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

9 Sept 2013, 09:00 → 13 Sept 2013, 15:00 Europe/Helsinki

Saariselkä

Risto Orava (University of Helsinki and Helsinki Institute of Physics), Tuula Maki (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))

The 15th conference on Elastic and Diffractive scattering, EDS Blois 2013 will be held in Saariselkä, Finland between the 9th and the 13th of September, 2013. The conference will feature sessions about elastic and total cross sections, soft diffraction, hard diffraction, central exclusive production & new physics with rapidity gaps, heavy ions, ultraperipheral physics, low-x QCD and cosmic rays. http://www.hip.fi/EDS2013/

Monday 9 September

09:00 → 09:30 Welcome

Conveners: Risto Orava (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI)), Tuula Maki (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))

09:00 Welcome talk

Speaker: Tuula Maki (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))

Slides WelcomeTalk.pdf

09:30 → 10:40 Elastic and total cross section

Conveners: Igor Dremin (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)), Dr Mario Deile (CERN)

09:30 TOTEM Results on Elastic Scattering and Total Cross-Section

Speaker: Jan Kaspar (CERN)

Slides jan_kaspar_eds_2013.pdf

10:00 Proton Structure and Elastic Scattering Amplitudes

Speaker: Igor Dremin (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))

Slides Dremin.pdf

10:20 pp Elastic Amplitudes in t and b Spaces

Speaker: Anderson Kendi Kohara

Slides Blois_2013_kendi.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 → 13:10 Elastic and total cross section

Conveners: Igor Dremin (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)), Dr Mario Deile (CERN)

11:10 Performances of the ATLAS/ALFA Roman Pots System

Speaker: Samah Abdel Khalek (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))

Slides ALFA-EDS-Conf_2013.pdf

11:30 High-Energy pp Elastic Scattering in Condensate-Enclosed Chiral-Bag Model and TOTEM Elastic Measurements at LHC at 7 TeV

Speaker: Munir Islam

Slides Islam.pdf

11:50 Identifying the Elastic and Inelastic, Diffractive and Non-diffractive Components of the Total Cross-Section at the LHC

Speaker: Laszlo Jenkovszky (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

Slides Jenkovsky.pdf

12:10 Some Problems of the Determination of \sigma_{tot} at LHC

Speaker: Oleg Selyugin

Slides Selyugin_1.pdf Selyugin_1.ppt

12:30 Recent Results in Polarized Proton-Proton Elastic Scattering at STAR

Speaker: Leszek Adamczyk (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))

Slides adamczyk_spin.pdf

12:50 Polarized Beams and Violent Collisions of Spinning Protons: Past and Possibly at Fermilab

Speaker: Alan Krisch

Slides Krisch.pdf

13:10 → 15:00 Lunch

15:00 → 16:30 Low-x QCD

Conveners: Christophe Royon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)), Larry McLerran (BNL)

15:00 Low-x results from HERA

Speaker: Henri Paul Kowalski (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY))

Slides Kowalski.pdf

15:25 New results on possible higher twist contributions in proton diffractive structure functions at low x

Speaker: Mariusz Sadzikowski (Jagiellonian University)

Slides Sadzikowski.pdf

15:45 Models of the hadron structure and data of the TOTEM Collaboration

Speaker: Oleg Selyugin

Slides Selyugin_2.pdf Selyugin_2.ppt

16:05 LHCf results

Speaker: Oscar Adriani (Universita e INFN (IT))

Slides Adriani_LHCf_Blois_2013.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 18:15 Low-x QCD

Conveners: Christophe Royon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)), Larry McLerran (BNL)

17:00 BFKL tests at hadronic colliders

Speaker: Christophe Royon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

Slides blois2013b.pdf

17:25 Low x QCD from CMS

Speaker: Maciej Misiura (University of Warsaw (PL))

Slides EPS2013_Misiura_Small-x_QCD.pdf

17:50 ATLAS measurement of energy flow at low x

Speaker: Tomas Sykora (Charles University (CZ))

Slides ATLAS_measurements_of_the_energy_flow_at_low_x_corrected_by_rehearsal_and_CDS_comments_04_09_2013_v2.pdf

19:00 → 20:00 Welcome drink

Tuesday 10 September

09:00 → 10:30 Soft diffraction

Conveners: Alessandro Papa (Universita` della Calabria & INFN-Cosenza), Dr Marek Tasevsky (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))

09:00 Recent soft diffraction results from HERA

Speaker: Alice Valkarova (Charles University)

