LHC Working Group on Forward Physics and Diffraction

from Wednesday 15 May 2013 (09:00) to Thursday 16 May 2013 (18:00)
CERN (216/R-401)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
15 May 2013
16 May 2013
AM
10:30
Conveners meeting (until 12:00)
10:30 Working group organisation - Mr Nicolo Cartiglia (INFN) Christophe Royon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))  
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10:50 Discussion  
09:30
Physics session II (until 12:00)
09:30 LHCf; zero degree measurements for cosmic-ray model calibration - Takashi Sako (Nagoya University (JP))  
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09:55 Exclusive jet production and anomalous coupling studies - Oldrich Kepka (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))  
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10:15 Constraints on the Pomeron structure using DPE events - Matthias Saimpert (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))  
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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))  
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11:00 Status of and Prospects for Central Exclusive Production at LHCb - Dr Ronan Mcnulty (University College Dublin (IE))  
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11:25 discussion  
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11:50 Working group organisation, next meetings - Mr Nicolo Cartiglia (INFN) Christophe Royon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))  
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PM
14:00
Physics session I (until 18:00)
14:00 Introduction - Mr Nicolo Cartiglia (INFN) Christophe Royon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))  
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14:15 Higgs production in the forward proton mode revisited - Valery Khoze (University of Durham (GB))  
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14:40 Higgs production in exclusive mode - Dr Marek Tasevsky (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))  
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15:00 Exclusive production at the LHC: quarkonium, meson pairs and beyond - Lucian Harland-Lang  
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15:25 Discussion  
15:45 --- Coffee break ---
16:15 Exclusive processes in CMS - Jonathan Jason Hollar (Universite Catholique de Louvain (BE))  
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16:40 Pile up rejection in ATLAS - Oldrich Kepka (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))  
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17:05 RP background studies in Totem - Frigyes Nemes (MTA KFKI)  
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17:30 Discussion  
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14:00
Technical session (until 17:00)
14:00 Cylindral RP developments - Joachim Baechler (CERN)  
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14:25 Timing detectors in CMS - Michael Albrow (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
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14:50 Timing detectors in ATLAS - Andrew Gerhart Brandt (University of Texas at Arlington (US))  
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15:15 Sampic chip readout of timing detector - Herve Marie Xavier Grabas (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) Eric Delagnes (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))  
15:35 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 Discussion