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

Name: EDS Blois 2015: The 16th conference on Elastic and Diffractive scattering
Start: 2015-06-29T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2015-07-04T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Borgo, Corsica

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

Borgo, Corsica

Club Belambra “Pineto” Lido de la Marana Route du Cordon Lagunaire 20290 Borgo France

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

Description

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.

Monday 29 June
- Mon 29 Jun
- Tue 30 Jun
- Wed 1 Jul
- Thu 2 Jul
- Fri 3 Jul
- Sat 4 Jul
- 09:00 → 09:10
  
  Welcome 10m
  
  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 35m
  
  Speaker: Philip Harris (Unknown)
  
  Slides
- 09:45 → 10:20
  
  Small x 35m
  
  Speaker: Anna Stasto (Penn State)
  
  Slides
- 10:20 → 10:50
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 10:50 → 11:25
  
  Heavy ion (theory) 35m
  
  Speaker: Nestor Armesto Perez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))
  
  Slides
- 11:25 → 12:00
  
  Heavy ion (exp.) 35m
  
  Speaker: Daniel Tapia Takaki (University of Kansas (US))
  
  Slides
- 12:00 → 12:35
  
  Diffraction 35m
  
  Speaker: Lucian Harland-Lang (University College London)
  
  Slides
- 12:35 → 16:00
  
  Lunch and beach time 3h 25m
- 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 30m
    
    Speaker: Elena Plotnikova (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU))
    
    Slides
  - 16:35
    
    Exclusive process review (COMPASS and HERMES) 30m
    
    Speaker: Caroline Kathrin Riedl (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US))
    
    Slides
  - 17:05
    
    Discovering light-by-light scattering at the LHC 20m
    
    Speaker: David d'Enterria (CERN)
    
    Slides
- 17:25 → 17:50
  
  Coffee break 25m
- 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 20m
    
    Speaker: Lech Szymanowski
    
    Slides
  - 18:10
    
    Cold nuclear effects in Quarkonia production 20m
    
    Speaker: Elena Gonzalez Ferreiro (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))
    
    Slides
  - 18:30
    
    Test of Condensate Enclosed Chiral Bag Model of the Proton at LHC 13TeV 20m
    
    Speaker: Munir Islam
    
    Slides
  - 18:50
    
    Hard elastic collision of spinning protons in two millennia 20m
    
    Speaker: Alan Krisch
    
    Slides
- 20:00 → 22:00
  
  Dinner 2h
Tuesday 30 June
- Mon 29 Jun
- Tue 30 Jun
- Wed 1 Jul
- Thu 2 Jul
- Fri 3 Jul
- Sat 4 Jul
- 09:00 → 10:35
  MPI, soft QCD and diffraction session I
  - 09:00
    
    Elastic scattering at the LHC: what have we learnt? 35m
    
    Speakers: Christophe Royon (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ)), Jan Kaspar (CERN)
    
    Slides
  - 09:35
    
    Updated RENORM/MBR predictions for diffraction at the LHC 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Konstantin Goulianos (Rockefeller University)
    
    Slides
  - 09:55
    
    A model for soft interactions based on the CGC/saturation approach 20m
    
    Speaker: Errol Gotsman (Tel Aviv University)
    
    Slides
  - 10:15
    
    PDF up to the LHC: a statistical approach 20m
    
    Speaker: Jacques Francis Soffer (Temple University (US))
    
    Slides
- 10:35 → 11:05
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:05 → 13:00
  MPI, soft QCD and diffraction session II
  - 11:05
    
    Review on Diffraction 35m
    
    Speaker: Robert Ciesielski (Rockefeller University (US))
    
    Slides
  - 11:40
    
    Review of ALICE results on MPI, soft QCD and diffraction 20m
    
    Speaker: Paolo Bartalini (Central China Normal University CCNU (CN))
    
    Slides
  - 12:00
    
    Review of ATLAS results on MPI, soft QCD and diffraction 20m
    
    Speaker: Rafał Staszewski (IFJ PAN Cracow (PL))
    
    Slides
  - 12:20
    
    Review of CMS and TOTEM results on MPI, soft QCD and diffraction 20m
    
    Speaker: Grzegorz Brona (University of Warsaw (PL))
    
    Slides
  - 12:40
    
    Rewiew of LHCb results on MPI, soft QCD and diffraction 20m
    
    Speaker: Marcin Kucharczyk (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))
    
    Slides
- 13:00 → 16:00
  
  Lunch and beach time 3h
- 16:00 → 17:15
  Recent theory development session I
  - 16:00
    
