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

Jun 29, 2015, 8:00 AM → Jul 4, 2015, 4:00 PM 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

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Mon, June 29

9:00 AM → 9:10 AM Welcome

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

9:10 AM → 9:45 AM High pT physics

Speaker: Philip Harris (Unknown)

Slides PCH_29_06_JMEReview.pdf

9:45 AM → 10:20 AM Small x

Speaker: Anna Stasto (Penn State)

Slides stasto_lowx.pdf

10:20 AM → 10:50 AM Coffee break

10:50 AM → 11:25 AM Heavy ion (theory)

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

Slides armesto_EDS_1506.pdf

11:25 AM → 12:00 PM Heavy ion (exp.)

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

Slides DTT-EDS2015-v4.pdf

12:00 PM → 12:35 PM Diffraction

Speaker: Lucian Harland-Lang (University College London)

Slides lhleds15.pdf

12:35 PM → 4:00 PM Lunch and beach time

4:00 PM → 5:25 PM Exclusive processes and hadron structure session I

4:05 PM 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

4:35 PM Exclusive process review (COMPASS and HERMES)

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

Slides Riedl-BLOIS2015.pdf

5:05 PM Discovering light-by-light scattering at the LHC

Speaker: David d'Enterria (CERN)

Slides dde_lbly_eds15_corse.pdf

5:25 PM → 5:50 PM Coffee break

5:50 PM → 7:30 PM Exclusive processes and hadron structure session II

5:50 PM Neutrino-production of a charmed meson and the transverse spin structure of the nucleon

Speaker: Lech Szymanowski

Slides SzymanowskiBlois2015.pdf

6:10 PM Cold nuclear effects in Quarkonia production

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

Slides Blois2015_Ferreiro.pdf

6:30 PM Test of Condensate Enclosed Chiral Bag Model of the Proton at LHC 13TeV

Speaker: Munir Islam

Slides Blois_2015_X_slides.pdf

6:50 PM Hard elastic collision of spinning protons in two millennia

Speaker: Alan Krisch

Slides HARD_ELASTIC_COLLISIONS-ADK-23june2015.pdf

8:00 PM → 10:00 PM Dinner

Tue, June 30

9:00 AM → 10:35 AM MPI, soft QCD and diffraction session I

9:00 AM 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

9:35 AM Updated RENORM/MBR predictions for diffraction at the LHC

Speaker: Prof. Konstantin Goulianos (Rockefeller University)

Slides EDS2015DinoTalk.pdf

9:55 AM A model for soft interactions based on the CGC/saturation approach

Speaker: Errol Gotsman (Tel Aviv University)

Slides cors2.pdf

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

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

Slides soffer-Blois2015.pdf

10:35 AM → 11:05 AM Coffee break

11:05 AM → 1:00 PM MPI, soft QCD and diffraction session II

11:05 AM Review on Diffraction

Speaker: Robert Ciesielski (Rockefeller University (US))

Slides EDSBlois_RCiesielski_reviewDiffractionLHC.pdf

11:40 AM 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 PM 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 PM 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 PM Rewiew of LHCb results on MPI, soft QCD and diffraction

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

Slides EDS2015_M_Kucharczyk.pdf

1:00 PM → 4:00 PM Lunch and beach time

4:00 PM → 5:15 PM Recent theory development session I

4:00 PM Studies of small-x scattering and Reggeization at strong coupling

Speaker: Miguel Sousa Costa

Slides talk_EDS_M_Costa.pdf

4:25 PM On triple gluon effects in heavy vector quarkonia hadroproduction

Speaker: Leszek Motyka

Slides motykaeds.pdf

4:50 PM Mueller-Navelet jets at the LHC: evidence for high-energy resummation effects

Speaker: Samuel Wallon

Slides Wallon-MN-EDS-2015.pdf

5:15 PM → 5:40 PM Coffee break

5:40 PM → 7:40 PM Recent theory development session II

5:40 PM Impact factor for the diffractive production of quark-antiquark-gluon jets in DIS

Speaker: Renaud Boussarie (LPT Orsay)

Slides BoussarieEDS2015.pdf

6:05 PM The Superchic2 Monte Carlo

Speaker: Lucian Harland-Lang (University College London)

Slides lhlmc.pdf

6:30 PM Particle production at NLO in Hybrid formalism

Speaker: Tolga Altinoluk

Slides Altinoluk_EDS2015.pdf

6:55 PM Exploring double parton scattering effects in four jet production at the LHC

Speaker: Antoni Szczurek (Institute of Nuclear Physics)

Slides szczurek_edsblois_4jets.pdf

7:20 PM Improved Effective TMD factorization for forward dijets in pA collisions

Speaker: Piotr Kotko

Slides Kotko_EDS_2015_2.pdf

8:00 PM → 10:00 PM Dinner

Wed, July 1

8:30 AM → 6:30 PM Excursion

8:00 PM → 10:00 PM Dinner

Thu, July 2

9:00 AM → 10:45 AM Hard diffraction and CEP session I

9:00 AM Recent results on hard diffraction at HERA

Speaker: Alice Valkarova (Charles University (CZ))

