LHC Working Group on Forward Physics and Diffraction

from Thursday, December 7, 2017 (9:00 AM) to Friday, December 8, 2017 (6:20 PM)
CERN (13/2-005)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Dec 7, 2017
Dec 8, 2017
AM
9:00 AM News - Christophe Royon (University of Kansas (US)) Paul Richard Newman (University of Birmingham (GB))  
9:10 AM CT-PPS physics results and data taking - Dr Laurent Forthomme (The University of Kansas (US))  
9:35 AM First AFP results - Rafał Staszewski (IFJ PAN Cracow (PL))  
10:00 AM TOTEM results - Jan Kaspar (INFN Sezione di Pisa, Universita' e Scuola Normale Superiore, P)  
10:25 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:50 AM On elastic pp scattering at 13 TeV in the theoretical perspective - Valery Khoze  
11:10 AM Discussion: models and uncertainties on rho parameter - Per Grafstrom (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))  
11:30 AM LHCb results and data taking - Ronan Mcnulty (University College Dublin (IE))  
11:55 AM Superchic MC: Updates - Dr Lucian Harland-Lang (University of Oxford)  
9:00 AM Pushing the limits of multi-Regge kinematics - Agustin Sabio Vera (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (ES))  
9:25 AM Forward di-jets in p+A collisions in the ITMD framework - Marek Matas (CERN)  
9:50 AM LHCf and ATLAS joint results - Qidong Zhou (Nagoya University (JP))  
10:15 AM Ultra-forward particle production from CGC+Lund fragmentation - Pablo Guerrero Rodríguez (UGR)  
10:40 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:10 AM AFP physics prospects - Marek Tasevsky (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))  
11:35 AM Alice status and plans in UPC and diffraction - Matti Mikael Mieskolainen (Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP)) Risto Orava (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))  
PM
12:20 PM --- Lunch ---
1:45 PM TOTEM status - Joachim Baechler (CERN)  
2:10 PM AFP detector status - Maciej Trzebinski (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))  
2:35 PM CT-PPS timing and pixel detector status - Nicola Minafra (The University of Kansas (US))  
2:55 PM TOF electronics for AFP - James Pinfold (University of Alberta (CA))  
3:15 PM Picosecond synchronization of dispersed detectors - Radu Radulescu  
3:35 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM Exclusive central production of p pbar pairs in proton-proton - Antoni Szczurek (Institute of Nuclear Physics)  
4:25 PM Search for axions using tagged protons - Cristian Baldenegro Barrera (The University of Kansas (US))  
4:45 PM On physical meaning of some diffractive observations at the LHC - Vladimir Petrov (Institute for High Energy Physics (RU))  
5:10 PM tba - Stanley J. Brodsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University)  
5:35 PM String Junction Toroid in DD and double multiplicity in hadroproduction - Olga Piskunova (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))  
12:00 PM Discussion