    Studies of small-x scattering and Reggeization at strong coupling 25m
    
    Speaker: Miguel Sousa Costa
    
    Slides
  - 16:25
    
    On triple gluon effects in heavy vector quarkonia hadroproduction 25m
    
    Speaker: Leszek Motyka
    
    Slides
  - 16:50
    
    Mueller-Navelet jets at the LHC: evidence for high-energy resummation effects 25m
    
    Speaker: Samuel Wallon
    
    Slides
- 17:15 → 17:40
  
  Coffee break 25m
- 17:40 → 19:40
  Recent theory development session II
  - 17:40
    
    Impact factor for the diffractive production of quark-antiquark-gluon jets in DIS 25m
    
    Speaker: Renaud Boussarie (LPT Orsay)
    
    Slides
  - 18:05
    
    The Superchic2 Monte Carlo 25m
    
    Speaker: Lucian Harland-Lang (University College London)
    
    Slides
  - 18:30
    
    Particle production at NLO in Hybrid formalism 25m
    
    Speaker: Tolga Altinoluk
    
    Slides
  - 18:55
    
    Exploring double parton scattering effects in four jet production at the LHC 25m
    
    Speaker: Antoni Szczurek (Institute of Nuclear Physics)
    
    Slides
  - 19:20
    
    Improved Effective TMD factorization for forward dijets in pA collisions 20m
    
    Speaker: Piotr Kotko
    
    Slides
- 20:00 → 22:00
  
  Dinner 2h
Wednesday 1 July
- Mon 29 Jun
- Tue 30 Jun
- Wed 1 Jul
- Thu 2 Jul
- Fri 3 Jul
- Sat 4 Jul
- 08:30 → 18:30
  
  Excursion 10h
- 20:00 → 22:00
  
  Dinner 2h
Thursday 2 July
- Mon 29 Jun
- Tue 30 Jun
- Wed 1 Jul
- Thu 2 Jul
- Fri 3 Jul
- Sat 4 Jul
- 09:00 → 10:45
  Hard diffraction and CEP session I
  - 09:00
    
    Recent results on hard diffraction at HERA 30m
    
    Speaker: Alice Valkarova (Charles University (CZ))
    
    Slides
  - 09:30
    
    Hard diffraction in pythia8 25m
    
    Speaker: Christine Overgaard Rasmussen (Lund University)
    
    Slides
  - 09:55
    
    Measurement of exclusive gamma+gamma ->ll production in proton-proton collisions with the ATLAS detector 25m
    
    Speaker: Oldrich Kepka (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))
    
    Slides
  - 10:20
    
    Single and central diffractive production of open charm and bottom at the LHC 25m
    
    Speaker: Marta Luszczak (University of Rzeszow)
    
    Slides
- 10:45 → 11:10
  
  Coffee break 25m
- 11:10 → 13:05
  Hard diffraction and CEP session II
  - 11:10
    
    New results from ATLAS and CMS collaborations on hard diffraction 30m
    
    Speaker: Marta Ruspa (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))
    
    Slides
  - 11:40
    
    Anomalous coupling studies with tagged protons at the LHC 25m
    
    Speaker: Sylvain Fichet
    
    Slides
  - 12:05
    
    New results from the CMS collaboration on central exclusive production 30m
    
    Speaker: Maria Margherita Obertino (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))
    
    Slides
  - 12:35
    
    LHCb results on exclusive diffraction 30m
    
    Speaker: Ronan Mcnulty (University College Dublin (IE))
    
    Slides
- 13:05 → 15:30
  
  Lunch and beach time 2h 25m
- 15:30 → 16:50
  Hard diffraction and CEP session III
  - 15:30
    
    Diffractive photon production at LO and NLO using MC generators 25m
    
    Speaker: Anderson Kendi Kohara (UFRJ-Brazil)
    
    Slides
  - 15:55
    
    Review of exclusive processes (H1/ZEUS) 30m
    
    Speaker: Marta Ruspa (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))
    
    Slides
  - 16:25
    
    New results for central exclusive production of pion pairs and Higgs in pp collisions 25m
    
    Speaker: Piotr Lebiedowicz (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)
    
    Slides
- 16:50 → 17:20
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 17:20 → 19:40
  High pT and jet physics session
  - 17:20
    
    Mueller-Navelet jets at LHC: discriminating BFKL from DGLAP by asymmetric cuts 20m
    
    Speaker: Francesco Giovanni Celiberto (Università della Calabria and INFN Cosenza (Italy))
    
    Slides
  - 17:40
    
    Measurement of the jet production properties at the LHC with the ATLAS detector 25m
    
    Speaker: Stano Tokar (Comenius University (SK))
    
    Slides
  - 18:05
    
    Measurement of jet energy scale and resolutions (ATLAS+CMS) 25m
    
    Speaker: Dominik Haitz (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
    
    Slides
  - 18:30
    
    Jet measurements in CMS 25m
    
    Speaker: Bora Isildak (Ozyegin University (TR))
    
