EDS Blois 2015: The 16th conference on Elastic and Diffractive scattering

from Monday 29 June 2015 (08:00) to Saturday 4 July 2015 (16:00)
Borgo, Corsica

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
29 Jun 2015
30 Jun 2015
1 Jul 2015
2 Jul 2015
3 Jul 2015
4 Jul 2015
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09:00 Welcome - Patrice Verdier (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR)) Christophe Royon (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))  
09:10 High pT physics - Philip Harris (Unknown)  
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09:45 Small x - Anna Stasto (Penn State)  
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10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:50 Heavy ion (theory) - Nestor Armesto Perez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))  
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11:25 Heavy ion (exp.) - Daniel Tapia Takaki (University of Kansas (US))  
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09:00
MPI, soft QCD and diffraction session I (until 10:35)
09:00 Elastic scattering at the LHC: what have we learnt? - Jan Kaspar (CERN) Christophe Royon (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))  
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09:35 Updated RENORM/MBR predictions for diffraction at the LHC - Prof. Konstantin Goulianos (Rockefeller University)  
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09:55 A model for soft interactions based on the CGC/saturation approach - Errol Gotsman (Tel Aviv University)  
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10:15 PDF up to the LHC: a statistical approach - Jacques Francis Soffer (Temple University (US))  
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10:35 --- Coffee break ---
11:05
MPI, soft QCD and diffraction session II (until 13:00)
11:05 Review on Diffraction - Robert Ciesielski (Rockefeller University (US))  
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11:40 Review of ALICE results on MPI, soft QCD and diffraction - Paolo Bartalini (Central China Normal University CCNU (CN))  
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12:00 Review of ATLAS results on MPI, soft QCD and diffraction - Rafał Staszewski (IFJ PAN Cracow (PL))  
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12:20 Review of CMS and TOTEM results on MPI, soft QCD and diffraction - Grzegorz Brona (University of Warsaw (PL))  
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12:40 Rewiew of LHCb results on MPI, soft QCD and diffraction - Marcin Kucharczyk (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))  
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08:30 --- Excursion ---
09:00
Hard diffraction and CEP session I (until 10:45)
09:00 Recent results on hard diffraction at HERA - Alice Valkarova (Charles University (CZ))  
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09:30 Hard diffraction in pythia8 - Christine Overgaard Rasmussen (Lund University)  
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09:55 Measurement of exclusive gamma+gamma ->ll production in proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector - Oldrich Kepka (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))  
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10:20 Single and central diffractive production of open charm and bottom at the LHC - Marta Luszczak (University of Rzeszow)  
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10:45 --- Coffee break ---
11:10
Hard diffraction and CEP session II (until 13:05)
11:10 New results from ATLAS and CMS collaborations on hard diffraction - Marta Ruspa (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
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11:40 Anomalous coupling studies with tagged protons at the LHC - Sylvain Fichet  
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12:05 New results from the CMS collaboration on central exclusive production - Maria Margherita Obertino (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
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12:35 LHCb results on exclusive diffraction - Ronan Mcnulty (University College Dublin (IE))  
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09:00
Forward physics and cosmic ray session II (until 10:40)
09:00 Experimental review of Cosmic Ray experiment results related to hadronic interactions - Dr Hans Dembinski  
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09:30 Experimental review of LHC experiments for forward min bias physics - Katsuaki Kasahara (Waseda University (JP))  
10:00 Hadronic Monte-Carlo and air shower developmen - felix riehn (KIT)  
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10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:10
Forward physics and cosmic ray session III (until 13:00)
11:10 Twist analysis of proton structure functions in BFKL and BK framework - Mariusz Sadzikowski (Jagiellonian University)  
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11:40 Twist expansion of forward Drell-Yan cross-section - Tomasz Stebel (Jagiellonian University)  
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12:10 Large b behaviour in the CGC/saturation approach: BFKL equation with pion loops - Prof. Genya Levin  
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09:00
Forward physics and cosmic ray session IV (until 10:40)
09:30 Comparative Analysis of Models for Diffractive Scattering and Description of pp and pA Interactions - Daniela Szilard Le Cocq D'Oliveira (Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (BR))  
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10:00 Pion cross sections from pp data at LHC - Boris Kopeliovich (UTFSM)  
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10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:10
Forward physics and cosmic ray session I (until 13:00)
11:10 Review of CMS low-x results and prospects for Run 2 - Maciej Misiura (Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Warsaw (PL))  
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11:40 BFKL description of the jet gap jet cross section - Christophe Royon (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))  
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12:05 Double scattering production of two rho0 mesons in UPC - Antoni Szczurek (Institute of Nuclear Physics)  
