1st International Workshop on Soft Physics in ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

27 Sept 2006, 08:00 → 29 Sept 2006, 19:00 Europe/Zurich

University of Catania, Physics Department

Person Chair

About one year before LHC starts data taking, at the beginning of studies which characterize this new collision energy regime, this workshop aims to encourage discussion among physicists involved in soft physics topics at ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions, coming from SPS, RHIC and LHC. Discussion will touch all interesting topics of soft physics study, both from the experimental and theoretical point of view: it will allow to present last results obtained at the RHIC energy and to make the point on the development of new analysis tools and on theoretical predictions for the LHC regime. All sessions will be plenary and considering the "informal" style of this workshop, a large part of it will be devoted to discussion.

Wednesday 27 September

08:00 → 10:00 Welcome and registration

10:00 → 13:10 Morning session

10:00 → 10:40 TBA

Speaker: Dmitri Kharzeev (Brookhaven National Laboratory - USA)

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 → 11:50 Strange particle production from SIS up to LHC

Speaker: Helmut Oeschler (Darmstadt University of Technology - Germany)

11:50 → 12:30 Strangeness production at RHIC

Speaker: Helen Caines (Yale University - USA)

12:30 → 12:50 K0's and hyperons in ALICE

Speaker: Ludovic Gaudichet (INFN Torino - Italy)

12:50 → 13:10 Statistical analysis of strangeness production in small systems

Speaker: Ingrid Kraus (Darmstadt University of Technology - Germany)

13:10 → 15:00 Lunch break

15:00 → 15:40 The relevance of pp results to the understanding of soft physics in AA collisions at RHIC and LHC

Speaker: Rene Bellwied (Wayne State University - USA)

15:40 → 16:20 Proton-proton physics with ALICE

Speaker: Jan Fiete Grosse-Oetringhaus (Institut fur Kemphysik of Munster - Germany)

16:20 → 17:00 Phenomenology of yields and fluctuations in heavy ion collisions

Speaker: Giorgio Torrieri (McGill University - Canada / W. Goethe University of Frankfurt - Germany)

17:00 → 17:20 Coffee break

17:20 → 18:00 Event-by-event physics in ALICE

Speaker: Tapan Nayak (CERN - Switzerland)

18:00 → 18:20 Hadron yields and spectra on event by event basis in ALICE

Speaker: Chiara Zampolli (Centro Fermi and INFN Bologna - Italy)

18:20 → 18:40 Study of charge correlations using the balance function

Speaker: Panos Christakoglou (University of Athens - Greece)

18:40 → 19:00 Event-by-event fluctuations in the NA49 experiment

Speaker: Maria Vassiliou (University of Athens - Greece)

19:00 → 19:20 Event by event fluctuation in flow

Speaker: Sudhir Raniwala (University of Rajasthan - India)

Thursday 28 September

09:00 → 09:40 Thermalization and elliptic flow at RHIC

Speaker: Jean Yves Ollitrault (Saclay - France)

09:40 → 10:20 Elliptic flow: status ar RHIC and future in ALICE

Speaker: Emanuele Simili (University of Utrecht - Netherlands)

10:20 → 11:00 Production of multiple heavy flavoured baryons from QGP at LHC

Speaker: Francesco Becattini (University and INFN Firenze - Italy)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 11:50 Multiplicity and dN/deta of charged particles in ALICE

Speaker: Tiziano Virgili (University and INFN Salerno - Italy)

11:50 → 12:10 Information on Etna

12:30 → 18:30 Etna tour

20:30 → 22:30 Social dinner

Friday 29 September

09:00 → 09:40 Counting valence quarks at RHIC and LHC

Speaker: Antonio Polosa (INFN sezione Roma 1 - Italy)

09:40 → 10:20 Kinetic approach to relativistic heavy ion collisions

Speaker: Aldo Bonasera (Laboratorio Nazionale del Sud, Catania - Italy)

10:20 → 11:00 Exotic hadronic search

Speaker: S. Kabana (Laboratoire Subatech, Nantes - France)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:10 Resonance production in heavy ion collisions

Speaker: Christina Markert (University of Texas - USA)

12:10 → 12:30 Study of K*(892) and Lambda(1520) in ALICE

Speaker: Alberto Pulvirenti (University and INFN Catania - Italy)

12:30 → 12:50 Phi meson detection via charged kaon identification at LHC with ALICE experiment

Speaker: Annalisa De Caro (University and INFN Salerno - Italy)

12:50 → 13:10 Study of dielectron decays in ALICE

Speaker: Boris Batyunya (JINR, Dubna - Russia)

13:10 → 15:00 Lunch break

15:00 → 15:40 The dynamics of low Q2 partons in nuclear collisions from minijet structure in two particle correlation

Speaker: Thomas Trainor (University of Washington - USA)

15:40 → 16:20 Femtoscopy at the highest energies: from p+p to A+A; from STAR/RHIC to ALICE/LHC

Speaker: Michael Lisa (Ohio State University - USA)

16:20 → 16:50 Possibilities and limitations of momentum correlation studies at ALICE

Speaker: Jan Pluta (Warsaw University of Technology - Poland)

16:50 → 17:10 Software tools for analysis of momentum correlations at ALICE

Speaker: Marek Chojnacki (Warsaw University of Technology - Poland)

17:10 → 17:30 Coffee break

17:30 → 17:50 Proton femtoscopy in STAR

Speaker: Hanna Gos (Warsaw University of Technology - Poland)

17:50 → 18:10 Expansion dynamics of Pb-Pb collisions at 40 AGeV/c beam momentum

Speaker: Rosa Romita (University and INFN Bari - Italy)

18:10 → 18:30 Source imaging from the identical pion correlation function

Speaker: Michal Bystersky (Nuclear Physics Institute Academy of Sciences - Czech Rep.)

18:30 → 18:50 Importance of residual correlations in determination of source parameters.

Speaker: Konstantin Mikhaylov (ITEP - Russia)