Name: LHC Working Group on Forward Physics and Diffraction
Start: 2013-05-15T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2013-05-16T18:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

LHC Working Group on Forward Physics and Diffraction

from Wednesday 15 May 2013 (09:00) to Thursday 16 May 2013 (18:00)

Monday 13 May 2013
Tuesday 14 May 2013
Wednesday 15 May 2013
10:30
10:30 - 12:00
Room: 216/R-401 - Salle polyvalente PUMP HALL
Contributions

10:30 Working group organisation - Christophe Royon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) Nicolo Cartiglia (INFN)

10:50 Discussion
14:00
14:00 - 18:00
Room: 216/R-401 - Salle polyvalente PUMP HALL
Contributions

14:00 Introduction - Christophe Royon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) Nicolo Cartiglia (INFN)

14:15 Higgs production in the forward proton mode revisited - Valery Khoze (University of Durham (GB))

14:40 Higgs production in exclusive mode - Marek Tasevsky (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))

15:00 Exclusive production at the LHC: quarkonium, meson pairs and beyond - Lucian Harland-Lang

15:25 Discussion

16:15 Exclusive processes in CMS - Jonathan Jason Hollar (Universite Catholique de Louvain (BE))

16:40 Pile up rejection in ATLAS - Oldrich Kepka (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))

17:05 RP background studies in Totem - Frigyes Nemes (MTA KFKI)

17:30 Discussion
Thursday 16 May 2013
09:30
09:30 - 12:00
Room: 216/R-401 - Salle polyvalente PUMP HALL
Contributions

09:30 LHCf; zero degree measurements for cosmic-ray model calibration - Takashi Sako (Nagoya University (JP))

09:55 Exclusive jet production and anomalous coupling studies - Oldrich Kepka (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))

10:15 Constraints on the Pomeron structure using DPE events - Matthias Saimpert (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

10:40 Diffractive PDFs at HERA and implications for LHC energies - Laurent Olivier Schoeffel (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

11:00 Status of and Prospects for Central Exclusive Production at LHCb - Ronan Mcnulty (University College Dublin (IE))

11:25 discussion

11:50 Working group organisation, next meetings - Christophe Royon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) Nicolo Cartiglia (INFN)
14:00
14:00 - 17:00
Room: 216/R-401 - Salle polyvalente PUMP HALL
Contributions

14:00 Cylindral RP developments - Joachim Baechler (CERN)

14:25 Timing detectors in CMS - Michael Albrow (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

14:50 Timing detectors in ATLAS - Andrew Gerhart Brandt (University of Texas at Arlington (US))

15:15 Sampic chip readout of timing detector - Eric Delagnes (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) Herve Marie Xavier Grabas (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

16:00 Discussion

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