Diffraction and Low-x 2018

from Sunday, August 26, 2018 (5:00 PM) to Saturday, September 1, 2018 (12:40 PM)
Reggio Calabria, Italy

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Aug 26, 2018
Aug 27, 2018
Aug 28, 2018
Aug 29, 2018
Aug 30, 2018
Aug 31, 2018
Sep 1, 2018
AM
9:00 AM Welcome - Christophe Royon (The University of Kansas) Alessandro Papa (U. of Calabria & INFN Cosenza)  
9:10 AM
Diffraction and photon physics in pp and heavy ions session (until 10:30 AM)
9:10 AM Recent Elastic and Total Cross-Section Measurements by TOTEM - Valentina Avati (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))  
9:30 AM Measurements of elastic pp interactions and exclusive production with the ATLAS detector - Alessia Bruni (U. of Bologna and INFN)  
9:50 AM Measurement of Total and Elastic Cross Sections at s#=200~GeV with the STAR Detector at RHIC - Wlodek Guryn (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
10:10 AM New physics from TOTEM's recent measurements of elastic and total cross sections - István Szanyi (Uzhgorod National University)  
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Diffraction and photon physics in pp and heavy ions session (until 1:10 PM)
11:00 AM The odderon: myths and reality - Laszlo Jenkovszky (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)  
11:20 AM The Odderon and the LHC data - Oleg Selyugin (JINR)  
11:40 AM Effects of absorption in single-spin asymmetry of small-angle elastic scattering - Dr Michal Krelina (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María)  
12:00 PM Recent CMS results on inelastic cross section measurements - Sercan Sen (Istanbul Technical University (TR))  
12:20 PM Discussion session: elastic, total cross section, odderon, soft diffraction - Christina Mesropian (Rockefeller University (US)) Alan Martin Boris Kopeliovich (UTFSM) Valentina Avati (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))  
9:00 AM
Diffraction and photon physics in pp and heavy ions session (until 10:20 AM)
9:00 AM The PPS detector: status and performance - Ada Solano (U. of Torino and INFN)  
9:20 AM Recent results from PPS and prospects - Ksenia Shchelina (Universita e INFN Torino (IT))  
9:40 AM Photon-Photon scattering in the resonance region at midrapidity at the LHC - Rainer Schicker (Ruprecht Karls Universitaet Heidelberg)  
10:00 AM Searching for axion-like particles with proton tagging - Cristian Baldenegro Barrera (The University of Kansas)  
10:20 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:50 AM
Diffraction and photon physics in pp and heavy ions session (until 1:00 PM)
10:50 AM Anomalous coupling studies at the LHC with intact protons - Christophe Royon (The University of Kansas)  
11:10 AM Superchic supercharged: an updated generator for exclusive production - Lucian Harland-Lang (University of Oxford)  
11:30 AM Recent results on Central Exclusive Production with the STAR detector at RHIC - Rafal Sikora (AGH University of Science and Technology)  
11:50 AM Heavy Meson Coherent Photoproduction in (Ultra)-Peripheral AA Collisions - Maria Beatriz De Leone Gay (Universidade Federál Do Rio Grande Do Sul (BR))  
12:10 PM Discussion session: gamma gamma physics and BSM - Christina Mesropian (Rockefeller University (US)) Valentina Avati (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL)) Boris Kopeliovich (UTFSM) Alan Martin  
9:00 AM
Spin physics session (until 10:20 AM)
9:00 AM Recent Results of the RHIC Spin Physics Program - matt posik Matt Posik  
9:25 AM Single-Spin Asymmetry Measurement of Very Forward Neutral Particle Production in the RHICf experiment - Yuji Goto (RIKEN)  
9:40 AM Recent COMPASS results on the measurement of spin-dependent azimuthal asymmetries in SIDIS and Drell-Yan - Riccardo Longo (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))  
10:05 AM Polarization observables in chi_c to J/psi+mu+mu Dalitz decays at the LHC - Serguei Baranov (Joint Inst. for Nuclear Research (RU)) Serguei Baranov (Russian Academy of Sciences)  
10:20 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:50 AM
Spin physics session (until 1:10 PM)
10:50 AM Probing gluon TMDs in J/Psi and Upsilon production at an EIC - Pieter Maria Taels (INFN Pavia)  
11:15 AM Twist-2 transverse momentum distributions at NNLO in QCD - Daniel Gutiérrez Reyes (Complutense University of Madrid)  
11:35 AM Probing Generalized Parton Distributions through the photoproduction of a photon-meson pair - Samuel Wallon  
11:55 AM Nucleon spin structure from lattice QCD - Kyriakos Hadjiyiannakou (The Cyprus Institute)  
12:15 PM Spin Physics Opportunities at an EIC - Dr Ernst Sichtermann (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)  
12:35 PM Discussion session: spin physics - Barbara Badelek (University of Warsaw (PL)) Umberto D'Alesio (University of Cagliari)  
9:00 AM
Low x, PDFs and hadronic final state session (until 10:20 AM)
