Diffraction and Low-x 2026

from Sunday, 6 September 2026 (17:00) to Saturday, 12 September 2026 (14:45)
Hotel Akti Taygetos

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
6 Sept 2026
7 Sept 2026
8 Sept 2026
9 Sept 2026
10 Sept 2026
11 Sept 2026
AM
08:45 Welcome - Prof. ALESSANDRO PAPA (Università della Calabria & INFN-Cosenza) Christophe Royon (The University of Kansas (US)) Dr Georgios Krintiras (The University of Kansas (US))  
09:00
Low x, PDF session I (until 10:40)
09:00 Introduction to PDF session - amanda sarkar Amanda Sarkar (University of Oxford (GB))  
09:25 Measurements sensitive to PDF with ATLAS - Peter John Bussey (University of Glasgow (GB)) Peter John Bussey (University of Glasgow (GB))  
09:50 QCD measurements from DIS at future colliders - Stephen Maple (University of Birmingham (GB)) Stephen Maple  
10:15 PDFs at approximate aN3LO, - Thomas Cridge (DESY)  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:10
Low x, PDF session II (until 13:00)
11:10 Experimental issues - Patrick Louis S Connor (CERN)  
11:35 Recent CMS results relevant for PDFs at low-x - Subash Chandra Behera (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))  
12:00 Physics opportunities with low pile-up samples - Zhiyong Ye (ZJU - Zhejiang University (CN))  
12:25 Discussion session: low x, PDFs - Patrick Louis S Connor (CERN) Amanda Sarkar (University of Oxford (GB)) amanda sarkar  
09:00
Low x, nuclear PDFs, saturation session I (until 10:30)
09:00 Entanglement in photon-nucleus scattering at the EIC and LHC - Michael Fucilla (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405, Orsay, France) Michael Fucilla  
09:25 DGLAP resummation in JIMWLK - Michael Lublinsky (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (IL)) Prof. Michael Lublinsky  
09:50 Evolution and Gaussian truncation of Small-x TMDs - Florian Cougoulic (SUBATECH) Florian Cougoulic  
10:10 Scattering of entangled states - Yair Mulian (Sami Shamoon College of Engineering)  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Low x, nuclear PDFs, saturation session II (until 13:10)
11:00 Probing gluon saturation via hard processes - Edmond Iancu  
11:25 QCD evolutions in diffractive dijet production in photon-nucleus collisions - Prof. Shu-Yi Wei (Shandong University)  
11:50 From the target to the projectile: one-loop evolution of quark TMD - Jamal Jalilian-Marian Jamal Jalilian-Marian (Baruch College (US))  
12:10 Photo-production of a heavy-quark pair: interplay between Sudakov and saturation effects - Cyrille Marquet (CPHT - Ecole Polytechnique)  
12:30 Generalized transverse momentum distributions at small-x - Sanjin Benić  
12:50 Discussion: saturation, nuclear PDFs - Gian Michele Innocenti (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)) Edmond Iancu  
09:00
Spin physics session I (until 10:45)
09:00 Introduction - Barbara Badelek (University of Warsaw (PL)) Umberto D'Alesio (Department of Physics, University of Cagliari) Umberto D'Alesio  
09:20 Present status of TMDs: extractions and recent developments - Dr Valerio Bertone (C.E.A. Paris-Saclay)  
09:45 Present status of GPD/DVCS: measurements and recent results - Dr Silvia Niccolai (CNRS)  
10:25 Probing Generalized Parton Distributions via 2→3 Exclusive Reactions - Samuel WALLON  
10:45 --- Coffee break ---
11:15
Spin physics session II (until 13:00)
11:15 Present Status of Helicity and TMDs for Hadrons: Measurements and Recent Results - Dr Ting Lin (Texas A & M University) Ting Lin  
11:40 Glancing at the upcoming future of hadron tomography - Marco Radici (INFN) Marco Radici Marco Radici  
12:00 The LHCspin project - Barbara Lopes Pereira (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))  
12:20 Measurement of Transverse Single Spin Asymmetry (AN) of Neutral Pions using Transversely Polarized pp collisions at STAR - Ananya Paul (University of California, Riverside)  
12:40 Discussion: spin physics - Umberto D'Alesio (Department of Physics, University of Cagliari) Umberto D'Alesio Barbara Badelek (University of Warsaw (PL))  
09:00
UPC and gamma gamma physics session I (until 10:30)
09:00 Coherent vector meson production at the LHC - Daniela Hikari Yano  
09:25 Recent results from PPS and prospects at high luminosity - Michael Pitt (CERN)  
09:50 Breit-Wheeler process at RHIC - Wangmei Zha (USTC/BNL) Wangmei Zha (University of Science and Technology of China (CN))  
