY + jet events where the W/Z/DY boson is produced in the forward direction of one of the colliding protons and a jet is produced in the forward direction of the second proton. The resulting large rapidity difference between the final states then opens up the phase space for BFKL evolution which we would like to study in more detail. As a by-product of our study, we also provide...Go to contribution page
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Claus Buszello (Uppsala University (SE)), Claus Buszello (Department of Physics and Astronomy-University of Uppsala), Claus Buszello (Uppsala University)28/03/2012, 16:18Heavy flavoursUsing the 1.3 fb$^{-1}$ sample of D0 RunII data taken between 2002 and 2006, we observe a new state decaying into $\Upsilon(1S) + \gamma$, where the $\Upsilon(1S)$ is detected by its decay into an oppositely charged muon pair, and the photon is reconstructed by its conversion into an electron-positron pair. The significance of this structure is six standard deviations and its mass is...Go to contribution page
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Jean-Baptiste Sauvan (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))28/03/2012, 16:18Electroweak and searches/structure functionsW and Z boson production have been measured in the electron, muon and tau decay channels. Total and differential cross sections, defined in terms of the decay lepton kinematics, have been measured as a function of rapidity and transverse momentum. Ratios of the cross sections demonstrate sensitivity to lepton universality, and the kinematic distributions constrain parton densities and QCD...Go to contribution page
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Dr Justyna Tomaszewska (DESY)28/03/2012, 16:20Diffraction and vector mesonsThe exclusive electroproduction of two pions in the mass range 0.4 < M(pipi) < 2.5 GeV has been studied with the ZEUS detector at HERA using an integrated luminosity of 82 pb-1. The analysis was carried out in the kinematic range of 2 < Q2 < 80 GeV2, 32 < W <180 GeV and |t|<0.6 GeV, where Q2 is the photon virtuality, W is the photon-proton centre-of-mass energy and t is the...Go to contribution page
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Simone Marzani (IPPP Durham)28/03/2012, 16:20Hadronic final statesWe study the jet-mass distribution for jets produced in hadron-hadron collision in QCD. In order to obtain reliable phenomenological results we resum to all-order in perturbation theory those contributions coming from collinear and soft gluons. Beyond the leading-logarithmic accuracy the resummation is made more complicated by the presence of non-global logarithms and logarithms related to the...Go to contribution page
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Hubert Spiesberger28/03/2012, 16:20Future of DIS
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Alessandro Bacchetta (University of Pavia)28/03/2012, 16:30Spin physicsThe determination of quark angular momentum requires the knowledge of the generalized parton distribution E in the forward limit. We assume a connection between this function and the Sivers transverse-momentum distribution, based on model calculations and theoretical considerations. Using this assumption, we show that it is possible to fit at the same time nucleon magnetic moments and...Go to contribution page
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Dr Zhenwei Yang (Tsinghua University (CN))28/03/2012, 16:36Heavy flavoursDuring the year 2011, the LHCb experiment has accumulated 1 fb-1 of data in proton-proton collisions data at 7 TeV, collecting a sample rich in both Bc mesons and b baryons. Studies of these states provide a wealth of new measurements as well as probes of QCD theory predictions. We will present studies of Bc production together with precision measurements of both the mass and lifetime, in...Go to contribution page
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Mr Stephen Farry (University College Dublin (IE))28/03/2012, 16:36Electroweak and searches/structure functionsWe report on measurements of W and Z production in the forward region, using data collected at the LHCb experiment with a centre of mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=7$~TeV with an integrated luminosity of up to 1 fb-1. W and Z bosons are reconstructed in leptonic decay channels, and their cross-sections determined using data-driven techniques. Results are presented inclusively (within the fiducial...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Ruben Sandapen (University of Moncton (Canada))28/03/2012, 16:40Diffraction and vector mesonsWe obtain a very good description of the current HERA data on diffractive rho electroproduction using a holographic light-cone wavefunction for the rho meson. This holographic wavefunction is obtained using the Brodsky and de Teramond correspondance between hadronic modes in AdS space and light-cone wavefunctions in physical spacetime. We also show the corresponding holographic Distribution...Go to contribution page
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Zhao Li (Michigan State University)28/03/2012, 16:40Hadronic final statesJet Substructure at Hadron CollidersGo to contribution page
