Diffraction 2012

Name: Diffraction 2012
Start: 2012-09-10T17:00:00+01:00
End: 2012-09-15T17:00:00+01:00
Location: Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote

10 Sept 2012, 17:00 → 15 Sept 2012, 17:00 Europe/Lisbon

Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote

Canary Islands (Spain)

Description

Diffraction 2012 is the seventh biennial Workshop dedicated to theoretical and experimental progress in diffractive hadronic collisions at high energies. Organized and sponsored by: LHCPhenonet Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC (SPAIN) Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (SPAIN) Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (ITALY) DESY CERN Università della Calabria (ITALY) Sito ufficiale

Support

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Participants

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Monday 10 September
- 17:00 → 20:00
  
  Registration
- 19:00 → 20:30
  
  Welcome Drink 1h 30m
- 20:30 → 22:00
  
  Dinner 1h 30m
Tuesday 11 September
- 08:20 → 08:30
  
  Opening address
- 08:30 → 10:20
  LHC and Post-LHC (I)
  - 08:30
    
    News from the LHC 25m
    
    Speaker: Albert De Roeck (CERN)
    
    Slides
  - 08:55
    
    Postcards from the High Energy Frontier 25m
    
    Speaker: Prof. James Pinfold (University of Alberta)
    
    Slides
  - 09:20
    
    Bounds on soft scattering in the TeV-scale 20m
    
    Speaker: Uri Maor (Tel Aviv University)
    
    Slides
  - 09:40
    
    Low-mass Drell-Yan production at the LHC; and treatment of the infrared region in pQCD 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Alan Martin (IPPP, Durham University)
    
    Slides
  - 10:00
    
    New results on central exclusive production at hadron colliders 20m
    
    Speaker: Valery Khoze (IPPP, University of Durham, UK)
    
    Slides
- 10:20 → 10:40
  
  Coffee break 20m
- 10:40 → 13:00
  Diffraction in e-p Collisions (I)
  - 10:40
    
    Inclusive DIS at HERA and PDFs 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Enrico Tassi (Universita` della Calabria & INFN-Cosenza)
    
    Slides
  - 11:00
    
    Recent results from low-x and forward physics at HERA 20m
    
    Speaker: Lidia Goerlich (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Cracow)
    
    Slides
  - 11:20
    
    Physics Updates from HERMES 30m
    
    Speaker: Morgan Murray (University of Glasgow)
    
    Slides
  - 11:50
    
    Overview of structure function measurements at Jefferson Lab 20m
    
    Speaker: Wally Melnitchouk (Jefferson Lab)
    
    Slides
  - 12:10
    
    Parton distributions with LHC data 20m
    
    Speaker: Mr Valerio Bertone (Freiburg University and CERN)
    
    Slides
  - 12:30
    
    Diffraction at HERA 30m
    
    Speaker: Henri Kowalski (DESY)
    
    Slides
- 13:00 → 15:30
  
  Lunch and leisure time 2h 30m
- 15:30 → 17:30
  Diffraction in e-p Collisions (II)
  - 15:30
    
    Inclusive Diffraction at HERA 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr David Salek (IPNP, Charles University, Prague)
    
    Slides
  - 15:50
    
    Combined inclusive diffractive cross sections measured with forward proton spectrometers at HERA 20m
    
    Speaker: Marta Ruspa (TO)
    
    Slides
  - 16:10
    
    Connections between diffraction in DIS and diffraction at the LHC 20m
    
    Speaker: Marcella Capua (Universita` della Calabria & INFN, Cosenza)
    
    Slides
  - 16:30
    
    Fitting DIS data at low values of Bjorken x 20m
    
    Speaker: Ms Clara Salas (IFT Madrid)
    
    Slides
  - 16:50
    
    On an evidence of higher twist emergence in DDIS at HERA 20m
    
    Speaker: Leszek Motyka (Jagiellonian University)
    
    Slides
  - 17:10
    
    Diffractive neutrino interactions 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Boris Kopeliovich (UTFSM)
    
