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

29 Jun 2015, 08:00 → 4 Jul 2015, 16:00 Europe/Paris

Borgo, Corsica

Christophe Royon (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

The 16th conference on Elastic and Diffractive scattering, EDS Blois 2015 will be held in Borgo, Corsica/France between the 29th of June and the 4th of July, 2015. The conference will feature sessions about elastic and total cross sections, soft diffraction, hard diffraction, central exclusive production & new physics with rapidity gaps, heavy ions, ultraperipheral physics, low-x QCD and cosmic rays, exclusive processes and hadron structure.

notes Participants_20150623.pdf

Poster poster-edsblois2015.pdf poster-edsblois2015-small.jpg

Monday, 29 June

09:00 → 09:10 Welcome

Speakers: Christophe Royon (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ)), Patrice Verdier (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR))

09:10 → 09:45 High pT physics

Speaker: Philip Harris (Unknown)

Slides PCH_29_06_JMEReview.pdf

09:45 → 10:20 Small x

Speaker: Anna Stasto (Penn State)

Slides stasto_lowx.pdf

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 11:25 Heavy ion (theory)

Speaker: Nestor Armesto Perez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))

Slides armesto_EDS_1506.pdf

11:25 → 12:00 Heavy ion (exp.)

Speaker: Daniel Tapia Takaki (University of Kansas (US))

Slides DTT-EDS2015-v4.pdf

12:00 → 12:35 Diffraction

Speaker: Lucian Harland-Lang (University College London)

Slides lhleds15.pdf

12:35 → 16:00 Lunch and beach time

16:00 → 17:25 Exclusive processes and hadron structure session I

16:05 Measurements of particle production and their correlations at the LHC with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Elena Plotnikova (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU))

Slides Meas_PartProd_Corr_Atlas_EDS15_EPlotnikova_280615.pdf

16:35 Exclusive process review (COMPASS and HERMES)

Speaker: Caroline Kathrin Riedl (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US))

Slides Riedl-BLOIS2015.pdf

17:05 Discovering light-by-light scattering at the LHC

Speaker: David d'Enterria (CERN)

Slides dde_lbly_eds15_corse.pdf

17:25 → 17:50 Coffee break

17:50 → 19:30 Exclusive processes and hadron structure session II

17:50 Neutrino-production of a charmed meson and the transverse spin structure of the nucleon

Speaker: Lech Szymanowski

Slides SzymanowskiBlois2015.pdf

18:10 Cold nuclear effects in Quarkonia production

Speaker: Elena Gonzalez Ferreiro (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))

Slides Blois2015_Ferreiro.pdf

18:30 Test of Condensate Enclosed Chiral Bag Model of the Proton at LHC 13TeV

Speaker: Munir Islam

Slides Blois_2015_X_slides.pdf

18:50 Hard elastic collision of spinning protons in two millennia

Speaker: Alan Krisch

Slides HARD_ELASTIC_COLLISIONS-ADK-23june2015.pdf

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Tuesday, 30 June

09:00 → 10:35 MPI, soft QCD and diffraction session I

09:00 Elastic scattering at the LHC: what have we learnt?

Speakers: Christophe Royon (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ)), Jan Kaspar (CERN)

Slides blois2015.pdf

09:35 Updated RENORM/MBR predictions for diffraction at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Konstantin Goulianos (Rockefeller University)

Slides EDS2015DinoTalk.pdf

09:55 A model for soft interactions based on the CGC/saturation approach

Speaker: Errol Gotsman (Tel Aviv University)

Slides cors2.pdf

10:15 PDF up to the LHC: a statistical approach

Speaker: Jacques Francis Soffer (Temple University (US))

Slides soffer-Blois2015.pdf

10:35 → 11:05 Coffee break

11:05 → 13:00 MPI, soft QCD and diffraction session II

11:05 Review on Diffraction

Speaker: Robert Ciesielski (Rockefeller University (US))

Slides EDSBlois_RCiesielski_reviewDiffractionLHC.pdf

11:40 Review of ALICE results on MPI, soft QCD and diffraction

Speaker: Paolo Bartalini (Central China Normal University CCNU (CN))

Slides BARTALINI-EDS-BORGO-20150630-v9bis.pdf

12:00 Review of ATLAS results on MPI, soft QCD and diffraction

Speaker: Rafał Staszewski (IFJ PAN Cracow (PL))

Slides 2015.06.30_staszewski.pdf

12:20 Review of CMS and TOTEM results on MPI, soft QCD and diffraction

Speaker: Grzegorz Brona (University of Warsaw (PL))