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Hao Ma28/03/2012, 16:45Future of DISWe study coherence effects on the medium-induced soft gluon radiation off an ''asymptotic quark " traversing a hot and dense QCD medium. The transverse momentum spectrum of the emitted gluon is computed at first order in opacity expansion. The interference effects between the initial and final state radiation modify the soft gluon radiation when a finite angle between the initial and final...Go to contribution page
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Mariaelena Boglione (University of Turin)28/03/2012, 16:50Spin physicsFollowing the TMD evolution scheme recently proposed for the Sivers distribution function, we propose a simple strategy to take into account this TMD Q^2 dependence in our phenomenological extraction of the Sivers function from SIDIS data. New results are presented and possible future applications are discussed.Go to contribution page
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Marco Musich (INFN Torino (IT))28/03/2012, 16:54Electroweak and searches/structure functionsThe mechanism of production of heavy-flavoured mesons, containing b or c quarks, in association with vector bosons, W or Z, in the Standard Model is only partially understood. The study of events with one or two well-identified and isolated leptons accompanied by b-jets or secondary vertices is therefore crucial to refine the theoretical calculations in perturbative QCD, as well as...Go to contribution page
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Enrique Camacho Perez (Centro Invest. Estudios Avanz. IPN (MX))28/03/2012, 16:54Heavy flavoursMerged abstract: "Analysis of the decay $B_s^0 \rightarrow J/\psi K^+ K^-$ $M(K^+K^-)>1.35$~GeV" "Measurement of the $\Lambda_b$ lifetime in the $\Lambda_b \to J/\psi \Lambda$ exclusive decay channel using the full D0 dataset"Go to contribution page
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道久 竹内 (Heidelberg)28/03/2012, 17:00Hadronic final statesTop momentum reconstruction often plays an important role for new physics signal reconstruction at the LHC. In principle for a hadronically decaying top, it is possible to reconstruct its momentum fully but one suffers from large QCD and combinatorial backgrounds. Starting from geometrically large sizes of jets and looking into their substructure, we can efficiently reduce these background....Go to contribution page
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Prof. Kazuhiro Tanaka (Juntendo University)28/03/2012, 17:00Diffraction and vector mesonsIn the conventional b_* model for the Collins–Soper–Sterman resummation, the resummed form factor is accompanied by the nonperturbative gaussian form factor, and it is known that the nonperturbative parameter associated with the latter exhibits the strong dependence on the logarithm of the vector boson invariant mass. On the other hand, an another approach to treat the impact parameter (b...Go to contribution page
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Dr Asmita Mukherjee (IIT Bombay)28/03/2012, 17:10Spin physicsWe discuss the possibility of using electroproduction of $J/\psi $ as a probe of gluon Sivers function by measuring single spin asymmetry in experiments with transversely polarized protons and electron beams. We estimate SSA for JLab, HERMES, COMPASS and eRHIC energies using color evaporation model of charmonium production and find asymmetry up to 25 $\%$ for certain choices of model...Go to contribution page
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Marcus Ebert (SLAC)28/03/2012, 17:12Heavy flavoursDecays of B mesons into final states containing baryons are much less understood than decays into mesons, and are useful for shedding light on baryon-production mechanisms and intermediate states. We report the results of recent and new studies of such decays, including B- -->Sigma_c++ pbar pi- pi-, B0bar -->Lambda_c+ pbar p pbar, and B --> D(*) p pbar (npi). Both the total decay rates and...Go to contribution page
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Jonathan Anderson (Universitaet Zuerich (CH))28/03/2012, 17:12Electroweak and searches/structure functionsWe report on Drell-Yan production using data collected at the LHCb experiment with a centre of mass energy of $\sqrt{s}=7$~TeV in 2010. Drell-Yan events are selected with invariant di-muon masses $M_{\mu\mu}>10$~GeV/$c^2$. These measurements are sensitive to Bjorken-$x$ values as low as $1\times 10^{-5}$ and will provide important input to the knowledge of the parton density functions. The...Go to contribution page
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Daniel Andreas Britzger (DESY)29/03/2012, 09:00Hadronic final states/structure functionsStandard methods for higher-order pQCD calculations of cross sections in hadron-induced collisions are time-consuming. The fastNLO project uses multi-dimensional interpolation techniques to convert the convolutions of perturbative coefficients with parton distribution functions and the strong coupling into simple products. By integrating the perturbative coefficients for a given...Go to contribution page
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Carlos Albert Salgado Lopez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))29/03/2012, 09:00Future of DIS
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Prof. Alessandro Papa (University of Calabria and INFN Cosenza (Italy))29/03/2012, 09:00Diffraction and vector mesonsWe calculate in the next-to-leading order the impact factor (vertex) for the production of a forward high-p_T jet, in the approximation of small aperture of the jet cone in the pseudorapidity-azimuthal angle plane. The final expression for the vertex turns out to be simple and easy to implement in numerical calculations.Go to contribution page
