Physics at LHC - 2008

from Monday 29 September 2008 (08:00) to Saturday 4 October 2008 (15:00)
Split, Croatia

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
29 Sept 2008
30 Sept 2008
1 Oct 2008
2 Oct 2008
3 Oct 2008
4 Oct 2008
AM
09:00
Plenary Session (until 10:45)
09:00 Opening ceremony  
09:15 Status of LHC - Jos Engelen (CERN)  
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09:45 Status of ATLAS - Peter Jenni (CERN)  
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10:15 Status of CMS - Tejinder Virdee (CERN/Imperial College)  
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10:45 --- Coffee break ---
11:10
Plenary Session 2 (until 12:45)
11:10 Understanding EW symmetry breaking at the LHC - Christophe Grojean (CERN-PH-TH)  
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11:45 Tevatron Higgs boson results - Jianming Qian (University of Michigan)  
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12:15 Higgs boson at the LHC - Louis Fayard (LAL Orsay)  
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09:00
Plenary Session (until 10:15)
09:00 LHC Commissioning - Lyn Evans (CERN)  
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09:25 ATLAS Commissioning - Manuella Vincter (Carleton University)  
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09:50 CMS Commissioning - Ivan Mikulec (Institut fuer Hochenergiephysik (HEPHY))  
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10:15 --- Coffee break ---
10:45
Plenary Session 2 (until 12:40)
10:45 Search for new physics at HERA - Peter Schleper (Hamburg University, Institute for Experimental Physics)  
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11:10 Tevatron SUSY+BSM Results - David Toback (Texas A&M University)  
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11:40 SUSY at the LHC - Gheorghe Lungu (Rockefeller University)  
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12:10 LHC and the origin of neutrino mass - Goran Senjanovic (ICTP Trieste)  
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09:00
Plenary Session (until 10:15)
09:00 HERA structure functions - Claude Vallee (CPPM/DESY)  
Paper
09:25 Tevatron QCD physics - Bob Hirosky (University of Viginia)  
Paper
09:50 Tevatron top physics - Jeannine Wagner (CDF)  
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10:15 --- Coffee break ---
10:35
Plenary Session 2 (until 12:15)
10:35 QCD and top at LHC - Frank-Peter Schilling (University of Karlsruhe)  
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11:00 Monte Carlo ME/PS matching (theory) - Frank Krauss (Durham University)  
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11:25 Monte Carlo ME/PS matching (comparison with data) - Sabine Lammers (Columbia University)  
Paper
11:50 Higher order corrections in view of LHC - Richard Keith Ellis (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))  
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08:30
Plenary Session (until 10:00)
08:30 Tevatron EWK physics - Thomas Nunnemann (Fakultat fur Physik)  
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08:55 Electroweak physics at the LHC - Lucia Di Ciaccio (Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP))  
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09:20 First physics with ATLAS - Dirk Zerwas (LAL Orsay)  
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09:40 First physics with CMS - Martijn Mulders (CERN)  
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10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
Plenary Session 2 (until 12:15)
10:40 First physics with ALICE - Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster)  
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11:00 First physics with LHCb - Andreas Schopper (CERN)  
11:20 Diffractive Physics at the LHC: a theoretical overview - A. D. Martin (Durham Univ.)  
