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

from Monday, June 29, 2009 (8:00 AM) to Friday, July 3, 2009 (10:50 PM)
CERN (503/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jun 29, 2009
Jun 30, 2009
Jul 1, 2009
Jul 2, 2009
Jul 3, 2009
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8:30 AM
Registration (until 9:30 AM)
9:30 AM
Introduction session<br> (until 10:15 AM)
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9:30 AM Welcome - Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)  
9:45 AM Startup planning for the LHC and operation scenario for forward physics - Helmut Burkhardt (CERN)  
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10:15 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:45 AM
Soft Diffraction I (until 1:00 PM)
10:45 AM Theoretical overview on soft diffraction - Alexei Kaidalov  
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11:15 AM Description of soft diffraction in the framework of reggeon calculus. Predictions for LHC. - Martin Poghosyan (Yerevan Physics Institute)  
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11:35 AM Soft Scattering Re-Visited - Uri Maor  
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12:05 PM Aspects of Higgs production at the LHC - Errol (Asher) Gotsman  
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12:25 PM Color fluctuations and gap survival probability at LHC - Mark Strikman  
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12:45 PM One-particle inclusive distribution in the unitarized pomeron models - Evgenij Martynov (Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP))  
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8:30 AM
Elastic Scattering and Total Cross-Section II (until 10:35 AM)
8:30 AM The Froissant Bound for Inelastic Cross Sections - Andre Martin (CERN)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
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8:55 AM 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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9:20 AM Theoretical Aspects of High Energy Elastic Nucleon Scattering - Vojtech Kundrat (Institute of Physics, AS CR)  
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9:45 AM The Total Cross Sections at the LHC: Models and Experimental Consequences - Jean-Rene Cudell (Universite de Liege)  
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10:10 AM Proton-Proton Elastic Scattering at LHC and Proton Structure - Richard Luddy (University of Connecticut)  
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10:35 AM --- Coffee break, conference photo (1st attempt; weather dependent) ---
11:00 AM
Elastic Scattering and Total Cross-Section III (until 1:00 PM)
11:00 AM TOTEM Experiment: Elastic and Total Cross Sections - Jan Kaspar  
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11:25 AM Optical Theorem and Elastic Nucleon Scattering - Milos Lokajicek (Institute of Physics, AS CR)  
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11:45 AM Pomeron, Duality, Saturation etc. - Chung-I Tan (Brown)  
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12:10 PM pp Elastic Spin Observables Confront QCD - Dennis Sivers (Michigan)  
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12:35 PM Reflective Elastic Scattering at LHC - Sergey Troshin (IHEP, Protvino, Russia)  
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8:30 AM
Hard Diffraction I (until 10:30 AM)
8:30 AM Analytic properties of DPE amplitudes - Oleg Teryaev (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (JINR)-Unknown-Unknown)  
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8:50 AM Low-x Structure Functions using Discrete BFKL Pomerons - Douglas Ross  
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9:10 AM Soft gluon resummation for gaps between jets - Simone Marzani (University of Manchester)  
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9:30 AM CDF Results on Diffraction - Christina Mesropian (The Rockefeller University)  
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10:00 AM Inclusive hard diffraction at HERA - Alexander Proskuryakov (M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University)  
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10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Hard Diffraction II (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM Exclusive hard diffraction at HERA - Pierre Marage  
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11:20 AM HERMES: New DVCS results - Sergey Yashchenko  
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11:40 AM Low x Physics Possibilities at an LHeC - Dr Paul Newman (Birmingham University)  
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12:05 PM The J/psi way to nuclear structure - Henri Paul Kowalski (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY))  
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8:30 AM
Central Production, Higgs (until 10:35 AM)
8:30 AM Exclusive high mass di-leptons in CDF - Michael Albrow (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL))  
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8:50 AM Exclusive charmonium production at CDF - James Pinfold (Department of Physics)  
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9:10 AM central exclusive chi-c production - Oleg Teryaev (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (JINR))  
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9:30 AM Central exclusive production: vector mesons, jets and Higgs - Jean-Rene Cudell (Universite de Liege)  
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9:55 AM Central Exclusive Higgs Production in the MSSM - Sven Heinemeyer (CERN)  
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10:15 AM Exclusive Higgs production in a triplet scenario - Katri Huitu (University of Helsinki)  
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10:35 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Central Production, Higgs (until 11:25 AM)
11:00 AM Overview of CEP measurements at the LHC - Marek Tasevsky (Physics Institute Prague)  
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11:25 AM
Heavy Ion Physics (until 1:05 PM)
11:25 AM QCD and heavy-ions: RHIC overview - Raphael Granier De Cassagnac (LLR)  
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11:50 AM QCD and heavy-ions: LHC prospects - Gines Martinez-Garcia (Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et des Technologies Associees)  
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12:15 PM QCD and heavy-ions at high-energies: phenomenological aspects - Jean-Yves Ollitrault (SPhT, Saclay)  
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12:40 PM Medium tomography with jet clustering algorithms - Juan Rojo (INFN)  
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8:30 AM
Forward physics & low-x QCD (until 10:30 AM)
8:30 AM HERA results on small x and forward jets - Lev Khein (MSU)  
