QCD at Cosmic Energies - II
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The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays and QCD
September 26 -
30, 2005
Skopelos, Greece
Local
Org. Committee:
Apostolos Panagiotou (Univ. of
Athens)
Emmanuel Fokitis (National Technical
University of Athens)
International Org. Committee:
Yuri Dokshitzer (Paris-VI), Mark Strikman (Penn State Univ),
Gabriele Veneziano (CERN)
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Agenda:
The Workshop will build on the First Workshop held last
year in Erice and, once again, bring together experts in High
Energy QCD and Cosmic Ray Physics in view of expanding the
mutually
beneficial interface between experiments planning to explore forward
physics at LHC and highest energy cosmic ray experiments.
We plan several invited
lectures to improve mutual understanding and the
interaction between the fields
and several invited
talks, leaving ample time for more focused short
presentations and informal
discussions.
Remark: preceeding
Workshop in Greece that may interest you
"Electromagnetic
Interactions with Nucleons and Nuclei" (EINN 2005) in Milos (19 - 24 September)
Agenda: default format of
morning session talks 60 = 50 min (presentation) + 10 min questions
afternoon session talks 45 = 40 min + 5 min (unless marked [60])
Monday 26 morning
Venya Berezinsky
UHECR: is
there still place for UHE QCD?
Sergey Ostapchenko Hadronic MC
generators for colliders and cosmic rays
Edmond
Iancu
From
High-Energy QCD to Statistical Physics ... and back
Monday 26 afternoon
Daniele Treleani
Soft-hard
interplay in high energy proton-nucleus collisions
Hajo Drescher
Modeling cosmic
ray interactions near GZK
Hector DeVega
Dark matter
annihilation as source of 511 keV gammas from the galactic center
Tuesday 27 morning
Hector DeVega Acceleration
Mechanisms for Cosmic Rays and the Astrophysical Sources
Etienne Parizot
The Pierre
Auger Observatory: first steps towards charged-particle astronomy
Peter Meszaros
Gamma-Ray Bursts:
Recent results and High Energy perspectives
Tuesday 27 afternoon
Cliff
Burgess
[60]
Lorentz
violation and its potential relevance to very high energy phenomena
Paul Sommers [60]
Overview
of Auger experiment
Kasahara
Katsuaki LHCf:
Measurement of photons and neutrons in the very forward region at the LHC
Wednesday 28 free for
excursion ( if the weather/seas cooperate )
