Name: The 8th International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics 2015
Start: 2015-06-29T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2015-07-03T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Pisa

Monday, 29 June 2015

08:00 Welcome & Registration
Welcome & Registration
08:00 - 09:10
Room: Building E, Polo Fibonacci
09:10
09:10 - 10:45
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

09:10 Welcome by Prof. Francesco Fidecaro, director of Phys. Dept. and Dr. Marco Grassi, appointed new Director of INFN-Pisa - Francesco Fidecaro (Pisa University) Marco Grassi (INFN-Pisa)

09:20 Welcome - Laura Elisa Marcucci

09:25 Theoretical aspects of Chiral Dynamics - Heinrich Leutwyler (University of Bern)

10:05 Effective field theories and lattice QCD - Claude Bernard (Washington University, Saint Louis)
10:45 coffee break
coffee break
10:45 - 11:10
Room: Building E, Polo Fibonacci
11:10
11:10 - 13:10
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

11:10 Photopion physics at MAMI - David Hornidge (Mount Allison University)

11:50 Electric dipole moments, new physics, and QCD - Vincenzo Cirigliano (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:30 Probes for fundamental QCD symmetries and a dark gauge boson via light meson decays - Liping Gan (University of North Carolina, Wilmington)
13:10 lunch
lunch
13:10 - 14:30
Room: Building E, Polo Fibonacci
14:30
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Room PS1
Contributions

14:30 *Leading Talk* Magnetic properties of light nuclei from lattice QCD - Martin Savage (Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle)

14:55 Resonances in coupled-channel scattering from lattice QCD - David Wilson (Old Dominion University, Norfolk)

15:10 Effective theory for lattice nuclei - Lorenzo Contessi (TIFP, Trento)

15:25 Application of low-energy theorems to NN scattering at unphysical pion masses - Vadim Baru (Ruhr University, Bochum)

15:40 Causality constraint on bound states and scattering with zero-range force, or do perturbative pions deserve another chance? - Vladimir Pascalutsa (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz)
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

14:30 *Leading talk* K->pipi decays and the Delta I = 1/2 rule - Nicolas Garron (Plymouth University)

15:00 Studies of the decay K+ to pi+ pi0 e+ e- at NA48 - Jacopo Pinzino (INFN-Pisa)

15:20 Studies of the Ke4 decay at NA48 - Michal Zamkovsky (IPNP, Charles University, Prague)

15:40 Isospin breaking effects in the K^+_{e4} decays - Marc Knecht (CNRS/CPT, Marseille)
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Room PS4
Contributions

14:30 *Leading Talk* Review of the Proton Size Puzzle - Carl Carlson (College of William and Mary, Williamsburg)

15:00 Status of the OLYMPUS Experiment - Ricardo Alarcon (Arizona State University, Tempe)

15:20 Chiral perturbation theory of hyperfine splitting in muonic hydrogen - Franziska Hagelstein (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz)

15:40 Odd moments of nucleon charge and magnetization distribution in ChPT - Nadiia Krupina (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz)
16:00 coffee break
coffee break
16:00 - 16:20
Room: Building E, Polo Fibonacci
16:20
16:20 - 18:20
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

16:20 A dispersive treatment of K_{l4} decays - Peter Stoffer (HISKP, University of Bonn)

16:40 B_{l4} decays and the extraction of |V_ub| - Xian-Wei Kang (IAS and IKP, Forschungszentrum Jülich)

17:00 Constraints on the ωπ form factor from analyticity and unitarity - Balasubramanian Ananthanarayan (Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru)

17:20 K-pi scattering lengths from lattice QCD - Tadeusz Janowski (University of Southampton)

17:40 Finite volume for masses and decay constants - Thomas Rössler (Lund University)

18:00 Masses, decay constants and electromagnetic form-factors with twisted boundary conditions - Johan Relefors (Lund University)
16:20 - 18:20
Room: Room PS4
Contributions

