The 20th anniversary of the Blois Workshops

Bulletin n°1


SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

ABSTRACTS

Sunday May 15
15:00 - 19:00 Registration in Château de Blois
19:00 Welcome cocktail in Château de Blois
20:00 Dinner
Monday May 16
09:00 Official opening
09:30 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 12:30 Elastic and Diffractive Scattering and Spectroscopy

Moderator: Basarab NICOLESCU


10:30 - 12:30
Elastic and Diffractive Scattering and Spectroscopy

Karsten EGGERT, Diffractive Physics with TOTEM. Higgs Diffractive Production
Gennaro RUGGIERO, The TOTEM Detectors
Tai Tsun WU, Implication of a Measurement at LHC of the Real Part of the Proton-Proton Forward Scattering Amplitude
Ilias EPHTYMIOPOULOS, ATLAS Plans for Elastic Cross Section and Luminosity Measurements
Stefania RICCIARDI, Pentaquarks and New Hadron Spectroscopy at BaBar

 

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Forward Physics as Related to Cosmic Rays

Moderator: Per GRAFSTROM


14:00 - 15:30
Forward Physics as Related to Cosmic Rays

Pierre BILLOIR, The Auger Observatory and Forward Physics
Katsaki KASAHARA, The Current Status and Prospect of the TA Project
Yasushi MURAKI, The Measurement off Forward Particle Production at LHC. Comparison with Cosmic Ray Physics
Jean-Noël CAPDEVIELLE, Hadronic Cosmic Ray Interactions near the LHC Energy Region and in the Domain of Giant EAS

15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:50 Polarization, Spectroscopy, Diffraction and Black Holes

Moderator: Jorge VELASCO


16:00 - 17:30
Polarization, Spectroscopy, Diffraction and Black Holes

Christophe ROYON, High Mass Diffraction at the LHC
Andrzej SANDACZ, Results from PP2PP Experiment at RHIC
Alan D. KRISCH, Violent Collisions of Spinning Protons : Past, Present, and Future
Jean-Marc RICHARD, Exotic Hadrons
Greg LANDSBERG, Black Holes at Future Colliders and Beyond

18:30 - 20:00 Visit of Château de Blois (French and English speaking guides)
20:00 Dinner
Tuesday May 17
09:00 - 11:00 Non-Perturbative Approaches to High-Energy Scattering (1)

Moderator: Munir ISLAM

9:00 - 11:00
Non-Perturbative Approaches to High-Energy Scattering (1)

Hans Juergen PIRNER, Hadronic Cross Sections in the Loop Correlation Model
Enrico MEGGIOLARO, Euclidean Formulation of Diffractive Scattering
Markus DIEHL, Helicity Structure of the Pomeron
Carlo EWERZ, On the Nonperturbative Foundations of the Dipole Picture

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 Non-perturbative Approaches to High-Energy Scattering (2)

Moderator: Raju VENUGOPALAN


11:30 - 13:00
Non-Perturbative Approaches to High-Energy Scattering (2)

Alexander DONNACHIE, A Comprehensive Approach to Structure Functions
Otto NACHTMANN, Effective Field Theory for Structure Functions at Small Bjorken x
Andre UTERMANN, Instanton Effects in High Energy Scattering

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:40 Diffraction (1) - Shadowing, Anti-Shadowing, Color Transparency and Higgs Production

Moderator: Alphonse CAPELLA


14:30 - 16:40
Diffraction (1) - Shadowing, Anti-Shadowing, Double Diffraction and Higgs Production

Stanley BRODSKY, Novel Aspects of Hard Diffraction
Danny ASHERY, Measurements of Light-Cone Wave Functions and Color Transparency by Diffractive Dijets
Christina MESROPIAN, New Diffraction Results from CDF
Jacques SOFFER, A New Search Strategy for the Higgs Boson
Robert PESCHANSKI, Diffractive Production of the Higgs Boson
Jose PELAEZ, On the Nature of the Light Scalar Nonet from Unitarized Chiral Perturbation Theory and Large Nc

