The 30th Winter Workshop on Nuclear Dynamics

6 Apr 2014, 20:00 → 12 Apr 2014, 23:00 US/Central

Hotel Galvez & Spa (Galveston, Texas)

Anthony Robert Timmins (University of Houston (US)), Frank Geurts (Rice University (US)), Rene Bellwied (University of Houston (US))

The 30th edition of the Winter Workshop will be held April 6-12th, 2014 in Hotel Galvez & Spa, Galveston, Texas, USA. As with previous years, the workshop will bring together scientists from all fields of nuclear physics for engaging and friendly exchanges of ideas. Much emphasis will be on the recent LHC and RHIC heavy ion results, but advances in the ongoing and future programs at FAIR, FRIB, NICA and JLab will also be featured.

The meeting will start with a welcome reception on the evening of Sunday, April 6th. The workshop program will commence on Monday morning and run until Saturday evening. We recommend to arrive on Sunday and leave on Sunday. Talks will be as usual 25+5 minutes, there will be no parallel sessions. If you are interested in presenting your work, please fill out the registration form prior to the registration deadline. After the program committee has met we will confirm your talk via individual invitations. We will also work with the talks committees of all relevant experimental collaborations to again provide a well rounded and interesting program.

Finally, we plan on having a special 30th celebration dinner, which we promise will be very entertaining. Hope to see you in Galveston.

Sincerely,
Rene Bellwied, Frank Geurts, Anthony Timmins
 

Sunday, 6 April

20:00 → 22:00 Reception

Monday, 7 April

08:30 → 09:00 Recent STAR results from U+U and Au+Au collisions

Speaker: Hui Wang (Brookhaven National Lab)

Slides UU_Au_Hui_WWND_v4.pptx

09:00 → 09:30 Recent results on event-by-event fluctuations from the RHIC Beam Energy Scan program

Speaker: NIHAR R SAHOO (Texas A&M University)

Slides WWND2014_nihar.pdf WWND2014_nihar.pptx

09:30 → 10:00 Beam Energy Dependency of Clan Multiplicity at RHIC

Speaker: Aihong Tang (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides ATang_WWND2014.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Understanding initial geometry fluctuations and non-linear hydrodynamic response in heavy-ion collisions via Event-Plane correlations

Speaker: Soumya Mohapatra (State University of New York (US))

Slides WWND.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:30 Flow in the RHIC Beam Energy Scan

Speaker: Xu Sun (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Slides WWND2014.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Latest CMS results on flow

Speaker: Shengquan Tuo (Vanderbilt University (US))

Slides WWND2014STUO.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Review on light flavour hadron production at LHC energies

Speaker: Helmut Oeschler (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))

Slides Oeschler_WWND-2014.pdf Oeschler_WWND-2014.ppt

12:30 → 17:00 Lunch break

17:00 → 17:30 Two and Three-particle azimuthal correlations from STAR

Speaker: Paul Sorensen (BNL)

Slides sorensen_wwnd_2014_upload.pdf sorensen_wwnd_2014_upload.ppt

17:30 → 18:00 HBT with respect to 2nd and 3rd oder event planes in 200 GeV Au+Au collisions

Speaker: Takafumi Niida (University of Tsukuba (JP))

Slides WWND2014_niida.pdf

18:00 → 18:30 Coffee break

18:30 → 19:00 Freeze-out radii extracted using 3-pion Bose-Einstein correlations

Speaker: Dhevan Raja Gangadharan (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

Slides WWND_Dhevan.pdf

19:00 → 19:30 A Comparison of HBT Measurements for d+Au and Au+Au collision systems at sqrt(s_{NN})=200 GeV

Speaker: alex mwai (Stony Brook University)

Slides dAuHBT_AlexMwai.pdf

20:15 → 22:00 Conference dinner

Tuesday, 8 April

08:30 → 09:00 Heavy Quark Production and Modification in d+Au Collision in PHENIX

Speaker: Nathan Grau (Augustana College (SD))

Slides 1_Grau_HeavyQuarksdAu_20140408_v2.pdf

09:00 → 09:30 Heavy-flavour decay lepton measurements in pp, p-Pb, and Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE

Speaker: Sarah La Pointe (Universita e INFN (IT))

Slides WWND-lapointe.pdf

09:30 → 10:00 D-meson production in pp, p-Pb, and Pb-Pb at the LHC using ALICE

Speaker: Chitrasen Jena (Institute of Physics)

Slides 3_Dmeson_WWND2014_CJena.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Heavy flavor production in the STAR experiment

Speaker: Barbara Trzeciak (Czech Technical University in Prague)

Slides STARHeavyFlavor_WWND2014.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:30 Heavy Flavor in Medium Momentum Evolution: Langevin vs Boltzmann

Speaker: francesco scardina (INFN Catania)

Slides 5_scardina.pdf 5_scardina.pptx

11:30 → 12:00 Hot medium effects on J/psi production in p+Pb collisions at 5.02 TeV

Speaker: Yunpeng Liu (Tsinghua University)

Slides 6_Yunpeng_Liu.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 CMS results on heavy flavor dileptons

