Forward Physics at the LHC December 2009

Preliminary Program

 

Saturday 12th

1.00 pm : Lunch

2.00 pm : JOINT CMS/ATLAS FORWARD PROTON MEETING

2.00: Status of CMS upgrade - Krzysztof Piotrzkowski (30+10)

2.40: Status of ATLAS-FP upgrade - Steve Watts/Christophe Royon/Andrew Brandt (30+10)

3.20: Plans for 2010: Joint R&D on Hamburg pipe, safety/radiation review - Steve Watts (20+10)

3.50: Test beam 2010 - Andrew Brandt (20+10)

4.20: AOB - All (10)

4.30 pm : AfternoonTea

5.00 pm: AFP GROUP MEETING

5.00 Discussion - All

7.00 pm Dinner (to be planned)

Sunday 13th

9.00 am THEORY

9.00: Probing the Durham Sudakov factor at next-to-leading order - Tim Coughlin (20+5)

9.25: Standard candle central exclusive processes at the Tevatron - Lucian Harland-Lang (20+5)

9.50: Saturation, fluctuations and diffractive excitation - Gosta Gustafson (20+5)

10.15: Soft physics: gap survival and Monte Carlos - Alan Martin (35+5)

10.55 am : Coffee

11.20 am PHENOMENOLOGY

11.20: Higgs measurements in and beyond the Standard Model at the LHC - Sven Heinemeyer (30+5)

11.55: H->bb study in gamma-gamma processes in proton-nucleus collisions at the LHC - David d'Enterria (20+5)

12.20: Gaps-between-jets at the LHC - Simone Marzani (20+5)

12.45 pm : Lunch

1.45 pm : PHENOMENOLOGY / EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS

1.45: Taking the fourier transform of LHC events - James Monk (20+5)

2.10: Multivariate analysis of diffractive events and prospects for CEP measurements at LHCb - Risto Orava (30+5)

2.45: Diffraction at CDF and cross sections at the LHC - Dino Goulianos (30+5)

3.20: Central exclusive production at CDF - Mike Albrow (25+5)

3.50 pm : AfternoonTea

4.10 pm :EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS / LHC EXPECTATIONS

4.10: Diffractive factorisation and rapidity gap survival at HERA - Paul Newman (20+5)

4.35: Early Diffractive Physics at ATLAS - Mark Slater (20+5)

5.00: CMS - Jonathon Hollar (20+5)

5.25: ALICE - Rainer Schicker (20+5)

6.30 pm : Bus to conference dinner

Monday 14th

9.30 am : FORWARD DETECTORS AT LHC

9.30: Overview of detector requirements - Krzysztof Piotrzkowski, Steve Watts (25+5)

10.00: Machine Interface (Hamburg pipe and Connection Cryostat) - Detlef Swoboda (25+5)

10.30: Fast timing (GASTOF Update) - Krzysztof Piotrzkowski (25+5)

11.00 am : Coffee

11.30: AFP Timing Electronics - Jim Pinfold (15+5)

11.50: Reference Timing - Jeff Gronberg (15+5)

12.10: Reference Timing and Fermilab test beam - Mike Albrow (15+5)

12.30: 3D sensor development - Cinzia Da Via (25+5)

1.00 pm : Lunch

2.00: Laser testing and MCP lifetime plans - Andrew Brandt (25+5)

2.30: Fiber detector studies - Weilin Yu (25+5)

3.00: AFP tracker plans - Steve Watts (10+5)

3.15: AFP Tracker Mechanics - Ray Thompson (15+5)

3.35: Forward detector alignment - Peter Bussey (25+5)

4.00 pm : Afternoon Tea

4.30 pm: DISCUSSION SESSION

Future Plans - All (55+5)

7.30 pm Dinner