Slides gbrona-edsblois2015_final2.pdf

12:40 Rewiew of LHCb results on MPI, soft QCD and diffraction

Speaker: Marcin Kucharczyk (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

Slides EDS2015_M_Kucharczyk.pdf

13:00 → 16:00 Lunch and beach time

16:00 → 17:15 Recent theory development session I

16:00 Studies of small-x scattering and Reggeization at strong coupling

Speaker: Miguel Sousa Costa

Slides talk_EDS_M_Costa.pdf

16:25 On triple gluon effects in heavy vector quarkonia hadroproduction

Speaker: Leszek Motyka

Slides motykaeds.pdf

16:50 Mueller-Navelet jets at the LHC: evidence for high-energy resummation effects

Speaker: Samuel Wallon

Slides Wallon-MN-EDS-2015.pdf

17:15 → 17:40 Coffee break

17:40 → 19:40 Recent theory development session II

17:40 Impact factor for the diffractive production of quark-antiquark-gluon jets in DIS

Speaker: Renaud Boussarie (LPT Orsay)

Slides BoussarieEDS2015.pdf

18:05 The Superchic2 Monte Carlo

Speaker: Lucian Harland-Lang (University College London)

Slides lhlmc.pdf

18:30 Particle production at NLO in Hybrid formalism

Speaker: Tolga Altinoluk

Slides Altinoluk_EDS2015.pdf

18:55 Exploring double parton scattering effects in four jet production at the LHC

Speaker: Antoni Szczurek (Institute of Nuclear Physics)

Slides szczurek_edsblois_4jets.pdf

19:20 Improved Effective TMD factorization for forward dijets in pA collisions

Speaker: Piotr Kotko

Slides Kotko_EDS_2015_2.pdf

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Wednesday, 1 July

08:30 → 18:30 Excursion

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Thursday, 2 July

09:00 → 10:45 Hard diffraction and CEP session I

09:00 Recent results on hard diffraction at HERA

Speaker: Alice Valkarova (Charles University (CZ))

Slides EDS_Corsica_S_Valkarova.pdf

09:30 Hard diffraction in pythia8

Speaker: Christine Overgaard Rasmussen (Lund University)

Slides blois_christine.pdf

09:55 Measurement of exclusive gamma+gamma ->ll production in proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Oldrich Kepka (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))

Slides 0630_EDS_corsica_kepka.pdf

10:20 Single and central diffractive production of open charm and bottom at the LHC

Speaker: Marta Luszczak (University of Rzeszow)

Slides corsica_marta.pdf

10:45 → 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 → 13:05 Hard diffraction and CEP session II

11:10 New results from ATLAS and CMS collaborations on hard diffraction

Speaker: Marta Ruspa (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))

Slides blois_ruspa_lhc_upload.pdf

11:40 Anomalous coupling studies with tagged protons at the LHC

Speaker: Sylvain Fichet

Slides FICHET_EDS_15.pdf

12:05 New results from the CMS collaboration on central exclusive production

Speaker: Maria Margherita Obertino (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))

Slides CEP-CMS-CT-PPS_Obertino_fin.pdf

12:35 LHCb results on exclusive diffraction

Speaker: Ronan Mcnulty (University College Dublin (IE))

Slides blois_corsica.pdf

13:05 → 15:30 Lunch and beach time

15:30 → 16:50 Hard diffraction and CEP session III

15:30 Diffractive photon production at LO and NLO using MC generators

Speaker: Anderson Kendi Kohara (UFRJ-Brazil)

Slides 01-ANDERSON_KOHARA_EDS_BLOIS_2015.pdf

15:55 Review of exclusive processes (H1/ZEUS)

Speaker: Marta Ruspa (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))

Slides blois_zeus_upload.pdf

16:25 New results for central exclusive production of pion pairs and Higgs in pp collisions

Speaker: Piotr Lebiedowicz (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)

Slides 03-Lebiedowicz_Blois2015.pdf

16:50 → 17:20 Coffee break

17:20 → 19:40 High pT and jet physics session

17:20 Mueller-Navelet jets at LHC: discriminating BFKL from DGLAP by asymmetric cuts

Speaker: Francesco Giovanni Celiberto (Università della Calabria and INFN Cosenza (Italy))

Slides 1-Celiberto_talk_EDS_2015_Celiberto.pdf

17:40 Measurement of the jet production properties at the LHC with the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Stano Tokar (Comenius University (SK))

