Main Speaker

• Andreas Schäfer

Main Speaker

• Tom Luu

The proton structure from DIS at HERA and the role of charm quarks and higher twist

• Katarzyna Wichmann (DESY Hamburg)

The Deep Inelastic Scattering data from HERA are a core of every extraction of parton densities in the proton. The final combination of the H1 and ZEUS data has been done and presents a sample of very precise and well understood measurements, with a detailed knowledge of systematic uncertainties and correlations. It may be used in QCD global analysis that go beyond determination of the proton structure - like estimation of heavy quark masses and their scale dependence, measuring of electroweak couplings, searches for contact interactions or studies of the low-x higher twist effects. The inclusive HERA measurements will be presented and some of the mentioned above analysis will be explain in details.

The past and future role of DIS in nuclear PDFs

• Karol Kovarik (U Münster)

In this talk, I will review the current status of nuclear PDFs, focusing on the one hand on the importance of the DIS for the nuclear PDFs and on the other hand on the new data coming from LHC. In the outlook I will comment on the impact of the planned electron-ion collider on nuclear PDFs.

Hydrodynamics and non-equilibrium dynamics - new insights from holography

• Martin Ammon (Max-Planck Institute for Physics)

Constraining eta/s of Quark-Gluon Plasma with anisotropic flow measurements at LHC

• Ante Bilandzic (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))

Welcome

Main Speaker

• Johanna Erdmenger

Main Speaker

• Andreas Schäfer

Bayesian Methods in Nuclear Structure Physics

• Philipp Napiralla

The principle of Bayesian inference is used in many dierent elds of science, e.g. medicine and computer science. The foundation of Bayesian inference lies in Bayes' theorem, which oers a powerful alternative method for data analysis. Nevertheless, Bayesian inference is still rather unpopular in elds like nuclear structure physics, where very sensitive detector systems are needed. In -spectroscopy, one of the essential experimental tools of nuclear structure physics, the state-of- the-art detector systems are highly segmented High-Purity Germanium detectors like the Advanced GAmma Tracking Array AGATA. Due to AGATA's Germanium shell without any Compton- shielding, -ray tracking algorithms are needed. The mathematical problem these -ray tracking algorithms are based on, forms a perfect example case for the benets of Bayesian inference over standard statistical inference methods. Using basic terms of probability theory, a short introduction into Bayesian inference is given and essential principles are presented. In addition, a how-to approach of Bayesian inference to the principle of -ray tracking is shown in the form of the Fuzzy Bayes Tracking algorithm. Possible diculties, as well as benets of Bayesian inference are elaborated in detail.

4. Reconstruction techniques for a space-based compact tracking calodimeter

• Thomas Pöschl

To precisely characterize the dose astronauts receive during their missions, it is essential to measure the radiation environment omnidirectionally. To this aim, we developed an omnidirectional particle detector and implemented and compared several online and offline algorithms for particle-parameter extraction: A Bayesian filter, a Markov chain, and neural networks trained on Monte Carlo data. In the talk, we will review the different methods, their use cases, and their performances for our setup.

nPDFs at small x and exclusive photoproduction of J/psi in UPCs at the LHC

• Vadim Guzey (PNPI Gatchina)

Nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) are fundamental quantities of QCD, which describe the structure and response of nuclei in such hard processes as deep inelastic lepton-nucleus scattering, hadron-nucleus lepton pair production (Drell-Yan process), inclusive production of gauge bosons in proton-nucleus collisions, and many more. Nuclear PDFs are determined indirectly by fitting to these data employing the QCD factorization theorems and evolution equations. However, the resulting nPDFs are extracted with significant uncertainty, especially at small x, where nPDFs are expected to be suppressed compared to the sum of PDFs of the nucleon by nuclear shadowing (x is the light-cone momentum fraction of the nucleus momentum carried by the parton). As an alternative method, I will discuss a leading-twist dynamical model of nuclear shadowing, where nPDFs at small x result from multiple diffractive interactions with nucleons of the nuclear target. I will then explain that exclusive photoproduction of J/psi vector mesons on nuclei in Pb-Pb ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs) at the LHC gives an opportunity to probe and constrain the gluon distribution in nuclei at small x. Our analysis demonstrates that these data give evidence of the large gluon nuclear shadowing, which agrees with the leading-twist model and the EPS09 nPDFs. Perspectives to further constrain nPDF using UPCs at the LHC will also be discussed.

