Sunday 12th Program - 12.00 Lunch

Session 1 :   Introduction and Theory of Exclusive Production

1.00 Brian Cox : Intro and Welcome

1.20 Valery Khoze : The Key Selling Points for Proton Tagging at LHC

1.50 Open Forum: The calculation of central exclusive production

Chair: James Stirling

Intro : Jeff Forshaw, "An overview of the calculation of exclusive production"

Aim : What are the errors on the calculation of the exclusive cross section?

presentations by Adam Bzdak (extended Bialas / Landshoff), Leif Lonnblad (Uodpdf's), Maarten BooneKamp (The DEPMC model)

4.00 TEA

Session 2 :   Wider theoretical issues in diffraction at the LHC

4.20 Peter Landshoff : The hard pomeron and it's effect on DGLAP evolution

4.45 Misha Ryskin : Diffractive processes at the LHC

5.25 A. Kaidalov : Unitarity Effects in Diffraction, saturation of parton densities and relation to heavy ion physics

6.05 Uri Maor : An overview of the calculations of Rapidity Gap Survival Probability

6.35 Alan Martin : Analysis of diffractive DIS data and its implications

7.05 Robi Peschanski : Four pending questions on exclusive double pomeron

7.35Dinner

Monday 13th Program

Session 3 : Roman Pots at LHC startup and Detector Technology

9.00 Karsten Eggert : The 220m region at CMS/TOTEM in 2007

9.30 Per Grafstrom : The ATLAS lluminosity system

10.00 Jim Pinfold : The LUCID detector at ATLAS

10.20 Cinzia Da Via : 3D Silicon Detector technology

Discussion

11.00 Coffee

Session 4 :

11.30 Albert De Roeck : Diffraction and Central Exclusive production from 2008 onwards at the LHC

12.00 Sebastian White: Recent Results on Inelastic Diffraction with Au-Au , d-Au and pp beams at

RHIC, and opportunities in this field at the LHC

12.30 Johanas Knapp : The Auger Observatory and Forward Physics

13.00 Lunch

Session 5 : The technical challenges of 420m  

14.00 : Keith Potter : The Status of the LHC

14.25 : Daniela Macina : The integration of 420m detectors into the LHC

15.00 : Risto Orava : Microstations : a candidate for 420m detectors and Acceptance and Mass Resolution of 420m detectors

15:45 : Monika Grothe : The CMS level 1 trigger

Discussion

Chair : Cinzia Da Via

16.45: Tea

17.00 Round Table Discussion : Towards a funding bid for 420m

Chair : Brian Cox

19.30 Dinner

Tuseday 14th Program

Session 6 : Phenomenology

9.00 Mike Albrow : Diffractive W / Z pair production

9.30 Alan White : Sextet Quark Physics and the Pomeron at the LHC

10.00 Christophe Royon : Diffractive Higgs Studies

10.30 Andrew Pilkington : Identifying exclusive events using the KT algorithm

11.00 : Coffee

Session 7 :

11.30 Albert De Roeck : Central exclusive production of Higgs -> WW*

12.00 Wlodek Guryn : Forward Physics at RHIC

12.30 Krzysztof Piotrzkowski : Two photon physics at the LHC

13.00 Lunch

Session 8 : Recent Results and future prospects at the Tevatron

14:00 Koji Terashi : CDF results on exclusive dijet production

14.30 Andrew Brandt : Progress with the D0 Forward Proton Detectors

15.00 Alexander Kupco : Measurement of Gap Survival Probability at the Tevatron

15:30 Andrew Hamilton : Exclusive diphoton production at CDF

16:00 TEA

16.30 - 18.00 Closed session for UK groups involved in PPRP bid in Jan 2005

19:00 Manchester Particle Physics Group Christmas Dinner (can be attended by conference delegates at extra cost - contact B. C. for details)