LHC Working Group on Forward Physics and Diffraction

from Tuesday, 18 December 2018 (09:00) to Wednesday, 19 December 2018 (18:20)
CERN (222/R-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
18 Dec 2018
19 Dec 2018
AM
09:00 News - Christophe Royon (University of Kansas (US)) Paul Richard Newman (University of Birmingham (GB))   (222/R-001)
09:10 New results from TOTEM - Kenneth Osterberg (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))   (222/R-001)
09:40 News from the 900 GeV run from ALFA - Karlheinz Hiller (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))   (222/R-001)
10:10 On the Odderon and all that - Vladimir Petrov (Institute for High Energy Physics of NRC Kurchatov Institute (R)   (222/R-001)
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Rho and total cross section measurements from TOTEM - Jan Kaspar (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))   (222/R-001)
11:15 PPS status - Valentina Avati (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))   (222/R-001)
11:30 Discussion: ALFA and TOTEM results, AFP/PPS   (222/R-001)
09:30 Baryon charge asymmetry at LHC , String Junction transfer in proton reactions and SJ torus as DM candidate - Olga Piskounova   (222/R-001)
10:00 New results in CMS using CASTOR - Merijn Van De Klundert (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))   (222/R-001)
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Machine constraints and optics for HL LHC - Riccardo De Maria (CERN)   (222/R-001)
11:30 Acceptance studies for tagging protons at HL LHC - Mario Deile (CERN)   (222/R-001)
PM
12:00 --- Lunch break ---
13:30 The FASER project - Sebastian Trojanowski (National Centre for Nuclear Research)   (222/R-001)
14:00 News from the Pb Pb run and future prospects for UPC from Alice - Orlando Villalobos Baillie (University of Birmingham (GB))   (222/R-001)
14:30 AFP at ATLAS: experience from Run II - Maciej Trzebinski (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))   (222/R-001)
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:30 Photon collider search strategy for sleptons and dark matter at the LHC - Jesse Liu (University of Oxford) Lydia Audrey Beresford (University of Oxford (GB))   (222/R-001)
16:00 Searching for DM with forward protons at the LHC - Valery Khoze (University of Durham (GB))   (222/R-001)
16:30 Anomalous coupling studies and search for ALPs in pp, pA and AA collisions - Cristian Baldenegro Barrera (The University of Kansas (US))   (222/R-001)
17:00 Discussion: anomalous couplings, DM. future studies...   (222/R-001)
12:00 ATLAS prospects for forward physics at HL-LHC - Michael Rijssenbeek (Stony brook Universty (US))   (222/R-001)
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 pO runs at the LHC - Dr Hans Peter Dembinski (Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg) Ralf Ulrich (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))   (222/R-001)
14:30 Forward physics at HL LHC - Dr Lucian Harland-Lang (University of Oxford)   (222/R-001)
15:00 Discussion: HL LHC, inputs to LHCC   (222/R-001)
15:40 --- Coffee break ---
16:10 The SAS@LHC project - Michael Albrow (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   (222/R-001)
16:40 Discussion: future projects   (222/R-001)
17:00 Conclusion, next meeting - Christophe Royon (University of Kansas (US)) Paul Richard Newman (University of Birmingham (GB))   (222/R-001)