    Slides
- 17:30 → 17:50
  
  Coffee break 20m
- 17:50 → 20:10
  Diffraction in e-p Collisions (III)
  - 17:50
    
    Color Transparency in Incoherent Electroproduction of \rho Mesons off Nuclei. 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Jan Nemchik (Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic & Institute of Experimental Physics, Kosice, Slovakia)
    
    Slides
  - 18:10
    
    Exclusive production at HERA 20m
    
    Speaker: Dorota Szuba (UH Hamburg)
    
    Slides
  - 18:30
    
    GPD physics with polarized muon beams at COMPASS 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Andrea Ferrero (CEA-Saclay Irfu/SPhN)
    
    Slides
  - 18:50
    
    GPDs at an Electron Ion Collider 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Salvatore Fazio (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
    
    Slides
  - 19:10
    
    Reggeometry of lepton- and hadron-induced exclusive diffractive processes 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Laszlo Jenkovszky (Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)
    
    Slides
  - 19:30
    
    An AdS/QCD holographic wavefunction for the rho meson 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Ruben Sandapen (Université de Moncton)
    
    Slides
  - 19:50
    
    Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering from Gauge/Gravity Duality 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Marko Djuric (University of Porto)
    
    Slides
- 20:10 → 22:00
  
  Dinner 1h 50m
Wednesday 12 September
- 08:30 → 09:10
  Diffraction in Hadron-Hadron Collisions (I)
  - 08:30
    
    Diffractive production of charm quark/antiquark pairs at RHIC and LHC 20m
    
    Speaker: Marta Luszczak (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Cracow)
    
    Slides
  - 08:50
    
    Quarkonium+$\gamma$ production in $\gamma$-proton interactions at LHC 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Mairon Melo Machado (IF FARROUPILHA, Campus São Borja)
    
    Slides
- 09:10 → 10:45
  Spin Physics (I)
  - 09:10
    
    Where does the spin of the proton come from? 25m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Keh-Fei Liu (University of Kentucky)
    
    Slides
  - 09:35
    
    Where is the proton missing spin? 25m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Bo-Qiang Ma (Peking University)
    
    Slides
  - 10:00
    
    Transversity: theory and phenomenology 25m
    
    Speaker: Dr Umberto D'Alesio (CA)
    
    Slides
  - 10:25
    
    Single spin asymmetries in inclusive DIS and in hadronic collisions 20m
    
    Speaker: Andreas Metz (Temple University, Philadelphia)
    
    Slides
- 10:45 → 11:05
  
  Coffee break 20m
- 11:05 → 13:05
  Spin Physics (II)
  - 11:05
    
    Accessing the quark orbital angular momentum with Wigner distributions 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Cedric Lorce (IPNO and LPT Orsay, Universite Paris-Sud)
    
    Slides
  - 11:25
    
    Orbital Angular Momentum in Nucleon 15m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Firooz Arash (Physics Department, Tafresh University, Tafresh, Iran)
    
    Slides
  - 11:40
    
    Azimuthal asymmetry of forward neutrons in polarized pp collisions 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Boris Kopeliovich (UTFSM)
    
    Slides
  - 12:00
    
    Evolution and definition of TMD's 15m
    
    Speaker: Dr Ignazio Scimemi (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
    
    Slides
  - 12:15
    
    Violent Collisions of Spinning Protons: Past, Present & Perhaps at Fermilab 25m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Alan Krisch (University of Michigan)
    
    Slides
  - 12:40
    
    Recent Results from the PHENIX Spin Program 25m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Kenneth Barish (UC Riverside)
    
    Slides
- 13:05 → 15:30
  
  Lunch and leisure time 2h 25m
- 15:30 → 17:35
  Spin Physics (III)
  - 15:30
    
    NEW RESULTS OBTAINED WITH TRANSVERSELY POLARIZED PROTONS IN P-P COLLISIONS AT RHIC 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. George Igo (University of California, Los Angeles)
    
    Slides
  - 15:50
    
    Transverse spin asymmetries in the CNI region in polarized proton-proton elastic scattering at STAR 15m
    
    Speaker: Dr Wlodek Guryn (Brookhaven NAtional Laboratory)
    
    Slides
  - 16:05
    
    Recent results on the gluon polarization and W production program in polarized p + p collisions at RHIC 25m
    