16:40 - 17:10 Break
17:10 - 19:10 Parallel Session 1

Moderator: Michael RIJSSENBEEK

Parallel Session 2

Moderator: Greg LANDSBERG


17:10 - 19:10
PARALLEL SESSION 1

Cynthia HADJIDAKIS, Exclusive Processes at HERMES
Alessia BRUNI, Vector Meson Production at HERA
Laurent FAVART, DVCS and Prompt Photon Production at HERA
Sebastian WHITE, Recent Results on Inelastic Diffraction at RHIC
Valery LYUBOSHITZ, The Nucleon Charge Transfer Reaction np-pn at Zero Angle and the Role of Spin Effects
Andrzej MALECKI, Elastic and Inclusive Inelastic Diffraction of High Energy Hadrons

17:10 - 19:10
PARALLEL SESSION 2

Lech SZYMANOWSKI, Production of Exotic Hybrid Mesons
Oleg L. TERYAEV, Analytic Properties of Hard Exclusive Amplitudes
Alan MARTIN, Analysis of Diffractive Deep Inelastic Data
Samuel WALLON, Signature of the Perturbative Pomeron in Hard Diffractive Exclusive Vector Meson Production at Future Linear Colliders
Rikard ENGBERG, Travelling Waves, Saturation and Dipole Size Fluctuations
J. R. PELAEZ, Extending Forward Scattering Regge Theory to Intermediate Energies

20:00 Dinner
Wednesday May 18
08:00 - 12:30 Excursion
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:10 New Results in QCD (1)

Moderator: Jochen BARTELS


14:00 - 16: 10
New Results in QCD (1)

Ian BALITSKY, Scattering of Shock Waves in QCD
Victor FADIN, The Gluon Reggeization in Perturbative QCD at NLO
Lev LIPATOV, Effective Action Approach for High-Energy Scattering in QCD
Mark STRIKMAN, Dynamic of Small Impact Parameter pp Collisions at Collider Energies
Harvey B. MEYER, Glueball Regge Trajectories and the Pomeron - A Lattice Study
Peter KROLL, Vector Meson Electroproduction at Small Bjorken x and Generalized Parton Distributions

16:10 - 16:40 Coffee break
16:40 - 19:10 New Results in QCD (2) and the Color Glass Condensate Approach (1)

Moderator: Oleg TERYAEV


16:40 - 19:10
New Results in QCD (2) and the Color Glass Condensate Approach

Henri KOWALSKI, Small-x and Diffractive Physics at HERA
Raju VENUGOPALAN, The Color Glass Condensate: an Effective Theory for High Energy QCD
Edmond IANCU, High-Energy QCD and Statistical Physics
Kazunori ITAKURA, Perturbative Odderon in the Color Glass Condensate
Hector DE VEGA, QCD Pomerons at Non-Zero Temperature
Jochen BARTELS, Diffraction and AGK Cutting Rules in pQCD

19:30 Dinner
20:30 General public conference at Palais des Congrès de Blois
Thursday May 19
09:00 - 11:00 Parallel Session 3

Moderator: Alan WHITE

Parallel Session 4

Moderator: Herbert FRIED


09:00 - 11:00
PARALLEL SESSION 3

Edmond IANCU, Pomeron Loops and Duality in QCD Evolution at High Energy
Victor FADIN, Kernel of the BFKL Equation for Non-Forward Scattering at NLO
Carlo EWERZ, The Odderon : Theoretical Status and Experimental Tests
Alexander MANASHOV, Spectrum of Multi-Reggeon Compound States in Large Nc QCD
Agustin SABIO VERA, Different aspects of BFKL at NLO
Gian Paolo VACCA, Reggeized Gluons, Bootstrap, Representations in the LLA of pQCD

09:00 - 11:00
PARALLEL SESSION 4

Petros ASLANYAN, Exotic Strange Multi-Quark Narrow Resonance Searches in pA Collisions at 10 GeV/c
Dieter SCHILDKNECHT, Low-x, Saturation, Vector Meson
Genis MUSULMANBEKOV, Nuclear Modification of the Structure of Bound Nucleons: EMC-Effect and Color Transparency Breaking
Gregory SOYEZ, Geometrical Scaling at Nonzero Momentum Transfer
Nikolai ZOTOV, Higgs Production via Gluon Fusion with kT Factorization
Cyrille MARQUET, Unitarity and Saturation in Large-Mass Diffraction at HERA