Thursday 29 morning
Mark Strikman
Transverse
structure of the nucleon and onset of black limit
Jianwei Qiu
Proton -
nucleus potential of LHC
Spyros Tzamarias
Underwater
neutrino telescopy
Thursday 29 afternoon
Boris
Blok
Critical QCD
phenomena in small x physics in vicinity of the black disk limit
Larissa Bravina
Gluonic Shadowing
and Nuclear Modification Factor
Lyudmila Sarytcheva
On
alignment in jet events
Jim Whitmore
TBA
Friday 30 morning
Karsten Eggert
Forward
Physics with TOTEM
Albert De Roeck
Forward
physics with CMS
Hannes Jung
ep interactions
at HERA energies and beyond: modeling higher orders and the problem of
NLO
Friday 30 afternoon
Sebastian
White [60] Probing QCD in
ultraperipheral collisions at LHC
Panagiotis Katsas
Strangelet hunt
at CMS
Evgeny Zabrodin
Collective flow
and freeze-out in relativistic heavy ion collisions
ROUND TABLE / DISCUSSION
PARTICIPANTS
1. Valentina Avati
<Valentina.Avati@cern.ch>
2. Venya Berezinsky
<venya.berezinsky@lngs.infn.it>
3. Boris Block
<blok@physics.technion.ac.il>
4. Larissa Bravina
<larissa.bravina@fys.uio.no>
5. Cliff Burgess
<cburgess@perimeterinstitute.ca>
6. Albert De Roeck
<deroeck@mail.cern.ch>
7. Hajo Drescher
<drescher@th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de>
8. Karl Eggert
<karsten.eggert@cern.ch>
9. Jan
Ridky
<ridky@fzu.cz>
10. Edmond Iancu
<iancu@dsm-mail.saclay.cea.fr>
11. Hannes Jung
<jung@mail.desy.de>
12. Peter Meszaros
<nnp@astro.psu.edu>
13. Sergey Ostapchenko <serguei.ostaptchenko@ik.fzk.de>
14. Etienne Parizot
<parizot@ipno.in2p3.fr>
15. Jianwei Qiu
<jwq@iastate.edu>
16. Paul Sommers
<sommers@physics.utah.edu>
17. Daniele Treleani
<daniel@ts.infn.it>
18. Sebastian White
<swhite@bnl.gov>
19. Katsuaki Kasahara
<kasahara@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
20. Panos Katsas
21. Eli Piasetzky
<eip@tauphy.tau.ac.il>
22. Jim Whitmore
<jjw@phys.psu.edu>
23. Evgeny Zabrodin
<eugen.zabrodin@fys.uio.no>
24. Apostolos Panagiotou <apanagio@phys.uoa.gr>
25. Mark Strikman
<strikman@phys.psu.edu>
26. Yuri Dokshitzer
<yuri@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
Gabriele Veneziano
<Gabriele.Veneziano@cern.ch>
Information
The
Workshop starts on Monday September 26 and ends on Friday September
30. One day will be free for excursion.
You are expected to
arrive in Skopelos on Sunday
September 25 and to leave on Saturday
October 1.
Workshop Fees
The overall fees contribution was
estimated at 500 Euros
(NB: the next-to-leading order estimate is rather 535 Euros).
This covers: room in the hotel "Prince Stafylos" and half board
(breakfast and lunch), two coffee breaks/day, local
transportation and facilities, excursion and party.
Please note that the cost of transportation from Athens aeroport
to Skopelos (bus + Flying Dolphine) is
not included (see below for the
ticket prices).
Payment
should be made to the Secretariat at registration on the site,
only
in CASH.
Please, note that the Secretariat cannot accept credit cards or checks
for
payment of the registration fee and the bus
tickets. Have cash
with you!
There are many major Greek banks on the island."
Accomodation
The accommodation for
participants will be provided by the hotel "Prince
Stafylos".
Please book your room DIRECTLY with
the hotel stating the name of our workshop "COSMIC QCD II" .
You can do it via internet using the Hotel booking page.
Meals
Breakfast and
lunch will be given at the
hotel and are include in the fee.
Evening dinners (not included
in the fee) are open to participants' choice at the numerous tavernas
of Skopelos.
Coffee, tea and cookies will be available at coffee
breaks in the morning and afternoon.
Local
Transportation
A mini-bus will be available daily for small trips
of accompanying persons.
Taxis and cars/motorbikes for rent are
available.
The
information concerning your arrival and departure
should
be provided in advance to the
Secretariat.
How to reach
SKOPELOS and the Workshop venue
The Symposium will
take place on the island of Skopelos
in
Greece.
The island is located about 300 km north of Athens in the
Aegean sea.
There are two main ways to get to
Skopelos:
1. Via
Athens:
a) From Athens "E. Venizelos" international airport by
airplane to SKIATHOS island and then
by
"Flying Dolphin" to Skopelos (~ 8 Euro).
b) From Athens airport by bus to
Aghios Konstantinos port (~ 2 hours) and then
by "Flying Dolphin" to Skopelos (~ 2.5 hours).
To help participants who chose this option, bus transportation
will be arranged from
the airport to the port (bus ticket price = adults ~ 26
Euro).
2.
Direct international flights to Skiathos by several airlines from a
number of airports in Europe, then
by "Flying
Dolphin" to Skopelos.
The detailed "Flying Dolphin" schedules will be posted when
available.
Dates:
Arrival:
Sunday, 25
September, 2005
Departure: Saturday, 1
October, 2005
Those arriving at the
Athens "E. Venizelos" airport, will board the Conference Bus.
At the customs exit after baggage pickup, go to "EXIT A"
and look for a person holding a sign:
"COSMIC QCD II -
SKOPELOS SYMPOSIUM"
You will be guided to the conference bus outside.
Please, arrange your arrival
flight to Athens or Skiathos as early in the day as
possible,
but not later
than 15:00
for Athens and 20:00
for Skiathos
airports.
Make sure you
arrive AND check out of
customs at the Athens airport by 16:00 the latest.
The bus to Aghios Konstantinos port leaves promptly at 16:00 to meet the "FD" (Flying
Dolphin) for Skopelos.
Arrival emergency cell phones:
those of you who are supposed to arrive to Athens to catch the
Conference Bus at 16:00
but get into trouble because of flight delay please call
Apostolos (+30) 69 77 42 60 10
or his student Panos (+30) 69 72 29 02 53
Also, please, arrange your departure flight from Athens as late in the day as
possible and not earlier
than 14:00.
NB: The
shedule of the FDs and FCatamarans are not known yet for the period
past 18/9.
For the time being, we work on last years schedule. According to this,
there is an:
- FC on Friday 30/9 at 16:20 from
Skopelos to Ag. Kon/nos, arriving in
Athens ~ 21:30,
- FC on Saturday 1/10 at 07:20 from Skopelos to Ag. Kon/nos, arriving
in Athens ~ 12:30.
