Diffractive and electromagnetic processes at high energies

Europe/Zurich
Description

International Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Physics School

The school "Diffractive and electromagnetic processes at high energies" is held in Bad Honnef,  August 17 - 21, 2015. Applications from students and postdocs are encouraged. The school programme consists of invited talks of the HERA, RHIC, TEVATRON and CERN programmes, invited lectures and talks contributed by the participants .

This school is generously funded by the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation.

 

Invited Lectures

  • M. Albrow, Fermi Nat. Lab.,''Experiments in central exclusive production at hadron colliders'
  • C. Alexandrou,  Univ. of Cyprus, ''Hadron structure in lattice QCD"
  • J. Bartels, Univ. of Hamburg, "Theory of diffractive processes at the LHC"
  • S.U. Chung, CERN,  ''Partial wave analysis of centrally produced resonances''
  • V. Goncalves, Univ. Federal de Pelotas, "Probing the QCD dynamics in photon-hadron interactions at the LHC"
  • W. Guryn, Brookhaven Nat. Lab., "Spin dependence of diffractive observables in pp and pA collisions at RHIC"
  • L. Jenkovszky, Bogolubov Inst. Theor. Physics, Kiev, "Elastic and inelastic diffraction at the LHC"
  • F. Krinner, TU Munich, ''Review of diffraction in COMPASS"
  • Ch. Mesropian, Rockefeller Univ., New York, ''Review of diffraction at the TEVATRON"
  • O. Nachtmann, Inst. Theor. Physics, Univ of Heidelberg, ''The tensor-pomeron model for diffractive processes: from elastic scattering to diffractive dissociation and central production"
  • A. Papa, Univ. of Calabria, Cosenza, ''High-energy resummation in hard QCD processes"
  • K. Passek-Kumericki, Rudjer Boskovic Inst., Zagreb,  "Introduction to Generalized Parton Distributions, DVCS and DVMP"
  • K. Piotrzkowski, UC Louvain-la-Neuve, "Photon-photon processes at the LHC"
  • W. Plessas, Inst. Theor. Physics, Univ. of Graz,  "Electroweak structure of baryons at low and intermediate momentum transfers"
  • W. Schäfer, PAN Cracow, "Electromagnetic excitations in proton-proton collisions "
  • A. Szczurek, PAN Cracow, ''Recent developments on exclusive production of mesons''
  • R. Orava, Helsinki Inst. of Physics, "Review diffractive and electromagnetic processes in ALICE"
  • L. Schoeffel, CEA/IRFU Saclay, "Review diffractive and electromagnetic processes in ATLAS"
  • G.A. Alves, CBPF Rio de Janeiro, "Review diffractive and electromagnetic processes in CMS"
  • D. Johnson, CERN, '' Review diffractive and electromagnetic processes in LHCb"
  • M. Deile, CERN, "Review diffractive and electromagnetic processes in TOTEM"
  • S. Levonian, DESY, "Review diffractive and electromagnetic processes at HERA"

Organizers:

R. Schicker, Phys. Inst., University Heidelberg

A. Szczurek, Institute of Nuclear Physics, PAN Cracow, and Rzeszow University

 