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 pp Elastic Scattering, Hard Diffraction and Color Glass Condensate Approach (2)

Moderator: Jean-René CUDELL


11:30 - 13:00
pp Elastic Scattering, Hard Diffraction and Color Glass Condensate Approach (2)

Gunar INGELMAN, Hard Diffraction - from Blois 1985 to 2005
Munir ISLAM, pp Elastic Scattering in Near Forward Direction and Nucleon Structure
Beatriz GAY DUCATI, Searching the Color Glass Condensate Through pT Suppression
Elena FERREIRO, Color Strings, Pomerons and CGC

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:40 Various Aspects of QCD, Polarization, Diffractive Higgs Production and Nuclear Shadowing

Moderator: Tai Tsun WU


14:30 - 16:40
Various Aspects of QCD, Polarization, Diffractive Higgs Production and Nuclear Shadowing

Michael G. ALBROW, QCD and Hard Diffraction at LHC
Alessandro BRAVAR, Spin Dependence in Polarized pp-pp and pC-pC Elastic Scattering in the CNI region from RHIC
Peter LANDSHOFF, Does the Hard Pomeron Factorize?
Alexei KAIDALOV, Nuclear Shadowing and Diffractive Processes
Alan MARTIN, Diffractive Higgs Production and Related Processes
Chung-I TAN, BFKL Gauge/String Duality and High Energy Scattering

16:40 - 17:10 Coffee break
17:10 - 19:10 Parallel Session 5

Moderator: Peter LANDSHOFF

Parallel Session 6

Moderator: Ian BALITSKY


17:10 - 18:50
PARALLEL SESSION 5

James RUSS, Double Charm Baryons in SELEX: Further Studies and Production Questions
Jean-Rene CUDELL, The Hard Pomeron Contribution to Hadronic Scattering
Evgenij MARTYNOV, Elastic Meson-Nucleon and Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering: the Models vs. All Available Data
Oleg SELYUGIN, A New Method for the Determination of the Real Part of the Hadron Elastic Amplitude at Small Angles and High Energies
Alexander DONNACHIE, Evidence for Quark Spin-Flip in Pomeron Exchange
Vojtech KUNDRAT, Coulomb and Hadronic Scattering in Elastic High-Energy Nucleon Collisions

17:10 - 19:10
PARALLEL SESSION 6

Rainer SCHICKER, The ALICE Detector at LHC
Alan WHITE, Sextet Quarks and the Pomeron at the LHC
Herbert FRIED, Quantum Tachyon Dynamics
Jacek WOSIEK, Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Quantum Mechanics in Various Dimensions
Firooz ARASH, Perturbative and Non-Perturbative Dressing in QCD and the Polarized and Unpolarized Hadron Structure
Mohammad FASSIHI, Confined Quantum Field Theory

20:00 Conference dinner at Château de Blois
Friday May 20
09:00 - 10:30 Diffraction (2) - Tevatron and HERA

Moderator: Kerstin BORRAS


09:00 - 10:30
Diffraction (2) - Tevatron and HERA

Konstantin GOULIANOS, Twenty Years of Diffraction at the Tevatron
Mikhail KAPISHIN, Inclusive Diffractive DIS at HERA
Yuji YAMAZAKI, Diffractive Dijet and D* Production at HERA
Mara SOARES, Leading Baryon Production at HERA

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Various Aspects of the Standard Model - Neutrino DIS, Quark-Gluon Plasma, Heavy-Ion Collisions

Moderator: Maurice HAGUENAUER


11:00 - 12:00
Various Aspects of the Standard Model
Neutrino DIS, Quark-Gluon Plasma, Heavy-Ion Collisions

Ivan SCHMIDT, Shadowing and Antishadowing in Neutrino Deep Inelastic Scattering
Cheuk-Yin WONG, Heavy Quarkonia in Quark-Gluon Plasma
Carlos A. SALGADO, Medium-Modified Jet Shapes in Heavy-Ion Collisions

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:30 Summary Talks

Moderator: Jean TRANH TAN VAN


13:00 - 14:30
Summary Talks

Michael RIJSSENBEEK, Summary Talk - Experiment
Stanley BRODSKY, Summary Talk - Theory

14:30 Transfer to the railroad station