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8:50 AM Forward jets physics in ATLAS, CMS and LHCb - David d'Enterria (CERN)  
9:15 AM Saturation - Emil Avsar (CEA/Saclay)  
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9:35 AM Standard dilute BFKL - Florian Schwennsen (Universite Paris-Sud)  
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9:55 AM Saturation in nuclei - Tuomas Lappi (CEA/Saclay)  
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10:15 AM Small x related issues - Francesco Hautmann (Institute of Theoretical Physics)  
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10:30 AM --- coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Contributions: forward physics and low-x QCD (until 12:15 PM)
11:00 AM Critical phenomena in hadron- and lepton-induced reactions - Laszlo Jenkovszky  
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11:20 AM 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 AM Higher-twist dynamics in large pT hadron production - Francois Arleo (CERN)  
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11:55 AM Initial-state interactions in Drell-Yan processes at hadron collisions - Dae Sung Hwang  
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1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:30 PM
Diffraction at the LHC (until 4:30 PM)
2:30 PM Diffraction at CMS - Wagner Carvalho (Instituto de Fisica-Universidade do Estado do Rio De Janeiro (UE)  
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3:00 PM Diffraction at TOTEM - Simone Giani (CERN)  
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3:30 PM ATLAS plans on soft and hard diffraction at the early LHC - Vojtech Juranek (Institute of Physics)  
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4:00 PM Diffraction at ALICE - Rainer Schicker  
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4:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
5:00 PM
Soft Diffraction II (until 6:00 PM)
5:00 PM Factorization Breaking in Diffraction - Konstantin Goulianos (The Rockefeller University)  
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5:30 PM Soft interaction processes at HERA: leading baryons, multi-parton interactions - Armen Bunyatyan (DESY)  
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6:00 PM
Elastic Scattering and Total Cross-Section I (until 7:00 PM)
6:00 PM Diffractive and Total pp Cross Sections at the LHC - Konstantin Goulianos (The Rockefeller University)  
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6:20 PM 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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6:40 PM GPDs of the nucleons and elastic scattering at LHC energies - Oleg Selyugin  
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7:00 PM --- break ---
8:00 PM --- Reception ---
1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:30 PM
Past and Future of Forward Physics Experiments I (until 4:30 PM)
2:30 PM Fermilab - Konstantin Goulianos (The Rockefeller University)  
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3:00 PM HERA - Henri Paul Kowalski (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron (DESY))  
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3:30 PM ATLAS - Antonio Zoccoli (Bologna)  
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4:00 PM CMS - Krzysztof Piotrzkowski (Universite Catholique de Louvain)  
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4:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
5:00 PM
Past and future of forward physics experiments II (until 5:30 PM)
5:00 PM TOTEM - Gennaro Ruggiero (CERN)  
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5:30 PM
Discussion session: What can we learn/expect from the LHC experiments? (until 7:00 PM)
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7:00 PM --- break ---
8:00 PM
Planning session for EDS'11 (until 9:00 PM)
12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
1:50 PM
Contributions: photon-induced and heavy-ion physics (until 2:30 PM)
1:50 PM 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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2:10 PM Spin correlations in the \Lambda \Lambda and \Lambda \bar{\Lambda} systems generated in relativistic heavy ion collisions - Valery Lyuboshitz  
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2:30 PM --- break ---
3:15 PM --- Excursion ---
1:05 PM --- Lunch ---
2:30 PM
Cosmic Ray Physics and Related Studies at LHC (until 4:35 PM)
2:30 PM Cosmic Rays and Extensive Air Showers - Todor Stanev  
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2:54 PM Current concepts in theory and modelling of high energy hadronic interactions - Klaus Werner  
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3:18 PM Test of hadronic interaction models with EAS data - Jörg HöRANDEL  
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3:42 PM Proton air cross section measurements with air shower experiments - Gian Carlo Trinchero  
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4:06 PM Forward experiments at LHC - Alessia Tricomi (Dipartimento di Fisica)  
4:30 PM Conclusions: the interplay of EAS and accelerator experiments - Jörg HöRANDEL  
4:35 PM --- Coffee break ---
5:00 PM
Photon-Induced Physics (until 6:50 PM)
5:00 PM Ultra-peripheral Collisions in PHENIX - Zaida Conesa Del Valle (LLR)  
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5:20 PM Ultra-peripheral Collisions in STAR - Boris Grube (Technische Universitat Munchen)  
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5:40 PM Two-photon interactions at BELLE and BaBar - Simon Eidelman (Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics (INP))  
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6:10 PM Probing high gluon densities in UPC processes with production of J/psi - Leonid Frankfurt  
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6:30 PM Ultra-peripheral Collisions in CMS - Jonathan Jason Hollar (Lawrence Livermore Nat. Laboratory (LLNL))  
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6:50 PM
Contribution (until 7:05 PM)
6:50 PM 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 PM
Contributions: cosmic ray physics (until 12:55 PM)
12:15 PM HERA, LHC and cosmic rays - Armen Bunyatyan (DESY)  
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12:35 PM Unusual event alignment topologies in cosmic rays and expectation for the LHC - Alexandre Snigirev (Moscow State University)  
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12:55 PM --- Lunch ---
2:30 PM
Summary Session (until 4:30 PM)
2:30 PM Summary on theoretical aspects - Jacques Soffer (Temple University, Philadelphia)  
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3:15 PM Summary on experimental aspects - John Dainton (The Cockcroft Institute)  
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4:00 PM Summary of the discussion session - Karsten Eggert (CERN)