EDS Blois 2013: The 15th conference on Elastic and Diffractive scattering

from Monday 9 September 2013 (09:00) to Friday 13 September 2013 (15:00)
Saariselkä

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
9 Sept 2013
10 Sept 2013
11 Sept 2013
12 Sept 2013
13 Sept 2013
AM
09:00
Welcome - Risto Orava (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI)) Tuula Maki (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI)) (until 09:30)
09:00 Welcome talk - Tuula Maki (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))  
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09:30
Elastic and total cross section - Igor Dremin (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)) Dr Mario Deile (CERN) (until 10:40)
09:30 TOTEM Results on Elastic Scattering and Total Cross-Section - Jan Kaspar (CERN)  
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10:00 Proton Structure and Elastic Scattering Amplitudes - Igor Dremin (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))  
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10:20 pp Elastic Amplitudes in t and b Spaces - Anderson Kendi Kohara  
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10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:10
Elastic and total cross section - Igor Dremin (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)) Dr Mario Deile (CERN) (until 13:10)
11:10 Performances of the ATLAS/ALFA Roman Pots System - Samah Abdel Khalek (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))  
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11:30 High-Energy pp Elastic Scattering in Condensate-Enclosed Chiral-Bag Model and TOTEM Elastic Measurements at LHC at 7 TeV - Munir Islam  
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11:50 Identifying the Elastic and Inelastic, Diffractive and Non-diffractive Components of the Total Cross-Section at the LHC - Laszlo Jenkovszky (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)  
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12:10 Some Problems of the Determination of \sigma_{tot} at LHC - Oleg Selyugin  
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12:30 Recent Results in Polarized Proton-Proton Elastic Scattering at STAR - Leszek Adamczyk (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))  
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12:50 Polarized Beams and Violent Collisions of Spinning Protons: Past and Possibly at Fermilab - Alan Krisch  
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09:00
Soft diffraction - Alessandro Papa (Universita` della Calabria & INFN-Cosenza) Dr Marek Tasevsky (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ)) (until 10:30)
09:00 Recent soft diffraction results from HERA - Alice Valkarova (Charles University)  
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09:20 Totem results on soft diffraction - Fredrik Oljemark (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))  
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09:40 ATLAS results on soft diffraction - Simone Monzani (Universita e INFN (IT))  
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10:00 CMS results on soft diffraction - Prof. Konstantin Goulianos (Rockefeller University (US))  
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10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Soft diffraction - Alessandro Papa (Universita` della Calabria & INFN-Cosenza) Dr Marek Tasevsky (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ)) (until 13:00)
11:00 LHCb results on soft diffraction - Marco Meissner (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))  
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11:20 Wilson loop correlators on the lattice and the asymptotic high-energy behaviour of hadronic total cross sections - Matteo Giordano (CEA-Saclay)  
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11:40 Low missing mass single and double diffraction dissociation at the LHC - Laszlo Jenkovszky (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)  
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12:00 s And t Unitarity Screening As A fundamental Ingredient In Soft Scattering - URI MAOR (Tel Aviv University)  
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12:20 Phenomenology of single and double diffraction dissociation - Prof. Konstantin Goulianos (Rockefeller University (US))  
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09:00
CEP & new physics with rapidity gaps - Katri Huitu (University of Helsinki) Michael Albrow (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) (until 10:45)
09:00 Forward Diffractive Heavy Flavour production - Roman Pasechnik (Lund University)  
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09:20 Exclusive Production at HERA - Janusz Malka (DESY)  
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09:40 Exclusive meson pair production and the gluonic component of the eta, eta' mesons - Lucian Harland-Lang  
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10:00 Central production of two-pseudoscalar final states at COMPASS - Alexander Austregesilo (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))  
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10:20 Central Exclusive Hadrons in CDF - Michael Albrow (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
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10:45 --- Coffee break ---
11:10
CEP & new physics with rapidity gaps - Katri Huitu (University of Helsinki) Michael Albrow (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) (until 13:00)
11:10 Central Exclusive Production in STAR (RHIC) - Leszek Adamczyk (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))  
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11:30 Update on CEP Higgs - Valery Khoze (University of Durham (GB))  
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11:50 CEP MSSM Higgs - Dr Marek Tasevsky (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))  
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12:10 TOTEM future plans - Kenneth Oesterberg (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))  
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12:20 The PPS (Precision Proton Spectrometers) project in CMS, Status - Michael Albrow (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
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12:30 The ATLAS Forward Proton (AFP) project, Status - Tomas Sykora (Charles University (CZ))  