9:00 AM Combination and QCD analysis of beauty and charm production cross section measurements in deep inelastic ep scattering at HERA - Uri Karshon (Weizmann.Institute of Science)  
9:20 AM Latest Results on MMHT PDF Fits - Lucian Harland-Lang (University of Oxford)  
9:40 AM Constraints on the Parton Density Functions of the Proton by Measurements with the ATLAS Detector - Claire Gwenlan (University of Oxford (GB))  
10:00 AM QCD analysis of the ATLAS and CMS W and Z cross-section measurements and implications for the strange sea density - Amanda Sarkar (U. of Oxford) amanda sarkar  
10:20 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:50 AM
Low x, PDFs and hadronic final state session (until 1:00 PM)
10:50 AM Recent developments in Small-x Resummation - Marco Bonvini (INFN Rome)  
11:10 AM Parton Distributions and small-x physics with the LHeC and the FCC-eh - Claire Gwenlan (University of Oxford (GB))  
11:30 AM Impact of low-x resummation on QCD analysis of HERA data - Amanda Sarkar (U. of Oxford)  
11:50 AM Recent CMS results on soft and small-x QCD physics - Cristian Baldenegro Barrera (The University of Kansas)  
12:10 PM Discussion session: QCD fits, PDFs - Lech Szymanowski Paolo Gunnellini (University of Hamburg) Amanda Sarkar (U. of Oxford)  
9:00 AM
Low x, PDFs and hadronic final state session (until 9:40 AM)
9:00 AM Towards a Neural Network determination of nuclear parton distribution functions - Rabah Abdul Khalek (Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire (FR))  
9:20 AM New Results on Multi-Boson Production with the ATLAS Detector - Cong Geng (University of Michigan (US))  
9:40 AM
Diffraction and photon physics in pp and heavy ions session (until 10:20 AM)
9:40 AM Latest results of diffractive and exclusive measurements with CMS - Aleksandr Bylinkin (The University of Kansas (US))  
10:00 AM Central exclusive production at LHCb - Murilo Santana Rangel (Federal University of of Rio de Janeiro (BR))  
10:20 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:50 AM
Diffraction and photon physics in pp and heavy ions session (until 1:00 PM)
10:50 AM Exclusive central production of the Pomeron tensor state in high-energy collisions of protons - Anton Godizov (Institute for High Energy Physics (Protvino)) Anton Godizov (Institute for High Energy Physics (RU))  
11:10 AM Algorithmics of Diffraction - Matti Mikael Mieskolainen (Helsinki Institute of Physics (HIP))  
11:30 AM Challenges in searches for dark matter at the LHC in forward proton mode - Valery Khoze (University of Durham (GB))  
11:50 AM Heavy quarkonium and dynamical gluon mass at non-zero temperature in instanton vacuum model - Mirzayusuf Musakhanov (National University of Uzbekistan)  
12:10 PM Discusion session: exclusive diffraction - Boris Kopeliovich (UTFSM) Alan Martin Christina Mesropian (Rockefeller University (US)) Valentina Avati (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))  
9:20 AM
Diffraction and photon physics in pp and heavy ions session (until 10:20 AM)
9:20 AM Exclusive J/psi production in PbPb collisions at LHCb - Albert Bursche (Universita e INFN, Cagliari (IT))  
9:40 AM Jet, Vector meson and photon production and photon production in pA and AA collisions in CMS - Michael Murray (The University of Kansas (US))  
10:00 AM Forward physics results and perspectives with ALICE at the LHC - Sergey Evdokimov (Institute for High Energy Physics (RU))  
10:20 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:50 AM
Diffraction and photon physics in pp and heavy ions session (until 12:10 PM)
10:50 AM Universal suppression in production of different high-pT hadrons in heavy ion collisions - Jan Nemchik (Czech Technical University Prague and IEP)  
11:10 AM Measurements of particle spectra in diffractive p+p collisions with the STAR detector at RHIC - Lukasz Tycjan Fulek (AGH University of Science and Technology)  
11:30 AM Discussion session: heavy ions - Boris Kopeliovich (UTFSM) Christina Mesropian (Rockefeller University (US)) Alan Martin Valentina Avati (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))  
PM
5:00 PM --- Registration ---
7:00 PM --- Welcome Drink ---
1:10 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:30 PM
QCD and parton saturation physics session (until 3:50 PM)
2:30 PM Probing perturbative QCD at the ATLAS Experiment - Giuseppe Callea (University of Glasgow (GB))  
2:50 PM Measuring jet substructure observables at the ATLAS Experiment - Andrei Minaenko (Institute for High Energy Physics (RU))  
3:10 PM NNLLA BFKL and Regge cuts - Victor Fadin (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)  
3:30 PM From BFKL to the soft Pomeron - an attempt to find an interpolation - Jochen Bartels  
3:50 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:20 PM
QCD and parton saturation physics session (until 6:10 PM)
4:20 PM Inclusive hadron-jet production at the LHC - Francesco Giovanni Celiberto (Università della Calabria and INFN Cosenza (Italy)) Francesco Giovanni Celiberto (IFT UAM-CSIC, Madrid)  
