LHC Forward Physics meeting

Mar 4, 2021, 10:00 AM → Mar 5, 2021, 8:00 PM Europe/Zurich

CERN

Thursday, March 4

2:00 PM → 2:10 PM Welcome

Speakers: Christophe Royon (The University of Kansas (US)), Paul Richard Newman (University of Birmingham (GB))

2:10 PM → 2:30 PM The CMS Precision Proton Spectrometer: performace and results in Run 2

Speaker: Diego Figueiredo (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (BR))

forward_physics_pps_performance.pdf

2:30 PM → 2:50 PM Overview of ATLAS forward proton detectors for LHC Run 3 and plans for the HL-LHC

Speaker: Maciej Trzebinski (Polish Academy of Sciences (PL))

Trzebinski_ARP_detectors.pdf

2:50 PM → 3:10 PM The CMS Precision Proton Spectrometer: alignment, optics calibration and proton reconstruction in Run 2

Speaker: Frigyes Janos Nemes (CERN (also at Wigner RCP Budapest, Hungary))

Forward_Physics_Workshop_2021_Run2_reco_and_calibration_v2_F_Nemes.pdf

3:10 PM → 3:30 PM The ATLAS Forward Proton Time-of-Flight detector: use and projected performance for LHC Run 3

Speaker: Tomas Komarek (Palacky University (CZ))

Komarek_AFP-ToF_v2.pdf

3:30 PM → 3:50 PM The ATLAS Forward Proton Real-Time Time-of-Flight Trigger and Trigger Decoder for LHC Run 3

Speaker: Jan Zich (University of West Bohemia (CZ))

Jan_ZICH_Trigger.pdf

3:50 PM → 4:05 PM Coffee break

4:05 PM → 4:25 PM Near-beam proton tagging in CMS at the HL-LHC

Speaker: Mario Deile (CERN)

pps-hllhc-forwardws202103.pdf

4:25 PM → 4:45 PM Physics perspectives of a CMS near-beam proton spectrometer at HL-LHC

Speaker: Michael Pitt (CERN)

PPS_HL-LHC_MPitt.pdf

4:45 PM → 5:05 PM Exclusive WW production in hadronic and semi-leptonic channels at the LHC

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

cbaldenegro_WW_2.pdf

5:05 PM → 5:25 PM Exclusive dilepton production in ATLAS

Speaker: Jesse Liu (University of Chicago)

LHCFwd-AFP-4-Mar-2021-JL.pdf

5:25 PM → 5:45 PM Relative luminosity determination using ATLAS Forward Proton detectors

Speaker: Bellisario Esposito (INFN e Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (IT))

LHC-ForwPhys-CERN-4-March-2021.pdf

5:45 PM → 6:15 PM Discussion session

Friday, March 5

2:00 PM → 2:20 PM A new approach to modelling elastic and inelastic photon-initiated production at the LHC: SuperChic 4

Speakers: Lucian Harland-Lang (Durham University), Dr Lucian Harland-Lang (University of Oxford)

lhl_SC4.pdf

2:20 PM → 2:40 PM Phenomenological aspects of hadronic structure at small-x

Speakers: Dr Francesco Giovanni Celiberto (ECT*/FBK Trento & INFN-TIFPA), Francesco Giovanni Celiberto (Università della Calabria and INFN Cosenza (Italy))

talk_LHC_FP_meeting_2021_Celiberto.pdf

2:40 PM → 3:00 PM Light-by-light scattering from SLAC to the LHC and exotic searches

Speaker: Laurent Olivier Schoeffel (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

schoeffel_fwdmeeting.pdf

3:00 PM → 3:20 PM Odderon dicovery in D0/TOTEM

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

fwdphys2021.pdf

3:20 PM → 3:35 PM Coffee brek

3:35 PM → 3:55 PM Coulomb-nuclear interference in elastic scattering: eikonal calculation to all orders of alpha

Speaker: Jan Kaspar (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))

kaspar_eikonal_calculation.pdf

3:55 PM → 4:15 PM Measurements of events with jet-gap-jet topology by CMS and TOTEM

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

LHCforwardphysics_cbaldenegro_v2.pdf

4:15 PM → 4:35 PM Jet-gap-jet phenomenology

Speaker: Pablo Gonzalez

4:35 PM → 4:55 PM The FACET project

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

FACET FwdLHC 20210305.pdf

FACET FwdLHC 20210305.pptx

4:55 PM → 5:15 PM Proton spectra in full kinematic range of x_F and rapidity.

Speaker: Olga Piskunova (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))

ForwardPhys4March2021.pdf

5:15 PM → 5:35 PM Continuous acquisition, software synchronized, 600Msps TDC in AFP

Speaker: Radu Radulescu (Telluric Labs LLC)

5:35 PM → 6:05 PM Discussion session