pA Physics Workshop at MIT

Name: pA Physics Workshop at MIT
Start: 2013-05-17T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2013-05-18T17:00:00-04:00
Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

17 May 2013, 09:00 → 18 May 2013, 17:00 America/New_York

32-144 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

32-144

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

Bolek Wyslouch (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)), George Stephans (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)), Gunther Roland (MIT)

Description

On May 17-18, 2013 MIT is organizing a workshop on proton-nucleus collisions to discuss the latest proton-lead results from CERN and to honor the contributions of Wit Busza to four decades of QCD studies. The detailed scientific program is listed in the timetable

Friday 17 May
- Fri 17 May
- Sat 18 May
- 09:00 → 09:10
  
  Welcome to MIT 10m
- 09:10 → 09:50
  
  The proton-proton and hadron-nucleus ridge: quantum interference of glue or flow ? 40m
  
  Speaker: Raju Venugopalan (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  
  Slides
- 09:50 → 10:30
  
  PHOBOS in the LHC Era 40m
  
  Speaker: Peter Alan Steinberg (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
  
  Slides
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 11:00 → 11:40
  
  High Multiplicity pp and pA Collisions: Hydrodynamics at its Edge and Explosive Stringy Pomeron 40m
  
  High Multiplicity pp and pA Collisions are a place where the macroscopic description (thermodynamics and hydrodynamics) meets with the microscopic one (pomerons and QCD strings). First I discuss what happens with the hydrodynamical predictions as the system size gets smaller and smaller. For simplicity, we don't do it numerically, but analytically using Gubser$^\prime$ s flow. We found that the radial flow is expected to increase, while the elliptic flow decreases, and higher harmonics stronger suppressed. Then we approach the problem from the opposite side, using a string-based Pomeron model. We found that as the intrinsic temperature of the string grows, it approaches the Hagedorn regime and produces a high entropy string ball, amusingly dual to a certain black hole. Furthermore, when the string temperature narrows on the Hagedorn temperature or $T/T_H-1={\cal O}(1/N_c)$, the stringy ball becomes a sQGP ball with non-negligible pressure and hydrodynamical flow.
  
  Speaker: Edward Shuryak (stony brook university)
  
  Slides
- 11:40 → 12:20
  
  d+Au Hadron Correlations at PHENIX 40m
  
  Speaker: Anne Sickles (Brookhaven)
  
  Slides
- 12:20 → 13:00
  
  Dihadron correlations, flow, and jets: quo vadis? 40m
  
  Speaker: James Dunlop (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  
  Slides
- 13:00 → 14:00
  
  Lunch 1h
- 14:00 → 14:40
  
  Explore the high-density QCD medium via particle correlations in pPb collisions at CMS 40m
  
  The observation of a long-range, near-side two-particle correlation ("ridge") in very high multiplicity proton-proton and proton-lead collisions has opened up the opportunity of studying collective phenomena in these small systems. High luminosity pPb data were collected by the CMS experiment at the LHC in early 2013. New results of identified particle spectra, two- and multi-particle correlations in pPb collisions from CMS will be presented over a wide event multiplicity and transverse momentum range. A direct comparison of pp, pPb and PbPb systems will be provided. Physics implications, especially in the context of color glass condensate and hydrodynamics models will also be discussed.
  
  Speaker: Wei Li (MIT)
  
  Slides
- 14:40 → 15:20
  
  Azimuthal anisotropies in lead-lead and proton-lead collisions with the ATLAS detector 40m
  
  The presentation will give an overview of measurements of azimuthal anisotropies performed by the ATLAS collaboration using Pb+Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=2.76 TeV and p+Pb collisions at sqrt(s_NN)=5.02 TeV.
  
  Speaker: Barbara Krystyna Wosiek (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
  
  Slides
- 15:20 → 15:50
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 15:50 → 16:30
  
  Recent pPb results from ALICE (part I) 40m
  
  Speaker: Constantinos Loizides (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
  
  Slides
- 16:30 → 17:10
  
  Reminiscences of Wit Busza and 41 Years of p+A Physics 40m
  
  Speaker: Michael Tannenbaum (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
  
  Slides
- 18:30 → 20:30
  
  Dinner at MIT Faculty Club 2h
Saturday 18 May
- Fri 17 May
- Sat 18 May
- 09:00 → 09:40
  
  Hadron-Nucleus Interactions: What we have learned. 40m
  
  I will describe the early development of ideas and experiments on hadron-nucleus interactions that have led to modern theories of high energy hadronic interactions. These developments proved crucial for basic understanding of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions, but perhaps more importantly, radically changed our preconceptions, and led to modern QCD based descriptions of high energy interactions. I will also discuss how recent developments at RHIC and LHC can further test or falsify modern ideas.
  
  Speaker: Larry McLerran (BNL)
  
  Slides
- 09:40 → 10:20
  
  Recent pPb results from ALICE (part II) 40m
  
  Speaker: John William Harris (Yale University (US))
  
  Slides
- 10:20 → 10:50
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 10:50 → 11:30
  
  The Revenge of Wit : Will the Biblical Pillars of AA 2003 be left Standing after the pA of 2013? 40m
  
  Looking for the Ag lining in the rubble of p+Pb at LHC and D+Au at RHIC.
  
  Speaker: Miklos Gyulassy (Columbia University)
  
  Slides
- 11:30 → 12:10
  
  Stopping, of various kinds 40m
  
  Speaker: Brian Cole (Columbia University (US))
  
  Slides
- 12:10 → 12:50
  
  Study of dijet momentum balance and pseudorapidity in pPb collisions 40m
  
  Studies of dijet production in pPb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon center-of-mass energy of 5.02 TeV using the CMS detector are presented. Jets are reconstructed with the anti-kT algorithm with R=0.3, using combined information from tracking and calorimetry. The dijet momentum balance, azimuthal angle correlations and pseudorapidity distributions are studied and compared to results from PYTHIA reference calculations representing pp collisions.
  
  Speaker: Yen-Jie Lee (CERN)
  
  Slides
- 12:50 → 13:50
  
  Lunch 1h
- 13:50 → 14:30
  
  Elementary pseudoscalars, scalars and pA (AA) collisions. 40m
  
  Speaker: Witold Krasny (Univ. P. et Marie Curie (Paris VI) (FR))
  
  Slides
- 14:30 → 15:10
  
  pA Physics -- from Fermi Lab Bubble Chamber Data to Future STAR Upgrade at RHIC 40m
  
  Speaker: huan huang (UCLA)
  
  Slides
- 15:10 → 15:40
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 15:40 → 16:20
  
  d+Au at PHENIX: Insights on the Cronin Effect, Shadowing and Saturation 40m
  
  Speaker: Barbara Jacak (Stony Brook University)
  
  Slides
- 16:20 → 17:00
  
  Let's All Be Wit-ty: Learning from p(d)+A Collisions 40m
  
  Speaker: Berndt Mueller (Duke University)
  
  Slides