16:20 *Leading Talk* Compton scattering and nucleon polarisabilities in chiral EFT: The next steps - Harald W. Griesshammer (George Washington University, Washington)

16:50 New results for Compton scattering on deuterium: A better determination of the neutron electromagnetic polarizabilities - Gerald Feldman (George Washington University, Washington)

17:10 Improved description of the nucleon polarizabilities with relativistic chiral effective field theory - Jose Manuel Alarcon (University of Bonn)

17:30 Chiral dynamics in the gamma p --> p pi0 reaction - Astrid Hiller Blin (IFIC, University of Valencia)

17:50 Impact of the Delta (1232) resonance in neutral pion photoproduction in chiral perturbation theory. - Lloyd Cawthorne (University of Manchester)
16:20 - 18:20
Room: Room PS1
Contributions

16:20 *Leading Talk* Hadronic parity violation in effective field theory - Matthias Schindler (University of South Carolina, Columbia)

16:45 The n3He experiment: Hadronic parity violation in cold neutron capture on 3He. - Michael Gericke (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg)

17:00 Nuclear axial current in chiral effective field theory - Alessandro Baroni (Old Dominion University, Norfolk)

17:15 Applying Efimov physics to few nucleon systems - Alejandro Kievsky (INFN-Pisa)

17:30 Scaling of tetramer properties close to the unitary limit - Tobias Frederico (Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica, Sao Jose dos Campos)

17:45 Pion production in nucleon-nucleon collisions near threshold: complete NNLO calculation in chiral EFT - Arseniy Filin (Ruhr University, Bochum)

18:00 Recoil corrections in antikaon-deuteron scattering - Maxim Mai (HISKP, University of Bonn)
19:00 Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
19:00 - 20:00
Room: Grand Hotel Duomo
Tuesday, 30 June 2015
08:45
08:45 - 10:45
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

08:45 Nuclear physics from QCD on lattice - Takashi Inoue (Nihon University)

09:25 Hadronic weak interaction: The NPDGamma experiment - Libertad Barrón-Palos (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de Mexico)

10:05 Studies of light nuclei in chiEFT: A status report - Rocco Schiavilla (Jefferson Lab/Old Dominion University, Norfolk)
10:45 coffee break
coffee break
10:45 - 11:10
Room: Building E, Polo Fibonacci
11:10
11:10 - 13:10
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

11:10 How well does the chiral expansion converge in nuclear and neutron matter? - Francesca Sammarruca (University of Idaho, Moscow)

11:50 Unexpected chiral dynamics from lattice QCD calculations of nuclear systems - Silas Beane (University of Washington, Seattle)

12:30 Nuclear chiral EFT in the precision era - Evgeny Epelbaum (Ruhr University, Bochum)
13:10 lunch
lunch
13:10 - 14:30
Room: Building E, Polo Fibonacci
14:30
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Room PS1
Contributions

14:30 Chiral two-nucleon dynamics, analyticity and dispersion relations - Ashot Gasparyan (Ruhr University, Bochum)

14:45 The nucleon-nucleon interaction up to sixth order in the chiral expansion - Ruprecht Machleidt (University of Idaho, Moscow)

15:00 Chiral three-nucleon forces up to N4LO - Hermann Krebs (Ruhr University Bochum)

15:15 Progress in the quest for a realistic three-nucleon force - Luca Girlanda (Universita del Salento, Lecce & INFN-Lecce)

15:30 Elastic nucleon-deuteron scattering and breakup with chiral forces - Henryk witala (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)

15:45 Experimental tests of nuclear interaction models in few-nucleon systems - Elzbieta Stephan (University of Silesia, Katowice)
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

14:30 *Leading Talk* Eta and eta' physics at BESIII - Shuangshi Fang (Institute of High Energy Physics, Bejing)

15:00 Extraction of low energy QCD parameters from eta to 3pi and beyond - Marián Kolesár (IPNP, Charles University, Prague)

15:20 a_0-f_0 mixing in the Khuri-Treiman equations for eta -> 3pi - Bachir Moussallam (IPN, Université Paris-Sud)

