LHC Working Group on Forward Physics and Diffraction

from Tuesday, December 18, 2018 (9:00 AM) to Wednesday, December 19, 2018 (6:20 PM)
CERN (222/R-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Dec 18, 2018
Dec 19, 2018
AM
9:00 AM News - Christophe Royon (University of Kansas (US)) Paul Richard Newman (University of Birmingham (GB))  
9:10 AM New results from TOTEM - Kenneth Osterberg (Helsinki Institute of Physics (FI))  
9:40 AM News from the 900 GeV run from ALFA - Karlheinz Hiller (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
10:10 AM On the Odderon and all that - Vladimir Petrov (Institute for High Energy Physics of NRC Kurchatov Institute (R)  
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM Rho and total cross section measurements from TOTEM - Jan Kaspar (Acad. of Sciences of the Czech Rep. (CZ))  
11:15 AM PPS status - Valentina Avati (AGH University of Science and Technology (PL))  
11:30 AM Discussion: ALFA and TOTEM results, AFP/PPS  
9:30 AM Baryon charge asymmetry at LHC , String Junction transfer in proton reactions and SJ torus as DM candidate - Olga Piskounova  
10:00 AM New results in CMS using CASTOR - Merijn Van De Klundert (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))  
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM Machine constraints and optics for HL LHC - Riccardo De Maria (CERN)  
11:30 AM Acceptance studies for tagging protons at HL LHC - Mario Deile (CERN)  
PM
12:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
1:30 PM The FASER project - Sebastian Trojanowski (National Centre for Nuclear Research)  
2:00 PM News from the Pb Pb run and future prospects for UPC from Alice - Orlando Villalobos Baillie (University of Birmingham (GB))  
2:30 PM AFP at ATLAS: experience from Run II - Maciej Trzebinski (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))  
3:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:30 PM Photon collider search strategy for sleptons and dark matter at the LHC - Jesse Liu (University of Oxford) Lydia Audrey Beresford (University of Oxford (GB))  
4:00 PM Searching for DM with forward protons at the LHC - Valery Khoze (University of Durham (GB))  
4:30 PM Anomalous coupling studies and search for ALPs in pp, pA and AA collisions - Cristian Baldenegro Barrera (The University of Kansas (US))  
5:00 PM Discussion: anomalous couplings, DM. future studies...  
12:00 PM ATLAS prospects for forward physics at HL-LHC - Michael Rijssenbeek (Stony brook Universty (US))  
12:30 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM pO runs at the LHC - Dr Hans Peter Dembinski (Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg) Ralf Ulrich (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))  
2:30 PM Forward physics at HL LHC - Dr Lucian Harland-Lang (University of Oxford)  
3:00 PM Discussion: HL LHC, inputs to LHCC  
3:40 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:10 PM The SAS@LHC project - Michael Albrow (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
4:40 PM Discussion: future projects  
5:00 PM Conclusion, next meeting - Christophe Royon (University of Kansas (US)) Paul Richard Newman (University of Birmingham (GB))