Name: LHC Working Group on Forward Physics and Diffraction
Start: 2013-08-26T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2013-08-27T19:00:00+02:00
Location: CERN

LHC Working Group on Forward Physics and Diffraction

from Monday, 26 August 2013 (09:00) to Tuesday, 27 August 2013 (19:00)

Monday, 26 August 2013
09:30 Low luminosity session
09:30 - 12:05
Room: 40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac
Contributions

09:30 Introduction - Christophe Royon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) Nicolo Cartiglia (INFN)

09:35 FWD Phys WG twiki - Tim Martin (University of Warwick (GB))

09:40 Possible measurements of soft diffraction using AFP - Oldrich Kepka (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))

10:10 Soft hard correlations in pp scattering and searching for effects of the gluon field fluctuations - Mark Strikman (P)

11:05 A standard interface to cosmic ray event generator CRMC - Ralf Matthias Ulrich (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

11:35 Forward and low pT jets (CMS) - Ilknur Hos (Cukurova University (TR))
12:05 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:05 - 13:15
Room: 40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac

13:15 Steering group - convener meeting

13:15 - 14:00
Room: 40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac
14:00 Medium luminosity session
14:00 - 18:00
Room: 40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac
Contributions

14:00 Probing the small x gluon via exclusive J/Psi and Upsilon production at HERA and the LHC - Stephen Jones (Liverpool University)

14:30 Forward jets and displaced vertices - Luebbo von Lindern (retired, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft)

15:00 Exclusive processes - Antoni Szczurek (Institute of Nuclear Physics)

16:00 Forward physics in pA - Cyrille Marquet

16:30 A preliminary plan to measure diffractive Z production in CMS - Diego Matos Figueiredo (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR))

17:00 Discussion
Tuesday, 27 August 2013
09:30 High luminosity session
09:30 - 13:05
Room: 40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac
Contributions

09:30 Forward detectors in CMS - Nicolo Cartiglia (INFN)

10:00 DPE jet measurement feasibility studies - Maciej Marek Trzebinski (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

11:00 High xi background for Monopole/invisible objects searches - Christophe Royon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

11:20 Discussion: high xi background - Peter Skands (CERN)

11:35 Plans for low luminosity group - Lucian Harland Lang Tim Martin (University of Warwick (GB))

11:55 Plans for medium luminosity group - Jochen Bartels Paula Collins (CERN)

12:15 Plans for high lumi group - Antoni Szczurek (Institute of Nuclear Physics) Jonathan Jason Hollar (Universite Catholique de Louvain (BE))

12:35 Discussion
13:05 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:05 - 15:00
Room: 40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac
15:00 Technical session
15:00 - 19:00
Room: 40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac
Contributions

15:00 The SAMPIC readout chip - Herve Marie Xavier Grabas (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

15:30 Timing detector: pixels - Nicolo Cartiglia (INFN)

16:20 Photon detector for AFP - Margaryan Amur

16:50 AFP simulation (tbc)