LHC Working Group on Forward Physics and Diffraction

from Thursday 7 December 2017 (09:00) to Friday 8 December 2017 (18:20)
CERN (13/2-005)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
7 Dec 2017
8 Dec 2017
AM
09:00 News - Christophe Royon (University of Kansas (US)) Paul Richard Newman (University of Birmingham (GB))  
09:10 CT-PPS physics results and data taking - Dr Laurent Forthomme (The University of Kansas (US))  
09:35 First AFP results - Rafał Staszewski (IFJ PAN Cracow (PL))  
10:00 TOTEM results - Jan Kaspar (INFN Sezione di Pisa, Universita' e Scuola Normale Superiore, P)  
10:25 --- Coffee break ---
10:50 On elastic pp scattering at 13 TeV in the theoretical perspective - Valery Khoze  
11:10 Discussion: models and uncertainties on rho parameter - Per Grafstrom (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))  
11:30 LHCb results and data taking - Ronan Mcnulty (University College Dublin (IE))  
11:55 Superchic MC: Updates - Dr Lucian Harland-Lang (University of Oxford)  
09:00 Pushing the limits of multi-Regge kinematics - Agustin Sabio Vera (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (ES))  
09:25 Forward di-jets in p+A collisions in the ITMD framework - Marek Matas (CERN)  
09:50 LHCf and ATLAS joint results - Qidong Zhou (Nagoya University (JP))  
10:15 Ultra-forward particle production from CGC+Lund fragmentation - Pablo Guerrero Rodríguez (UGR)  
10:40 --- Coffee break ---
11:10 AFP physics prospects - Marek Tasevsky (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))  
11:35 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 --- Lunch ---
13:45 TOTEM status - Joachim Baechler (CERN)  
14:10 AFP detector status - Maciej Trzebinski (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))  
14:35 CT-PPS timing and pixel detector status - Nicola Minafra (The University of Kansas (US))  
14:55 TOF electronics for AFP - James Pinfold (University of Alberta (CA))  
15:15 Picosecond synchronization of dispersed detectors - Radu Radulescu  
15:35 --- Coffee break ---
16:00 Exclusive central production of p pbar pairs in proton-proton - Antoni Szczurek (Institute of Nuclear Physics)  
16:25 Search for axions using tagged protons - Cristian Baldenegro Barrera (The University of Kansas (US))  
16:45 On physical meaning of some diffractive observations at the LHC - Vladimir Petrov (Institute for High Energy Physics (RU))  
17:10 tba - Stanley J. Brodsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University)  
17:35 String Junction Toroid in DD and double multiplicity in hadroproduction - Olga Piskunova (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))  
12:00 Discussion