15:40 Eta - eta' mixing in Large-Nc ChPT: discussion, phenomenology, and prospects - Pere Masjuan (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz)
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Room PS4
Contributions

14:30 *Leading Talk* Precise dispersive determination of pion-nucleon scattering and the sigma term - Jacobo Ruiz de Elvira (HISKP, University of Bonn)

15:00 Combined analysis of πN->πN and πN->ππN in ChPT - Dmitrij Siemens (Ruhr University, Bochum)

15:20 Hadronic uncertainties and isospin violation in supersymmetric dark matter models - Lewis Tunstall (University of Bern)

15:40 Joint Physics Analysis Center Activities - Vincent Mathieu (Indiana University, Bloomington)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:20
Room: Building E, Polo Fibonacci
16:20
16:20 - 18:30
Room: Room PS1
Contributions

16:20 *Leading Talk* Uncertainty quantification and chiral dynamics - Daniel Phillips (Ohio University, Athens)

16:45 Assessing theory errors using residual cutoff dependence - Harald W. Griesshammer (George Washington University, Washington)

17:00 Hyperons in nuclear matter studied in chiral EFT - Johann Haidenbauer (IKP, Forschungszentrum Juelich)

17:15 Studies of Lambda-neutron interaction through polarization observables for final-state interactions in exclusive Lambda photoproduction off the deuteron - Yordanka Ilieva (University of South Carolina, Columbia)

17:30 Antinucleon-nucleon interaction and the related hadron physics - Xian-Wei Kang (IAS and IKP, Forschungszentrum Jülich)

17:45 Nuclear matter calculations with chiral interactions - Domenico Logoteta (INFN-Pisa)

18:00 The nuclear contact: From nucleus photodisintegration to nucleons momentum distributions - Betzalel Bazak (Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
16:20 - 18:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

16:20 *Leading Talk* Form factor in VPgamma* transitions and study of the eta-->pi+pi-pi0 Dalitz plot at KLOE - Simona Giovannella (INFN-LNF)

16:50 From OPE to chiral perturbation theory in holographic QCD - David Greynat (INFN-Naples)

17:10 Pseudoscalar decays into lepton pairs from rational approximants - Pablo Sanchez Puertas (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz)

17:30 The meson spectroscopy program with CLAS12 at Jefferson Laboratory - Alessandro Rizzo (INFN-Roma2)

17:50 Study of two and three meson tau lepton decay modes with Monte Carlo generator TAUOLA - Olga Shekhovtsova (IFJ PAN, Krakow)

18:10 Low-energy constants from ALEPH hadronic tau decay data - Maarten Golterman (San Francisco State University)
16:20 - 18:30
Room: Room PS4
Contributions

16:20 *Leading Talk* Leading logarithms for mesons and nucleons - Johan Bijnens (Lund University)

16:50 Excited-state contamination in nucleon correlators from chiral perturbation theory - Brian Tiburzi (City College of New York)

17:10 Octet baryon masses in covariant baryon chiral perturbation theory up to O(p^4) - Xiu-Lei Ren (Beihang University/IPN Orsay)

17:30 Extending the baryon ChPT beyond the low-energy region - Jambul Gegelia (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

17:50 Narrow S-wave resonance in pion-baryon system - Bingwei Long (Sichuan University, Chengdu)

18:10 Combined analysis of the decays τ−→KSπ−ντ and τ−→K−ηντ - Rafel Escribano (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Wednesday, 1 July 2015
08:45
08:45 - 10:45
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

08:45 The pion polarisability and more measurements on chiral dynamics at COMPASS - Jan Friedrich (Physik-Department E18)

09:25 Extracting (pion) form factors from finite volume lattices - Hidenori Fukaya (Osaka University)

10:05 Pion photo- and electro-production and the chiral MAID interface - Stefan Scherer (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz)
10:45 coffee break
coffee break
10:45 - 11:10
Room: Building E, Polo Fibonacci
11:10
11:10 - 12:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

