CERN Workshop on Proton-Nucleus Collisions at the LHC (2/3)

Thursday 26 May 2005, 09:00 → 17:30 Europe/Zurich

TH Auditorium (CERN)

Proton-nucleus (p+A) collisions have long been recognized as a crucial component of the LHC heavy ion program. However, significant experimental and theoretical developments have occurred in this area since the last broad-based discussions of p+A collisions at the LHC.

In particular, d+Au measurements at RHIC have provided decisive benchmark experiments for discoveries in the RHIC nucleus-nucleus program and show the potential for elucidating the low-x structure of matter.

The goals of this workshop are to assess the current state of the art in p+A physics, and to identify the milestones required for optimal implementation of the p+A running in the LHC program. The focus will be on the following topics:

• LHC machine operation with p+A
  
• LHC experiments with p+A
  
• p+A as a benchmark for A+A
  
• Small-x physics with p+A
  
• Ultraperipheral Collisions
  

Programme

09:00-09:45 Jian-wei Qiu (Iowa State) Factorization and Universality of Nuclear PDFs
09:45-10:15 Vadim Guzey (Ruhr Univ, Bochum) Nuclear PDFs and d-A scattering at forward rapidity

Coffee Break

10:45-11:15 Ramona Vogt (LBNL & UC Davis) Hidden Heavy Flavor Production in p+A Collisions
11:15-11:45 Galina Shabratova Heavy quarkonia in p-Pb and Pb-p collisions in the ALICE muon arm
11:45-12:15 Francois Gelis (CEA Saclay) Rescattering Effects on Q-Qbar Production in p+A Collisions

Lunch Break

14:00-14:30 Nestor Armesto (Santiago de Compostella) Jet Rates in p+A Collisions at the LHC
14:30-15:00 Francois Arleo (LPTHE Jussieu) Prompt Photon Production from RHIC to LHC

Coffee Break

15:30-16:00 Christian Weiss (Jefferson Lab) Effects of the black-body limit on final state properties of p+A Collisions at LHC
16:30-17:00 Tanguy Pierog (Kernforschungszentrum Karlsruhe) Implications of p+A collisions at LHC for Cosmis Ray Physics
17:00-17:30 Witek Krasny (LPNHE Jussieu) The Femto-experiment for the LHC: W boson beams and their targets

Organiser(s): Peter Jacobs (LBNL & CERN), John Jowett (CERN-AB), Andreas Morsch (CERN-PH/EP), Helio Takai (BNL), Urs Achim Wiedemann (CERN-PH/TH), Bolek Wyslouch (MIT)
More information: http://wwwth.cern.ch/pAatLHC/pAworkshop2.html

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