EDS'09: 13th International Conference on Elastic & Diffractive Scattering

from Monday 29 June 2009 (08:00) to Friday 3 July 2009 (22:50)
CERN (503/1-001)

        : Sessions
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        : Breaks
29 Jun 2009
30 Jun 2009
1 Jul 2009
2 Jul 2009
3 Jul 2009
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08:30
Registration (until 09:30)
09:30
Introduction session<br> (until 10:15)
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09:30 Welcome - Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)  
09:45 Startup planning for the LHC and operation scenario for forward physics - Helmut Burkhardt (CERN)  
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10:15 --- Coffee break ---
10:45
Soft Diffraction I (until 13:00)
10:45 Theoretical overview on soft diffraction - Alexei Kaidalov  
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11:15 Description of soft diffraction in the framework of reggeon calculus. Predictions for LHC. - Martin Poghosyan (Yerevan Physics Institute)  
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11:35 Soft Scattering Re-Visited - Uri Maor  
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12:05 Aspects of Higgs production at the LHC - Errol (Asher) Gotsman  
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12:25 Color fluctuations and gap survival probability at LHC - Mark Strikman  
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12:45 One-particle inclusive distribution in the unitarized pomeron models - Evgenij Martynov (Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP))  
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Elastic Scattering and Total Cross-Section II (until 10:35)
08:30 The Froissant Bound for Inelastic Cross Sections - Andre Martin (CERN)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
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08:55 ATLAS CNI Experiment - Total Cross Sections and Luminosity - Matthieu Heller (Lab. de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (IN2P3) (LAL) - Universite de Paris Sud)  
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09:20 Theoretical Aspects of High Energy Elastic Nucleon Scattering - Vojtech Kundrat (Institute of Physics, AS CR)  
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09:45 The Total Cross Sections at the LHC: Models and Experimental Consequences - Jean-Rene Cudell (Universite de Liege)  
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10:10 Proton-Proton Elastic Scattering at LHC and Proton Structure - Richard Luddy (University of Connecticut)  
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10:35 --- Coffee break, conference photo (1st attempt; weather dependent) ---
11:00
Elastic Scattering and Total Cross-Section III (until 13:00)
11:00 TOTEM Experiment: Elastic and Total Cross Sections - Jan Kaspar  
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11:25 Optical Theorem and Elastic Nucleon Scattering - Milos Lokajicek (Institute of Physics, AS CR)  
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11:45 Pomeron, Duality, Saturation etc. - Chung-I Tan (Brown)  
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12:10 pp Elastic Spin Observables Confront QCD - Dennis Sivers (Michigan)  
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12:35 Reflective Elastic Scattering at LHC - Sergey Troshin (IHEP, Protvino, Russia)  
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Hard Diffraction I (until 10:30)
08:30 Analytic properties of DPE amplitudes - Oleg Teryaev (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (JINR)-Unknown-Unknown)  
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08:50 Low-x Structure Functions using Discrete BFKL Pomerons - Douglas Ross  
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09:10 Soft gluon resummation for gaps between jets - Simone Marzani (University of Manchester)  
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09:30 CDF Results on Diffraction - Christina Mesropian (The Rockefeller University)  
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10:00 Inclusive hard diffraction at HERA - Alexander Proskuryakov (M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University)  
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10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Hard Diffraction II (until 12:30)
11:00 Exclusive hard diffraction at HERA - Pierre Marage  
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11:20 HERMES: New DVCS results - Sergey Yashchenko  
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11:40 Low x Physics Possibilities at an LHeC - Dr Paul Newman (Birmingham University)  
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12:05 The J/psi way to nuclear structure - Henri Paul Kowalski (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY))  
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08:30
Central Production, Higgs (until 10:35)
08:30 Exclusive high mass di-leptons in CDF - Michael Albrow (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))  
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08:50 Exclusive charmonium production at CDF - James Pinfold (Department of Physics)  
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09:10 central exclusive chi-c production - Oleg Teryaev (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (JINR))  
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09:30 Central exclusive production: vector mesons, jets and Higgs - Jean-Rene Cudell (Universite de Liege)  
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09:55 Central Exclusive Higgs Production in the MSSM - Sven Heinemeyer (CERN)  
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10:15 Exclusive Higgs production in a triplet scenario - Katri Huitu (University of Helsinki)  
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10:35 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Central Production, Higgs (until 11:25)
11:00 Overview of CEP measurements at the LHC - Marek Tasevsky (Physics Institute Prague)  
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Heavy Ion Physics (until 13:05)
11:25 QCD and heavy-ions: RHIC overview - Raphael Granier De Cassagnac (LLR)  
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11:50 QCD and heavy-ions: LHC prospects - Gines Martinez-Garcia (Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et des Technologies Associees)  
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12:15 QCD and heavy-ions at high-energies: phenomenological aspects - Jean-Yves Ollitrault (SPhT, Saclay)  
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12:40 Medium tomography with jet clustering algorithms - Juan Rojo (INFN)  
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Forward physics & low-x QCD (until 10:30)
08:30 HERA results on small x and forward jets - Lev Khein (MSU)  
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08:50 Forward jets physics in ATLAS, CMS and LHCb - David d'Enterria (CERN)  
09:15 Saturation - Emil Avsar (CEA/Saclay)  
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09:35 Standard dilute BFKL - Florian Schwennsen (Universite Paris-Sud)  