Speaker: Dong Ho Moon (University of Illinois at Chicago (US))

Slides WWND_2014_dmoon_0408.pdf

12:30 → 17:00 Lunch break: Afternoon break

17:00 → 17:30 Multiple Parton Interactions with ALICE: from pp to p-Pb

Speaker: Dr Andreas Morsch (CERN)

Slides WWND2014.pdf

17:30 → 18:00 Saturation and collectivity in p+A collisions at RHIC and LHC

Speaker: Adam Bzdak (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Slides 2_bzdak_texas.pdf

18:00 → 18:30 Coffee break

18:30 → 19:00 Using the ridge to unentangle initial and final state effects in pp,pA and AA collisions

Speaker: Raju Venugopalan

Slides 3_WWND2014.ppt

19:00 → 19:30 Centrality Categorization and its Application to Physics Effects in High-Energy d+A Collisions

Speaker: Javier Orjuela Koop (University of Colorado Boulder)

Slides CentralityCategorization.pdf CentralityCategorization.pptx

19:30 → 20:00 Hydrodynamic flow in proton-nucleus collisions at the LHC

Speaker: Klaus Werner

Slides texas.pdf

Wednesday, 9 April

08:30 → 09:00 PHENIX quarkonia results from Cu+Au and U+U collisions

Speaker: Anthony Frawley (Florda State University)

Slides 1_WWND_2014_PHENIX_CuAu.pdf

09:00 → 09:30 Upsilon production in p+p, d+Au and Au+Au collisions from STAR

Speaker: Anthony Kesich (University of California, Davis)

Slides 2_WWND14-akesich.pdf 2_WWND14-akesich.pptx

09:30 → 10:00 Measurement of Y(1S+2S+3S) Production at PHENIX

Speaker: Marzia Rosati (Iowa State University)

Slides 3_rosati-wwnd14.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Perspectives on heavy-flavour measurements with the ITS upgrade of ALICE at the LHC

Speaker: Rosa Romita (University of Liverpool (GB))

Slides Romita_WWND.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:30 Correlations and rescattering of heavy mesons

Speaker: Joerg Aichelin (University of Nantes)

Slides aichelin_WWND.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Particle production and final state effects in nuclear collisions

Speaker: Dr Bjoern Schenke (Brookhaven National Lab)

Slides SCHENKE-Galveston.key.zip SCHENKE-Galveston.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Origin, properties and significance of electromagnetic fields in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Speaker: Prof. Kirill Tuchin (Iowa State University)

Slides Tuchin.pdf

12:30 → 17:00 Lunch break

12:30 Upsilon Suppression in Hot and Cold Nuclear Matter at STAR

Speaker: Anthony Kesich (University of California, Davis)

17:00 → 17:30 Analytic Results for Early-Time Energy Density and Pressure in High Energy Nuclear Collisions

Speaker: Rainer Fries (Texas A&M University)

Slides WWND_2014.pdf WWND_2014.pptx

17:30 → 18:00 Latest CMS results on jets (pPb and PbPb)

Speaker: Olga Evdokimov (Physics Department-University of Illinois at Chicago)

Slides 2014_WWND_Evdokimov_final.pdf 2014_WWND_Evdokimov_final.pptx

18:00 → 18:30 Coffee break

18:30 → 19:00 Jet production in pPb collisions in ALICE

Speaker: Marta Verweij (Wayne State University (US))

Slides 3_pPbDijetsMVerweijv4.pdf

19:00 → 19:30 Elucidating the event-by-event flow fluctuations in heavy ion collisions via the event-shape selection technique

Speaker: Dr Jiangyong Jia (State University of New York (US))

Slides JiangyongJia_v2.pdf JiangyongJia_v2.pptx

19:30 → 20:00 Identified particles, soft and forward physics with CMS

Speaker: Michael Murray (University of Kansas (US))

Slides MurrayWWND14.pdf

20:15 → 22:00 Conference dinner

Thursday, 10 April

08:30 → 09:00 Electromagnetic probes of the QGP

Speaker: Elena Bratkovskaya (FIAS)

Slides 1_Bratkovskaya_WWND14.pdf

09:00 → 09:30 Hadronic resonances in heavy ion collisions from the ALICE experiment

Speaker: Christina Markert (University of Texas (US))

Slides wwnd_2014_markert5.pdf

09:30 → 10:00 Recent results of dielectron production in 200GeV p+p and Au+Au collisions at RHIC

Speaker: Yi Guo

Slides WWND2014_YiGuo_v9.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Theoretical Connections between Dileptons and Chiral Symmetry

Speaker: Paul Hohler (Texas A&M University)

Slides hohler_WWND_2014.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:30 High multiplicity pp/pA collisions and "explosive" Pomeron

Speaker: Edward Shuryak (stony brook university)

Slides 5_shuryak_nucl.dynamics.key.zip 5_shuryak_nucl.dynamics.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Thermalization of Hadrons via Hagedorn States

Speaker: Carsten Greiner (University of Frankfurt)