4:40 PM A model-independent method to extract B(t), rho(t) and the anomalous dimension of QCD from elastic pp scattering - Tamas Csorgo (Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HU))  
5:00 PM Crossing the bridge from BFKL to saturation - timothy raben (University of Kansas)  
5:20 PM Vector meson electro-production within the energy-dependent hot-spot model - Jan Cepila (Czech Technical University)  
5:40 PM Discussion session: BFKL, saturation - Dmitry Ivanov Dmitri Ivanov (University of Utah) Victor Gonçalves (Universidade Federal de Pelotas) Victor Goncalves (Universidade Federal de Pelotas) timothy raben (University of Kansas)  
6:10 PM Symposium in honor of Lev Lipatov  
1:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:30 PM
Diffraction in ep and eA (until 3:50 PM)
2:30 PM Fits to high-x data and measurement of charm production in charged current - Ada Solano (U. of Torino and INFN)  
2:50 PM b production via a double muon tag - Alessia Bruni (U. of Bologna and INFN)  
3:10 PM Collective effects in DIS at HERA - Marta Ruspa (U. of Torino and INFN)  
3:30 PM Exclusive rho and rho' photoproduction at HERA - Sergey Levonian (Desy)  
3:50 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:20 PM
Diffraction in ep and eA (until 6:20 PM)
4:20 PM Diffractive PDFs measurements at the LHeC - Krzysztof Golec-Biernat (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Cracow)  
4:40 PM Diffractive electron-nucleus scattering and ancestry in branching random walks - Stephane Munier (Ecole polytechnique)  
5:00 PM Proton Spin in Deep Inelastic Scattering - Bogdan Povh (MPIK Heidelberg)  
5:20 PM The EIC project: physics and status - JH Lee  
5:40 PM Discussion session: ep and eA physics - Marta Ruspa (U. of Torino and INFN) Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook University) Jochen Bartels  
1:10 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:30 PM --- Workshop tour ---
1:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:30 PM
Low x, PDFs and hadronic final state session (until 3:50 PM)
2:30 PM PROSA PDFs and astrophysical applications - Maria Vittoria Garzelli (INFN, Italia & Universidad de Granada, Espana)  
2:50 PM Leptoproduction of rho-mesons as discriminator for the unintegrated gluon distribution in the proton - Andrèe Dafne Bolognino (U. of Calabria & INFN Cosenza)  
3:10 PM Forward Drell-Yan plus jet production as a probe of the BFKL dynamics - Krzysztof Golec-Biernat (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Cracow)  
3:30 PM Toward Mueller-Tang Jets at Next-to-Leading Order - Federico Deganutti Mr Federico Deganutti (University of Kansas)  
3:50 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:20 PM
Low x, PDFs and hadronic final state session (until 6:30 PM)
4:20 PM Discussion session: Low x, BFKL, PDFs  
4:50 PM Multi particle production in proton-nucleus collisions - Yair Mulian  
5:10 PM On double pomeron exchange in J/psi hadroproduction - Leszek Motyka  
5:30 PM Two particle correlations at LHCb - Marcin Kucharczyk (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))  
5:50 PM Vector meson photoproduction: Recent results - Victor Gonçalves (Universidade Federal de Pelotas) Victor Goncalves (Universidade Federal de Pelotas)  
6:10 PM Scaling function for the production of vector mesons and DVCS in the saturation scheme - Felipe Gregoletto Ben (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS))  
8:00 PM --- Night visit at the archeological museum ---
1:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:30 PM
QCD and parton saturation physics session (until 3:50 PM)
2:30 PM Exclusive vector meson production in the QCD shockwave approach - Dmitri Ivanov (University of Utah)  
2:50 PM Diffractive dijets: breakdown of factorization - Boris Kopeliovich (UTFSM)  
3:10 PM Amplitudes in the Multi-Regge Limit of N=4 SYM - Bram Verbeek (UCLouvain)  
3:30 PM Fluctuations in dilute systems - Stephane Munier (Ecole polytechnique) Stephane Munier Stéphane Munier (CNRS and École polytechnique) Stephane Munier (Ecole polytechnique)  
3:50 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:20 PM
QCD and parton saturation physics session (until 6:20 PM)
4:20 PM Possible solution of J/psi polarization puzzle in the CGC+NRQCD approach - Tomasz Stebel (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN) Tomasz Stebel (CERN)  
4:40 PM Effects of saturation in high-multiplicity pp collisions - Ivan Schmidt  
5:00 PM Particle multiplicities in the central region of high-energy collisions from kT-factorization with running coupling corrections - André Giannini  
5:20 PM Double-Logarithmic contribution to Pomeron - Boris Ermolaev (Ioffe Institute (RU))  
5:40 PM Discussion session: soft/hard diffraction, vector mesons, factorization breaking  
8:30 PM --- Workshop dinner at the Altafiumara Resort in S. Trada ---
12:10 PM Workshop conclusion - Alessandro Papa (U. of Calabria & INFN Cosenza) Christophe Royon (The University of Kansas)