Forward Physics at the LHC December 2008

Preliminary Program

 

Saturday 6th

9.00 am THEORY / PHENOMENOLOGY

Convenors : Valery Khoze / Andy Pilkington

9.00 am : Dino Goulianos (20) Elastic, total and diffraction dissociation pp cross sections at the LHC

9.20 am : Alan White (20) New large cross section physics at the LHC - the dynamics

9.40 am : Robin Marshall (20) Extracting the dipole cross section from F2 data

10.00 am : Valery Khoze (15) Selected topics on the CEP of BSM Higgs Bosons

10.14 am : Marek Tasevsky (20) CEP Higgs - bbar in the MSSM

10.35 am : Andy Pilkington : (15) CEP Higgs bbar in BSM

10.50 am : Discussion

11.00 am : Coffee

11.15 am : Krzysztof Piotrzkowski (25) New physics in high energy photon interactions with FP420

11.40 am : Oldrich Kepka (20) Anomalous WW gamma coupling in 2-photon processes

12.00 am : Alan Martin (25) Rapidity gap survival in diffractive processes at LHC

12.25 pm : Misha Ryskin (20) Soft diffraction and early LHC studies

12.45 pm : Jean Rene Cudell (20) Quasi-elastic production of central dijets

1.05 pm : Discussion

1.15 pm : Lunch

2.20 pm : EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS FROM TEVATRON

Convenors : Andy Pilkington / Mike Albrow

2.20 pm : Jim Pinfold (20 + 5) Exclusive charmonium production and gamma gamma -> mu+ mu- at CDF

2.45 pm : Emily Nurse (20 + 5) Search for exclusive Z and observation of exclusive high-mass di-leptons at CDF

3.10 pm : Mike Albrow (20 + 5) Search for exclusive upsilon and Chi_b at CDF

3.35 pm : Dino Goulianos (20 + 5) Diffractive production of W,Z and exclusive di-jets at CDF

4.00 pm : AfternoonTea

4.30 pm : LHC MACHINE INTREFACE / SIMULATIONS / BACKGROUNDS / CRYOSTAT

Convenors : Keith Potter / Rob Appleby / Marta Ruspa

4.30 pm Detlef Swoboda (20) Cryostat

4.50 pm Thjs Wignands (20) Radiation monitoring

5.10 pm Raymond Veness (20) LHC beam pipes

5.30 Federico Roncarolo (20) Latest IHEP background results

6.10 pm : Discussion Session : How does FP420 continue to collaborate? / status of funding bids / refereeing at ATLAS / CMS

Convenors : Brian Cox / Albert DeRoeck

8.00 pm : Dinner

Sunday 7th

8.50 am : Harry van der Graaf (20) : thin gas high precision tracking detectors

9.10 am : FAST TIMING DETECTORS

Convenors : Andrew Brandt, Krzysztof.Piotrzkowski

9.10 am Andrew Brandt (40) Fast timing project overview and QUARTIC plans

9.50 am Krzysztof Piotrzkowski (30) GASTOF status and plans

10.20 am Jim Pinfold (15) HPTDC Readout

10.35 am Mike Albrow (15) New concepts

10.50 am Jean-Francois Genat (15) New concepts at 220m

11.10 am : Coffee

Chair : Brian Cox

11.40 am : Fast timing discussion session (VC with Rockefeller)

11.40 am : Sebastian White (20) Problems and solutions

1.00 pm : Lunch

2.00 pm : SILICON TRACKER

Convenor : Cinzia DaVia

2.00 pm : Ray Thompson (20 + 5) Tracker mechanics and cooling at 420m

2.25 pm : Fredrich Haug (10 + 5) Cooling possibilities at CERN

2.40 pm : Scott Kolya / Jean Francois Genat (10 + 10) Electronics

3.00 pm : Cinzia DaVia / Marek Tasevsky (10 + 10) 3D Sensor latest results

3.20 pm : Jo Pater (15 + 5) Alignment

3.40 pm : Henning Berg (15 + 5) Low voltage / High voltage power supply

4.00 pm : Detlef Swoboda (15 + 5) Installation

4.20 pm : Afternoon Tea

4.40 pm DAQ / TRIGGER / SOFTWARE

Convenor : Mario Campanelli

4.40 pm : Mario Campanelli (15 + 5) Introduction

5.00 pm : Pavel Ruzicka (15 + 5) Silicon simulation

5.20 pm : Peter Sherwood (15 + 5) Implementation of tracking code into ATLAS framework

5.40 pm (15 + 5) Patrick Le Du (15 + 5) Electronics

6.00 pm Alexander Zhokin (15 + 5)

6.30 pm End

7.30 pm Dinner

Monday 8th

10.00 am ATLAS FP

Convenor : Christophe Royon

11.00 am : Coffee

11.30 am : ATLAS FP Management

1.00 pm : Lunch / End