pA@LHC

Name: pA@LHC
Start: 2012-06-04T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2012-06-08T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

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

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

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

CERN

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

Description

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.

Support

Urs.Wiedemann@cern.ch

Monday 4 June
- pA@LHC: Machine and experimental capabilities
  - 1
    
    pA in the LHC machine
    
    Speaker: Dr John Jowett (CERN)
    
    Slides
  - 2
    
    ALICE plans for pA data taking
    
    Speaker: Dr Alberica Toia (Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Univ. (DE))
    
    Slides
  - 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
  - 4
    
    Lessons from d-Au at RHIC for pA@LHC
    
    Speaker: Larry McLerran (BNL)
    
    Slides
  - 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
  - 7
    
    Totem plans for pA data taking
    
    Speaker: Kenneth Osterberg (University of Helsinki)
    
    Slides
  - 8
    
    LHCb plans for data taking
    
    Speaker: Michael Schmelling (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (DE))
    
    Slides
  - 9
    
    ATLAS plans for pA data taking
    
    Speaker: Alexander Milov (Weizmann Institute of Science (IL))
    
    Slides
  - 10
    
    LHCf plans for pA data taking
    
    Speaker: Koji Noda (Universita e INFN (IT))
    
    Slides
Tuesday 5 June
- Constraining nuclear parton distribution functions in pA@LHC
  - 11
    
    PDF-fits: recent developments
    
    Speaker: Juan Rojo Chacon (CERN)
    
    Slides
  - 12
    
    Spatial Dependence of nPDFs
    
    Speaker: Ilkka Helenius (Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP)-Univ. of Helsinki, Fac. of S)
    
    Slides
  - 13
    
    npdfs (and nFFs) in DSSZ
    
    Speaker: Maria Zurita (Buenos Aires University)
    
    Slides
  - 10:40
    
    Coffee Break
  - 14
    
    R_pA for single hadron production
    
    Speaker: Jianwei Qiu (Brookhaven National Lab)
    
    Slides
  - 15
    
    Forward rapidity observables (dihadron correlations and single inclusive hadron production) in pA at LHC
    
    Speaker: Bowen Xiao (Pennsylvania State University)
    
    Slides
- 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
  - 17
    
    CGC expectations for pA @ LHC
    
    Speaker: Jamal Jalilian-Marian (Baruch College)
    
    Slides
  - 18
    
    Saturation in central-forward jet production in p-Pb collisions at LHC
    
    Speaker: Sebastian Sapeta (Unknown)
    
    Slides
  - 19
    
    Heavy-quarkonium suppression in p-A collisions from medium-induced gluon radiation
    
    Speaker: Francois Arleo (LAPTH, Annecy-le-Vieux)
    
    Slides
  - 10:40
    
    Coffee Break
  - 20
    
    Forward Particle Production
    
    Speaker: Alexander Kovner (University of Connecticut)
    
    Slides
  - 21
    
    Inclusive hadron and prompt photon in pA at LHC from the CGC
    
    Speaker: Amir Rezaeian
    
    Slides
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
  - 23
    
    Wounded constituents in proton-nucleus collisions
    
    Speaker: Andrzej Bialas (Jagellonian U., Cracow, Poland)
    
    Slides
  - 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
  - 25
    
    A-dependence of Z-production
    
    Speaker: Jianwei Qiu (Brookhaven National Lab)
    
    Slides
  - 26
    
    Color coherence effects in medium-induced radiation in pA
    
    Speaker: Carlos Albert Salgado Lopez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))
    
    Slides
- Very forward physics in pA
  - 27
    
    Very forward physics in pA - theory
    
    Speaker: Mark Strikman
    
    Slides