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09:55 Saturation in nuclei - Tuomas Lappi (CEA/Saclay)  
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10:15 Small x related issues - Francesco Hautmann (Institute of Theoretical Physics)  
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10:30 --- coffee break ---
11:00
Contributions: forward physics and low-x QCD (until 12:15)
11:00 Critical phenomena in hadron- and lepton-induced reactions - Laszlo Jenkovszky  
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11:20 Beauty baryon production in p-p collisions at LHC and b-quark distribution in the proton - Gennady Lykasov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)  
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11:35 Higher-twist dynamics in large pT hadron production - Francois Arleo (CERN)  
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11:55 Initial-state interactions in Drell-Yan processes at hadron collisions - Dae Sung Hwang  
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13:00 --- Lunch ---
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Diffraction at the LHC (until 16:30)
14:30 Diffraction at CMS - Wagner Carvalho (Instituto de Fisica-Universidade do Estado do Rio De Janeiro (UE)  
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15:00 Diffraction at TOTEM - Simone Giani (CERN)  
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15:30 ATLAS plans on soft and hard diffraction at the early LHC - Vojtech Juranek (Institute of Physics)  
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16:00 Diffraction at ALICE - Rainer Schicker  
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16:30 --- Coffee break ---
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Soft Diffraction II (until 18:00)
17:00 Factorization Breaking in Diffraction - Konstantin Goulianos (The Rockefeller University)  
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17:30 Soft interaction processes at HERA: leading baryons, multi-parton interactions - Armen Bunyatyan (DESY)  
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Elastic Scattering and Total Cross-Section I (until 19:00)
18:00 Diffractive and Total pp Cross Sections at the LHC - Konstantin Goulianos (The Rockefeller University)  
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18:20 Amplitudes in the Coulomb Interference Region of p-p and p-pbar Scattering - Erasmo Ferreira (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)  
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18:40 GPDs of the nucleons and elastic scattering at LHC energies - Oleg Selyugin  
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19:00 --- break ---
20:00 --- Reception ---
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Past and Future of Forward Physics Experiments I (until 16:30)
14:30 Fermilab - Konstantin Goulianos (The Rockefeller University)  
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15:00 HERA - Henri Paul Kowalski (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY))  
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15:30 ATLAS - Antonio Zoccoli (Bologna)  
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16:00 CMS - Krzysztof Piotrzkowski (Universite Catholique de Louvain)  
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16:30 --- Coffee break ---
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Past and future of forward physics experiments II (until 17:30)
17:00 TOTEM - Gennaro Ruggiero (CERN)  
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17:30
Discussion session: What can we learn/expect from the LHC experiments? (until 19:00)
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19:00 --- break ---
20:00
Planning session for EDS'11 (until 21:00)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:50
Contributions: photon-induced and heavy-ion physics (until 14:30)
13:50 Sensitivity to anomalous WWgamma, gamma gamma WW and gamma gamma ZZ couplings in photon induced processes at the LHC - Oldrich Kepka (Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (CEN Saclay))  
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14:10 Spin correlations in the \Lambda \Lambda and \Lambda \bar{\Lambda} systems generated in relativistic heavy ion collisions - Valery Lyuboshitz  
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14:30 --- break ---
15:15 --- Excursion ---
13:05 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Cosmic Ray Physics and Related Studies at LHC (until 16:35)
14:30 Cosmic Rays and Extensive Air Showers - Todor Stanev  
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14:54 Current concepts in theory and modelling of high energy hadronic interactions - Klaus Werner  
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15:18 Test of hadronic interaction models with EAS data - Jörg HöRANDEL  
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15:42 Proton air cross section measurements with air shower experiments - Gian Carlo Trinchero  
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16:06 Forward experiments at LHC - Alessia Tricomi (Dipartimento di Fisica)  
16:30 Conclusions: the interplay of EAS and accelerator experiments - Jörg HöRANDEL  
16:35 --- Coffee break ---
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Photon-Induced Physics (until 18:50)
17:00 Ultra-peripheral Collisions in PHENIX - Zaida Conesa Del Valle (LLR)  
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17:20 Ultra-peripheral Collisions in STAR - Boris Grube (Technische Universitat Munchen)  
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17:40 Two-photon interactions at BELLE and BaBar - Simon Eidelman (Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics (INP))  
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18:10 Probing high gluon densities in UPC processes with production of J/psi - Leonid Frankfurt  
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18:30 Ultra-peripheral Collisions in CMS - Jonathan Jason Hollar (Lawrence Livermore Nat. Laboratory (LLNL))  
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18:50
Contribution (until 19:05)
18:50 Does High Energy Behavior Depend on Quark Masses? - Vladimir Petrov (State Res.Center of Russian Feder. Inst.f.High Energy Phys. (IFVE))  
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12:15
Contributions: cosmic ray physics (until 12:55)
12:15 HERA, LHC and cosmic rays - Armen Bunyatyan (DESY)  
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12:35 Unusual event alignment topologies in cosmic rays and expectation for the LHC - Alexandre Snigirev (Moscow State University)  
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12:55 --- Lunch ---
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Summary Session (until 16:30)
14:30 Summary on theoretical aspects - Jacques Soffer (Temple University, Philadelphia)  
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15:15 Summary on experimental aspects - John Dainton (The Cockcroft Institute)  
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16:00 Summary of the discussion session - Karsten Eggert (CERN)