    Speaker: Bernd Surrow (Temple Unviersity)
    
    Slides
  - 16:30
    
    Overview of Spin Structure Program at Jefferson Lab 25m
    
    Speaker: Yelena Prok (Old Dominion University)
    
    Slides
  - 16:55
    
    Overview of Spin Studies at COMPASS 25m
    
    Speaker: Fabienne Kunne (CEA Saclay IRFU / SPhN)
    
    Slides
  - 17:20
    
    Exclusive meson production at COMPASS 15m
    
    Speaker: Mr Pawel Sznajder (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw)
    
    Slides
- 17:35 → 17:55
  
  Coffee break 20m
- 17:55 → 20:15
  Diffraction in Nuclear Physics
  - 17:55
    
    Photoproduction of vector mesons: from gamma proton to nucleus nucleus collisions 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Wolfgang Schaefer (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)
    
    Slides
  - 18:15
    
    STAR: Characterizing Hot Quark Matter 25m
    
    Speaker: Dr Gene Van Buren (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
    
    Slides
  - 18:40
    
    Central Exclusive Production with the STAR detector at RHIC 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Leszek Adamczyk (AGH University of Science and Tecnology)
    
    Slides
  - 19:00
    
    J/psi measurements in ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions with ALICE 20m
    
    Speaker: Daniel Tapia Takaki (IPN Orsay, Paris-sud University)
    
    Slides
  - 19:20
    
    An Improved Glauber-Gribov Approach to Diffractive Hadron-Nucleus Scattering 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Claudio Ciofi Degli Atti (PG)
    
    Slides
  - 19:40
    
    PDF Studies of Hadronization Mechanisms using Pion Electroproduction in Deep Inelastic Scattering from Nuclei 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Hayk Hakobyan (Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria)
    
    Slides
  - 20:00
    
    Polarizing Helium-3 for down quark spin enrichment 15m
    
    Speaker: Nigel Buttimore (Trinity College Dublin)
    
    Slides
- 20:15 → 22:00
  
  Dinner 1h 45m
Thursday 13 September
- 08:30 → 10:50
  Progress in QCD (I)
  - 08:30
    
    Regge trajectories in QCD 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. ANATOLII Efremov (JINR, Dubna)
    
    Slides
  - 08:50
    
    NLO BFKL kernel for the adjoint representation of the gauge group 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Victor Fadin (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics)
    
    Slides
  - 09:10
    
    BFKL Evolution as a Communicator Between Small and Large energy Scales 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Douglas Ross (Southampton University)
    
    Slides
  - 09:30
    
    Next-to-leading order corrections to the BKP evolution 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Joachim Bartels (University Hamburg)
    
    Slides
  - 09:50
    
    Integrability of the BKP equations for multi-reggeon composite states and new solutions for the Odderon problem in LLA 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Lev Lipatov
    
    Slides
  - 10:10
    
    Production of one and two $c \bar c$ pairs at LHC 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Antoni Szczurek (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)
    
    Slides
  - 10:30
    
    Associated photon and heavy quark production within k_T-factorization 20m
    
    Speaker: N.P. Zotov
    
    Slides
- 10:50 → 11:10
  
  Coffee break 20m
- 11:10 → 13:10
  Forward physics in Hadron-Hadron Collisions (I)
  - 11:10
    
    Central Exclusive Production in CDF at the Tevatron p-pbar Collider 20m
    
    Speaker: Michael Albrow (FNAL)
    
    Slides
  - 11:30
    
    Diffractive dijet production at CDF 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Konstantin Goulianos (The Rockefeller University)
    
    Slides
  - 11:50
    
    CMS results on soft and hard diffraction 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Ada Maria Solano (TO)
    
    Slides
  - 12:10
    
    Results on diffraction from the ATLAS experiment 20m
    
    Speaker: Mr Marek Tasevsky (Institute of Physics of ASCR, Prague)
    
    Slides
  - 12:30
    
    Low-x Physics results from CMS 20m
    
    Speaker: Ralf Ulrich (Karlsruhe Institut of Technology)
    
    Slides
  - 12:50
    
    Measurements of Inelastic pp Interactions at the LHC 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Risto Orava (Helsinki Inst. of Physics and Univ. of Helsinki, CERN)
    
