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

Friday 27 May 2005, 09:00 → 16:00 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

09:00-09:30 Matteo Cacciari (LPTHE Jussieu) Heavy Quark production in p+p and p+A Collisions
09:30-10:00 Raffaele Grosso D0 reconstruction in pA collisions at ALICE
09:30-10:00 Fabio Maltoni (CERN TH) Z+jet production in pp and pA collisions

Coffee Break

11:00-11:30 Kai Hencken (Univ. Basel) High energy photon interaction in p+A
11:30-12:00 Krzystof Piotrzkowski Tagged photon interactions in pA collisions at the LHC
12:00-12:30 Sebastian White (BNL) Hard Photoproduction at Heavy Ion Colliders

Lunch Break

14:00-14:45 Mark Strikman (Penn State) HERA III at LHC - ultraperipheral p+A Collisions
14:45-16:00 All Concluding Discussion

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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