Name: Results and prospects of forward physics at the LHC: Implications for the study of diffraction, cosmic ray interactions, and more
Start: 2013-02-11T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2013-02-12T19:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

Results and prospects of forward physics at the LHC: Implications for the study of diffraction, cosmic ray interactions, and more

from Monday, February 11, 2013 (2:00 PM) to Tuesday, February 12, 2013 (7:00 PM)

Monday, February 11, 2013
2:00 PM LHC forward physics and cosmic-ray results
2:00 PM - 6:10 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

2:00 PM TOTEM: cross sections and forward multiplicity - Nicola Turini (Sezione di Pisa (IT))

2:30 PM LHCf forward physics results - Itow Yoshitaka

3:00 PM ATLAS results on forward physics - Paul Newman (Birmingham University)

3:25 PM LHCb: Diffractive studies through energy flow and other soft QCD measurements - Florin Maciuc (Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Enginee)

4:20 PM CMS results on hard diffration - Ada Solano (Universita e INFN (IT))

4:45 PM CMS: forward jet production and energy flow - Igor Katkov (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

5:10 PM ALICE: Study of the cosmic multiple muon events: results and perspectives - Bruno Alessandro (Universita e INFN (IT))

5:35 PM Review of relevant cosmic-ray results - Ralph Engel (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe)
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
8:55 AM LHC: prospects and upgrades for forward physics
8:55 AM - 6:30 PM
Room: 4/3-006 - TH Conference Room
Contributions

9:00 AM Diffractive dissociation at the LHC - Laszlo Jenkovszky (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

9:25 AM pp->ppX - Antoni Szczurek (I)

9:45 AM LHCb: Central Exclusive Production, results and prospects - Paula Collins (CERN)

10:10 AM ALICE: Diffraction studies, status and plans - Gerardo Herrera Corral (Centro Invest. Estudios Avanz. IPN (MX))

11:05 AM CMS results on soft diffraction - Luiz Martins Mundim Filho (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR))

11:30 AM TOTEM: Diffraction studies, status and plans - Kenneth Osterberg (University of Helsinki)

11:55 AM ALICE: Ultra Peripheral Collision studies - Evgeny Kryshen (B.P. Konstantinov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute - PNPI ()

12:15 PM The ALFA detector and prospects for measurements - Tomas Sykora (Charles University (CZ))

1:30 PM The Forward Calorimeter (FOCAL) project: an ALICE upgrade for the forward physics - Thomas Peitzmann (University of Utrecht (NL))

1:55 PM The CMS High Precision Spectrometer - Michael Albrow (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

2:20 PM TOTEM upgrade prospects - Joachim Baechler (CERN)

2:45 PM Central Exclusive Higgs production: theory - Jeffrey Forshaw (University of Manchester)

3:05 PM Central Exclusive Higgs production: experimental prospects - Andrew Pilkington (University College London)

3:25 PM The ATLAS AFP detector - Christophe Royon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) Marco Bruschi (Universita e INFN (IT))

3:50 PM AFP physics prospects

5:20 PM Wrap up joint discussion on next steps and possible coordinated activities between Cosmic Ray and LHC communities
9:00 AM Cosmic-ray morning session
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Room: 40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie
Contributions

9:00 AM Introduction to and goals of the cosmic-ray session - David Berge (NIKHEF (NL))

9:10 AM Modelling of air showers - overview - Johannes Knapp (University of Leeds)

9:45 AM Modelling of air showers - theoretical basis of hadronic interaction models - Sergey Ostapchenko (Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU))

11:00 AM Connecting collider data with air-shower physics - Tanguy Pierog (KIT)

11:30 AM Glauber model tests, extrapolations, etc - Ralf Matthias Ulrich (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

12:00 PM Prospects for light-ion LHC running - Django Manglunki (CERN)
2:00 PM Cosmic-ray afternoon session
2:00 PM - 6:20 PM
Room: 32/1-A24
Contributions

2:00 PM NA61 experimental results relevant for CR physics, and specific EAS needs - Michael Unger (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

2:30 PM Diffuse and prompt neutrinos in IceCube - Anne Schukraft (RWTH Aachen)

3:00 PM Charm production in the atmosphere and relevance for the IceCube results - Rikard Enberg (Uppsala University)

3:35 PM Muon bundles at LEP / LHC / EMMA - James Pinfold (University of Alberta (CA))

4:05 PM Inclusive muon measurements: OPERA muon charge ratio - Nicoletta Mauri (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare (IT))

4:30 PM Inclusive measurements of atmospheric muons: connecting air-shower physics to colliders - Anatoli Fedynitch (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

5:20 PM Reconvene in plenary session with the LHC session in the TH Auditoirum, for final discussion - Discussion