Workshop on Forward Physics and QCD at the LHC, the future Electron Ion Collider and Cosmic Ray Physics

18 Nov 2019, 09:00 → 21 Nov 2019, 19:35 America/Mexico_City

Hotel Guanajuato, Ciudad de Guanajuato, Mexico

The purpose of this workshop is to stimulate discussions between experimentalists and theorists in forward hadronic physics, QCD dynamics at low-x, diffractive processes, parton saturation effects and exciting problems in cosmic ray physics.

The discussions will focus on the present experiments at the CERN Large Hadron Collider and the BNL Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider, the physics potential of the future U.S. Electron Ion Collider, as well as present and future Cosmic ray physics experiments. All sessions will consist of plenary talks.

This workshop follows the series of meetings held in Nagoya, Japan (2015), Nagoya Japan (2017), and Stony Brook, New York (2018).

The event will take place in the colonial city of Guanajuato, Mexico, from November 18th through November 21st 2019 (Monday through Thursday). The venue will be Hotel Guanajuato. Please book your accommodation as soon as possible! There is limited availability.

To reach Guanajuato, one can fly to the International Airport of León, Guanajuato (BJX), and the city of Guanajuato is a 45 min. drive away from the BJX airport. If you are flying from the US or from Europe, there are many connecting flights from Dallas, TX (DFW), Houston, TX (IAH), Los Angeles (LAX) or from Chicago (MDW) to BJX. If a flight to León, Guanajuato is not feasible, you can fly to Guadalajara International Airport (GDL) or to Mexico City International Airport (MEX), and then take a bus to León, Guanajuato or to the city of Guanajuato directly, which can take around 4 hours.

The topics discussed during the workshop are:

• Low-x, parton saturation, and heavy-nuclei.
• Photon-exchange, pomeron exchange, and hard diffraction.
• Total cross section and soft diffraction.
• Spin, generalized parton distribution functions, and transverse momentum dependent PDFs.
• Physics with heavy flavors.
• Relationship between the initial-state and quark-gluon plasma.
• Cosmic ray physics and neutrinos.
• Future experiments and instrumentation.

There will be dedicated Proceedings for the workshop, which will be processed at the University of Kansas.

 

Workshop photograph of November 20 2019

 

 

 

Instructions for registration fees are detailed in the tab "Registration fee payment instructions".

Early-bird registration fee up to October 16th:

4050 mexican pesos for general participants.
2250 mexican pesos for DPyC-SMF members.
1600 mexican pesos for undergraduate, M. Sc. or Ph.D. students.

Early registration fee up to October 25th:

4500 mexican pesos for general participants.
2500 mexican pesos for DPyC-SMF members.
1800 mexican pesos for undergraduate, MSc or PhD students.

Standard registration fees from October 26th onwards:

5500 mexican pesos for general participants.
3250 mexican pesos for DPyC-SMF members.
2250 mexican pesos for PhD students.

The registration fee covers coffee breaks, meals, workshop dinner and conference room in Hotel Guanajuato.

 

The event is sponsored and hosted by Universidad de Guanajuato, and co-organized by Universidad de las Américas Puebla and the University of Kansas.

Monday, 18 November

09:15 Registration

1 Welcome

Speakers: Christophe Royon (The University of Kansas (US)), David Delepine

Heavy Ion Session I

2 Review of results using heavy-ion collisions at CMS

Speaker: Dr Georgios Krintiras (The University of Kansas (US))

FrwPhysQCD2019_GKKrintiras.pdf

3 Probing QCD: from heavy ion collisions to the EIC

Speaker: Dr Yacine Mehtar-Tani (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Mexico-2019.pdf

10:55 Coffee break

Heavy Ion Session II

4 Study of initial conditions in small collision systems at LHC energies with String Percolation Model

Speaker: Jesus Ricardo Alvarado Garcia (Autonomous University of Puebla (MX))

5 Recent results of heavy ion collisions and future opportunities with fast timing upgrades at CMS

Speaker: Andre Govinda Stahl Leiton (Rice University (US))