Exclusive resonance production at hadron colliders

• Rainer Schicker (U Heidelberg)

An overview of exclusive production of low-mass resonances at hadron colliders is presented. The data taken at the ISR, TEVATRON, RHIC and LHC are reviewed, and the physics interest in analyzing such reaction channels is discussed. In particular, I will focus on the status of glueball states, and their possible identification in exclusive production in proton-proton collisions at the LHC.

The energy frontier for electromagnetic interactions - Ultra-peripheral collisions at the LHC

• Joakim Nystrand (University of Bergen (NO))

Libero

• Urs Wiedemann (CERN)

Seminar II

• Frederik Beaujean (LMU Munich)

Evening Lecture: Gibt es bewohnbare Planeten? Und wie kommen wir dort hin?

• Markus Kissler-Patig

Seit über 20 Jahren sind Planeten jenseits unseres Sonnensystems bekannt. Einige wurden sogar als bewohnbar bezeichnet – doch was bedeutet dies? Welche Form von Leben erwarten wir dort? Mit solchen Themen befasst sich die Astrobiologie, ausgehend von dem, was wir über Leben auf Erden wissen und extrapolierend anhand unseres Wissens über Biologie, Chemie und Physik. Damit kann dann erforscht werden, welche Orte im Sonnensystem bewohnbar sein könnten. Und mit nun über dreitausend bekannten Planeten jenseits unseres Sonnensystems stellt sich die Frage, ob es auch dort Leben geben könnte. Kühner wird es, wenn wir uns die Frage stellen, ob wir jemals zu diesen Planeten reisen könnten.

Main Speaker

• Tom Luu

Main Speaker

• Johanna Erdmenger (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

MPIs: Double parton distributions and how to constrain them using sum rules

• Peter Plößl (U Regensburg)

In my talk, I will first present a short overview of the basics of multiple partonic interactions (MPIs), with the main focus on double parton scattering (DPS), and discuss factorization for double parton scattering. One of the building blocks of factorised DPS cross sections are the DPS counterpart of regular parton distributions, the double parton distributions (DPDs), which, as of now, could not be extracted from experimental data. In order to still be able to calculate DPS cross sections a possible solution is to try and model realistic DPDs using the requirement that DPDs should fulfil certain physical constraints. One particularly useful constraint is provided by DPD momentum and valence number sum rules which sensible DPDs should fulfil, in close analogy to the well known PDF sum rules. I will discuss how these sum rules can be used to constrain the parameters in a DPD model ansatz.

Hadronic light-by-light scattering and the muon's (g-2)

• Igor Danilkin (U Mainz)

In my talk, I will present our recent dispersive analysis of the gamma gamma* -> pipi, pieta processes from the threshold up to 1.4 GeV in the two photon invariant mass. These amplitudes serve as important input to constrain the hadronic piece of light-by-light scattering contribution to (g-2) and support the current experimental program at BESIII. As well, I will present an application of the light-by-light scattering sum rules to the gamma gamma*-production of mesons in light of the new data by the Belle Collaboration on the transition form factors.

