LHC Working Group on Forward Physics and Diffraction

from Tuesday 21 April 2015 (09:00) to Saturday 25 April 2015 (18:00)
Other Institutes (Madrid)

        : Sessions
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        : Breaks
21 Apr 2015
22 Apr 2015
23 Apr 2015
24 Apr 2015
AM
11:00 --- Registration and coffee break ---
11:30 Welcome - Agustin Sabio Vera (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (ES))  
11:35 Introduction to the workshop - Christophe Royon (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))  
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11:50 Diffraction at HERA - Alice Valkarova (Charles University (CZ))  
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10:00 Summary of the Soft Diffraction and Total cross section chapter - Tim Martin (University of Warwick (GB))  
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10:40 Impact picture for near-forward elastic scattering up to LHC energies - Jacques Francis Soffer (Temple University (US))  
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11:10 --- Coffee break ---
11:40 Total cross section measurements - Per Grafstrom (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))  
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10:00 Resumming Double Logarithms in the Balitsky-Kovchegov Equation - José Daniel Madrigal (urn:Google)  
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10:30 Forward jets at LHC: matching BFKL with NLO - Dimitri Colferai  
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11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30 High-energy resummation effects in Mueller-Navelet jets production at the LHC - Mr Bertrand Ducloue  
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10:00 Summary of the BFKL and saturation chapter - Jochen Bartels  
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10:40 LHCf: Results and plan for Run II - Takashi Sako (Nagoya University (JP))  
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11:10 --- Coffee break ---
11:40 Summary of the cosmic ray, multiplicity and particle specter chapter - Dr Tanguy Pierog (KIT)  
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PM
12:30 RENORM Diffractive Predictions Extended to Higher LHC and Future Accelerator Energies - Prof. Konstantin Goulianos (Rockefeller University (US))  
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13:00 --- Lunch ---
15:00 Diffractive production of open charm and bottom mesons at the LHC: theoretical predictions and experimental capabilities - Marta Luszczak (University of Rzeszow)  
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15:30 Forward central correlations in quarkonia production - Roman Pasechnik  
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16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 Summary of the hard diffraction chapter - Ksenia Shchelina (M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (RU))  
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17:10 Discussion on pomeron structure, medium lumi program - Christophe Royon (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ)) Leszek Motyka Prof. Konstantin Goulianos (Rockefeller University (US)) Alice Valkarova (Charles University (CZ))  
18:00 --- Reception ---
12:20 Diffraction As A Saturation Signature - URI MAOR (Tel Aviv University)  
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13:00 Superchic 2: a new Monte Carlo for central exclusive production - Lucian Harland-Lang (University College London)  
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13:30 --- Lunch ---
15:20 Testing Pomeron flavour symmetry with diffractive W charge asymmetry - Annabelle Julia Chuinard (McGill University (CA))  
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15:50 Summary of the detector chapter - Joachim Baechler (CERN)  
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16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00 Herschel, the forward shower counters at LHCb - Akiba Kazuyoshi  
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17:30 Background and running plans - Valentina Avati (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))  
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18:00 Discussion on low lumi program, total cross section…and on detectors - Valentina Avati (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL)) Tim Martin (University of Warwick (GB)) Per Grafstrom (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT)) Joachim Baechler (CERN)  
20:40 --- Dinner ---
12:00 Hard scale dependent gluon density, saturation and forward-forward dijet production at the LHC - Krzysztof Kutak (Instytut Fizyki Jadrowej Polskiej Akademii Nauk)  
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12:30 Exclusive BFKL observables with a MC approach - Grigorios Chachamis (Universidad de Valencia (ES))  
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13:00 --- Lunch ---
15:00 Summary of the exclusive diffraction chapter - Lucian Harland-Lang (University College London)  
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15:40 Anomalous coupling studies - Christophe Royon (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))  
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16:10 --- Coffee break ---
16:40 WW cross section contributions - Marta Luszczak (University of Rzeszow)  
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17:10 Discussion on exclusive processes, high lumi program - Lucian Harland-Lang (University College London) Valentin Khoze (High Energy Physics Division (HEPD)) Christophe Royon (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))  
20:30 --- Dinner ---
12:20 Twist analysis of the forward Drell-Yan process - Leszek Motyka  
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12:50 Exclusive production at LHCb: recent results and prospects for Run-II - Daniel Johnson (CERN)  
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13:20 --- Lunch ---
15:10 BFKL vs DGLAP in Mueller-Navelet jets at LHC - Beatrice Murdaca  
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15:40 Discussion on BFKL, saturation, cosmic rays, multiplicities - Agustin Sabio Vera (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (ES)) jochen bartels Dr Tanguy Pierog (KIT)  
16:10 --- Coffee break ---
16:40 Discussion: yellow report, follow up of LHC Forward Physics WG - Christophe Royon (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ)) all  
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20:30 --- Dinner ---