FrwPhysQCD2019_talk_v3_1.pdf

6 A generator of forward neutrons for ultra-peripheral collisions: nOOn

Speaker: Michal Broz (Czech Technical University (CZ))

BreakupNoon2.pdf

7 Discussion session: Heavy ion physics

Speakers: Georgios Krintiras (The University of Kansas (US)), Prof. Maria Elena Tejeda-Yeomans (Universidad de Colima)

13:15 Lunch break

Vector meson / charm session: Vector meson / charm session I

8 Intrinsic charm

Speaker: Stanley J. Brodsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University)

Mexico Forward LHC Physics November 18, 2019 (1).pdf

9 Schwinger-Dyson Equations and Hadron Phenomenology

Speaker: Adnan Bashir (University of Michoacan)

10 Opportunities for Indirect Searches of Flavor Violation Higgs in Future DIS Experiments

Speaker: Wendy Gonzalez

calculo_top_presentacion.pdf

16:35 Coffee break

Vector meson / charm session II

11 Vector meson photoproduction in ultra-peripheral p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions at the LHC with ALICE

Speaker: Michal Broz (Czech Technical University (CZ))

UPC.HESZ2019.pdf

12 Spin and Forward Physics with the STAR detector: Measurements and Future Plans

Speaker: David Kapukchyan (University of California, Riverside)

Slides_V7.pdf

Slides_V7.pptx

13 Discussion session: Vector meson, charm

Speakers: Melina Gomez Bock (Universidad de las Américas Puebla), Michal Broz (Czech Technical University (CZ))

Tuesday, 19 November

Diffraction session I

14 Recent status and prospects of LHCf and RHICf

Speaker: Takashi SAKO (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo)

15 Results, status and prospects of CMS-TOTEM Precision Proton Spectrometer

Speaker: Christophe Royon (The University of Kansas (US))

guanajuato_pps.pdf

10:45 Coffee break

Diffraction session II

16 Recent results CMS and TOTEM on exclusive production, light-by-light scattering

Speaker: Michael Albrow (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

Albrow-Mexico-CMSTotemFinal.pdf

Albrow-Mexico-CMSTotemFinal.pptx

17 The ATLAS Forward Detector System - a Status Report

Speaker: James Pinfold (University of Alberta (CA))

ATLAS-Forward-Detectors-Mexico.pdf

18 Measurements of single diffraction using forward proton tagging at ATLAS

Speaker: Janusz Chwastowski (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

jcGuanajuanto2019.pdf

19 Discussion session: diffraction

Speakers: James Pinfold (University of Alberta (CA)), Janusz Chwastowski (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

13:10 Lunch break

Detector and future session I

20 Search of the gluon saturation in the deep small-x with the LHCb experiment

Speaker: Dr Cesar Luiz Da Silva (Los Alamos National Laboratory (US))

forwardPhys-Guadanajano.pdf

forwardPhys-Guadanajano.pptx

21 Physics and detector requirements at zero degree of EIC

Speaker: Yuji Goto (RIKEN)

Goto_Guanajuato.pdf

22 The Status and Future Plans of the MoEDAL Experiment and its MAPP-Detector Upgrade

Speaker: James Pinfold (University of Alberta (CA))

Mexico-2019.pdf

16:40 Coffee break

Detector and future session II

23 Performance of the Zero Degree Calorimeters in CMS

Speaker: Michael Murray (The University of Kansas (US))

MexicoZdc.pdf

24 Performance of CMS Endcap Precision Timing Sensors

Speaker: Margaret Lazarovits (The University of Kansas (US))

workshop_forward_physics_talk_nov2019.pdf

25 Design and simulation of a cryostat and a field cage for a LAr TPC for test in DUNE Collaboration

Speaker: Everardo Granados Vazquez

Design%20and%20simulation%20of%20a%20Cryostat%20and%20field.pdf

26 Discussion about dettector, future

Speakers: Michael Murray (The University of Kansas (US)), Yuji Goto (RIKEN)