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Li Lin Yang29/03/2012, 09:00Electroweak and searches/heavy flavoursI present recent calculations of observables in top quark pair production at hadron colliders, including the total cross section, the invariant mass distribution, the transverse momentum and rapidity distributions, and the forward-backward asymmetry. The calculations are based on the resummation of threshold logarithms at NNLL accuracy beyond NLO.Go to contribution page
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William Bell (Unknown), William Hamish Bell (Universite de Geneve (CH))29/03/2012, 09:18Electroweak and searches/heavy flavoursWe present the result of a measurement of single top-quark production in the t-channel at 7 TeV proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider. A lower limit on the CKM matrix element |Vtb| is extracted from this measurement. The single-top quark production in the Wt- and s-channels is also explored.Go to contribution page
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Dr Bogdan Malaescu (CERN)29/03/2012, 09:20Hadronic final states/structure functionsInclusive jet and dijet double-differential cross sections have been measured in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV using the ATLAS detector. The cross sections were measured using jets clustered with the anti-kT algorithm. The measurements are performed in the jet rapidity range |y|<4.4, covering jet transverse momenta from 20 GeV to 1.5 TeV and dijet...Go to contribution page
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Clara Salas (IFT)29/03/2012, 09:20Diffraction and vector mesonsAn iterative solution best suited for a Monte Carlo implementation for the non-forward BFKL equation is presented and possible applications discussed. We introduce running coupling effects in a way compatible with the bootstrap, fundamental condition for gluon reggeization and see how this naturally leads to renormalon effects in the infrared.Go to contribution page
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Jakub Wagner (National Center for Nuclear Research)29/03/2012, 09:20Spin physicsGeneralized Parton Distributions (GPDs) offer a new way to access the quark and gluon nucleon structure. We advocate the need to supplement the experimental study of deeply virtual Compton scattering by its crossed version, timelike Compton scattering (TCS) i.e. the exclusive photoproduction of a lepton pairs with large invariant mass. We review recent progress in this domain, in particular...Go to contribution page
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Nestor Armesto Perez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))29/03/2012, 09:35
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Philippe Calfayan (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen-Unknown-Unknown), Philippe Calfayan (Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ. Muenchen (DE))29/03/2012, 09:36Electroweak and searches/heavy flavoursMerged abstract: "Searches for new physics effect involving top quarks" "Search for t tbar Resonances in p pbar collisions with the ATLAS detector at LHC"Go to contribution page
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Pavel Ruzicka (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))29/03/2012, 09:40Diffraction and vector mesonsTransverse energy distributions and regions of low activity in proton-proton scattering events are sensitive to soft physics, low x and diffractive processes, and have been measured in inclusive "minimum bias" scatters as well as in dijet events at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. In the inclusive analysis, cross sections are measured differentially in terms of Delta eta F, the larger of the...Go to contribution page
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Ozlem Kaya (Bogazici University (TR))29/03/2012, 09:40Hadronic final states/structure functionsMerged abstract: "Dijet and Inclusive jet cross section measurements with CMS" "Three jet event properties with the CMS experiment"Go to contribution page
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A. L. Kataev (Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia)29/03/2012, 09:50Spin physicsUsing operator-product expansion approach for the triangle diagram of Axial-Vector-Vector currents symmetry I derive the singlet variant of the Crewther relation, which is valid in the conformal -invariant limit of perturbative approach. I demonstrate that in the conformal-invariant limit of U(1)-model the non-singlet coefficient function of Bjorken and Ellis-Jaffe sum rule identically...Go to contribution page
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Victor Eduardo Bazterra (University of Illinois at Chicago (US))29/03/2012, 09:54Electroweak and searches/heavy flavoursSeveral searches of physics beyond the standard model involving top quarks in the final state are presented. These searches encompass top decays in FCNC channels, resonances decaying in ttbar final states, new heavy quarks decaying to top quarks, production of same-sign quarks, and recent tests of various new physics models.Go to contribution page