Glueballs and Holography

• Frederic Bruenner

Heavy Quarks in Strongly Coupled Plasmas

• Andreas Samberg

Main Speaker

• Johanna Erdmenger

Main Speaker

• Andreas Schäfer

Applying Restricted Harmonic-Mean Integration to High-Dimensional Problems

• Florian Kaspar

Physics analyses often involve complex statistical models. When more than one model is available, it may be desirable to choose the "best" one of them. In a Bayesian setting, one decides by comparing model evidences. For models with large numbers of parameters, calculating the evidence involves high-dimensional integrals. Modern Monte Carlo methods can sample from high-dimensional probability density functions. We apply restricted harmonic-mean integration with these samples as a way of calculating model evidences. We present the method and where it is applicable, estimate its uncertainties and discuss pathological cases and possible extensions.

Detector response simulation of the ALICE TPC

• Mesut Arlsandok

The ALICE Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is the main tracking and particle identification (PID) detector of ALICE at the CERN-LHC. It was designed for multiplicities of up to 20,000 primary and secondary charged particles emerging from a single central Pb-Pb collision. The PID in the TPC is calculated from the specific energy loss measurement (dE/dx), which is derived from the pulse height distribution of charged particle tracks. Accurate simulation of the dE/dx response of the TPC plays a significant role in the testing of the reconstruction and analysis algorithms, in particular in the high multiplicity environment of Pb-Pb collisions, and eventually in the quality of the final physics results of ALICE. In this presentation, a novel approach for the detector response simulation of the TPC and its impact on the PID performance will be presented.

Baryon electromagnetic form factors at BESIII

• Cristina Morales (U Mainz)

The Beijing Spectrometer (BESIII) at the Beijing Electron Positron Collider in China is an excellent laboratory for the measurement of baryon electromagnetic form factors in the time-like kinematic region. The collider is running at center-of-mass energies between 2.0 and 4.6 GeV, allowing the study of e+e- annihilations into pairs of baryons like proton-antiproton, neutron-antineutron and hyperons in the SU(3) spin 1/2 octet and spin 3/2 decuplet. Furthermore, the emission of initial-state radiation by the beams allows also to access kinematic regions below the actual center-of-mass energy of the collider, making possible the measurement of baryon form factors also at the production threshold. In this talk I will review some of the channels currently being studied by the BESIII collaboration.

Nucleon excited states from lattice QCD

• Jia-Jun Wu (U Bonn)

The spectrum from lattice QCD is one of the important tools to understand the properties of hadron. By using the Hamiltonian effective field theory (HEFT) method, we develop an approach for relating the nucleon excited states extracted from lattice QCD and the nucleon resonances of experimental data. The approach opens a new window for the study of experimentally-observed resonances from the first principles of lattice QCD calculations. With this pproach, one not only describes the spectra of lattice-QCD eigenstates through the eigenvalues of the finite-volume Hamiltonian matrix, but one also learns the composition of the lattice-QCD eigenstates via the eigenvectors of the Hamiltonian matrix. Therefore, the approach reveals the composition of the resonances observed in Nature. In this presentation, I will focus on recent breakthroughs in our understanding of the structure of the N*(1535), N*(1440) and Lambda(1405) resonances using this method.

Review I

• Michael Klasen

Non-local observables in AdS/CFT

• Nina Miekley

Aspects of kinematic space

• Raimond Abt

Main Speaker

• Thomas Luu (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

Shear Correlations from Initial Stages of Particle Collisions via Holographic Thermalization

• Michael Florian Wondrak (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)

Colliding asymmetric shocks in- and finite coupling corrections to AdS/CFT

• Sebastian Waeber

Worldline holography

• Adrian Koenigstein

Reconstruction the gluon

• Nicolas Wink

The reconstruction of the gluon spectral function from (noisy) Euclidean data is considered. As a novelty, all available information about the Landau gauge propagator is taken into account. This includes the IR and UV asymptotics as well as the normalization. First results are presented, utilizing all prior information in combination with a state of the art Bayesian Reconstruction.

Holographic QCD phase diagram and entanglement entropy

• Johannes Knaute

Libero

• Michael Betancourt (California Institute of Technology (CALTECH))

Reviews II + III