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11:50 Open issues in diffractive physics: what answers do we expect from the LHC - MARIO DEILE (CERN, PH-TOT)  
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08:30
Plenary Session (until 10:15)
08:30 B Factory Results - Tim Gershon (University of Warwick)  
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08:55 Tevatron B Physics Results - Karen Gibson (University of Pittsburgh)  
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09:20 Status and Potential of LHCb - Andrey GOLUTVIN (ITEP Moscow)  
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09:50 LHCb Commissioning - Olivier Callot (LAL-Orsay)  
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10:15 --- Coffee break ---
10:45
Plenary Session 2 (until 12:30)
10:45 RHIC overview - Julia Velkovska (julia.velkovska@vanderbilt.edu)  
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11:10 Heavy Ions Physics (Theory) - Urs Wiedemann (CERN)  
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11:35 ALICE Status and Potential - Juergen Schukraft (CERN)  
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12:05 ALICE Commissioning - Sylvain Chapeland (CERN)  
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09:00
Plenary Session (until 10:35)
09:00 Scenarios beyond standard LHC physics - Gian Giudice (CERN)  
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09:35 Super LHC - Walter Scandale (CERN)  
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10:00 Detector upgrades for SLHC - Nigel Hessey (NIKHEF)  
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10:35 --- Coffee break ---
11:05
Plenary Session 2 (until 13:10)
11:05 Results From Astroparticle Physics - Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille (DAPNIA, Saclay)  
Paper
11:40 Thoughts about LHC physics - Edward Witten (Princeton)  
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12:25 Future perspectives in particle physics - Carlo Rubbia (CERN/INFN)  
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PM
12:45 Lunch  
14:30
Afternoon : Parallel “SUSY+BSM” Working Session (until 16:05)
14:30 Doubly charged higgsinos at LHC - Katri Huitu (University of Helsinki)  
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14:55 The BESS model revisited as an Higgsless Linear Moose @ LHC - Stefania De Curtis (INFN, Florence)  
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15:20 See-saw signals at the LHC - Borut Bajc (Institute Jozef Stefan, Ljubljana)  
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15:45 Searches for SUSY with lepton, jets, and missing ET - Carsten Hof (AACHEN)  
Paper
14:30
Afternoon: Parallel “Higgs” Working Session (until 16:00)
14:30 Higgs production at the LHC: selected results - Massimiliano Grazzini (INFN, Florence)  
Paper
14:55 Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry Breaking at the LHC - Francesco Sannino (Syddansk University)  
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15:20 Search for the SM Higgs Boson in the H-->ZZ* in 4 leptons at CMS - Daniele Trocino (Universita degli Studi di Torino-Universita & INFN, Torino)  
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15:40 SM H --> gamma gamma discovery potential with ATLAS - Yaquan Fang (University of Wisconsin)  
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16:05 --- Coffee break ---
16:25
Afternoon : Parallel “SUSY+BSM” Working Session (until 18:30)
16:25 Measurement of SUSY parameters in events using dileptons in ATLAS - Umberto De Sanctis (University of Milano)  
Paper
16:45 Search for heavy stable charged particles in CMS - Krzysztof Nawrocki (Soltan Institute for Nuclear Studies)  
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17:05 Vector Boson Scattering at high mass - Peter Sherwood (Departm.of Physics and Astronomy Univ.Coll.London - University C)  
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17:25 The discovery reach for mini-black holes with the ATLAS Detector at the LHC - Michiru Kaneda (Faculty of Science)  
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17:45 Prospects for discoveries of final states with dileptons, jets and no missing energy with ATLAS - Shanti Sue Wendler (University of Pittsburgh)  
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18:05 D0 SUSY/BSM searches - S. Muanza (CPPM Marseille)  
Paper
16:25
Afternoon: Parallel “Higgs” Working Session (until 18:30)
16:25 Discovery potential for the SM Higgs Boson in the H->WW*->2l2nu channel at CMS - Fabian Stoeckli (Institut fuer Teilchenphysik - ETH Eidgenossische Technische Hoc)  
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16:45 VBF SM Higgs boson search with ATLAS - Stefania Xella (Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics - Uni)  
17:05 Vector Boson Fusion Production of the SM Higgs Boson at the LHC - Monica Vazquez Acosta (Imperial College London)  
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17:25 Associated SM Higgs boson search with ATLAS - Inga Ludwig (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg)  
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17:45 Low mass Higgs boson at the Tevatron - Andrew Mehta (Oliver Lodge Laboratory-University of Liverpool)  
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18:05 Higgs boson at 160 GeV at the Tevatron - Marc Buehler (University of Virginia)  
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19:00 Reception by Mayor of Split  
12:40 Lunch  
14:30
Afternoon: Detector performance and early physics expectations (until 16:10)
14:30 Triggers for early physics at CMS - Pedrame Bargassa (Nuclear and Particle Physics Department)  
Paper
14:50 Alignment of the ATLAS Inner Detector tracking system - Regina Moles Valls (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC)-Universitat de Valencia)  
Paper
15:10 CMS Tracker Alignment and Implications on Physics Performance - Nhan Viet Tran (Johns Hopkins Univ.)  
