Forward Physics Facility - Kickoff Meeting

from Monday 9 November 2020 (16:00) to Tuesday 10 November 2020 (21:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
9 Nov 2020
10 Nov 2020
AM
PM
16:00
Introduction and Overview - Jonathan Lee Feng (University of California Irvine (US)) (until 17:10)
16:00 FPF Overview - Jonathan Lee Feng (University of California Irvine (US))  
16:20 FPF Civil Engineering: Initial Study - Jonathan Gall (CERN)  
16:45 Infrastructure Requirements and Particle Fluxes and Environment - Jamie Boyd (CERN)  
17:10
Discussion / Coffee Break (until 17:20)
17:20
BSM Physics Opportunities and Experiments - Felix Kling (SLAC) (until 19:00)
17:20 BSM Physics Overview - Ahmed Ismail  
17:40 FASER2 and potential connection with the FPF - Brian Petersen (CERN)  
18:00 Talk: FASERnu 2 and potential connection with the FPF - Dr Akitaka Ariga (Universitaet Bern (CH))  
18:20 Talk: SND@LHC and potential connection with the FPF - Giovanni De Lellis (Universita e sezione INFN di Napoli (IT))  
18:40 Talk: MilliQan and potential connection with the FPF - Chris Hill (Ohio State University (US))  
19:00
Discussion / Coffee Break (until 19:10)
19:10
Dark Sectors and Cosmology - Jonathan Lee Feng (University of California Irvine (US)) (until 21:10)
19:10 FORMOSA & Forward-DUNE - Looking Forward to Millicharged Dark Sectors and New Neutrino Physics - Dr Yu-Dai Tsai (Fermilab)  
19:25 Potential for BSM and Neutrino Physics at FORMOSA - Mr Saeid Foroughi (University of Victoria)  
19:40 Light Dark Matter at the Forward Physics Facility - Brian Thomas Batell  
19:55 Looking for light new particles with secondary production in the far-forward region of the LHC - Krzysztof Jodlowski (National Centre for Nuclear Research)  
20:10 Collider signatures of minimal freeze in models - Dipan Sengupta (UC San Diego)  
20:25 Freeze-in Dark Matter in U(1) extended Standard Model and Lifetime Frontier Experiments - Nobuchika Okada (University of Alabama)  
20:40 Hunting Inflaton at FASER - Dr Digesh Raut (University of Delaware)  
19:10
Long-Lived Particles - Felix Kling (SLAC) (until 21:10)
19:10 Long Lived Light Supersymmetric Neutralinos - Herbi Dreiner (Bonn University)  
19:25 Pinning down the Flavour Structure of Hidden Photons - Patrick Foldenauer  
19:40 Opportunities for probing $U(1)_{T3R}$ with light mediators - Sumit Ghosh (Texas A & M University)  
19:55 Dark Photon from Light Scalar Boson Decays at FASER - Takashi Shimomura (University of Valencia) Takashi Shimomura (University of Miyazaki) Takashi Shimomura  
20:10 Probe Light Scalars in 2HDMs at FASER - Shuailong Li  
20:25 Long-lived Sterile Neutrinos at the LHC in Effective Field Theory - Guanghui Zhou (University of Massachusetts Amherst)  
20:40 Search for sterile neutrino with light gauge interactions: recasting collider, beam-dump, and neutrino telescope searches - Yongsoo Jho  
20:55 LLP and neutrino mass models - Dr juan carlos Helo (Universidad de La Serena)  
19:10
QCD and Neutrinos - Maria Vittoria Garzelli (until 21:10)
19:10 Neutral Current Neutrino Interactions at FASERnu - Roshan Mammen Abraham (Oklahoma State University)  
19:25 DsTau (NA65) Experiment at CERN-SPS - Osamu Sato (Nagoya University (JP))  
19:40 Prompt neutrinos in the forward region at the LHC - Dr Weidong Bai (University of Iowa)  
19:55 Tau neutrino oscillations in the far forward rapidities - Yu Seon Jeong (University of Iowa (US))  
20:10 Discovery potential of FASERnu with contained vertex and through-going events - Prof. Yasaman Farzan (IPM)  
20:25 High-energy muons at the Forward Physics Facility - Sebastian Trojanowski  
20:40 Mueller-Navelet jets phenomenology - Grigorios Chachamis (LIP, Lisbon)  
20:55 QCD measurements at the LHC to solve the Muon Puzzle in cosmic ray showers - Dr Hans Peter Dembinski (TU Dortmund)  
16:00
Implications for Parton Distribution Functions - Grigorios Chachamis (LIP, Lisbon) (until 17:00)
16:00 QCD for inclusive forward charm production at the LHC - Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University)  
16:20 (n)PDF issues and opportunities at the Forward Physics Facility - Maria Vittoria Garzelli  
16:40 Further thoughts..... & Discussion - Dr Grigorios Chachamis (LIP, Lisbon)  
17:00
Implications for general-purpose MC event generators and non-perturbative uncertainties - Holger Schulz (University of Durham) (until 18:00)
17:00 Forward Physics in PYTHIA 8 - Torbjorn Sjostrand (Lund University (SE))  
17:20 General Purpose MC Forward Physics - Frank Martin Krauss (University of Durham (GB))  
17:40 Further thoughts..... & Discussion - Dr Holger Schulz (University of Durham)  
18:00
Inplications for Cosmic Ray Physics and generators - Ralph Richard Engel (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)) (until 19:00)
18:00 Forward production in MC generators: constraints from other observables and relevance for high energy cosmic ray studies - Sergey Ostapchenko (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS))  
18:20 Forward hadronization: the key of muon production in air showers - Dr Tanguy Pierog (KIT)  
18:40 Further thoughts..... & Discussion - Ralph Richard Engel (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))  
19:00
Implications for the modelization of the Physics of Cosmic and Atmospheric Neutrinos - Mary Hall Reno (until 20:00)
19:00 IceCube and Forward Charm Production - Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin)  
19:20 Muon and Neutrino Fluxes in IceCube - Dennis Soldin (University of Wuppertal)  
19:40 Further thoughts..... & Discussion - Mary Hall Reno  
20:00
Summary and Conclusions - The organizers (until 20:20)
20:00 Summary and conclusions - Felix Kling (SLAC)