LHC Working Group on Forward Physics and Diffraction

from Monday, 14 April 2014 (09:00) to Friday, 18 April 2014 (18:00)
Other Institutes (Trento)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
14 Apr 2014
15 Apr 2014
16 Apr 2014
17 Apr 2014
18 Apr 2014
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09:30 Welcome - Christophe Royon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) Gregory Soyez (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) Antoni Szczurek (Institute of Nuclear Physics)   (Trento)
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09:40 TOTEM-CMS consolidation and upgrade project - Joachim Baechler (CERN)   (Trento)
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10:10 Pile up studies - Matthias Saimpert (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))   (Trento)
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10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:10 Performance studies of the Roman Pot timing detectors in the forward region of the IP5 at LHC - Mirko Berretti (CERN)   (Trento)
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11:40 Minimum-bias Backgrounds in AFP for Various LHC Optics Settings - Maciej Marek Trzebinski (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))   (Trento)
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09:30 Tests of BFKL evolution at the LHC - Christophe Royon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))   (Trento)
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10:00 Mueller Navelet jets - Beatrice Murdaca   (Trento)
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10:30 Production of dijets with large rapidity separation - Dr Rafal Maciula (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)   (Trento)
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11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Exclusive distributions in the Regge limit - Agustin Sabio Vera   (Trento)
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09:30 Presentation of ECT*   (Trento)
09:45 Higgsstrahlung at forward rapidities - Roman Pasechnik (Lund University)   (Trento)
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10:15 Quartic anomslous couplings - Matthias Saimpert (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))   (Trento)
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10:45 New "small"" processes in the W^+ W^- production - Marta Luszczak (University of Rzeszow)   (Trento)
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11:15 --- Coffee break ---
11:40 Discussion about high lumi   (Trento)
09:30 Forward Measurement in p-O at LHC and Cosmic Ray Physics - Dr Tanguy Pierog (KIT)   (Trento)
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10:00 The synergy between astroparticle and collider physics - James Pinfold (University of Alberta (CA))   (Trento)
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10:30 Discussion: cosmic rays   (Trento)
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 Hard Diffraction in AFP - Feasibility Studies - Maciej Marek Trzebinski (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))   (Trento)
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09:30 Si timing - Mr Nicolo Cartiglia (INFN)   (Trento)
10:00 SAMPIC - Matthias Saimpert (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))   (Trento)
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10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Update on CMS-CASTOR calorimeter during run II: trigger studies - Igor Katkov (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))   (Trento)
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11:30 AFP simulation - Mateusz Dyndal (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))   (Trento)
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12:10 Discussion: special run program   (Trento)
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12:40 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 TOTEM results - Kenneth Osterberg (University of Helsinki)   (Trento)
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14:30 LHCf results and prospects - Takashi Sako (Nagoya University (JP))   (Trento)
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15:00 Exclusive production of quarkonia in nucleon-nucleon collisions - Antoni Szczurek (Institute of Nuclear Physics)   (Trento)
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15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 Totem contributions for the yellow report - Kenneth Osterberg (University of Helsinki)   (Trento)
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16:30 Discussion about special runs, low lumi program   (Trento)
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12:00 Exclusive jet production at hadron colliders - Lucian Harland-Lang (Durham University)   (Trento)
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12:30 Discussion: BFKL signatures   (Trento)
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:15 AFP status - Marco Bruschi (Universita e INFN (IT))   (Trento)
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14:45 PPS status - Mr Nicolo Cartiglia (INFN)   (Trento)
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15:15 CEP at LHCb - Dr Ronan Mcnulty (University College Dublin (IE))   (Trento)
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15:45 Soft diffraction - Tim Martin (University of Warwick (GB))   (Trento)
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16:15 --- Coffee break ---
16:45 Latest LHCb results on QCD processes in pp and pPb collisions - Dmytro Volyanskyy (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (DE))   (Trento)
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17:15 Alice ultraperipheral and exclusive results - Jesus Guillermo Contreras Nuno (Centro Invest. Estudios Avanz. IPN (MX))   (Trento)
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17:45 New results on central exclusive diffractive production of mesons - Piotr Lebiedowicz (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)   (Trento)
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18:15 Discussion: exclusive production   (Trento)
12:00 Jet Quenching mechanisms: the interplay between theory and experimental data - Liliana Marisa Cunha Apolinario (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))   (Trento)
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12:30 Yellow report: Monte Carlo - Lucian Harland-Lang (Durham University) Paula Collins (CERN)   (Trento)
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12:45 Yellow report: Soft diffraction - Tim Martin (University of Warwick (GB)) Valentina Avati (CERN)   (Trento)
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13:00 Yellow report: Inclusive hard diffraction - Dr Marta Ruspa (Universita e INFN (IT)) Maciej Marek Trzebinski (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))   (Trento)
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13:15 --- Lunch break ---
14:30 Colloqium: Composite Weak Bosons and the New Boson at the LHC - Harald Fritzsch (Experimentalphysik)   (Trento)
15:45 Yellow report: central exclusive production - Oldrich Kepka (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ)) Matthias Saimpert (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR)) Lucian Harland-Lang (Durham University) Paula Collins (CERN)   (Trento)
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16:00 Yellow report: Forward Physics - Jochen Bartels Hannes Jung (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE)) Cyrille Marquet (CPHT - Ecole Polytechnique)   (Trento)
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16:15 Yellow report: Cosmic rays - Dr Tanguy Pierog (KIT)   (Trento)
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16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00 Yellow report: Heavy ion - Daniel Tapia Takaki (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))   (Trento)
17:15 Yellow report: Detectors - Joachim Baechler (CERN) Michael Rijssenbeek (State University of New York (US))   (Trento)
17:30 Discussion: LHCC, yellow report   (Trento)
12:00 Forward di-jet production in p+Pb collisions - Cyrille Marquet (CPHT - Ecole Polytechnique)   (Trento)
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12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 Jet veto - Gregory Soyez (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))   (Trento)
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14:30 Early isotropization of the quark gluon plasma - Thomas Epelbaum (IPhT)   (Trento)
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15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:30 tba - Guilherme Teixeira De Almeida Milhano (Instituto Superior Tecnico (PT))   (Trento)
16:00 Charge exchange reaction - Rainer Schicker (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))   (Trento)
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16:30 Prospects of diffractive physics in Alice - Gerardo Herrera Corral (Centro Invest. Estudios Avanz. IPN (MX))   (Trento)
17:00 Discussion: heavy ions   (Trento)
12:00 AFP technical overview - Antonio Sbrizzi (University of Alberta (CA))   (Trento)
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12:30 Discussion: detectors   (Trento)
13:00 --- lunch ---