LHC Forward Physics meeting

4 Mar 2021, 10:00 → 5 Mar 2021, 20:00 Europe/Zurich

CERN

Thursday, 4 March

14:00 → 14:10 Welcome

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

14:10 → 14:30 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

14:30 → 14:50 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

14:50 → 15:10 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

15:10 → 15:30 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

15:30 → 15:50 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

15:50 → 16:05 Coffee break

16:05 → 16:25 Near-beam proton tagging in CMS at the HL-LHC

Speaker: Mario Deile (CERN)

pps-hllhc-forwardws202103.pdf

16:25 → 16:45 Physics perspectives of a CMS near-beam proton spectrometer at HL-LHC

Speaker: Michael Pitt (CERN)

PPS_HL-LHC_MPitt.pdf

16:45 → 17:05 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

17:05 → 17:25 Exclusive dilepton production in ATLAS

Speaker: Jesse Liu (University of Chicago)

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

17:25 → 17:45 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

17:45 → 18:15 Discussion session

Friday, 5 March

14:00 → 14:20 A new approach to modelling elastic and inelastic photon-initiated production at the LHC: SuperChic 4

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

lhl_SC4.pdf

14:20 → 14:40 Phenomenological aspects of hadronic structure at small-x

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

talk_LHC_FP_meeting_2021_Celiberto.pdf

14:40 → 15:00 Light-by-light scattering from SLAC to the LHC and exotic searches

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

schoeffel_fwdmeeting.pdf

15:00 → 15:20 Odderon dicovery in D0/TOTEM

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

fwdphys2021.pdf

15:20 → 15:35 Coffee brek

15:35 → 15:55 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

15:55 → 16:15 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

16:15 → 16:35 Jet-gap-jet phenomenology

Speaker: Pablo Gonzalez

16:35 → 16:55 The FACET project

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

FACET FwdLHC 20210305.pdf

FACET FwdLHC 20210305.pptx

16:55 → 17:15 Proton spectra in full kinematic range of x_F and rapidity.

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

ForwardPhys4March2021.pdf

17:15 → 17:35 Continuous acquisition, software synchronized, 600Msps TDC in AFP

Speaker: Radu Radulescu (Telluric Labs LLC)

17:35 → 18:05 Discussion session