Forward Physics Facility - Kickoff Meeting

from Monday, November 9, 2020 (4:00 PM) to Tuesday, November 10, 2020 (9:00 PM)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Nov 9, 2020
Nov 10, 2020
AM
PM
4:00 PM
Introduction and Overview - Jonathan Lee Feng (University of California Irvine (US)) (until 5:10 PM)
4:00 PM FPF Overview - Jonathan Lee Feng (University of California Irvine (US))  
4:20 PM FPF Civil Engineering: Initial Study - Jonathan Gall (CERN)  
4:45 PM Infrastructure Requirements and Particle Fluxes and Environment - Jamie Boyd (CERN)  
5:10 PM
Discussion / Coffee Break (until 5:20 PM)
5:20 PM
BSM Physics Opportunities and Experiments - Felix Kling (SLAC) (until 7:00 PM)
5:20 PM BSM Physics Overview - Ahmed Ismail  
5:40 PM FASER2 and potential connection with the FPF - Brian Petersen (CERN)  
6:00 PM Talk: FASERnu 2 and potential connection with the FPF - Dr Akitaka Ariga (Universitaet Bern (CH))  
6:20 PM Talk: SND@LHC and potential connection with the FPF - Giovanni De Lellis (Universita e sezione INFN di Napoli (IT))  
6:40 PM Talk: MilliQan and potential connection with the FPF - Chris Hill (Ohio State University (US))  
7:00 PM
Discussion / Coffee Break (until 7:10 PM)
7:10 PM
Dark Sectors and Cosmology - Jonathan Lee Feng (University of California Irvine (US)) (until 9:10 PM)
7:10 PM FORMOSA & Forward-DUNE - Looking Forward to Millicharged Dark Sectors and New Neutrino Physics - Dr Yu-Dai Tsai (Fermilab)  
7:25 PM Potential for BSM and Neutrino Physics at FORMOSA - Mr Saeid Foroughi (University of Victoria)  
7:40 PM Light Dark Matter at the Forward Physics Facility - Brian Thomas Batell  
7:55 PM Looking for light new particles with secondary production in the far-forward region of the LHC - Krzysztof Jodlowski (National Centre for Nuclear Research)  
8:10 PM Collider signatures of minimal freeze in models - Dipan Sengupta (UC San Diego)  
8:25 PM Freeze-in Dark Matter in U(1) extended Standard Model and Lifetime Frontier Experiments - Nobuchika Okada (University of Alabama)  
8:40 PM Hunting Inflaton at FASER - Dr Digesh Raut (University of Delaware)  
7:10 PM
Long-Lived Particles - Felix Kling (SLAC) (until 9:10 PM)
7:10 PM Long Lived Light Supersymmetric Neutralinos - Herbi Dreiner (Bonn University)  
7:25 PM Pinning down the Flavour Structure of Hidden Photons - Patrick Foldenauer  
7:40 PM Opportunities for probing $U(1)_{T3R}$ with light mediators - Sumit Ghosh (Texas A & M University)  
7:55 PM Dark Photon from Light Scalar Boson Decays at FASER - Takashi Shimomura (University of Valencia) Takashi Shimomura (University of Miyazaki) Takashi Shimomura  
8:10 PM Probe Light Scalars in 2HDMs at FASER - Shuailong Li  
8:25 PM Long-lived Sterile Neutrinos at the LHC in Effective Field Theory - Guanghui Zhou (University of Massachusetts Amherst)  
8:40 PM Search for sterile neutrino with light gauge interactions: recasting collider, beam-dump, and neutrino telescope searches - Yongsoo Jho  
8:55 PM LLP and neutrino mass models - Dr juan carlos Helo (Universidad de La Serena)  
7:10 PM
QCD and Neutrinos - Maria Vittoria Garzelli (until 9:10 PM)
7:10 PM Neutral Current Neutrino Interactions at FASERnu - Roshan Mammen Abraham (Oklahoma State University)  
7:25 PM DsTau (NA65) Experiment at CERN-SPS - Osamu Sato (Nagoya University (JP))  
7:40 PM Prompt neutrinos in the forward region at the LHC - Dr Weidong Bai (University of Iowa)  
7:55 PM Tau neutrino oscillations in the far forward rapidities - Yu Seon Jeong (University of Iowa (US))  
8:10 PM Discovery potential of FASERnu with contained vertex and through-going events - Prof. Yasaman Farzan (IPM)  
8:25 PM High-energy muons at the Forward Physics Facility - Sebastian Trojanowski  
8:40 PM Mueller-Navelet jets phenomenology - Grigorios Chachamis (LIP, Lisbon)  
8:55 PM QCD measurements at the LHC to solve the Muon Puzzle in cosmic ray showers - Dr Hans Peter Dembinski (TU Dortmund)  
4:00 PM
Implications for Parton Distribution Functions - Grigorios Chachamis (LIP, Lisbon) (until 5:00 PM)
4:00 PM QCD for inclusive forward charm production at the LHC - Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University)  
4:20 PM (n)PDF issues and opportunities at the Forward Physics Facility - Maria Vittoria Garzelli  
4:40 PM Further thoughts..... & Discussion - Dr Grigorios Chachamis (LIP, Lisbon)  
5:00 PM
Implications for general-purpose MC event generators and non-perturbative uncertainties - Holger Schulz (University of Durham) (until 6:00 PM)
5:00 PM Forward Physics in PYTHIA 8 - Torbjorn Sjostrand (Lund University (SE))  
5:20 PM General Purpose MC Forward Physics - Frank Martin Krauss (University of Durham (GB))  
5:40 PM Further thoughts..... & Discussion - Dr Holger Schulz (University of Durham)  
6:00 PM
Inplications for Cosmic Ray Physics and generators - Ralph Richard Engel (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)) (until 7:00 PM)
6:00 PM 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))  
6:20 PM Forward hadronization: the key of muon production in air showers - Dr Tanguy Pierog (KIT)  
6:40 PM Further thoughts..... & Discussion - Ralph Richard Engel (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))  
7:00 PM
Implications for the modelization of the Physics of Cosmic and Atmospheric Neutrinos - Mary Hall Reno (until 8:00 PM)
7:00 PM IceCube and Forward Charm Production - Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin)  
7:20 PM Muon and Neutrino Fluxes in IceCube - Dennis Soldin (University of Wuppertal)  
7:40 PM Further thoughts..... & Discussion - Mary Hall Reno  
8:00 PM
Summary and Conclusions - The organizers (until 8:20 PM)
8:00 PM Summary and conclusions - Felix Kling (SLAC)