    Slides
  - 18:55
    
    Constraints on alpha_s and PDFs from Run I (ATLAS+CMS) 25m
    
    Speaker: Mario Campanelli (University College London (UK))
    
    Slides
  - 19:20
    
    HERA inclusive cross sections and a new PDF fit, HERAPDF2.0 20m
    
    Speaker: Zhiqing Philippe Zhang (LAL, Orsay (FR))
    
    Slides
- 19:40 → 20:30
  
  Aperitifs 50m
- 20:30 → 23:30
  
  Workshop gala dinner 3h
Friday 3 July
- Mon 29 Jun
- Tue 30 Jun
- Wed 1 Jul
- Thu 2 Jul
- Fri 3 Jul
- Sat 4 Jul
- 09:00 → 10:40
  Forward physics and cosmic ray session II
  - 09:00
    
    Experimental review of Cosmic Ray experiment results related to hadronic interactions 30m
    
    Speaker: Dr Hans Dembinski
    
    Slides
  - 09:30
    
    Experimental review of LHC experiments for forward min bias physics 30m
    
    Speaker: Katsuaki Kasahara (Waseda University (JP))
  - 10:00
    
    Hadronic Monte-Carlo and air shower developmen 30m
    
    Speaker: felix riehn (KIT)
    
    Slides
- 10:40 → 11:10
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:10 → 13:00
  Forward physics and cosmic ray session III
  - 11:10
    
    Twist analysis of proton structure functions in BFKL and BK framework 30m
    
    Speaker: Mariusz Sadzikowski (Jagiellonian University)
    
    Slides
  - 11:40
    
    Twist expansion of forward Drell-Yan cross-section 30m
    
    Speaker: Tomasz Stebel (Jagiellonian University)
    
    Slides
  - 12:10
    
    Large b behaviour in the CGC/saturation approach: BFKL equation with pion loops 30m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Genya Levin
    
    Slides
- 13:00 → 16:00
  
  Lunch and beach time 3h
- 16:00 → 17:15
  Heavy ion session I
  - 16:00
    
    Soft physics at the LHC 30m
    
    Speaker: Roberto Preghenella (CERN)
    
    Slides
  - 16:30
    
    Quarkonia and heavy-quark production in proton and nuclear collisions at the LHC 25m
    
    Speaker: Michael Schmelling (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (DE))
    
    Slides
  - 16:55
    
    Measurement of an excess in the yield of J/Psi at very low-pT in Pb-Pb collisions with the ALICE detector 20m
    
    Speaker: Laure Marie Massacrier (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))
    
    Slides
- 17:15 → 17:40
  
  Coffee break 25m
- 17:40 → 19:30
  Heavy ion session II
  - 17:40
    
    Jet results in heavy ions at the LHC 30m
    
    Speaker: Yetkin Yilmaz (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, France)
    
    Slides
  - 18:10
    
    The hydrodynamical description of heavy ion collisions. Recent developments 25m
    
    Speaker: Stefan Floerchinger (CERN)
    
    Slides
  - 18:35
    
    Parton saturation and hydrodynamics in EPOS-3 25m
    
    Speaker: Tanguy Pierog (KIT)
    
    Slides
  - 19:00
    
    Spin-dependent DIS presently and on planned e-p machines 30m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Barbara Badelek
    
    Slides
- 20:00 → 22:00
  
  Dinner 2h
Saturday 4 July
- Mon 29 Jun
- Tue 30 Jun
- Wed 1 Jul
- Thu 2 Jul
- Fri 3 Jul
- Sat 4 Jul
- 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 30m
    
    Speaker: Daniela Szilard Le Cocq D'Oliveira (Univ. Federal do Rio de Janeiro (BR))
    
    Slides
  - 10:00
    
    Pion cross sections from pp data at LHC 30m
    
    Speaker: Boris Kopeliovich (UTFSM)
    
    Slides
- 10:40 → 11:10
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:10 → 13:00
  Forward physics and cosmic ray session I
  - 11:10
    
    Review of CMS low-x results and prospects for Run 2 30m
    
    Speaker: Maciej Misiura (Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Warsaw (PL))
    
    Slides
  - 11:40
    
    BFKL description of the jet gap jet cross section 25m
    
    Speaker: Christophe Royon (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))
    
    Slides
  - 12:05
    
    Double scattering production of two rho0 mesons in UPC 25m
    
    Speaker: Antoni Szczurek (Institute of Nuclear Physics)
    
    Slides
- 13:00 → 13:15
  
  Workshop conclusion 15m
  
  Slides
- 13:15 → 16:00
  
  Lunch and beach time / departure 2h 45m