    Slides
- 13:10 → 15:00
  
  Lunch 1h 50m
- 15:00 → 18:30
  
  Excursion to Los Jameos del Agua and la Cueva de los Verdes 3h 30m
- 18:30 → 22:00
  
  Dinner 3h 30m
Friday 14 September
- 08:30 → 10:30
  Diffraction in Hadron-Hadron Collisions (II)
  - 08:30
    
    Jet gap jet at the LHC 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Christophe Royon Royon (IRFU-SPP, CEA Saclay)
    
    Slides
  - 08:50
    
    Partonic description of soft high energy pp interactions 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Alan Martin (IPPP, Durham University)
    
    Slides
  - 09:10
    
    Predictions of diffractive cross sections in proton-proton collisions 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Konstantin Goulianos (The Rockefeller University)
    
    Slides
  - 09:30
    
    Accounting for soft cross sections at the LHC 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Errol Gotsman (Tel Aviv University)
    
    Slides
  - 09:50
    
    Do we understand elastic scattering up to LHC energies? 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Jacques Soffer (Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
    
    Slides
  - 10:10
    
    AMPLITUDES AND OBSERVABLES IN pp ELASTIC SCATTERING AT 7 TeV 20m
    
    Speaker: Mr Erasmo Ferreira (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
    
    Slides
- 10:30 → 10:50
  
  Coffee break 20m
- 10:50 → 13:10
  Diffraction in Hadron-Hadron Collisions (III)
  - 10:50
    
    Have we reached asymptotia in pp scattering? 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Giulia Pancheri (LNF)
    
    Slides
  - 11:10
    
    Probing the phase of the elastic pp scattering amplitude with vortex proton beams 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Igor Ivanov (University of Liege and Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk)
    
    Slides
  - 11:30
    
    Exclusive production of meson pairs and resonances in proton-proton collisions 20m
    
    Speaker: Piotr LEBIEDOWICZ (IFJ PAN)
    
    Slides
  - 11:50
    
    All-loop calculations of total, elastic and diffractive cross sections in RFT via the stochastic approach 20m
    
    Speaker: Rodion Kolevatov (SUBATECH/UiO/SPbSU)
    
    Slides
  - 12:10
    
    Energy evolution of the large-t elastic scattering and correlation with multiparticle production 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Sergey Troshin (IHEP, Protvino, Russia)
    
    Slides
  - 12:30
    
    The current stage of understanding and description of hadronic elastic diffraction 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Anton Godizov (IHEP (Protvino))
    
    Slides
  - 12:50
    
    Spin and diffractive physics with A Fixed-Target ExpeRiment at the LHC (AFTER@LHC) 20m
    
    Speaker: Cedric Lorce (IPNO and LPT Orsay, Universite Paris-Sud)
    
    Slides
- 13:10 → 15:30
  
  Lunch and leisure time 2h 20m
- 15:30 → 17:35
  Saturation
  - 15:30
    
    A New, Analytic, Non-Perturbative, Gauge-Invariant Formulation of Realistic QCD 25m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Herbert Fried (Brown University)
    
    Slides
  - 15:55
    
    Low x: diffusion, screening, fusion 20m
    
    Speaker: Vladimir Zoller (ITEP Moscow)
    
    Slides
  - 16:15
    
    The Color Dipole Picture 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Dieter Schildknecht (Universitaet Bielefeld)
    
    Slides
  - 16:35
    
    Running Coupling Corrections to Nonlinear Evolution for Diffractive Dissociation 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Yuri Kovchegov (The Ohio State University)
    
    Slides
  - 16:55
    
    Momentum space dipole amplitude for DIS and inclusive hadron production 20m
    
    Speaker: Maria Beatriz Gay Ducati (UFRGS)
    
    Slides
  - 17:15
    
    Nuclear Modification factor for gluon jet 20m
    
    Speaker: Eugene Levin (UTFSM and Tel Aviv University))
    
    Slides
- 17:35 → 17:55
  
  Coffee break 20m
- 17:55 → 20:15
  LHC and Post-LHC (II)
  - 17:55
    
    Low-mass, single- and double diffraction dissociation at the LHC 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Laszlo Jenkovszky (BIPT Kiev)
    