Slides valkarova.pdf

09:20 Totem results on soft diffraction

Speaker: Fredrik Oljemark (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))

Slides Oljemark.pdf

09:40 ATLAS results on soft diffraction

Speaker: Simone Monzani (Universita e INFN (IT))

Slides SimoneMonzani.pdf

10:00 CMS results on soft diffraction

Speaker: Prof. Konstantin Goulianos (Rockefeller University (US))

Slides eds13DinoCMStalk.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 13:00 Soft diffraction

Conveners: Alessandro Papa (Universita` della Calabria & INFN-Cosenza), Dr Marek Tasevsky (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))

11:00 LHCb results on soft diffraction

Speaker: Marco Meissner (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

Slides EDSBlois_Meissner_LHCbSoftDiffraction.pdf

11:20 Wilson loop correlators on the lattice and the asymptotic high-energy behaviour of hadronic total cross sections

Speaker: Matteo Giordano (CEA-Saclay)

Slides Giordano.pdf

11:40 Low missing mass single and double diffraction dissociation at the LHC

Speaker: Laszlo Jenkovszky (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

Slides Jenkovsky.pdf

12:00 s And t Unitarity Screening As A fundamental Ingredient In Soft Scattering

Speaker: URI MAOR (Tel Aviv University)

Slides Maor.pdf

12:20 Phenomenology of single and double diffraction dissociation

Speaker: Prof. Konstantin Goulianos (Rockefeller University (US))

Slides eds13DinoPhenoTalk.pdf

13:00 → 15:00 Lunch

15:00 → 16:30 Hard diffraction

Conveners: Christina Mesropian (Rockefeller University (US)), Rainer Schicker (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

15:00 Hard diffraction at the TEVATRON

Speaker: Dino Goulianos

Slides Goulianos.pdf

15:30 Hard diffraction at HERA

Speaker: Alice Valkarova (Charles University)

Slides Valkarova_2.pdf

16:00 CMS results on hard diffraction

Speaker: Christina Mesropian (Rockefeller University (US))

Slides ChristinaMesropian-CMS-Hard_Diffraction-EDS2013-v3.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 19:00 Hard diffraction

Conveners: Christina Mesropian (Rockefeller University (US)), Rainer Schicker (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

17:00 Diffractive W-production

Speaker: Roman Pasechnik (Lund University)

Slides Pasechnik_diffW_EDS13.pdf

17:30 Pomeron structure in dijet and gamma-jet events

Speaker: Christophe Royon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

Slides blois2013.pdf

18:00 New formulation for central production in high-energy diffractive excitations at very high center-of-mass energies

Speaker: Suh-Urk Chung (Pusan National University (KR))

Slides Chung.pdf

18:30 Status report LHC working group on diffraction

Speaker: Oldrich Kepka (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))

Slides kepka_lpcc_fwd_wg_0910_v3.pdf

Wednesday 11 September

09:00 → 10:45 CEP & new physics with rapidity gaps

Conveners: Katri Huitu (University of Helsinki), Michael Albrow (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

09:00 Forward Diffractive Heavy Flavour production

Speaker: Roman Pasechnik (Lund University)

Slides Pasechnik_QQ_EDS13.pdf

09:20 Exclusive Production at HERA

Speaker: Janusz Malka (DESY)

Slides Malka.pdf Malka.pptx

09:40 Exclusive meson pair production and the gluonic component of the eta, eta' mesons

Speaker: Lucian Harland-Lang

Slides Harland_Lang.pdf

10:00 Central production of two-pseudoscalar final states at COMPASS

Speaker: Alexander Austregesilo (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))

Slides austregesilo_EDS2013.pdf

10:20 Central Exclusive Hadrons in CDF

Speaker: Michael Albrow (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides Albrow_1.pdf

10:45 → 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 → 13:00 CEP & new physics with rapidity gaps

Conveners: Katri Huitu (University of Helsinki), Michael Albrow (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

11:10 Central Exclusive Production in STAR (RHIC)

Speaker: Leszek Adamczyk (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))

Slides adamczyk_cep.pdf

11:30 Update on CEP Higgs

Speaker: Valery Khoze (University of Durham (GB))

Slides khoze-Blois-13FF.pdf khoze-Blois-13FF.ppt

11:50 CEP MSSM Higgs

Speaker: Dr Marek Tasevsky (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))

Slides Tasevsky.pdf Tasevsky.ppt

12:10 TOTEM future plans

Speaker: Kenneth Oesterberg (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))