The updated schedule will be published in early September.
For
direct flights to Skiathos consult the following websites:
http://flightresource.co.uk/cf/cheap-flights-to-skiathos.html
http://www.xl.com/default.asp
www.openjet.com www.unijetflights.com
www.flightresource.co.uk
www.thomsonflights.com
More transportation options will be posted on
this webpage. Please, check it before booking your tickets.
Sightseeing
in Skopelos
ATTRACTIONS and SOCIAL EVENTS
Skopelos is an
Aegean island situated in the central-northwest Aegean, east of Pelion
and north of Evia. It has 67km of rich rugged coastline, being 17km
long and 8km wide. The population is approximately 5.700
native Skopelitans
and is the second largest island in the Northern Sporades (Skiathos,
Skopelos, Alonnisos and Skyros). Skopelos is the greenest island in
Greece: more
than 50% of its area is covered by a virgin forest of
pine-trees. Here, where the green of the pine-trees and
the dense forest mix with the deep blue of sea and sky, creating the
picture of unrivalled nature beauty, you will find yourself in an
idyllic land, in a small paradise in the very heart of Greece. Because the
island of Skopelos is defined by lush green forest and the blue of the
sea the International Organization of Biopolitics, on July the 5th
1997, officially proclaimed it "Green
and Blue
Island".
The island has a number of very interesting old
monasteries and a large number of old churches to be visited. The main
village, Chora-Skopelos, is particularly picturesque with its narrow
streets, "kalnterimi", and characteristic architecture. There are also
many good quality shops, restaurants and cafees.
Skopelos has also
some interesting archaeological sites. Other attractions are the many
beautiful beaches for swimming close to the hotel.
A mini-buss will be available daily for
small trips of accompanying persons.
Depending on weather conditions, there will be a day-long (12-hour)
excursion by boat to the well known "Marine Park of Alonissos", the
natural habitat of the Mediterranean seals "Monachus-Monachus" and the Aegean
dolphins.
The excursion also
includes a visit to a renovated old village, to a Byzantine
Monastery and to an ancient sunken city, as well as lots of swimming
at deserted beaches.
There
will be a welcome buffet on arrival evening, Sunday 25 September,
starting at about 21:30.
The Symposium banquet will feature
folk-dancing by the Dansing Group of the Cultural Syllogos of Glossa,
Skopelos.
Facilities
Video and overhead projectors;
basic
stationary, fax and photocopy services;
computers and
printers, e-mail service (16 ports)
Poetic Touch
The island was
inhabited probably in the Neolithic period. Its ancient name was
Peparethos and is mentioned by the pre-Hellenic people of Asia Minor
who settled in the Aegean region in the period 2800 - 2000 BC. This
name is mentioned likewise by Thoukydides.
Around 1600 BC
Cretans
whose leader was the mythical king Staphylos, son of Theseus and
Ariadne, settled the island. As tradition reminds us,
Theseus, son of Aegeas
king of Athens, was sent with 7 young boys and 7 young girls to the
Cretan king Minos, as a duty demanded by Athens, intended to be
offered as sacrifice to the Minotaur (a strange creation of mythology,
half man, half bull) who lived in the labyrinth underneath the palace
of Knosos in Crete. There, Theseus became acquainted with Ariadne,
Minos' daughter. Ariadne fell in love with him and helped him, giving
him a ball of wool, to escape from the labyrinth and to
survive. Theseus found the exit, kidnapped Ariadne and left Crete. But
on the island of Naxos he abandoned Ariadne who in her loneliness
discovered the God Dionisos who in his turn fell in love with the girl
and took her to Lemnos. In Lemnos Ariadne and Dionisos had four sons,
Thoantas, Oinopionas, Staphylos and Peparithos. Peparithos was the
first to settle on the island of Skopelos. Until today his name
survives in this place full of olive trees and pine forests.
At
the end of Staphylos bay there is a peninsula. At the tip of this
peninsula the tomb of King Staphylos was discovered containing his
sword and many other artifacts, representing some of the most
important finds of workmanship from the Mycenian and Minoan
period. The sword handle is covered in gold, a precious sword for a
precious king Staphylos.
Conference secretary
Phone : + 30 - 210 - 7276881 / 7276959 / 7723014
Fax : + 30 - 210 - 7276987
E-mail : cosmicqcd@phys.uoa.gr
http://www.lpthe.jussiue.fr/Skopelos
Yuri Dokshitzer
Last modified: Wed Sept 14 17:57:10 CEST 2005