10:10 Breit-Wheeler process at LHC - Shuai Yang (South China Normal University) Shuai Yang (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Shuai Yang (South China Normal University)  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
UPC and gamma gamma physics session II (until 13:00)
11:00 Fully heavy tetraquarks: prospects for Ultraperipheral Collisions - Wolfgang Schaefer  
11:20 Searching the Odderon in UPCs - Nicolas Crepet (CERN) Nicolas CREPET  
11:40 Open heavy-flavor production in UPCs at the LHC - Gian Michele Innocenti (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
12:05 Discussion: UPC and gamma gamma physics - Zaochen Ye (South China Normal University) Cyrille Marquet (CPHT - Ecole Polytechnique)  
09:00
QCD and hadronic final states session IV (until 10:25)
09:00 Coalescence production of sexaquark in p+p collisions at 7 TeV - Sonia Kabana (Instituto De Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá (CL))  
09:20 Toponium production at the LHC - Maximilian Horzela (Georg August Universitaet Goettingen (DE))  
09:45 Maximal Entanglement: from QCD vacuum to confinement - Dr Zhoudunming Tu (BNL)  
10:05 Instanton generator - Tomas Sykora (Charles University (CZ))  
10:25 --- Coffee break ---
10:55
Diffraction in pp and AA session III (until 13:00)
10:55 Pomeron Spin with GRANIITTI MC and AI - Matti Mikael Mieskolainen (CERN) Matti Mikael Mieskolainen (Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP))  
11:15 Tsallis series expansion for elastic pp and ppbar collisions - Tamás Ferenc Csörgö (Wigner RCP Budapest and MATE Institute of Technology, Gyöngyös, Hungary) Tamas Csorgo (MATE Institute of Technology Karoly Robert Campus (HU))  
11:40 Geometric Scaling and the Odderon - Michal Praszalowicz (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)  
12:05 Exclusive electroproduction of dijets using generalized parton distributions - Antoni Szczurek  
12:25 Discussion: diffraction in pp and AA, final states, flavor jets, jet substructure - Antonio Vilela Pereira (Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (CBPF)) Antonio Vilela Pereira (CBPF - Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (BR)) Michal Praszalowicz (Jagiellonian University, Krakow) Dimitri Colferai (University of Florence (Italy)) Dimitri Colferai Christophe Royon (The University of Kansas (US))  
PM
17:00 Registration  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:30
QCD and hadronic final states session I (until 16:00)
14:30 Jet cross section measurements at the LHC - Alberto Rescia Alberto Rescia (Università della Calabria & INFN (IT))  
14:55 Theoretical Uncertainties on the determination of the strong coupling from Z pT - Thomas Cridge (DESY)  
15:20 gg->ZH at NLO+NLL - Pulak Banerjee (IIT Guwahati) Pulak Banerjee (INFN Cosenza) Pulak Banerjee (NISER Bhubaneswar)  
15:40 Virtual NLO corrections to the Drell–Yan impact factor in the BFKL approach - Ada Polizzi  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
QCD and hadronic final states session II (until 18:30)
16:30 Vector Boson Production at the LHC - Kristin Lohwasser (University of Sheffield (GB))  
16:55 Vector boson + jet production in CMS and ATLAS - Nico Timothy Toikka (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))  
17:20 Four fermion soft emission in QCD hard scattering - Dimitri Colferai  
17:40 Constraining the gluon TMD in the proton by the Drell-Yan structure functions - Leszek Motyka  
18:00 Discussion session: hadronic final states, jet, vector boson - Dimitri Colferai Christophe Royon (The University of Kansas (US))  
18:30 Underwater geoarchaeological and geophysical research in the Bay of Methoni - George Papatheodorou  
19:30 --- Reception ---
13:10 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Low x, nuclear PDFs, saturation session III (UPC) (until 16:00)
14:30 Inclusive and diffractive open-charm photoproduction in UPCs with gamma-A FONLL - Gian Michele Innocenti (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
14:55 Incoherent high mass VM production at LHC - Adam Matyja (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))  
15:20 Gluon saturation effects in exclusive heavy vector meson and charm, beauty photoproduction - Christophe Royon (The University of Kansas (US))  
