Light ion collisions at the LHC - 2025

from Monday, 1 December 2025 (09:00) to Wednesday, 3 December 2025 (18:00)
CERN (6/2-024)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
1 Dec 2025
2 Dec 2025
3 Dec 2025
AM
09:00 Welcome  
09:10
Machine and experimental soft-probes reports - You Zhou (Niels Bohr Institute (DK)) (until 10:40)
09:10 Overview of performance of the 2025 oxygen and neon run - Theodoros Argyropoulos (CERN)  
09:25 ALICE overview soft - Emil Gorm Nielsen (University of Copenhagen (DK))  
09:40 ATLAS overview soft - Blair Daniel Seidlitz (Columbia University (US))  
09:55 CMS overview soft - Aryaa Dattamunsi (Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IN))  
10:10 LHCb overview soft - Zhengchen Lian (Tsinghua University (CN))  
10:25 STAR overview soft - Prof. Chunjian Zhang (Fudan University (CN))  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Soft Physics in Light-Ion Collisions (until 12:15)
11:00 Predictions for light-ions - Wenbin Zhao (Peking University)  
11:15 Predictions for light-ions - Dr Wilke Van Der Schee (CERN)  
11:30 Longitudinal structure of light-ion collisions - Andreas Kirchner  
11:45 Light-ions with McDipper initial conditions - Oscar Garcia-Montero (Universität Bielefeld)  
12:00 Flow in light ion collisions from kinetic theory and inferences on hydrodynamisation - Clemens Werthmann (Ghent University)  
09:00
Hard Probes and nPDFs in Light-Ion Collisions I - Dennis Perepelitsa (University of Colorado Boulder) (until 10:05)
09:00 Status and perspectives of nPDFs for light-ions - Petja Kalle Matias Paakkinen  
09:20 Nuclear PDFs from the nCTEQ25 global analysis and potential impact of light ion collisions at the LHC - Katrin Greve  
09:35 No-quenching baseline computations for light-ion collisions - Jannis Gebhard (Heidelberg University)  
09:50 ALICE overview hard probes - Florian Jonas (CERN)  
10:05 --- Coffee break ---
10:35
Hard Probes and nPDFs in Light-Ion Collisions II - Dennis Perepelitsa (University of Colorado Boulder) (until 11:20)
10:35 ATLAS overview hard probes - Anne Marie Sickles (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))  
10:50 CMS overview hard probes - Cristian Baldenegro (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
11:05 STAR / sPHENIX overview hard probes - Sijie Zhang  
11:20
Topical discussions - Anthony Robert Timmins (University of Houston (US)) (until 11:50)
11:20 Discussion: Centrality determination in light ions  
11:50 --- Lunch break ---
09:00
Machine Performance and Science Cases for Future Ion Runs - Anthony Robert Timmins (University of Houston (US)) (until 10:10)
09:00 Overview of the planned R&D of future ions post-LS3 in the injector chain - Maciej Slupecki (CERN)  
09:20 Charting the Luminosity Capabilities of the CERN Large Hadron Collider with Various Nuclear Species - Dr Roderik Bruce (CERN)  
09:40 Beam transmutation in light-ion collisions - John Jowett (GSI - Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung GmbH (DE))  
09:55 The case of Nuclear Matrix Elements of 0νββ decay - Giuliano Giacalone  
10:10 --- Coffee break ---
10:40
Discussion on the 2026 Ion Run and Beyond -Dr Georgios Krintiras (The University of Kansas (US)) (until 12:00)
10:40 LHC performance in 2025 & what comes next - Chiara Zampolli (CERN) Christopher Young (CERN)  
10:50 Light ions with ALICE 3 - David Dobrigkeit Chinellato (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
11:10 Looking for the path towards saturation at the LHC - Christophe Royon (The University of Kansas (US))  
11:25 Discussion  
PM
12:15 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Soft Physics in Light-Ion Collisions (until 15:30)
14:00 Collective Dynamics and Opacity Estimation in OO Collision Systems via CoMBolt-ITA - Seyed Farid Taghavi (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))  
14:15 Causality Constraints to Multi-Particle Cumulants: Testing Different System Sizes at the LHC - Isabella Danhoni  
14:30 Collective flow in transport models - Lucas Constantin  
14:45 Discussion: Do we understand collectivity in small systems? - Sunil Jaiswal Oscar Garcia-Montero (Universität Bielefeld) Raimond Snellings (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Nuclear structure (until 17:40)
16:00 Toward lattice simulations of strongly-correlated nuclear systems with high-fidelity chiral interactions - Dean Lee  
16:20 Visualizing nuclear correlations: ab initio shapes of nuclei and application to 22Ne - Benjamin Bally (TU Darmstadt)  
16:45 The shape of 20Ne from low energy nuclear physics measurements - Nico Orce  
17:05 Discussion: Imaging nuclei in high-energy collisions  
18:00 --- Reception ---
13:30
Energy loss in light ion collisions (until 15:00)
13:30 Light-Ion Suppression from pQCD Energy Loss with Small-System Corrections - Cole Faraday  
13:45 Energy loss predictions in the color-coherence framework - Adam Takacs (Heidelberg University)  
14:00 Leveraging light-ion collisions to eke out the path-length dependence of energy-loss - Isobel Kolbé (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))  
14:15 Jet quenching and medium response for OO collisions in the hybrid model - Arjun Srinivasan Kudinoor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  
14:30 Early Colour-Coherence Effects in Jet Quenching - Liliana Apolinario (LIP (PT))  
14:45 Path length dependence of radiative energy loss - Francois Arleo (Subatech, Nantes)  
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:30
Energy loss in light ion collisions (until 16:45)
15:30 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)  
16:45
SMOG2 & cosmic rays (until 17:45)
16:45 Perspectives and opportunities for SMOG2 - Chiara Lucarelli (CERN)  
17:00 Report from LHCf and cosmic showers - Eugenio Berti (Universita e INFN, Firenze (IT))  
17:15 Expected impacts of light-ion collisions on models of cosmic showers - Felix Riehn (Technische Universitaet Dortmund (DE))  
19:00 --- Workshop dinner ---
12:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 TH Colloqium: Light-Ion Collisions - Bridging Small and Large QCD Systems - Aleksas Mazeliauskas   (4/3-006 - TH Conference Room)