LHC Working Group on Forward Physics and Diffraction

from Wednesday, 19 February 2014 (09:00) to Thursday, 20 February 2014 (18:00)
CERN (60/6-015)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
19 Feb 2014
20 Feb 2014
AM
09:30
Physics I (until 12:40) (40/4-C01)
09:30 Introduction - Mr Nicolo Cartiglia (INFN) Christophe Royon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))   (40/4-C01)
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09:40 DPE jets analysis - Maciej Marek Trzebinski (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))   (40/4-C01)
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10:10 Forward direct photons with FoCal in ALICE - Thomas Peitzmann (University of Utrecht (NL))   (40/4-C01)
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10:40 Call for Horizon 2020 - Rainer Schicker (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))   (40/4-C01)
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11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:20 Diffractive dijets with AFP and ALFA - Vlastimil Kus (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))   (40/4-C01)
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11:50 Charged particle correlations and diffraction with AFP and ALFA - Tim Martin (University of Warwick (GB))   (40/4-C01)
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10:00
Detector session (until 12:20) (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
10:00 CMS-CASTOR during run II - Dr Ralf Matthias Ulrich (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
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10:30 The SAMPIC chip for timing detectors - Matthias Saimpert (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
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11:00 Totem roman pot and test stand - Joachim Baechler (CERN) Nicola Minafra (Universita e INFN (IT))   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
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11:30 AFP alignment - Rafał Staszewski (IFJ PAN Cracow (PL))   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
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12:00 Discussion - Tim Martin (University of Warwick (GB))   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
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PM
12:40 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Physics II: yellow report (until 19:10) (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
14:30 Forward physics and heavy ion program - Daniel Tapia Takaki (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
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15:00 LHCb contributions to the yellow report - Paula Collins (CERN) Dr Ronan Mcnulty (University College Dublin (IE))   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
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15:30 TOTEM contribution for the yellow report - Valentina Avati (CERN)   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
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16:00 Chapter 3 status: soft diffraction and total cross section - Tim Martin (University of Warwick (GB)) Valentina Avati (CERN)   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
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16:15 --- Coffee break ---
16:35 Chapter 4 status: inclusive hard diffraction - Maciej Marek Trzebinski (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL)) Dr Marta Ruspa (Universita e INFN (IT))   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
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16:50 Chapter 6 status:forward physics - Cyrille Michel Marquet (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES)) Hannes Jung (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Jochen Bartels   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
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17:05 Chapter 7 status: cosmic ray physics, multiplicities... - Dr Tanguy Pierog (KIT)   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
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17:20 Chapter 5 status: central exclusive production - Matthias Saimpert (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) Lucian Harland-Lang (Durham University) Oldrich Kepka (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ)) Paula Collins (CERN)   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
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17:35 Discussion   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
12:20 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Physics III and discussion about yellow report (until 16:50) (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
14:00 Diffractive W analysis plans - Annabelle Julia Chuinard (McGill University (CA))   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
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14:20 AFP status - Marco Bruschi (Universita e INFN (IT))   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
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14:50 Update on MC chapter - Lucian Harland-Lang (Durham University)   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
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15:10 --- Coffee break ---
15:30 New tune of pythia 8 for forward region - Peter Skands (CERN)   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
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15:50 Chapter 9 status: detectors - Joachim Baechler (CERN) Michael Rijssenbeek (State University of New York (US))   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
16:05 Fixed target programme at the LHC - Luebbo von Lindern   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))
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16:15 Discussion   (60/6-015 - Room Georges Charpak (Room F))