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

from Monday, June 29, 2015 (8:00 AM) to Saturday, July 4, 2015 (4:00 PM)
Borgo, Corsica

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jun 29, 2015
Jun 30, 2015
Jul 1, 2015
Jul 2, 2015
Jul 3, 2015
Jul 4, 2015
AM
9:00 AM Welcome - Patrice Verdier (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I (FR)) Christophe Royon (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))  
9:10 AM High pT physics - Philip Harris (Unknown)  
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9:45 AM Small x - Anna Stasto (Penn State)  
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10:20 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:50 AM Heavy ion (theory) - Nestor Armesto Perez (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))  
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11:25 AM Heavy ion (exp.) - Daniel Tapia Takaki (University of Kansas (US))  
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9:00 AM
MPI, soft QCD and diffraction session I (until 10:35 AM)
9:00 AM 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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9:35 AM Updated RENORM/MBR predictions for diffraction at the LHC - Prof. Konstantin Goulianos (Rockefeller University)  
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9:55 AM A model for soft interactions based on the CGC/saturation approach - Errol Gotsman (Tel Aviv University)  
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10:15 AM PDF up to the LHC: a statistical approach - Jacques Francis Soffer (Temple University (US))  
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10:35 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:05 AM
MPI, soft QCD and diffraction session II (until 1:00 PM)
11:05 AM Review on Diffraction - Robert Ciesielski (Rockefeller University (US))  
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11:40 AM Review of ALICE results on MPI, soft QCD and diffraction - Paolo Bartalini (Central China Normal University CCNU (CN))  
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12:00 PM Review of ATLAS results on MPI, soft QCD and diffraction - Rafał Staszewski (IFJ PAN Cracow (PL))  
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12:20 PM Review of CMS and TOTEM results on MPI, soft QCD and diffraction - Grzegorz Brona (University of Warsaw (PL))  
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12:40 PM Rewiew of LHCb results on MPI, soft QCD and diffraction - Marcin Kucharczyk (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))  
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8:30 AM --- Excursion ---
9:00 AM
Hard diffraction and CEP session I (until 10:45 AM)
9:00 AM Recent results on hard diffraction at HERA - Alice Valkarova (Charles University (CZ))  
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9:30 AM Hard diffraction in pythia8 - Christine Overgaard Rasmussen (Lund University)  
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9:55 AM 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 AM Single and central diffractive production of open charm and bottom at the LHC - Marta Luszczak (University of Rzeszow)  
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10:45 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:10 AM
Hard diffraction and CEP session II (until 1:05 PM)
11:10 AM New results from ATLAS and CMS collaborations on hard diffraction - Marta Ruspa (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
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11:40 AM Anomalous coupling studies with tagged protons at the LHC - Sylvain Fichet  
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12:05 PM New results from the CMS collaboration on central exclusive production - Maria Margherita Obertino (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
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12:35 PM LHCb results on exclusive diffraction - Ronan Mcnulty (University College Dublin (IE))  
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9:00 AM
Forward physics and cosmic ray session II (until 10:40 AM)
9:00 AM Experimental review of Cosmic Ray experiment results related to hadronic interactions - Dr Hans Dembinski  
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9:30 AM Experimental review of LHC experiments for forward min bias physics - Katsuaki Kasahara (Waseda University (JP))  
10:00 AM Hadronic Monte-Carlo and air shower developmen - felix riehn (KIT)  
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10:40 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:10 AM
Forward physics and cosmic ray session III (until 1:00 PM)
11:10 AM Twist analysis of proton structure functions in BFKL and BK framework - Mariusz Sadzikowski (Jagiellonian University)  
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11:40 AM Twist expansion of forward Drell-Yan cross-section - Tomasz Stebel (Jagiellonian University)  
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12:10 PM Large b behaviour in the CGC/saturation approach: BFKL equation with pion loops - Prof. Genya Levin  
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9:00 AM
Forward physics and cosmic ray session IV (until 10:40 AM)
9:30 AM 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 AM Pion cross sections from pp data at LHC - Boris Kopeliovich (UTFSM)  
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10:40 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:10 AM
Forward physics and cosmic ray session I (until 1:00 PM)
11:10 AM 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 AM 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 PM Double scattering production of two rho0 mesons in UPC - Antoni Szczurek (Institute of Nuclear Physics)  
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PM
12:00 PM Diffraction - Lucian Harland-Lang (University College London)  