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09:00
CEP and Ultraperipheral physics (until 09:30)
09:00 Exclusive particle production in photon-photon and photon-proton collisions at LHCb - Scott Stevenson (University of Oxford (GB))  
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09:30
Ultraperipheral physics - Joakim Nystrand (University of Bergen (NO)) David d'Enterria (CERN) (until 10:30)
09:30 Results on ultra-peripheral interactions in Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions in ALICE - Eugenio Scapparone (INFN-Bologna(IT))  
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10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Ultraperipheral physics - Joakim Nystrand (University of Bergen (NO)) David d'Enterria (CERN) (until 13:00)
11:00 Latest RHIC results on ultraperipheral collisions - Ramiro Debbe (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
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11:30 Models for exclusive vector meson production in heavy-ion collisions - Tuomas Lappi (University of Jyvaskyla)  
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12:00 Exclusive photoproduction of J/psi and psi(2S) states in pp and AA collisions at the LHC - Magno Machado (Unknown)  
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09:30
Cosmic rays - Sergey Ostapchenko (Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU)) James Pinfold (University of Alberta (CA)) (until 10:30)
09:30 Recent results from IceCube - Chad Finley  
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10:00 Particle physics with the Pierre Auger Observatory - Petr Travnicek (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))  
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10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Summary (until 12:00)
11:00 Summary - Michael Albrow (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
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PM
13:10 --- Lunch ---
15:00
Low-x QCD - Larry McLerran (BNL) Christophe Royon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) (until 16:30)
15:00 Low-x results from HERA - Henri Paul Kowalski (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY))  
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15:25 New results on possible higher twist contributions in proton diffractive structure functions at low x - Mariusz Sadzikowski (Jagiellonian University)  
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15:45 Models of the hadron structure and data of the TOTEM Collaboration - Oleg Selyugin  
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16:05 LHCf results - Oscar Adriani (Universita e INFN (IT))  
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16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00
Low-x QCD - Larry McLerran (BNL) Christophe Royon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) (until 18:15)
17:00 BFKL tests at hadronic colliders - Christophe Royon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))  
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17:25 Low x QCD from CMS - Maciej Misiura (University of Warsaw (PL))  
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17:50 ATLAS measurement of energy flow at low x - Tomas Sykora (Charles University (CZ))  
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19:00
Welcome drink (until 20:00)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
15:00
Hard diffraction - Christina Mesropian (Rockefeller University (US)) Rainer Schicker (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE)) (until 16:30)
15:00 Hard diffraction at the TEVATRON - Dino Goulianos  
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15:30 Hard diffraction at HERA - Alice Valkarova (Charles University)  
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16:00 CMS results on hard diffraction - Christina Mesropian (Rockefeller University (US))  
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16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00
Hard diffraction - Christina Mesropian (Rockefeller University (US)) Rainer Schicker (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE)) (until 19:00)
17:00 Diffractive W-production - Roman Pasechnik (Lund University)  
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17:30 Pomeron structure in dijet and gamma-jet events - Christophe Royon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))  
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18:00 New formulation for central production in high-energy diffractive excitations at very high center-of-mass energies - Suh-Urk Chung (Pusan National University (KR))  
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18:30 Status report LHC working group on diffraction - Oldrich Kepka (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))  
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13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Conference excursion (until 18:00)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
15:00
Heavy ions - Jan Rak (University of Jyvaskyla (FI)) Tuomas Lappi (University of Jyvaskyla) (until 16:30)
15:00 RHIC HI results - Gabor David (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
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15:30 from Color Glass Condensate to Pomerons and Odderons - Jamal Jalilian-Marian  
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16:00 Flow of Gluon Fields in Nuclear Collisions - Rainer Fries (Texas A&M University)  
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16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00
Heavy ions - Tuomas Lappi (University of Jyvaskyla) Jan Rak (University of Jyvaskyla (FI)) (until 18:00)
17:00 Hydrodynamics vs perturbative QCD mechanism in production of hadrons in heavy ion collisions - Dr Jan Nemcik (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ) and Institute of Experimental Physics, Kosice (SK))  
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17:30 Initial energy density of p+p collisions at the LHC - Tamas Csorgo (Wigner Research Centre for Physics (Wigner RCP) (HU))  
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18:00
Outreach (until 18:15)
18:00 Higgs boson - on your own - Tamas Csorgo (Wigner Research Centre for Physics (Wigner RCP) (HU))  
19:00
Conference dinner (until 23:00)
19:00 Conference dinner  
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13:00 --- Lunch ---