Slides 2-Tokar-06-29_EDS2015_jet-production-properties__ATLAS.pdf

18:05 Measurement of jet energy scale and resolutions (ATLAS+CMS)

Speaker: Dominik Haitz (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

Slides 2015-07-02_EDSBlois_dhaitz_V2.pdf

18:30 Jet measurements in CMS

Speaker: Bora Isildak (Ozyegin University (TR))

Slides EDSBlois2015_v2.pdf

18:55 Constraints on alpha_s and PDFs from Run I (ATLAS+CMS)

Speaker: Mario Campanelli (University College London (UK))

Slides borgopdf.pdf

19:20 HERA inclusive cross sections and a new PDF fit, HERAPDF2.0

Speaker: Zhiqing Philippe Zhang (LAL, Orsay (FR))

Slides Zhang_EDSBlois15.pdf

19:40 → 20:30 Aperitifs

20:30 → 23:30 Workshop gala dinner

Friday, 3 July

09:00 → 10:40 Forward physics and cosmic ray session II

09:00 Experimental review of Cosmic Ray experiment results related to hadronic interactions

Speaker: Dr Hans Dembinski

Slides Dembinski_EDS2015.pdf

09:30 Experimental review of LHC experiments for forward min bias physics

Speaker: Katsuaki Kasahara (Waseda University (JP))

10:00 Hadronic Monte-Carlo and air shower developmen

Speaker: felix riehn (KIT)

Slides eds_cr_n_had_int_v5.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 → 13:00 Forward physics and cosmic ray session III

11:10 Twist analysis of proton structure functions in BFKL and BK framework

Speaker: Mariusz Sadzikowski (Jagiellonian University)

Slides sadzikowski_EDS_2015.pdf

11:40 Twist expansion of forward Drell-Yan cross-section

Speaker: Tomasz Stebel (Jagiellonian University)

Slides Corsica_Stebel.pdf

12:10 Large b behaviour in the CGC/saturation approach: BFKL equation with pion loops

Speaker: Prof. Genya Levin

Slides Blois15Levin.pdf

13:00 → 16:00 Lunch and beach time

16:00 → 17:15 Heavy ion session I

16:00 Soft physics at the LHC

Speaker: Roberto Preghenella (CERN)

Slides [20150703]_ESDBlois2015_-_Soft_Physics_LHC.pdf

16:30 Quarkonia and heavy-quark production in proton and nuclear collisions at the LHC

Speaker: Michael Schmelling (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (DE))

Slides EDSbloisMS.pdf

16:55 Measurement of an excess in the yield of J/Psi at very low-pT in Pb-Pb collisions with the ALICE detector

Speaker: Laure Marie Massacrier (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))

Slides EDSBlois2015.pdf

17:15 → 17:40 Coffee break

17:40 → 19:30 Heavy ion session II

17:40 Jet results in heavy ions at the LHC

Speaker: Yetkin Yilmaz (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, France)

Slides eds_20150703.pdf

18:10 The hydrodynamical description of heavy ion collisions. Recent developments

Speaker: Stefan Floerchinger (CERN)

Slides Floerchinger.pdf

18:35 Parton saturation and hydrodynamics in EPOS-3

Speaker: Tanguy Pierog (KIT)

Slides EPOS3_saturation_hydro_Pierog.pdf

19:00 Spin-dependent DIS presently and on planned e-p machines

Speaker: Prof. Barbara Badelek

Slides eds_badelek.pdf

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Saturday, 4 July

09:00 → 10:40 Forward physics and cosmic ray session IV

09:30 Comparative Analysis of Models for Diffractive Scattering and Description of pp and pA Interactions

Speaker: Daniela Szilard Le Cocq D'Oliveira (Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (BR))

Slides szilard_eds.pdf

10:00 Pion cross sections from pp data at LHC

Speaker: Boris Kopeliovich (UTFSM)

Slides kopeliovich.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee break

11:10 → 13:00 Forward physics and cosmic ray session I

11:10 Review of CMS low-x results and prospects for Run 2

Speaker: Maciej Misiura (Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Warsaw (PL))

Slides EDSBlois2015_Misiura_CMS_low_x.pdf

11:40 BFKL description of the jet gap jet cross section

Speaker: Christophe Royon (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))

Slides blois2015.pdf

12:05 Double scattering production of two rho0 mesons in UPC

Speaker: Antoni Szczurek (Institute of Nuclear Physics)

Slides szczurek_blois_upc.pdf

13:00 → 13:15 Workshop conclusion

Slides thanks_blois2015.pdf

13:15 → 16:00 Lunch and beach time / departure