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12:35 PM --- Lunch and beach time ---
4:00 PM
Exclusive processes and hadron structure session I (until 5:25 PM)
4:05 PM 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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4:35 PM Exclusive process review (COMPASS and HERMES) - Caroline Kathrin Riedl (Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (US))  
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5:05 PM Discovering light-by-light scattering at the LHC - David d'Enterria (CERN)  
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5:25 PM --- Coffee break ---
5:50 PM
Exclusive processes and hadron structure session II (until 7:30 PM)
5:50 PM Neutrino-production of a charmed meson and the transverse spin structure of the nucleon - Lech Szymanowski  
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6:10 PM Cold nuclear effects in Quarkonia production - Elena Gonzalez Ferreiro (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (ES))  
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6:30 PM Test of Condensate Enclosed Chiral Bag Model of the Proton at LHC 13TeV - Munir Islam  
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6:50 PM Hard elastic collision of spinning protons in two millennia - Alan Krisch  
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8:00 PM --- Dinner ---
1:00 PM --- Lunch and beach time ---
4:00 PM
Recent theory development session I (until 5:15 PM)
4:00 PM Studies of small-x scattering and Reggeization at strong coupling - Miguel Sousa Costa  
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4:25 PM On triple gluon effects in heavy vector quarkonia hadroproduction - Leszek Motyka  
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4:50 PM Mueller-Navelet jets at the LHC: evidence for high-energy resummation effects - Samuel Wallon  
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5:15 PM --- Coffee break ---
5:40 PM
Recent theory development session II (until 7:40 PM)
5:40 PM Impact factor for the diffractive production of quark-antiquark-gluon jets in DIS - Renaud Boussarie (LPT Orsay)  
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6:05 PM The Superchic2 Monte Carlo - Lucian Harland-Lang (University College London)  
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6:30 PM Particle production at NLO in Hybrid formalism - Tolga Altinoluk  
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6:55 PM Exploring double parton scattering effects in four jet production at the LHC - Antoni Szczurek (Institute of Nuclear Physics)  
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7:20 PM Improved Effective TMD factorization for forward dijets in pA collisions - Piotr Kotko  
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8:00 PM --- Dinner ---
8:00 PM --- Dinner ---
1:05 PM --- Lunch and beach time ---
3:30 PM
Hard diffraction and CEP session III (until 4:50 PM)
3:30 PM Diffractive photon production at LO and NLO using MC generators - Anderson Kendi Kohara (UFRJ-Brazil)  
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3:55 PM Review of exclusive processes (H1/ZEUS) - Marta Ruspa (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
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4:25 PM 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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4:50 PM --- Coffee break ---
5:20 PM
High pT and jet physics session (until 7:40 PM)
5:20 PM 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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5:40 PM Measurement of the jet production properties at the LHC with the ATLAS detector - Stano Tokar (Comenius University (SK))  
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6:05 PM Measurement of jet energy scale and resolutions (ATLAS+CMS) - Dominik Haitz (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))  
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6:30 PM Jet measurements in CMS - Bora Isildak (Ozyegin University (TR))  
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6:55 PM Constraints on alpha_s and PDFs from Run I (ATLAS+CMS) - Mario Campanelli (University College London (UK))  
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7:20 PM HERA inclusive cross sections and a new PDF fit, HERAPDF2.0 - Zhiqing Philippe Zhang (LAL, Orsay (FR))  
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7:40 PM --- Aperitifs ---
8:30 PM --- Workshop gala dinner ---
1:00 PM --- Lunch and beach time ---
4:00 PM
Heavy ion session I (until 5:15 PM)
4:00 PM Soft physics at the LHC - Roberto Preghenella (CERN)  
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4:30 PM Quarkonia and heavy-quark production in proton and nuclear collisions at the LHC - Michael Schmelling (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (DE))  
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4:55 PM 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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5:15 PM --- Coffee break ---
5:40 PM
Heavy ion session II (until 7:30 PM)
5:40 PM Jet results in heavy ions at the LHC - Yetkin Yilmaz (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, France)  
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6:10 PM The hydrodynamical description of heavy ion collisions. Recent developments - Stefan Floerchinger (CERN)  
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6:35 PM Parton saturation and hydrodynamics in EPOS-3 - Tanguy Pierog (KIT)  
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7:00 PM Spin-dependent DIS presently and on planned e-p machines - Prof. Barbara Badelek  
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8:00 PM --- Dinner ---
1:00 PM Workshop conclusion  
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1:15 PM --- Lunch and beach time / departure ---