19:15 Workshop dinner

Wednesday, 20 November

Cosmic ray session I

27 Cosmic-ray physics in ALICE at CERN

Speaker: Emma Gonzalez Hernandez (Autonomous University of Puebla (MX))

Workshop on Forward Physics_Emma_20112019 .pdf

28 Muon puzzle in high energy air showers

Speaker: Takashi SAKO (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo)

29 Novel radiation detector based on metal

Speaker: Julian Felix (Universidad de Guanajuato)

11:10 Coffee break

Cosmic ray session II

30 Multi-TeV flaring from high energy blazars: An evidence of the photohadronic process

Speaker: Carlos Eduardo Lopez Fortin (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares UNAM)

31 How to distinguish majorana and dirac neutrino using astrophysical sources

Speakers: Azarael Yebra, Juan Barranco

32 Very Forward Hadron Spectrometer progress

Speaker: Michael Albrow (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

33 Discussion session: cosmic rays

Speakers: Mario Rodriguez Cahuantzi (Autonomous University of Puebla (MX)), Takashi SAKO (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo)

13:15 Lunch

Saturation session: Saturation session I

34 Review of results on forward physics and diffraction by CMS

Speaker: Cristian Baldenegro Barrera (The University of Kansas (US))

baldenegro_cms.pdf

35 The use of QCD evolution to detect gluon saturation in exclusive photo-production of vector mesons

We investigate photo-production of vector mesons J/Psi and Upsilon measured both at HERA and LHC, using 2 particular fits of inclusive unintegrated gluon distributions. The fits are based on non-linear Balitsky-Kovchegov evolution (Kutak-Sapeta gluon; KS) and next-to-leading order Balitsky-Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov evolution (Hentschinski-Sabio Vera-Salas gluon; HSS). We find that linear next-to-leading order evolution can only describe production at highest energies, if perturbative corrections are increased to unnaturally large values; rendering this corrections to a perturbative size, the growth with energy is too strong and the description fails. At the same time, the KS gluon, which we explore both with and without non-linear corrections, requires the latter to achieve an accurate description of the energy dependence of data. We interpret this observation as a clear signal for the presence of high gluon densities in the proton, characteristic for the onset of gluon saturation.

Speaker: Martin Hentschinski (Universidad de las Americas, Puebla)

gto_MartinHentschinski.pdf

36 Impact parameter dependence of colinearly improved Balitsky-Kovchegov evolution

Speaker: Marek Matas (CERN)

Impact-parameter-dependence-of-colinearly-improved-Balitsky-Kovchegov-evolution.pdf

16:40 Coffee break

Saturation session II

37 Potential angular momentum within the scalar diquark model

Speaker: David Arturo Amor Quiroz

FwdPhys2019_A_AMOR.pdf

38 Discussion session: saturation

Speakers: Cesar Luiz Da Silva (Los Alamos National Laboratory (US)), Martin Hentschinski (Universidad de las Americas, Puebla)

Thursday, 21 November

Soft physics, particle production, diffraction session I

39 Recent TOTEM results

Speaker: Christophe Royon (The University of Kansas (US))

guanajuato_totem.pdf

40 Evolution of the pp total cross-section, through a grey disk, from the LHC energies to the limit of asymptotic energy

Speakers: Jesus Ricardo Alvarado Garcia (Autonomous University of Puebla (MX)), Pablo Fierro Rojas (Autonomous University of Puebla (MX))

GTOtalk.pdf

GTOtalk.pptx

41 Is the Momentum Sum Rule Valid for Nuclear Structure Functions?

Speaker: Stanley J. Brodsky (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University)

Mexico Forward LHC Physics November 21, 2019 .pdf

11:05 Coffee break

Soft physics, particle production, diffraction session II

42 Diffractive Jet Production in Electron-Ion Collision

Speaker: Guilherme Peccini

43 Discussion session: Soft physics, particle production, diffraction

Speakers: Christophe Royon (The University of Kansas (US)), Michael Albrow (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

44 Conclusion and farewell

Speakers: Christophe Royon (The University of Kansas (US)), David Delepine

13:15 Lunch and tour of Guanajuato