Slides Osterberg_TOTEM_EDS_sep13.pdf

12:20 The PPS (Precision Proton Spectrometers) project in CMS, Status

Speaker: Michael Albrow (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides Albrow_2.pdf

12:30 The ATLAS Forward Proton (AFP) project, Status

Speaker: Tomas Sykora (Charles University (CZ))

Slides ATLAS_Forward_Proton_(AFP)_project_status.pdf

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 18:00 Conference excursion

Thursday 12 September

09:00 → 09:30 CEP and Ultraperipheral physics

09:00 Exclusive particle production in photon-photon and photon-proton collisions at LHCb

Speaker: Scott Stevenson (University of Oxford (GB))

Slides Central exclusive J/psi and chi_c production at LHCb

09:30 → 10:30 Ultraperipheral physics

Conveners: David d'Enterria (CERN), Joakim Nystrand (University of Bergen (NO))

09:30 Results on ultra-peripheral interactions in Pb-Pb and p-Pb collisions in ALICE

Speaker: Eugenio Scapparone (INFN-Bologna(IT))

Slides Scapparone.pdf Scapparone.pptx

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 13:00 Ultraperipheral physics

Conveners: David d'Enterria (CERN), Joakim Nystrand (University of Bergen (NO))

11:00 Latest RHIC results on ultraperipheral collisions

Speaker: Ramiro Debbe (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides Debbe.pdf

11:30 Models for exclusive vector meson production in heavy-ion collisions

Speaker: Tuomas Lappi (University of Jyvaskyla)

Slides Lappi.pdf

12:00 Exclusive photoproduction of J/psi and psi(2S) states in pp and AA collisions at the LHC

Speaker: Magno Machado (Unknown)

Slides Machado.pdf

13:00 → 15:00 Lunch

15:00 → 16:30 Heavy ions

Conveners: Jan Rak (University of Jyvaskyla (FI)), Tuomas Lappi (University of Jyvaskyla)

15:00 RHIC HI results

Speaker: Gabor David (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides gdavid_saariselka_final.pdf

15:30 from Color Glass Condensate to Pomerons and Odderons

Speaker: Jamal Jalilian-Marian

Slides Jalilian-Marian.pdf

16:00 Flow of Gluon Fields in Nuclear Collisions

Speaker: Rainer Fries (Texas A&M University)

Slides Fries.pdf Fries.pptx

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 18:00 Heavy ions

Conveners: Jan Rak (University of Jyvaskyla (FI)), Tuomas Lappi (University of Jyvaskyla)

17:00 Hydrodynamics vs perturbative QCD mechanism in production of hadrons in heavy ion collisions

Speaker: Dr Jan Nemcik (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ) and Institute of Experimental Physics, Kosice (SK))

Slides Nemcik.pdf

17:30 Initial energy density of p+p collisions at the LHC

Speaker: Tamas Csorgo (Wigner Research Centre for Physics (Wigner RCP) (HU))

Slides 2013-09-12-Csorgo-dndeta-pp-LHC-final.pdf 2013-09-12-Csorgo-dndeta-pp-LHC-final.pptx

18:00 → 18:15 Outreach

18:00 Higgs boson - on your own

Speaker: Tamas Csorgo (Wigner Research Centre for Physics (Wigner RCP) (HU))

Paper Write-up of the talk at arXiv.org [physics.pop-ph]

Slides

• 2013-09-12-Higgs-on-your-own-outreach.pptx
• Higgs Boson - on Your Own, Outreach.pdf
• Higgs Boson - on Your Own - video only linked in

summary Video of Hungarian Science Club students & professors having fun with "Higgs Boson-On Your Own" card game

19:00 → 23:00 Conference dinner

19:00 Conference dinner

Slides ConferenceDinner.pdf

Friday 13 September

09:30 → 10:30 Cosmic rays

Conveners: James Pinfold (University of Alberta (CA)), Sergey Ostapchenko (Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU))

09:30 Recent results from IceCube

Speaker: Chad Finley

Slides Finley_EDS_Finland_v2.pdf Finley_EDS_Finland_v2.pptx

10:00 Particle physics with the Pierre Auger Observatory

Speaker: Petr Travnicek (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))

Slides Travnicek.pdf Travnicek.pptx

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:00 Summary

11:00 Summary

Speaker: Michael Albrow (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Slides AlbrowEDSBloisSum.pdf AlbrowEDSBloisSum.pptx

13:00 → 15:00 Lunch