LHC Working Group on Forward Physics and Diffraction

from Tuesday 15 March 2016 (09:30) to Wednesday 16 March 2016 (18:20)
CERN (4/3-006)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
15 Mar 2016
16 Mar 2016
AM
09:30 News - Nicolo Cartiglia (INFN) Christophe Royon (University of Kansas (US))  
09:45 CT-PPS status - Joao Varela (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)  
10:15 AFP detector and commissioning - Maciej Marek Trzebinski (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))  
10:45 --- Coffee break ---
11:15 TOTEM physics results - Jan Kaspar (CERN)  
11:40 ALFA operation and prospects - Patrick Fassnacht (CERN)  
09:30 Simulation of a possible resonance at 750 GeV in CT-PPS - Jonathan Jason Hollar (LIP Laboratorio de Instrumentacao e Fisica Experimental de Part)  
09:50 Physics with AFP0+2, AFP2+2 - Rafał Staszewski (IFJ PAN Cracow (PL))  
10:20 Discussion about forward proton detectors in 2016 running and the potential 750 GeV resonance  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:10 Status of forward shower counters and plans for physics in LHCb - Paula Collins (CERN)  
11:40 AFP infrastructure and installation - Petr Sicho (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))  
PM
12:05 BFKL resummation effects using the BFKLex MC - Grigorios Chachamis (Universidad de Valencia (ES))  
12:35 Confirming RHIC saturation signals at the LHC - Cyrille Marquet (CPHT - Ecole Polytechnique)  
12:55 Discussion - Forward jets, CASTOR, T2  
13:10 --- Lunch break, discussions ---
15:30 The FCC project - Helmut Burkhardt (CERN)  
15:55 The FCC Forward Physics WG, discussion - Lucian Harland-Lang (University College London) Antonio Vilela Pereira (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR))  
16:30 --- Coffee break ---
17:00 Photon induced processes and the observation of a possible resonance in CT-PPS - Christophe Royon (University of Kansas (US))  
17:25 Scattering light by light at 750 GeV at the LHC - Gero Freiherr Von Gersdorff  
17:50 New results on photon-photon mechanism and the 750 GeV resonance - Valery Khoze  
12:05 DCS and TDAQ for AFP - Elzbieta Banas (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))  
12:30 Roman pot status, pot insertion... (TOTEM/CMS) - Mario Deile (CERN)  
12:55 Average transverse momenta of baryon production at p-p collider experiments and their crucial implications for the HE hadron physics - Olda Piskounova  
13:15 --- Lunch break and discussions ---
15:30 Diamond timing detectors for TOTEM and CT-PPS - Mirko Berretti (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))  
16:00 Test Beam results for AFP ToF - Tomas Sykora (Charles University (CZ))  
16:25 --- Coffee break ---
16:55 AFP tracker production and testing - Ivan Lopez Paz (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES))  
17:20 Test Beam results for Tracking - Joern Lange (IFAE Barcelona)  
17:45 Conclusions, future meetings - Nicolo Cartiglia (INFN) Christophe Royon (University of Kansas (US))