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PM
12:00 Diffraction - Lucian Harland-Lang (University College London)  
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12:35 --- Lunch and beach time ---
16:00
Exclusive processes and hadron structure session I (until 17:25)
16:05 Measurements of particle production and their correlations at the LHC with the ATLAS detector - Elena Plotnikova (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU))  
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16:35 Exclusive process review (COMPASS and HERMES) - Caroline Kathrin Riedl (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US))  
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17:05 Discovering light-by-light scattering at the LHC - David d'Enterria (CERN)  
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17:25 --- Coffee break ---
17:50
Exclusive processes and hadron structure session II (until 19:30)
17:50 Neutrino-production of a charmed meson and the transverse spin structure of the nucleon - Lech Szymanowski  
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18:10 Cold nuclear effects in Quarkonia production - Elena Gonzalez Ferreiro (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))  
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18:30 Test of Condensate Enclosed Chiral Bag Model of the Proton at LHC 13TeV - Munir Islam  
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18:50 Hard elastic collision of spinning protons in two millennia - Alan Krisch  
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20:00 --- Dinner ---
13:00 --- Lunch and beach time ---
16:00
Recent theory development session I (until 17:15)
16:00 Studies of small-x scattering and Reggeization at strong coupling - Miguel Sousa Costa  
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16:25 On triple gluon effects in heavy vector quarkonia hadroproduction - Leszek Motyka  
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16:50 Mueller-Navelet jets at the LHC: evidence for high-energy resummation effects - Samuel Wallon  
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17:15 --- Coffee break ---
17:40
Recent theory development session II (until 19:40)
17:40 Impact factor for the diffractive production of quark-antiquark-gluon jets in DIS - Renaud Boussarie (LPT Orsay)  
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18:05 The Superchic2 Monte Carlo - Lucian Harland-Lang (University College London)  
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18:30 Particle production at NLO in Hybrid formalism - Tolga Altinoluk  
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18:55 Exploring double parton scattering effects in four jet production at the LHC - Antoni Szczurek (Institute of Nuclear Physics)  
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19:20 Improved Effective TMD factorization for forward dijets in pA collisions - Piotr Kotko  
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20:00 --- Dinner ---
20:00 --- Dinner ---
13:05 --- Lunch and beach time ---
15:30
Hard diffraction and CEP session III (until 16:50)
15:30 Diffractive photon production at LO and NLO using MC generators - Anderson Kendi Kohara (UFRJ-Brazil)  
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15:55 Review of exclusive processes (H1/ZEUS) - Marta Ruspa (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
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16:25 New results for central exclusive production of pion pairs and Higgs in pp collisions - Piotr Lebiedowicz (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)  
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16:50 --- Coffee break ---
17:20
High pT and jet physics session (until 19:40)
17:20 Mueller-Navelet jets at LHC: discriminating BFKL from DGLAP by asymmetric cuts - Francesco Giovanni Celiberto (Università della Calabria and INFN Cosenza (Italy))  
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17:40 Measurement of the jet production properties at the LHC with the ATLAS detector - Stano Tokar (Comenius University (SK))  
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18:05 Measurement of jet energy scale and resolutions (ATLAS+CMS) - Dominik Haitz (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))  
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18:30 Jet measurements in CMS - Bora Isildak (Ozyegin University (TR))  
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18:55 Constraints on alpha_s and PDFs from Run I (ATLAS+CMS) - Mario Campanelli (University College London (UK))  
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19:20 HERA inclusive cross sections and a new PDF fit, HERAPDF2.0 - Zhiqing Philippe Zhang (LAL, Orsay (FR))  
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19:40 --- Aperitifs ---
20:30 --- Workshop gala dinner ---
13:00 --- Lunch and beach time ---
16:00
Heavy ion session I (until 17:15)
16:00 Soft physics at the LHC - Roberto Preghenella (CERN)  
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16:30 Quarkonia and heavy-quark production in proton and nuclear collisions at the LHC - Michael Schmelling (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (DE))  
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16:55 Measurement of an excess in the yield of J/Psi at very low-pT in Pb-Pb collisions with the ALICE detector - Laure Marie Massacrier (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))  
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17:15 --- Coffee break ---
17:40
Heavy ion session II (until 19:30)
17:40 Jet results in heavy ions at the LHC - Yetkin Yilmaz (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, France)  
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18:10 The hydrodynamical description of heavy ion collisions. Recent developments - Stefan Floerchinger (CERN)  
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18:35 Parton saturation and hydrodynamics in EPOS-3 - Tanguy Pierog (KIT)  
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19:00 Spin-dependent DIS presently and on planned e-p machines - Prof. Barbara Badelek  
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20:00 --- Dinner ---
13:00 Workshop conclusion  
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13:15 --- Lunch and beach time / departure ---