pA@LHC

4 Jun 2012, 08:00 → 8 Jun 2012, 18:00 Europe/Zurich

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

Carlos Albert Salgado Lopez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES)), Mark Strikman (Penn State University), Urs Wiedemann (CERN)

The aim of this one-week workshop is to discuss expectations and open questions of the physics of proton-nucleus collisions in light of the upcoming p-Pb run at the LHC.

Monday, 4 June

pA@LHC: Machine and experimental capabilities

1 pA in the LHC machine

Speaker: Dr John Jowett (CERN)

Slides pa@LHC-Jowett.pdf pa@LHC-Jowett.pptx

2 ALICE plans for pA data taking

Speaker: Dr Alberica Toia (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))

Slides AlbericaToia_pPb_2012.pdf

10:00 Coffee Break

3 Lessons from p(D)+Au at AGS, SPS and RHIC that will make pA at LHC a major milestone

Speaker: Miklos Gyulassy (Columbia University)

Slides MGatpPbatLHC060412v3.pdf

4 Lessons from d-Au at RHIC for pA@LHC

Speaker: Larry McLerran (BNL)

Slides cern_ldm.pdf cern_ldm.pptx

5 Common Discussion of presentations by Miklos Gyulassy and Larry McLerran

Speaker: Urs Wiedemann (CERN)

6 CMS plans for data taking

Speakers: Ferenc Sikler (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU)), Ferenc Sikler (Wigner RCP, Budapest (HU))

Slides cms_pA.pdf

7 Totem plans for pA data taking

Speaker: Kenneth Osterberg (University of Helsinki)

Slides KO_pA_workshop_TOTEM.pdf

8 LHCb plans for data taking

Speaker: Michael Schmelling (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (DE))

Slides lhcbplans.pdf

9 ATLAS plans for pA data taking

Speaker: Alexander Milov (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))

Slides pA_sasha_12-06-04_v0.pdf

10 LHCf plans for pA data taking

Speaker: Koji Noda (Universita e INFN (IT))

Slides 120604pA_at_LHC-Noda.pdf

Tuesday, 5 June

Constraining nuclear parton distribution functions in pA@LHC

11 PDF-fits: recent developments

Speaker: Juan Rojo Chacon (CERN)

Slides rojo-nPDFs-pPb.key rojo-nPDFs-pPb.pdf

12 Spatial Dependence of nPDFs

Speaker: Ilkka Helenius (Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP)-Univ. of Helsinki, Fac. of S)

Slides helenius_pALHC.pdf

13 npdfs (and nFFs) in DSSZ

Speaker: Maria Zurita (Buenos Aires University)

Slides Zurita-pPbatLHC.pdf

10:40 Coffee Break

14 R_pA for single hadron production

Speaker: Jianwei Qiu (Brookhaven National Lab)

Slides Qiu_R_pA.pdf

15 Forward rapidity observables (dihadron correlations and single inclusive hadron production) in pA at LHC

Speaker: Bowen Xiao (Pennsylvania State University)

Slides CERN_xiao.pdf

Discussion session: centrality measurements in pA

Convener: Dr Alberica Toia (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))

16 Discussion contributions

Speakers: Dr Alberica Toia (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE)), Brian Cole (Columbia University (US)), Chiara Oppedisano (Universita e INFN (IT)), David Hofman (University of Illinois at Chicago (US)), Ferenc Sikler (Wigner RCP, Budapest (HU)), Mark Strikman

Slides

• Centrality_pAworkshop_PHOBOS_Hofman.pdf
• Centrality_pAworkshop_PHOBOS_Hofman.pptx
• centrality_pPb_050612.pdf
• neutrons.key
• neutrons.pdf
• neutrons.ppt
• pA-centrZDC.pdf
• pA-centrZDC.pptx
• pb-pb-b05_inter_corr_rear_10s-2.mov
• pb-pb-b05_inter_corr_rear_10s-3.mov
• pb-pb-b05_inter_corr_side_10s-2.mov
• pb-pb-b05_inter_corr_side_10s-3.mov
• sikler_slow.pdf

Wednesday, 6 June

Small-x saturation physics in pA@LHC

slides announcement_for_pA_workshop.pdf

17 CGC expectations for pA @ LHC

Speaker: Jamal Jalilian-Marian (Baruch College)

Slides Jalilian-Marian-cern_12.pdf

18 Saturation in central-forward jet production in p-Pb collisions at LHC

Speaker: Sebastian Sapeta (Unknown)

Slides sapeta-pACERN.pdf

19 Heavy-quarkonium suppression in p-A collisions from medium-induced gluon radiation

Speaker: Francois Arleo (LAPTH, Annecy-le-Vieux)

Slides Arleo

10:40 Coffee Break

20 Forward Particle Production

Speaker: Alexander Kovner (University of Connecticut)

Slides KOVNER_pA@LHC.pdf

21 Inclusive hadron and prompt photon in pA at LHC from the CGC

Speaker: Amir Rezaeian

Slides Rezaeian-cern2.pdf

Thursday, 7 June

pA benchmark measurements for AA

22 The use of pA for benchmarking AA collisions

Speaker: Xin-Nian Wang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Slides xnwang-pA-LHC.pdf xnwang-pA-LHC.pptx

23 Wounded constituents in proton-nucleus collisions

Speaker: Andrzej Bialas (Jagellonian U., Cracow, Poland)

Slides Bialas.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

24 CGC predictions for RpA, multiplicities and KNO scaling in pA@LHC

Speaker: Adrian Dumitru (Baruch College (City University of New York))

Slides Dumitru.pdf

25 A-dependence of Z-production

Speaker: Jianwei Qiu (Brookhaven National Lab)

Slides Qiu_AdepZ.pdf

26 Color coherence effects in medium-induced radiation in pA

Speaker: Carlos Albert Salgado Lopez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))

Slides pAatLHCworkshop2012.pdf

Very forward physics in pA

27 Very forward physics in pA - theory

Speaker: Mark Strikman

Slides mark.pdf