11:10 Latest results on few-body physics from HIγS - Haiyan Gao (Duke University, Durham)

11:50 Inclusion of isospin breaking effects in lattice simulations - Antonin Portelli (University of Southampton)
12:30 lunch
lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Building E, Polo Fibonacci

14:00 Excursion to Lucca
Excursion to Lucca
14:00 - 20:00
Room: City of Lucca
Thursday, 2 July 2015
08:45
08:45 - 10:46
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

08:45 Pion--nucleon scattering at low energies - Bastian Kubis (University of Bonn)

09:25 An overview of recent nucleon spin structure measurements at Jefferson Lab - Kalyan Allada (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

10:05 QED corrections to hadronic processes in lattice QCD - Vittorio Lubicz (Roma3 University)

10:45 3rd announcement - Michele Viviani
10:46 coffee break
coffee break
10:46 - 11:10
Room: Building E, Polo Fibonacci
11:10
11:10 - 13:10
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

11:10 Kaons at CERN: The NA62 experimental program - Augusto Ceccucci (CERN)

11:50 Status of chiral perturbation theory for light mesons - Gerhard Ecker (University of Vienna)

12:30 Meson resonances on the lattice - Robert Edwards (Jefferson Lab)
13:10
13:10 - 14:30
Room: Hall
Contributions

13:10 Roper mass in chiral perturbation theory - Xiu-Lei Ren (Beihang University/ IPN Orsay)

13:10 Muon capture on the deuteron - AlaaEldeen Elmeshenb (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)

13:10 Understanding pion through QCD - Khepani Raya (University of Michoacan, Morelia)

13:10 Hypernuclear decay of strangeness -2 hypernuclei - Jordi Maneu (University of Barcelona)

13:10 Status of chiral-scale perturbation theory - Rod Crewther (University of Adelaide)

13:10 The a_0(980) revisited - Thomas Wolkanowski-Gans (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)

13:10 Chiral symmetry breaking and monopoles - Masayasu Hasegawa (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow)

13:10 Glueball decay in the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model - Frederic Brünner (Vienna University of Technology)

13:10 Hyperon forward spin polarizability gamma0 in baryon chiral perturbation theory - Astrid Hiller Blin (IFIC, University of Valencia)

13:10 Single and double Dalitz decays of pi^0, eta and eta' through rational approximants - Sergi González-Solís (IFAE-Autonomous University of Barcelona)
lunch
lunch
13:10 - 14:30
Room: Building E, Polo Fibonacci
14:30
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Room PS1
Contributions

14:30 *Leading Talk* Clustering in nuclei from ab initio nuclear lattice simulations - Ulf-G. Meissner (HISKP, University of Bonn)

14:55 Recent developments in neutron-proton scattering with lattice effective field theory - Jose Manuel Alarcon (University of Bonn)

15:10 Scattering cluster wave functions on the lattice using the adiabatic projection method - Alexander Rokash (Ruhr University, Bochum)

15:25 Ab initio alpha-alpha scattering - Serdar Elhatisari (University of Bonn)

15:40 Power counting of currents in effective field theory - Manuel Pavon Valderrama (IPN Orsay)
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

14:30 *Leading Talk* Chiral methods at the electroweak scale - Oscar Cata (LMU Munich)

15:00 Resonances in the electroweak chiral lagrangian - Ignasi Rosell (Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera, Valencia)

15:20 Dispersion relation for hadronic light-by-light scattering and the muon (g-2) - Peter Stoffer (HISKP, University of Bonn)

15:40 Status and prospects of the KOTO experiment - Yu-Chen TUNG (University of Chicago)
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Room PS4
Contributions

14:30 *Leading Talk* Hermes results on 3D imaging of the nucleon - Luciano Libero Pappalardo (INFN-Ferrara)

15:00 The proton spin-dependent structure function, g2, at low Q2 - Ryan Zielinski (University of New Hampshire, Dover)

15:20 Peripheral transverse densities in the light-front formulation of chiral dynamics - Carlos Granados (Uppsala University)