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Andreas Vogt (University of Liverpool)29/03/2012, 10:00Hadronic final states/structure functionsWe present the third-order (NNLO) contributions to the timelike splitting functions governing the evolution of parton fragmentation functions in QCD. The hitherto missing quark-gluon and gluon-quark quantities have been derived by studying physical evolution kernels for photon- and Higgs-exchange DIS structure functions and their counterparts in semi-inclusive annihilation, together with...Go to contribution page
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J.H. Lee (Brookhave National Laboratory)29/03/2012, 10:05Future of DIS
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Dr jian zhou (Regensburg University)29/03/2012, 10:10Spin physicsI will discuss the color glass condensate (CGC) based calculation of two gluon TMDs inside a large nucleus at small x. The main focus is on the linearly polarized gluon TMD which is often referred to as the gluon Boer-Mulders function. With the derived gluon TMDs at small x, it is shown that an effective TMD factorization can be established at small x in a certain kinematical region. As a...Go to contribution page
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Yvonne Peters29/03/2012, 10:12Electroweak and searches/heavy flavoursThe kinematic properties of the data used for the measurement of the top-antitop quark pair production and of the single top quark production cross sections are used to set constraints on a variety of signals of physics beyond the SM. We set constraints on possible 4th generation top quarks, on possible resonances that would decay into top-antitop quark pairs, on possible resonances that...Go to contribution page
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Paolo Bolzoni (DESY)29/03/2012, 10:20Hadronic final states/structure functionsWe present a new approach in considering and including the perturbative and non-perturbative contributions to the gluon-quark multiplicity ratio. The new method is motivated by new developments in timelike small x resummation and exploit the recently computed NNLO timelike splitting fnctions. Comparison of our new results with other methods and with data will also be presented.Go to contribution page
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José Daniel Madrigal (IFT UAM/CSIC, Madrid)29/03/2012, 11:00Diffraction and vector mesonsLipatov's high-energy effective action is a very promising tool for computations in the Regge limit beyond leading order. Its use has been however restricted to tree-level calculations for many years. Recently a regularization/subtraction prescription was proposed that allows to extend the formalism to deal with loops in a consistent way. We illustrate the procedure with the computation of the...Go to contribution page
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Hans Jozef H Van Haevermaet (University of Antwerp (BE))29/03/2012, 11:00Hadronic final statesCharacterization of the underlying event in p-p collisions in CMSGo to contribution page
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Jernej Kamenik (Jozef Stefan Institute)29/03/2012, 11:00Electroweak and searches/heavy flavoursFollowing recent intriguing experimental results on top quark pair production from the Tevatron I review the present status of new physics explanations put forward to explain the experimental observations deviating from standard model predictions. All proposals face severe constraints from precisely measured flavor, electroweak and high pt collider observables. Possible future measurements at...Go to contribution page
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Daniel Schulte (CERN)29/03/2012, 11:00Future of DIS/structure functions
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Mr Wilco den Dunnen (VU University Amsterdam)29/03/2012, 11:00Spin physicsWe investigate the possible role of linearly polarized gluons in Higgs production from unpolarized pp collisions. The angular independent transverse momentum distribution of the produced Higgs boson is found to exhibit a modulation (max 30%) with respect to the naive, unpolarized expectation, with the sign depending on the CP nature of the Higgs boson. The transverse momentum distribution of a...Go to contribution page
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Elisa Musto (Universita e INFN (IT)), Dr elisa musto (ATLAS)29/03/2012, 11:18Electroweak and searches/heavy flavoursMerged abstract: "Limit on the branching fraction for the rare B-decay Bs->mumu in ATLAS" "Exclusive B-Decays in ATLAS"Go to contribution page
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Christopher Braun (Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen (DE))29/03/2012, 11:20Spin physicsFor each quark flavour three independent parton distribution functions (PDF) are necessary to describe the nucleon at twist-two level, the quark distribution f1(x), the helicity distribution g1(x) and the transversity distribution h1(x). The transversity distribution function is chiral-odd and therefore is not accessible in deep inelastic scattering (DIS). However, h1(x) can be observed in...Go to contribution page
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Dr Arthur Moraes (University of Glasgow (GB))29/03/2012, 11:20Hadronic final statesThe majority of proton-proton collisions at the LHC contain only soft, low transverse-momentum scatters. Such scatters also occur between the remnants of the protons in conjunction with short-distance, high momentum scatters. Measurements of soft particle production and energy flow are presented fir a wide range of different kinematic selections; correlations between the produced...Go to contribution page