    • 09:00 09:10
      Welcome 10m
      Speaker: Rainer Schicker
    • 09:10 10:00
      Elastic and inelastic diffraction at the LHC 50m
      Speaker: Laszlo Jenkovszky
    • 10:00 10:50
      High energy photon-photon processes at the LHC 50m
      Speaker: Krzysztof Piotrzkowski
    • 10:50 11:10
      Coffee break 20m
    • 11:10 12:00
      Central exclusive production in hadron-hadron collisions 50m
      Speaker: Mike Albrow
    • 12:00 12:20
      Diffraction in the shockwave formalism 20m
      Speaker: Renaud Boussarie
    • 12:20 12:40
      Diffractive production of heavy mesons 20m
      Speaker: Marta Luszczak
    • 12:40 14:00
      Lunch break 1h 20m
    • 14:00 14:50
      Measuring forward physics processes at the LHC 50m
      Speaker: Risto Orava
    • 14:50 15:40
      $\pi\pi$ systems in central production at COMPASS and at ALICE 50m
      Speaker: Suh-Urk Chung
    • 15:40 16:00
      Central exclusive $\pi\pi$-production in pp-collisions at sqrt(s) = 0.9 and 1.96 TeV at the TEVATRON 20m
      Speaker: Maria Zurek
    • 16:00 16:20
      Coffee break 20m
    • 16:20 17:10
      Electromagnetic excitations in high-energy proton-proton collisions 50m
      Speaker: Wolfgang Schäfer
    • 17:10 17:30
      Exclusive jet production at the LHC - Feasibility studies 20m
      Speaker: Maciej Trzebinski
    • 17:30 17:50
      Parton-hadron duality in single and double diffraction dissociation 20m
      Speaker: Maria Anosova
    • 17:50 18:10
      Ionization and electromagnetic radiation processes by high-energy "half-bare" electron 20m
      Speaker: Sergii Trofymenko
    • 09:00 09:50
      Theory of diffraction 50m
      Speaker: Jochen Bartels
    • 09:50 10:40
      Diffraction and forward physics at HERA 50m
      Speaker: Sergey Levonian
    • 10:40 11:00
      Coffee break 20m
    • 11:00 11:50
      Electroweak structure of baryons at low and intermediate momentum transfers 50m
      Speaker: Willibald Plessas
    • 11:50 12:10
      NLO low-x evolution equations for 4-point colorless operators 20m
      Speaker: Andrey Grabovsky
    • 12:10 12:30
      Finite mass sum rules for single and double diffraction dissociation 20m
      Speaker: Shchur Olha
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch break 1h 30m
    • 14:00 14:50
      Review of diffractive and electromagnetic processes in TOTEM 50m
      Speaker: Mario Deile
    • 14:50 15:10
      Total and inelastic pp cross sections at LHC in the light of a minijet model with soft gluon resummation 20m
      Speaker: Daniel Fagundes
    • 15:10 15:30
      The bound on inelastic diffraction at the LHC 20m
      Speaker: Sergey Troshin
    • 15:30 15:50
      Extracting the Odderon from pp and ppbar 20m
      Speaker: Andras Ster
    • 15:50 16:10
      Coffee break 20m
    • 16:10 17:00
      Probing the QCD dynamics in photon-induced interactions at LHC 50m
      Speaker: Victor Goncalves
    • 17:00 17:20
      Diffractive and photo-production mechanisms in the pp --> pp$\pi^{+}\pi^{-}$ process 20m
      Speaker: Piotr Lebiedowicz
    • 17:20 17:40
      New theoretical results in UPC 20m
      Speaker: Mariola Klusek-Gawenda
    • 17:40 18:00
      Future acceleration technologies 20m
      Speaker: Vladyslav Libov
    • 18:00 18:30
      Poster session 30m
    • 09:00 09:50
      Review diffractive and electromagnetic processes in ATLAS 50m
      Speaker: Laurent Schoeffel
    • 09:50 10:40
      Review diffractive and electromagnetic processes in CMS 50m
      Speaker: Gilvan Alves
    • 10:40 11:00
      Coffee break 20m
    • 11:00 11:50
      Review diffractive and electromagnetic processes in LHCb 50m
      Speaker: Daniel Johnson
    • 11:50 12:10
      Diffractive charm production at the LHC within kt-factorization approach 20m
      Speaker: Rafal Maciula
    • 12:10 12:30
      Diffraction at the LHC - at the boundary of experiment and theory 20m
      Speaker: Mikael Mieskolainen
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch break 1h 30m
    • 14:00 18:00
      Excursion 4h
    • 18:00 20:00
      Dinner 2h
    • 20:00 20:50
      Hadron spectroscopy at COMPASS 50m
      Speaker: Fabian Krinner
    • 20:50 21:10
      Empirical studies on the ratio of the elastic to the total hadronic cross sections 20m
      Speaker: Paulo Silva
    • 09:00 09:50
      Diffraction in polarized proton-proton collisions at RHIC 50m
      Speaker: Wlodzimierz Guryn
    • 09:50 10:40
      The tensor pomeron model for diffractive processes 50m
      Speaker: Otto Nachtmann
    • 10:40 11:00
      Coffee break 20m
    • 11:00 11:50
      Semi-hard processes and BFKL resummation 50m
      Speaker: Alessandro Papa
    • 11:50 12:10
      Effective transverse radius of nucleon in high-energy elastic diffractive scattering 20m
      Speaker: Anton Godizov
    • 12:10 12:30
      Proton diffraction dissociation and unitarity 20m
      Speaker: Vasyl Zacheshyhryva
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch break 1h 30m
    • 14:00 14:50
      Nucleon observables from lattice QCD 50m
      Speaker: Constantia Alexandrou
    • 14:50 15:40
      Introduction to generalized parton distributions, DVCS and DVMP 50m
      Speaker: Kornelija Passek-Kumericki
    • 15:40 16:00
      The new method of accounting of interference contributions for diagrams of inelastic scattering processes 20m
      Speaker: Oleksii Potiienko
    • 16:00 16:20
      Coffee break 20m
    • 16:20 17:10
      Review of diffraction at the TEVATRON 50m
      Speaker: Christina Mesropian
    • 17:10 17:30
      Intercepts of $\pi$-meson correlation functions in deformed bose gas models 20m
      Speaker: Anastasiia Rebesh
    • 17:30 17:50
      Search for Z' -gauge boson 20m
      Speaker: Ahmed Qamesh
    • 17:50 18:10
      The decays of the Higgs boson into two off mass-shell Z or W bosons 20m
      Speaker: Taras Zagoskin
    • 09:00 10:00
      Recent progress and open problems in the field of exclusive, diffractive and electromagnetic processes 1h
      Speaker: Antoni Szczurek
    • 10:00 10:30
      Best poster award: Sofia Patomaki- Production of resonances in Central Exclusive Production 30m
      Speakers: Antoni Szczurek, Rainer Schicker
    • 10:30 10:50
      Coffee break 20m
    • 10:50 12:30
      Round table discussion: Diffraction - Quo vadis ? Electromagnetic processes - Quo vadis ? 1h 40m
      Speakers: Antoni Szczurek, Ernesto Calvo, Fabian Krinner, Krzysztof Piotrzkowski, Maria Zurek, Mike Albrow, Otto Nachtmann
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch break 1h 30m