Name: Diffraction 2016
Start: 2016-09-02T16:50:00+02:00
End: 2016-09-08T14:30:00+02:00
Location: Santa Tecla Palace Hotel, Acireale (Catania, Sicily)

Diffraction 2016

from Friday, 2 September 2016 (16:50) to Thursday, 8 September 2016 (14:30)

Monday, 29 August 2016
Tuesday, 30 August 2016
Wednesday, 31 August 2016
Thursday, 1 September 2016
Friday, 2 September 2016

17:00

17:00 - 19:30

19:30 Welcome Drink
Welcome Drink
19:30 - 20:00

20:30 Dinner
Dinner
20:30 - 22:00
Saturday, 3 September 2016
08:50
08:50 - 09:00
Contributions

08:50 Opening address - Alessandro Papa (CS)
09:00
09:00 - 11:00
Contributions

09:00 Recent results and highlights from the ATLAS experiment - Davide Caforio (CERN)

09:30 Highlists from CMS - Ralf Ulrich (KIT)

10:00 ALICE latest results in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions - Eugenio Scapparone (BO)

10:30 Recent progress in theoretical predictions for LHC physics - Fulvio Piccinini (PV)
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 12:30
Contributions

11:30 Diffraction at the future Electron-Ion Collider - Salvatore Fazio (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

12:00 Jefferson Lab EIC (JLEIC) and Diffractive Physics - Rikutaro Yoshida (JLab)
12:30
12:30 - 13:30
Contributions

12:30 MMHT2014 PDFs -- updates - Alan Martin (IPPP, Durham University)

12:50 xFitter - Amanda Cooper-Sarkar (Univ. Oxford)

13:10 Charm in the Proton - Richard Ball (CERN)
13:30 Lunch and leisure time
Lunch and leisure time
13:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:40
Contributions

16:00 Novel approach to non-perturbative inputs for parton distributions - Boris Ermolaev (Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute)

16:20 Combined H1 and ZEUS inclusive data and QCD fits - Amanda Cooper-Sarkar (Univ. Oxford)

16:40 QCD and electroweak fits from H1 and from ZEUS - Katarzyna Wichmann (DESY)

17:00 Measurement of Tagged Deep Inelastic Scattering in Hall A of Jefferson Lab - Rachel Montgomery (University of Glasgow)

17:20 Relating nucleon total cross sections to DIS structure functions - Laszlo Jenkovszky (Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
17:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
17:40 - 18:10
18:10
18:10 - 19:30
Contributions

18:10 Fitting the Discrete BFKL Pomeron to HERA DIS Data at Low-x - Douglas Ross (Southampton University)

18:30 The color dipole picture - Dieter Schildknecht (Bielefeld University)

18:50 Diffractive Dijet Production in the Color Glass Condensate - Amir Rezaeian (Santa Maria Universidad)

19:10 Impact factor for exclusive diffractive dijet production with NLO accuracy - Renaud Boussarie (LPT Orsay)
20:30 Dinner
Dinner
20:30 - 22:00
Sunday, 4 September 2016
09:00
09:00 - 10:55
Contributions

09:00 Recent results of the high-energy spin physics program at RHIC at BNL - Bernd Surrow (Temple University)

09:25 Transverse single-spin asymmetry of weak boson, Drell-Yan and prompt photon production in p+p collisions at STAR - Salvatore Fazio (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

09:45 PHENIX recent results from polarized pp and pA collisions - Alexander Bazilevsky (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

10:10 Single-spin asymmetry of leading neutrons in polarized pA collisions - Boris Kopeliovich (UTFSM)

10:35 New developements in the statistical approach of parton distributions: tests and predictions up to LHC energies - Jacques Soffer (Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
10:55 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:55 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 13:30
Contributions

11:10 The Quest for the Origin of the Proton’s Sea - Paul E Reimer (Argonne National Laboratory)

11:35 Low-x gluon TMDs, the dipole picture and diffraction - Piet Mulders (Nikhef Theory Group and VU)

12:00 The 3D nucleon structure in momentum space - Mauro Anselmino (TO)

12:25 Recent Results of the Jefferson Lab SANE experiment - Mark Jones (Jefferson Lab)

12:50 Quark angular and transverse momentum in covariant approach - Petr Zavada (Institute of Physics, ASCR, Prague)

13:10 Extraction of Generalized Parton Distributions from Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering Data - Kresimir Kumericki (University of Zagreb)
13:30 Lunch and leisure time
Lunch and leisure time
13:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:20
Contributions

16:00 Hard QCD and the hadronic final state at HERA - Alice Valkarova (Charles University Prague)

16:20 Hard diffraction and factorisation breaking - Karel Cerny (Charles University Prague)

16:40 Vector meson production at HERA - Ada Maria Solano (TO)

17:00 Predictions for diffractive $\phi$ meson production using AdS/QCD light-front wavefunction. - Mohammad Ahmady (Mount Allison University)
17:20 Coffee break
Coffee break
17:20 - 17:50
17:50
17:50 - 18:30
Contributions

17:50 The growth with energy of exclusive J/Psi and Upsilon photo-production cross-sections and BFKL evolution - Martin Hentschinski (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla & ICN UNAM)

18:10 The Pomeron ground state and its decays to light mesons and photons - Anton Godizov (Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino)
18:30
18:30 - 19:50
Contributions

18:30 Diffraction measurements using LHC Beam Loss Monitoring system - Matti Kalliokoski (CERN)

18:50 Observables of QCD diffraction - Mikael Mieskolainen (Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki)

19:10 Exclusive diffractive resonance production in proton-proton collisions at the LHC - Rainer Schicker (Phys. Inst., University Heidelberg)
20:30 Dinner
Dinner
20:30 - 22:00