Slides 6_WWND20014_greiner.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 A New Method for Determining Identified Particle Yields and Measurement Distributions Based on Non-Negative Matrix Factorization

Speaker: Evan Sangaline (UC Davis)

Slides 7_Pidrix.pdf 7_Pidrix.pptx

13:30 → 22:00 Excursion

Friday, 11 April

08:30 → 09:00 Spatial correlators and sequential meson melting

Speaker: Peter Petreczky (BNL)

Slides 1_wwnd14.pdf

09:00 → 09:30 Equation of state, fluctuations and other recent results from Lattice QCD

Speaker: Stefan Krieg (F)

Slides 2_Krieg.pdf

09:30 → 10:00 Fluctuations of conserved charges: lattice meets experiment

Speaker: Claudia Ratti

Slides 3_talk_Galveston.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Results on thermalisation and flow from ALICE

Speaker: Anthony Robert Timmins (University of Houston (US))

Slides atimminsWWND2014v2.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:30 Recent results of gluon and sea quark spin measurements in polarized proton-proton collisions at STAR

Speaker: Xuan Li (Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP))

Slides 5_WWND2014_XuanLi_ver4.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Proton Spin Structure with Polarized Proton-Proton Collisions at PHENIX

Speaker: Daniel Jumper (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

Slides DanielJ-PHENIXSpin-WWND.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Direct Photon and Jet Physics at RHIC, Now and in the Future

Speaker: Justin Edward Frantz (Ohio University (US))

Slides jfrantz_wwnd14.pdf jfrantz_wwnd14.pptx

12:30 → 17:00 Lunch break

17:00 → 17:30 Centrality Dependence of Low Momentum Direct Photon Production in 200 GeV Au+Au Collisions in PHENIX

Speaker: Richard Petti (Stony Brook University)

Slides winterWorkshop2014_thermalPhotons_rpetti_final.pdf

17:30 → 18:00 Free energy and direct photon emission at finite chemical potential

Speaker: shougaijam somorendro singh (University of delhi)

Slides 2_teaxas11.pdf

18:00 → 18:30 Coffee break

18:30 → 19:00 Anisotropic flows and the shear viscosity of the QGP within a transport approach

Speaker: Salvatore Plumari (University of Catania (Italy))

Slides 3_PLUMARI_GALVESTON_2014_fin.pdf

19:00 → 19:30 Self-consistent Cooper-Frye freeze-out of a viscous fluid to particles

Speaker: Zack Wolff (Purdue University)

Slides 4_Galveston.pdf

19:30 → 20:00 When Worlds Collide

Speaker: Agnes Mocsy (Pratt Institute)

Slides 5_Mocsy_WW_Galveston_April2014.key.zip 5_Mocsy_WW_Galveston_April2014.pdf

20:15 → 22:00 Conference Banquet

Convener: Wolfgang Bauer (Michigan State University)

20:15 Overview of WWND

Speaker: Wolfgang Bauer (Michigan State University)

Slides WWND-History.pptx

Saturday, 12 April

08:30 → 09:00 Transverse Flow of Gluon Fields in Heavy Ion Collision

Speaker: Guangyao Chen (Texas A&M University)

Slides CGC.pdf

09:00 → 09:30 Quenching of inclusive and tagged b-jets at the LHC

Speaker: Ivan Vitev

Slides VitevWWND2014.pdf

09:30 → 10:00 Shear viscosity of an interacting multi-component hadrons

Speaker: Anton Wiranata (Central China Normal University CCNU (CN))

Slides 3_wiranata_wwnd_2014.pdf

10:00 → 10:30 Shear Viscosity of a Hadronic Gas from a Microscopic Transport Model

Speaker: Nasser Demir (Kuwait University)

Slides 4_NDemir_WWND2014.pdf 4_NDemir_WWND2014.pptx

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:30 Consequence of absorptive plasma on energy loss and jet evolution in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions

Speaker: Pol Gossiaux (Subatech)

Slides WWND_gossiaux.pdf

11:30 → 12:00 Numerical Simulation of Thermal Noise in Heavy Ion Collisions

Speaker: Clint Young (University of Minnesota)

Slides CYoungWinterWorkshop2014.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Causal Baryon Diffusion and Colored Noise

Speaker: Joseph Kapusta (University of Minnesota)

Slides KapustaWWND2014.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 14:00 Moving Toward a Global Analysis of Heavy Ion Data

Speaker: Scott Pratt (Michigan State University)

Slides 1_galveston.key.zip

14:00 → 14:30 STAR Upgrade Program and Future Physics

Speaker: Yaping Wang (Central China Normal University CCNU (CN))

Slides STAR_Future_Physics_WWND14_Yaping_v3.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Future CMS Upgrade Plans

Speaker: Michael Eugene Northup (Rice University (US))

Slides 3_WWND_v7.pdf 3_WWND_v7.pptx

15:00 → 15:30 Concept for an Electron Ion Collider detector at eRHIC

Speaker: Jin Huang (Electronics and Information Engin.-Hua-Zhong Univ. of Sci. & Tec)

Slides ePHENIX_WWND.pdf ePHENIX_WWND.pptx