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15:30 First physics with hadrons and the Underlying Event at CMS - Ferenc Sikler (KFKI Research Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics)  
Paper
15:50 Jet reconstruction with first data in ATLAS - Damir Lelas (University of Victoria)  
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16:10 --- Coffee break ---
16:40
Afternoon: Detector performance and early physics expectations 2 (until 18:20)
16:40 Jets and Missing Transverse Energy Reconstruction with CMS - Didar Dobur (INFN, Sezione di Pisa)  
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17:00 Electron and Photon Reconstruction and Identification with the ATLAS Detector - Emmanuel Turlay (LAL Orsay)  
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17:20 Inclusive W and Z production at LHC startup - Georgios Daskalakis (NCSR "Demokritos")  
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17:40 ATLAS Electroweak Measurements with early data - Kristin Lohwasser (University of Oxford)  
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18:00 Measurement of diboson production in early LHC data - Vuko Brigljevic (Institute Ruder Boskovic, Zagreb)  
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20:00 LHC public lecture and round table discussion  
12:15 Lunch  
14:00
Conference excursion (until 20:00)
14:00 Excursion to the town of Trogir with reception by Mayor of Trogir  
12:15 Lunch  
14:30
Afternoon Session (until 16:25)
14:30 TOTEM status - Karsten Eggert (Penn State University)  
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14:55 Status of the LHCf experiment - Alessia Tricomi (Dipartimento di Fisica)  
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15:15 Neutrinoless double beta decays of the top quark and other effects of heavy Majorana neutrinos. - Gad Eilam (Technion-Israel Institute of Technology)  
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15:40 Single top production and Vtb determination at LHC: a complete one-loop MSSM calculation - Claudio Verzegnassi (Univ. + INFN)  
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16:05 Forward physics with CMS - Monika Grothe (U Wisconsin)  
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16:25 --- Coffee break ---
16:55
Afternoon Session 2 (until 18:35)
16:55 b-tagging algorithm and performance in ATLAS - Laurent Vacavant (Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM))  
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17:15 Measurement of the Z boson plus two b-jets cross section in CMS with 100 pb^{-1} - Aruna Nayak (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR))  
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17:35 Top quark pair cross-section measurement at ATLAS - Wouter Verkerke (NIKHEF)  
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17:55 Top quark mass measurement with ATLAS - Pietro Gregorio Cavalleri (Lab.de Phys.Nucleaire et de Hautes Energie/LPNHE (LPNHE))  
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18:15 Single top cross section measurements in ATLAS - Benoit Clement (CERN)  
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18:35
Poster session (until 19:35)
18:35 Atlas trigger for first physics and beyond - Teresa Fonseca Martin (RHUL)  
18:35 Challenges in the detection of long lived particles with ATLAS: the Hidden valley scenario - Daniel Ventura (University of Washington, Seattle)  
18:35 Constraining parton distribution functions using the W charge asymmetry at the LHC - Jordi Duarte Campderros (IFCA - Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria-Consejo Sup. de Investig)  
18:35 Diboson production with ATLAS - Ljiljana Simic (Belgrade)  
18:35 Direct photons at ATLAS - F Bucci (Universite de Geneve)  
18:35 Hadronic Calibration for the ATLAS Jet Trigger - Nuno Miguel Goncalves Dos Anjos (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentaco e Fisica Experimental de Particulas)  
Poster
18:35 High-pt Jet Studies at CMS - Joanna Weng (CERN)  
18:35 Inclusive search for the SM Higgs Boson in the channel H -> gamma gamma at CMS - Federico Ferri (DSM/Irfu CEA/Saclay)  
18:35 Jet Finding and Reconstruction in CMS using Charged Tracks only - Paolo Azzurri (Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS))  
Poster
18:35 MC free calibration of LHCb RICH detectors using the \Lambda \to p \pi - Bogdan Paul Popovici (National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH)) Sabin Stoica (NIPNE)  
18:35 Minimum Bias Triggers at ATLAS - Regina Kwee (CERN/HUB) Sebastian Böser (University College London)  
