Light ion collisions at the LHC - 2025

from Monday, December 1, 2025 (9:00 AM) to Wednesday, December 3, 2025 (6:00 PM)
CERN (6/2-024)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Dec 1, 2025
Dec 2, 2025
Dec 3, 2025
AM
9:00 AM Welcome  
9:10 AM
Machine and experimental soft-probes reports - You Zhou (Niels Bohr Institute (DK)) (until 10:40 AM)
9:10 AM Overview of performance of the 2025 oxygen and neon run - Theodoros Argyropoulos (CERN)  
9:25 AM ALICE overview soft - Emil Gorm Nielsen (University of Copenhagen (DK))  
9:40 AM ATLAS overview soft - Blair Daniel Seidlitz (Columbia University (US))  
9:55 AM CMS overview soft - Aryaa Dattamunsi (Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IN))  
10:10 AM LHCb overview soft - Zhengchen Lian (Tsinghua University (CN))  
10:25 AM STAR overview soft - Prof. Chunjian Zhang (Fudan University (CN))  
10:40 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Soft Physics in Light-Ion Collisions (until 12:15 PM)
11:00 AM Predictions for light-ions - Wenbin Zhao (Peking University)  
11:15 AM Predictions for light-ions - Dr Wilke Van Der Schee (CERN)  
11:30 AM Longitudinal structure of light-ion collisions - Andreas Kirchner  
11:45 AM Light-ions with McDipper initial conditions - Oscar Garcia-Montero (Universität Bielefeld)  
12:00 PM Flow in light ion collisions from kinetic theory and inferences on hydrodynamisation - Clemens Werthmann (Ghent University)  
9:00 AM
Hard Probes and nPDFs in Light-Ion Collisions I - Dennis Perepelitsa (University of Colorado Boulder) (until 10:05 AM)
9:00 AM Status and perspectives of nPDFs for light-ions - Petja Kalle Matias Paakkinen  
9:20 AM Nuclear PDFs from the nCTEQ25 global analysis and potential impact of light ion collisions at the LHC - Katrin Greve  
9:35 AM No-quenching baseline computations for light-ion collisions - Jannis Gebhard (Heidelberg University)  
9:50 AM ALICE overview hard probes - Florian Jonas (CERN)  
10:05 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:35 AM
Hard Probes and nPDFs in Light-Ion Collisions II - Dennis Perepelitsa (University of Colorado Boulder) (until 11:20 AM)
10:35 AM ATLAS overview hard probes - Anne Marie Sickles (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))  
10:50 AM CMS overview hard probes - Cristian Baldenegro (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
11:05 AM STAR / sPHENIX overview hard probes - Sijie Zhang  
11:20 AM
Topical discussions - Anthony Robert Timmins (University of Houston (US)) (until 11:50 AM)
11:20 AM Discussion: Centrality determination in light ions  
11:50 AM --- Lunch break ---
9:00 AM
Machine Performance and Science Cases for Future Ion Runs - Anthony Robert Timmins (University of Houston (US)) (until 10:10 AM)
9:00 AM Overview of the planned R&D of future ions post-LS3 in the injector chain - Maciej Slupecki (CERN)  
9:20 AM Charting the Luminosity Capabilities of the CERN Large Hadron Collider with Various Nuclear Species - Dr Roderik Bruce (CERN)  
9:40 AM Beam transmutation in light-ion collisions - John Jowett (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))  
9:55 AM The case of Nuclear Matrix Elements of 0νββ decay - Giuliano Giacalone  
10:10 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:40 AM
Discussion on the 2026 Ion Run and Beyond -Dr Georgios Krintiras (The University of Kansas (US)) (until 12:00 PM)
10:40 AM LHC performance in 2025 & what comes next - Chiara Zampolli (CERN) Christopher Young (CERN)  
10:50 AM Light ions with ALICE 3 - David Dobrigkeit Chinellato (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
11:10 AM Looking for the path towards saturation at the LHC - Christophe Royon (The University of Kansas (US))  
11:25 AM Discussion  
PM
12:15 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM
Soft Physics in Light-Ion Collisions (until 3:30 PM)
2:00 PM Collective Dynamics and Opacity Estimation in OO Collision Systems via CoMBolt-ITA - Seyed Farid Taghavi (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))  
2:15 PM Causality Constraints to Multi-Particle Cumulants: Testing Different System Sizes at the LHC - Isabella Danhoni  
2:30 PM Collective flow in transport models - Lucas Constantin  
2:45 PM Discussion: Do we understand collectivity in small systems? - Sunil Jaiswal Oscar Garcia-Montero (Universität Bielefeld) Raimond Snellings (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM
Nuclear structure (until 5:40 PM)
4:00 PM Toward lattice simulations of strongly-correlated nuclear systems with high-fidelity chiral interactions - Dean Lee  
4:20 PM Visualizing nuclear correlations: ab initio shapes of nuclei and application to 22Ne - Benjamin Bally (TU Darmstadt)  
4:45 PM The shape of 20Ne from low energy nuclear physics measurements - Nico Orce  
5:05 PM Discussion: Imaging nuclei in high-energy collisions  
6:00 PM --- Reception ---
1:30 PM
Energy loss in light ion collisions (until 3:00 PM)
1:30 PM Light-Ion Suppression from pQCD Energy Loss with Small-System Corrections - Cole Faraday  
1:45 PM Energy loss predictions in the color-coherence framework - Adam Takacs (Heidelberg University)  
2:00 PM Leveraging light-ion collisions to eke out the path-length dependence of energy-loss - Isobel Kolbé (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))  
2:15 PM Jet quenching and medium response for OO collisions in the hybrid model - Arjun Srinivasan Kudinoor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  
2:30 PM Early Colour-Coherence Effects in Jet Quenching - Liliana Apolinario (LIP (PT))  
2:45 PM Path length dependence of radiative energy loss - Francois Arleo (Subatech, Nantes)  
3:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:30 PM
Energy loss in light ion collisions (until 4:45 PM)
3:30 PM Discussion: What have we learnt about hard probes by varying the system size? - Dennis Perepelitsa (University of Colorado Boulder) Yen-Jie Lee (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)) William Horowitz (University of Cape Town) Carlota Andres (CPHT, Ecole polytechnique)  
4:45 PM
SMOG2 & cosmic rays (until 5:45 PM)
4:45 PM Perspectives and opportunities for SMOG2 - Chiara Lucarelli (CERN)  
5:00 PM Report from LHCf and cosmic showers - Eugenio Berti (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))  
5:15 PM Expected impacts of light-ion collisions on models of cosmic showers - Felix Riehn (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))  
7:00 PM --- Workshop dinner ---
12:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM TH Colloqium: Light-Ion Collisions - Bridging Small and Large QCD Systems - Aleksas Mazeliauskas   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)