Name: QCD at Cosmic Energies
Start: 2004-08-30T09:30:00+02:00
End: 2004-09-04T12:00:00+02:00
Location: Ettore Majorana Cente, Erice, Italy

QCD at Cosmic Energies

from Monday, 30 August 2004 (09:30) to Saturday, 4 September 2004 (12:00)

Monday, 30 August 2004
09:30 Plenary 1
09:30 - 14:00
Contributions

09:30 Big Bang and Heavy Particles - Dolgov, A

10:30 Current models of cosmic ray propagation in atmosphere - Engel, R.

12:00 QCD MC modeling at super-high energies - Marchesini, G.

13:00 AGASA results - Shinozaki, K.
16:00 Discussion: Theoretical challenges in modeling high-energy cosmic rays
16:00 - 19:00
Contributions

16:00 Introduction - Gaisser, T.

16:30 QCD for HEP - Sarycheva, L.

17:00 Charm contribution to the CR muon and neutrino flux - Halzen, F.

17:30 Black body limit in cosmic ray air showers - Drescher, H.

18:00 Model predictions and their impact on air-shower observables - Engel, R.

18:30 Atmospheric Cascades with FLUKA - Battistoni, G
Tuesday, 31 August 2004
09:30 Plenary 2
09:30 - 14:00
Contributions

09:30 Auger project - Beatty, J. and Albrow, M.

10:30 Low-x QCD: the (improved) perturbative picture - Ciafaloni, M.

12:00 Color coherence phenomena in QCD - Frankfurt, L.

13:00 Origin of high-energy cosmic rays - Kachelriess, M.
16:00 Discussion: Forward physics at colliders: experimental tasks and tools
16:00 - 19:00
Contributions

16:00 Introduction - Strikman, M.

16:30 Acceptance of CMS/TOTEM and trigger possibilities - Eggert, K.

17:00 Exotics in cosmic rays and LHC possibilities - Sarycheva, L.

17:30 Forward physics at CMS with CASTOR - Panagiotou, A.

18:00 Radiation hard avalanche photodiodes for very forward physics detectors - Swain, J.

18:30 Cosmic-ray interaction model predictions for LHC - Engel, R.
Wednesday, 1 September 2004
Thursday, 2 September 2004
09:30 Plenary 3
09:30 - 13:00
Contributions

09:30 TOTEM forward physics at LHC - Eggert, K.

10:30 AMANDA results and Ice Cube project - Halzen, F.

12:00 Partonic saturation at very high energies - Mueller, A.
16:00 Discussion: EW interactions at super-high energies and CRs; exotics
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:00 Introduction - Klein, S.

16:30 The White-Pomeron, sextet quarks & cosmic rays - Albrow, M.

17:00 Unified explanation of dark matter and baryon asymmetry - Farrar, G.

17:30 Searching for CR exotics at the LHC - Panagiotou, A.
18:00 Discussion: Small-x soft and hard physics, strong interactions modeling (1)
18:00 - 19:00
Contributions

18:00 Introduction - Kaidalov, A.

18:30 Evolution of the gluon saturation scale and CR airshowers - Dumitru, A.
Friday, 3 September 2004
09:00 Plenary 4
09:00 - 12:30
Contributions

09:00 Perspectives of the QCD physics at FNAL - Albrow, M.

10:00 The ANTARES project: past, present and future - Sokalski, I.

11:30 Color Glass Condensates - Venugopalan, R.
16:00 Discussion: Small-x soft and hard physics, strong interactions modeling (2)
16:00 - 20:00
Contributions

16:00 Non-linear effects in high-energy hadronic interactions - Ostapchenko, S.

16:30 Heavy-quark production in pA collisions at the LHC - Treleani, D.

17:00 Assorted NLL small-x comments (with emphasis on preasymptotics) - Salam, G.

17:30 Ultrahigh energy neutrino-nucleon cross sections and gluon saturation - Jalilian-Marian, J.

18:00 Cross sections behaviour in the exceedingly high energy limit - Maor, U.

18:30 Energy flow correlations - Sterman, G.
Saturday, 4 September 2004
10:30 Closing
10:30 - 12:00
Contributions

10:30 Closing remarks and questions - Klein, S.