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Dr Marat Siddikov (UTFSM)29/03/2012, 11:20Diffraction and vector mesonsIn this talk we present the results of the diffractive single-pion production on the protons and nuclei (both for the coherent and incoherent cases). We demonstrate that all the evaluations which are based on Adler relation (AR) are valid only in the region up to 10 GeV, in the regime of short lifetime of heavy hadronic fluctuations. At higher energies, when all the relevant time scales...Go to contribution page
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Lucia Grillo29/03/2012, 11:36Electroweak and searches/heavy flavoursWe report recent results from indirect searches for BSM physics using flavor processes in the whole sample of 9.6 fb^-1 collected by CDF in Tevatron Run II. These include the final measurements of flavor-changing-neutral-current, rare B-> mu^+ mu^- and B-> K mu^+ mu^- decays, the final measurements of the bottom-strange mixing phase (phi_s) using Bs->J/Psi Phi decays, measurements of the...Go to contribution page
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Dr Jeffrey Berger (Penn State University (USA))29/03/2012, 11:40Diffraction and vector mesonsIn previous numerical work the solution to the BK evolution equation with impact parameter dependence was calculated with modeled confinement effects. This solution is used to calculate diffractive cross sections for the vector mesons J/Psi, Rho, and Phi. In order to bring the numerical results into agreement with HERA data modification to the photon wavefunction is necessary. This...Go to contribution page
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Aurore Courtoy (IFPA, AGO Dpt., Universite de Liege)29/03/2012, 11:40Spin physicsWe report on the first extraction of interference fragmentation functions from the semi-inclusive production of two hadron pairs in back-to-back jets in $e^+e^-$ annihilation. A nonzero asymmetry in the correlation of azimuthal orientations of opposite $\pi^+\pi^-$ pairs is related to the transverse polarization of fragmenting quarks through a significant polarized dihadron fragmentation...Go to contribution page
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Dmytro Volyanskyy (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (DE))29/03/2012, 11:40Hadronic final statesWe present the results on the energy flow measured with minimum-bias data collected by the LHCb experiment in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$~TeV for inclusive minimum bias interactions, hard scattering processes and events with enhanced or suppressed fractions of diffractive contributions. The measurements are performed in the pseudorapidity range $2<\eta<5$ which corresponds to the main...Go to contribution page
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Olaf Behnke (DESY)29/03/2012, 11:40Future of DIS/structure functions
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Dr Marco Bomben (LPNHE - Univ. P. et Marie Curie (Paris VI) (FR) & CNRS)29/03/2012, 11:54Electroweak and searches/heavy flavoursMerged abstract: "Searches for new physics in CP-violation at BABAR" "Lepton-number and lepton-flavor violation in B decays at BABAR"Go to contribution page
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Christian Hoeppner (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))29/03/2012, 12:00Spin physicsLepton-nucleon scattering experiments are performed to investigate the (spin-)structure of nucleons. The theoretical framework for the interpretation of such measurements is perturbative QCD (pQCD). In this contribution we present the measurement of the cross section for the quasi-real photoproduction of charged hadrons with high transverse momenta in muon-deuteron scattering at COMPASS...Go to contribution page
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Anna Zsigmond (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU))29/03/2012, 12:00Hadronic final statesInelastic cross section measurement in p-p collisions in CMSGo to contribution page
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Dr Krzysztof Kutak (Instytut Fizyki Jadrowej Polskiej Akademii Nauk)29/03/2012, 12:00Diffraction and vector mesonsMotivated by the regime of QCD explored nowadays at LHC where both the total energy of collision and momenta transfers are high, evolution equations of high energy factorization are investigated. Briefly we overview results obtained so far for proton proton collisions within high energy factorization approach for jet related observables and we give some predictions for proton lead. This...Go to contribution page
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Anna Stasto (Penn State)29/03/2012, 12:10Future of DIS/structure functions
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Franco Simonetto (Universita e INFN (IT))29/03/2012, 12:12Electroweak and searches/heavy flavoursAbstract missingGo to contribution page