18:35 Production of jets accompanied by W and Z bosons at LHC startup with CMS - Didar Dobur (INFN, Sezione di Pisa)  
18:35 Prospects for early dicoveries of high mass resonances with the ATLAS experiment at the LHC - Clement Helsens (DAPNIA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEA-Saclay))  
18:35 Search for di-lepton resonances and Wprimes with CMS - Dave Evans (Bristol (UK))  
18:35 Search for Wf in Lepton+Missing ET Final State with Early Data at ATLAS - Nenad Vranjes (Institute of Physics)  
18:35 Searching for new physics in events with three leptons with ATLAS - Katarina Pajchel (Oslo)  
18:35 Sensitivity to photon polarization in B_s -> \phi \gamma decays at LHCb - Lesya Shchutska (Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP))  
Paper
Poster
18:35 SM Higgs properties measurement with ATLAS - Bill Murray (Particle Physics)  
18:35 SM Higgs search in the 4-lepton final state with ATLAS - Alessia D'Orazio (Werner-Heisenberg-Institut-Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik-Unkno)  
18:35 SUSY search with b jets at ATLAS - Jelena Krstic (Institute of Physics) Marija Milosavljevic (Institute of Physics) Dragan Popovic (Institute of Physics)  
18:35 The reach of the ATLAS experiment in SUSY parameter space - Debra Lumb (Freiburg)  
18:35 Transverse momentum spectra of D- and B-mesons in hadron collisons at very high energies - Gennadi Lykasov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna)  
18:55 Jet Shapes at CMS - Pelin Kurt (Physics Department)  
18:55 QCD with Weak Bosons and Jets with ATLAS - Guillaume Kirsch (Oxford) Kristin Lohwasser (University of Oxford)  
12:30 Lunch  
14:30
Afternoon Working Session - Plenary (until 15:10)
14:30 Heavy ions with ATLAS and CMS - Olga Kodolova (Institute for Nuclear Physics)  
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14:50 B physics with ATLAS and CMS - Brigitte Epp (University of Innsbruck)  
Paper
15:10
Afternoon Working Session - Parallel - B physics (until 16:20)
15:10 Measurement of B_s mixing phase beta_s - Gavril Giurgiu (Johns Hopkins)  
Slides
15:35 Implications of beta_s measurements - Luca Silvestrini (Luca.Silvestrini@roma1.infn.it)  
Paper
16:00 Prospects for beta_s measurement - Alessia Satta (INFN Rome II)  
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15:10
Afternoon Working Session - Parallel - Heavy ions (until 16:30)
15:10 First physics with ALICE: from pp to heavy ions - Domenico Elia (INFN Bari)  
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15:30 Heavy flavour in ALICE - Philippe Pillot (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon)  
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15:50 Physics with photons in ALICE - Yuri Kharlov (State Res.Center of Russian Feder. Inst.f.High Energy Phys. (IFVE))  
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16:20 --- Coffee break ---
16:45
Afternoon Working Session 2 - Parallel - B physics (until 18:25)
16:45 Measurement of CKM angle gamma/phi_3 - Anton Poluektov (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP), Novosibirsk)  
Paper
17:05 Prospects for gamma/phi_3 measurement - Valerie Gibson (High Energy Physics Group, Cavendish Laboratory)  
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17:25 Recent developments in charm physics - John Yelton (University of Florida)  
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17:45 Prospects for B_s -> mumu at CMS - Benedetta Caponeri (INFN Sez. di Perugia c/o Dipt. di Fisica (INFN))  
Paper
18:05 Prospects for K*mumu - William Robert Reece (Imperial College)  
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16:45
Afternoon Working Session 2 - Parallel - Heavy ions (until 18:25)
16:45 Diffractive and ultraperipheral physics with ALICE - Rainer Schicker (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg)  
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17:05 Jet physics in Pb-Pb collisions with ATLAS - Martin Spousta (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics-Charles University-Unknown)  
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17:25 Jet quenching in heavy-ion collisions with CMS - Yen-Jie Lee (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT))  
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17:45 Performance of CMS Tracker in Heavy Ion Collisions - Vasundhara Chetluru (Physics Department-University of Illinois at Chicago)  
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20:00 Conference dinner  
13:10 Lunch