15:45 Discussion: UPC, saturation - Edmond Iancu Gian Michele Innocenti (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
QCD and hadronic final states session III (until 18:30)
16:30 Jet substructure and jet shapes at the LHC - Soumyadip Barman (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (IN))  
16:55 Energy energy correlator measurements at the LHC - Nico Timothy Toikka (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))  
17:20 Energy evolution of the mini-jet cross sections at NNLO - Masa Kotnik (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI), Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (SI))  
17:40 Study of the flow effects at LHCb - Marcin Kucharczyk (Syracuse) Marcin Kucharczyk (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))  
18:05 Discussion session: hadronic final state, jet substructure, energy energy correlators, saturation - Gian Michele Innocenti (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)) Edmond Iancu Dimitri Colferai (University of Florence (Italy)) Dimitri Colferai Christophe Royon (The University of Kansas (US))  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:30 --- Workshop tour ---
19:30 --- Workshop dinner ---
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Diffraction in pp and AA session I (until 16:05)
14:30 Overview of ATLAS forward proton detectors: status, performance and new physics results - Dr Marek Lewicki (University of Warsaw) Maciej Piotr Lewicki (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))  
14:55 Recent soft QCD and non-perturbative measurements with ATLAS - Tomas Sykora (Charles University (CZ))  
15:20 Results on diffractive and photoproduction processes with CMS - Mr István Szanyi (Eötvös Loránd University) Istvan Szanyi (MATE KRC, University of Kansas, Wigner RCP)  
15:45 Overview of TOTEM/PPS setup on LHC: status, performance, results - Dmitry Druzhkin (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (DE))  
16:05 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Diffraction in pp and AA session II (until 18:30)
16:30 Recent TOTEM results - Frigyes Nemes (MTA KFKI) Frigyes Janos Nemes (CERN (also at Wigner RCP Budapest, Hungary))  
16:55 Results on diffractive and photoproduction processes with LHCb - Izabela Juszczak (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))  
17:20 Central Exclusive Production with the STAR detector at RHIC - Leszek Adamczyk (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL)) Leszek Adamczyk (AGH University of Krakow (PL))  
17:40 Discussion: diffraction in pp and AA - Antonio Vilela Pereira (Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (CBPF)) Antonio Vilela Pereira (CBPF - Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (BR)) Michal Praszalowicz (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Diffraction in ep and eA - EIC session I (until 16:05)
14:30 The ePIC Detector and Physics Program at the Electron–Ion Collider - Carlos MUNOZ CAMACHO  
14:55 Forward physics with ePIC - Alexander Jentsch (Brookhaven National Laboratory, EIC, STAR) Alexander Jentsch  
15:20 Exclusive and Diffractive Physics with e-A Collisions at the ePIC Experiment - Rongrong Ma (Yale University (US)) Rongrong Ma (BNL)  
15:45 Geometric Scaling and Centrality at the EIC - Rojae Mighty  
16:05 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Diffraction in ep and eA - EIC session II (until 18:10)
16:30 A second detector for the Electron-Ion Collider - Pawel Nadel-Turonski (University of South Carolina)  
16:55 Diffractive deep inelastic scattering in the dipole picture at NLO - Abhiram Kaushik Badrinarayanan (University of Jyvaskyla)  
17:15 Discussion: diffraction in ep and eA - Janusz Chwastowski (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL)) Sanjin Benić  
18:10 --- Short break ---
18:25 Student and post-doc talk award  
18:35 Low x workshop 2027 - Janusz Chwastowski (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL)) Maciej Piotr Lewicki (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL)) Michal Praszalowicz (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)  
18:45 Workshop conclusion - Christophe Royon (The University of Kansas (US)) Prof. ALESSANDRO PAPA (Università della Calabria & INFN-Cosenza) Dr Georgios Krintiras (The University of Kansas (US))