Slides EDS_Corsica_S_Valkarova.pdf

9:30 AM Hard diffraction in pythia8

Speaker: Christine Overgaard Rasmussen (Lund University)

Slides blois_christine.pdf

9:55 AM 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 AM 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 AM → 11:10 AM Coffee break

11:10 AM → 1:05 PM Hard diffraction and CEP session II

11:10 AM 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 AM Anomalous coupling studies with tagged protons at the LHC

Speaker: Sylvain Fichet

Slides FICHET_EDS_15.pdf

12:05 PM 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 PM LHCb results on exclusive diffraction

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

Slides blois_corsica.pdf

1:05 PM → 3:30 PM Lunch and beach time

3:30 PM → 4:50 PM Hard diffraction and CEP session III

3:30 PM Diffractive photon production at LO and NLO using MC generators

Speaker: Anderson Kendi Kohara (UFRJ-Brazil)

Slides 01-ANDERSON_KOHARA_EDS_BLOIS_2015.pdf

3:55 PM Review of exclusive processes (H1/ZEUS)

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

Slides blois_zeus_upload.pdf

4:25 PM 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

4:50 PM → 5:20 PM Coffee break

5:20 PM → 7:40 PM High pT and jet physics session

5:20 PM 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

5:40 PM 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

6:05 PM 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

6:30 PM Jet measurements in CMS

Speaker: Bora Isildak (Ozyegin University (TR))

Slides EDSBlois2015_v2.pdf

6:55 PM Constraints on alpha_s and PDFs from Run I (ATLAS+CMS)

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

Slides borgopdf.pdf

7:20 PM HERA inclusive cross sections and a new PDF fit, HERAPDF2.0

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

Slides Zhang_EDSBlois15.pdf

7:40 PM → 8:30 PM Aperitifs

8:30 PM → 11:30 PM Workshop gala dinner

Fri, July 3

9:00 AM → 10:40 AM Forward physics and cosmic ray session II

9:00 AM Experimental review of Cosmic Ray experiment results related to hadronic interactions

Speaker: Dr Hans Dembinski

Slides Dembinski_EDS2015.pdf

9:30 AM Experimental review of LHC experiments for forward min bias physics

Speaker: Katsuaki Kasahara (Waseda University (JP))

10:00 AM Hadronic Monte-Carlo and air shower developmen

Speaker: felix riehn (KIT)

Slides eds_cr_n_had_int_v5.pdf

10:40 AM → 11:10 AM Coffee break

11:10 AM → 1:00 PM Forward physics and cosmic ray session III

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

Speaker: Mariusz Sadzikowski (Jagiellonian University)

Slides sadzikowski_EDS_2015.pdf

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

Speaker: Tomasz Stebel (Jagiellonian University)

Slides Corsica_Stebel.pdf

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

Speaker: Prof. Genya Levin

Slides Blois15Levin.pdf

1:00 PM → 4:00 PM Lunch and beach time

4:00 PM → 5:15 PM Heavy ion session I

4:00 PM Soft physics at the LHC

Speaker: Roberto Preghenella (CERN)

Slides [20150703]_ESDBlois2015_-_Soft_Physics_LHC.pdf

4:30 PM Quarkonia and heavy-quark production in proton and nuclear collisions at the LHC

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

Slides EDSbloisMS.pdf

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

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

Slides EDSBlois2015.pdf

5:15 PM → 5:40 PM Coffee break

5:40 PM → 7:30 PM Heavy ion session II

5:40 PM Jet results in heavy ions at the LHC

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

Slides eds_20150703.pdf

6:10 PM The hydrodynamical description of heavy ion collisions. Recent developments

Speaker: Stefan Floerchinger (CERN)

Slides Floerchinger.pdf

6:35 PM Parton saturation and hydrodynamics in EPOS-3

Speaker: Tanguy Pierog (KIT)

Slides EPOS3_saturation_hydro_Pierog.pdf

7:00 PM Spin-dependent DIS presently and on planned e-p machines

Speaker: Prof. Barbara Badelek

Slides eds_badelek.pdf

8:00 PM → 10:00 PM Dinner

Sat, July 4

9:00 AM → 10:40 AM Forward physics and cosmic ray session IV

9:30 AM 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 AM Pion cross sections from pp data at LHC

Speaker: Boris Kopeliovich (UTFSM)

Slides kopeliovich.pdf

10:40 AM → 11:10 AM Coffee break

11:10 AM → 1:00 PM Forward physics and cosmic ray session I

11:10 AM 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 AM 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 PM Double scattering production of two rho0 mesons in UPC

Speaker: Antoni Szczurek (Institute of Nuclear Physics)

Slides szczurek_blois_upc.pdf

1:00 PM → 1:15 PM Workshop conclusion

Slides thanks_blois2015.pdf

1:15 PM → 4:00 PM Lunch and beach time / departure