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Dr Michal Deak (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)29/03/2012, 12:20Diffraction and vector mesonsWe compare two Monte Carlo implementations of resummation schemes for the description of parton evolution at small values of Bjorken x. One of them if based on the BFKL evolution equation. The other one is based on the CCFM partonic kernel where QCD coherence effects are introduced. It has been argued that both approaches agree with each other in the x to 0 limit. We show that this is not the...Go to contribution page
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Mrs Melanie Pfeuffer (University of Regensburg)29/03/2012, 12:20Spin physicsWe consider the cross section for the photoproduction reaction gamma + p -> h+ X in fixed-target scattering at COMPASS, where the hadron is produced at large transverse momentum. We investigate the role played by higher-order corrections to the cross section. In particular we adress large logarithmic ``threshold'' corrections to the partonic cross sections, which we resum to all orders.Go to contribution page
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Christian Roehr (K)29/03/2012, 12:20Hadronic final statesWe review the modelling of multiple interactions in the event generator Herwig++ and study implications of recent tuning efforts to Tevatron and LHC data. A crucial ingredient to a successful description of minimum bias and underlying event observables is a model for colour reconnection. Improvements to this model inspired by statistical physics are presented.Go to contribution page
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Amanda Sarkar (University of Oxford (GB)), Pedro Jimenez-Delgado (University of Zürich), Ringaile Placakyte (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))30/03/2012, 09:00
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Paul Richard Newman (University of Birmingham (GB)), elke-caroline Aschenauer (BNL)30/03/2012, 09:40
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Dimitri Colferai (Unknown), Marta Ruspa (Universita e INFN (IT)), Richard Polifka (University of Toronto (CA))30/03/2012, 10:50
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Dr David South (DESY), Hwi Dong Yoo (Purdue University (US))30/03/2012, 11:30
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Jan-Christopher Winter, Klaus Rabbertz (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)), Krzysztof Nowak (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))30/03/2012, 13:30
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Ingo Schienbein (Universite Joseph Fourier), Jolanta Brodzicka (INP PAS Krakow), Massimo Corradi (Universita e INFN (IT))30/03/2012, 14:10
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Dr Kresimir Kumericki (University of Zagreb), Marc Schlegel (University of Tuebingen), Sergey Yaschenko (DESY)30/03/2012, 15:20
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Max Klein30/03/2012, 16:00
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Aharon Levy (Unknown)30/03/2012, 16:40
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Ian Brock (Universitaet Bonn (DE))30/03/2012, 16:50
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Andre Hoang
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Jochen BartelsDiffraction and vector mesonsI report on a theoretical study of the Drell Yan production process in the region of very small x. Particular attention is given to the breakdown of factorization.Go to contribution page
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Markus Diehl (DESY)
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Boris Ermolaev (IFMO Inst. of Fine Mechanics and Optics)Structure functionsAbstract: We show that both the $k_T$- and collinear factorization for DIS structure functions can be obtained by consecutive reductions of the more general factorization of the Compton scattering amplitude. Each of these reductions an approximation valid under certain assumptions. In particular, the transitions to the $k_T$- factorization is possible when the virtualities of the partons...Go to contribution page
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Konstantin Goulianos (Rockefeller University (US))Diffraction and vector mesonsNew results on the recoil antiproton 4-momentum transfer distribution, t, and a search for a diffractive dip in proton-antiproton inclusive and dijet diffractive production are presented in the range 0<|t|<4 (GeV/c)2, measured by CDF II at √1.96 TeV. The results are compared with similar measurements from diffractive deep inelastic scattering experiments at HERA, diffractive pp collisions at...Go to contribution page
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Simonetta Liuti (University of Virginia)Spin physicsExclusive $\pi^o$ electroproduction from nucleons was suggested in as a method for extracting from experiment the tensor charge, transversity and other quantities related to chiral odd combinations of generalized parton distributions. In this contribution we explain the details of the process: {\it i)} the connection between the helicity description and the cartesian basis; {\it ii)}...Go to contribution page
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Klaus Johannes Reygers (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))
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Oliver Kortner (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut) (D)
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Daniel De Florian (Laboratorio de Fisica Teorica Departamento de Fisica)
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