15:40 SU(3) flavor breaking in baryon octet light-cone distribution amplitudes - Philipp Wein (University of Regensburg)
16:00 coffee break
coffee break
16:00 - 16:20
Room: Building E, Polo Fibonacci
16:20
16:20 - 18:30
Room: Room PS1
Contributions

16:20 Precise calculations of the deuteron quadrupole moment - Franz Gross (Jefferson Lab)

16:35 Subtractive renormalization and scaling in low-energy few-body physics - Lauro Tomio (Federal University of ABC, Sao Paolo)

16:50 Nuclear electric dipole moment of light nuclei in the gaussian expansion method - Nodoka Yamanaka (iTHES Research Group, RIKEN)

17:05 Study of the electroweak processes in the two and three-nucleon systems with local chiral forces. - Roman Skibinski (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)

17:20 Compton scattering from 3He and 4He using an active target - John Annand (University of Glasgow)

17:35 Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of electromagnetic moments and transitions in A<=10 nuclei with two-body chiEFT currents - Saori pastore (University of South Carolina, Columbia)

17:50 Extracting neutron polarizabilities from Compton scattering on quasi-free neutron in gamma d->gamma n p - Berhan Demissie (George Washington University, Washington)
16:20 - 18:30
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

16:20 *Leading Talk* Exploratory lattice QCD study of the rare kaon decay K+ -> pi+ nu nu-bar - Xu Feng (Columbia University, New York)

16:50 Axial U(1) symmetry in the chiral symmetric phase of 2-flavor QCD at finite temperature - Sinya Aoki (Kyoto University)

17:10 Chiral dynamics in the low-temperature phase of QCD - Daniel Robaina (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Mainz)

17:30 The pi^0 -> gamma gamma^* decay rate and form factor - Aron Bernstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge)

17:50 Precision measurement of the neutral pion radiative decay width at Jefferson Lab - Ashot Gasparian (North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro)

18:10 pi0: the lightest hadron - Karol Kampf (Charles University, Prague)
16:20 - 18:30
Room: Room PS4
Contributions

16:20 *Leading Talk* Evidence that the Lambda(1405) is a molecular antikaon-nucleon bound state. - Waseem Kamleh (University of Adelaide)

16:50 Constraints on the chiral unitary KN amplitude from πΣK photoproduction data - Maxim Mai (HISKP, University of Bonn)

17:10 The K Cascade production in coupled channel chiral models up to next-to-leading order. - Albert Feijoo (University of Barcelona)

17:30 Evolution of the K-bar N - pi Sigma system with M^2_pi in a box from UχPT - Raquel Molina (The George Washington University, Washington)

17:50 The H-dibaryon in two flavor lattice QCD - Parikshit Junnarkar (Helmholtz Institut, Mainz)
20:00 Social Dinner
Social Dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Room: Cloister, San Domenico, Corso Italia
Friday, 3 July 2015
08:45
08:45 - 10:45
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

08:45 Dispersive treatment of the hadronic light-by-light contribution to (g-2)_mu - Gilberto Colangelo (University of Berne)

09:25 Progress on the muon anomalous magnetic moment from lattice QCD - Tom Blum (University of Connecticut, Storrs)

10:05 Muon anomalous magnetic moment and hadronic vacuum polarization: Recent developments - Simon Eidelman (Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk)
10:45 coffee break
coffee break
10:45 - 11:10
Room: Building E, Polo Fibonacci
11:10
11:10 - 13:20
Room: Aula Magna
Contributions

11:10 Recent progress in hadron structure from Lattice QCD - Martha Constantinou (University of Cyprus, Nicosia)

11:50 Compton scattering and the nucleon polarizabilities - Evangeline Downie (George Washington University, Washington)

12:30 Polarisabilities of the proton and neutron from Compton scattering - Judith McGovern (University of Manchester)

13:10 Closing - Michele Viviani (INFN-Pisa)
13:20 lunch
lunch
13:20 - 14:30
Room: Building E, Polo Fibonacci