    Slides
  - 18:15
    
    Central Diffraction in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV with ALICE at LHC 20m
    
    Speaker: Felix Reidt (Physikalisches Institut - University of Heidelberg)
    
    Slides
  - 18:35
    
    Status and Perspectives of ALICE at the LHC 20m
    
    Speaker: Gerardo Herrera Corral (CINVESTAV)
    
    Slides
  - 18:55
    
    Measurement of the inelastic pp Cross Section with the ATLAS detector 20m
    
    Speaker: Mr Tibor Zenis (CU Bratislava)
    
    Slides
  - 19:15
    
    Forward Physics at LHCb 20m
    
    Speaker: Dmytro Volyanksyy (MPI Heidelberg)
    
    Slides
  - 19:35
    
    Diffraction at the LHC: anomalous couplings and diffractive Higgs 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Christophe Royon (IRFU-SPP, CEA Saclay)
    
    Slides
  - 19:55
    
    Neutral meson production with ALICE at the LHC 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Alexander Borissov (Wayne State University, CERN)
    
    Slides
- 22:00 → 00:00
  
  Social dinner 2h
Saturday 15 September
- 08:30 → 10:10
  Forward physics in Hadron-Hadron Collisions (II)
  - 08:30
    
    Measurements of Proton-Proton Elastic Scattering and Total Cross-Section at the LHC by TOTEM 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Mario Deile (CERN)
    
    Slides
  - 08:50
    
    Measurements of Diffractive and Inelastic Cross Section with ALICE at the LHC 20m
    
    Speaker: Orlando Villalobos Baillie (University of Birmingham)
    
    Slides
  - 09:10
    
    CMS results on central exclusive production 20m
    
    Speaker: Mr Wenbo Li (Peking University)
    
    Slides
  - 09:30
    
    Diffractive Dissociation at COMPASS: \pi^- to (5\pi)^- at 190 GeV/c 20m
    
    Speaker: Suh-Urk Chung (E18/TU Muenchen)
    
    Slides
  - 09:50
    
    Status of the ATLAS AFP project 10m
    
    Speaker: Ladislav Chytka
    
    Slides
  - 10:00
    
    Status of the CMS High Precision Spectrometer Project 10m
    
    Speaker: Michael Albrow (FNAL)
    
    Slides
- 10:10 → 10:50
  Progress in QCD (II)
  - 10:10
    
    Lipatov's Effective Action beyond Tree Level 20m
    
    Speaker: Jose' Daniel Madrigal (Instituto de Fisica Teorica UAM/CSIC, Madrid)
  - 10:30
    
    On the use of the high energy effective action for low x phenomenology 20m
    
    Speaker: Mr Martin Hentschinski (BNL)
- 10:50 → 11:10
  
  Coffee break 20m
- 11:10 → 13:10
  Progress in QCD (III)
  - 11:10
    
    Evolution of cusped light-like Wilson loops, TMDs and geometry of the loops space 20m
    
    Speaker: Mr Frederik Van der Veken (Universiteit Antwerpen)
    
    Slides
  - 11:30
    
    Photon impact factor and $k_T$-factorization for DIS in the next-to-leading order 20m
    
    Speaker: Prof. Ian Balitsky (ODU/JLab)
    
    Slides
  - 11:50
    
    NLO forward jet vertex 20m
    
    Speaker: Beatrice Murdaca (Universita` della Calabria and INFN, Cosenza)
    
    Slides
  - 12:10
    
    Inclusive production of a pair of rapidity-separated, high p_t hadrons in proton collisions. 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Dmitry Ivanov (Sobolev Institute of Mathematics)
    
    Slides
  - 12:30
    
    Mueller-Navelet jets in high energy hadron collisions 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Francesco Caporale (Universita` della Calabria and INFN, Cosenza)
    
    Slides
  - 12:50
    
    Description of the ATLAS jet veto measurement using the Banfi-Marchesini-Smye equation 20m
    
    Speaker: Dr Cyrille Marquet (University of Santiago de Compostela)
    
    Slides
- 13:10 → 15:00
  
  Lunch 1h 50m