Hirschegg 2005

Probing QCD with High Energy Nuclear Collisions

January 16 to 22, 2005


SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 2005

   17:00 - 22:00 Registration and Welcome Reception (cold cuts and beverages) at the Waldemar Petersen Haus

MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 2005

09:00 - 12:00Morning Session (chair: Jochen Wambach )
Michael Leitch (Los Alamos): 
Quarkonia production in p+p and p+A collisions
Hideki Hamagaki (Saitama): 
 J/psi  and open quark production at RHIC
B r e a k / R e f r e s h m e n t s
Carlos Lourenco (Geneva): 
Charmonia, open charm and dimuon production from NA60
Loic Grandchamp (Berkeley): 
Theoretical aspects of charmonium production in heavy-ion collisions

16:30 - 17:00 R e f r e s h m e n t s
17:00 - 19:00Afternoon Session (chair: Jörn Knoll)
Misha Stephanov (Chicago)
QCD critical point
Krzysztof Redlich (Wroclaw)
Critical and freezout conditions in QCD
Simon Hands (Swansea)
QCD phase diagram from lattice simulations
Paul Romatschke (Bielefeld)
High density QCD equation of state

TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2005

09:00 - 12:00Morning Session (chair: Jean Cleymans)
J. Stachel (Heidelberg): 
Hadron production and the QCD phase boundary
Karel Safarik (Geneve): 
System-size dependence, from pp and pA to heavy-ion collisions
B r e a k / R e f r e s h m e n t s
Christina Markert (Upton): 
Resonance production in heavy ion collisions
Peter Seyboth (Munich): 
Indications for the onset of deconfinement in Pb+Pb collisions at the SPS

16:30 - 17:00 R e f r e s h m e n t s
17:00 - 19:00Afternoon Session (chair: Reinhard Simon)
Markus Oldenburg (Berkeley)
Anisotropic flow at RHIC from the STAR experiment
Jovan Milosevic (Heidelberg)
Elliptic flow of  Lambda  particles in Pb+Au collisions at 158 GeV
Claudia Hoehne (Darmstadt)
System-size dependence of strangeness production, canonical strangeness suppression and percolation of strings
Christian Fuchs (Tuebingen)
Strange and charm resonances in hot pion matter

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2005

09:00 - 12:00Morning Session (chair: Thomas Peitzmann)
Peter Wurm (Heidelberg): 
Hard processes at the SPS
P. Levai (Budapest): 
Theory of jet quenching at RHIC
B r e a k / R e f r e s h m e n t s
David D'Enterria (New York): 
Jets and jet quenching in high energy nuclear collisions
Klaus Werner (Nantes): 
Particle production in pp and dAu collisions at RHIC

16:30 - 17:00 R e f r e s h m e n t s
17:00 - 19:10Afternoon Session (chair: Bengt Friman)
Michaela Oswald (Charlottesville)
Effective theory for QCD at high temperatures
Kenji Fukushima (Cambridge)
Heating (gapless) color-flavor locked quark matter
Kim Splittorff (Copenhagen)
Unquenched QCD Dirac operator spectra at nonzero baryon chemical potential
Zhe Xu (Frankfurt)
Thermalization of gluons at RHIC including gg<->ggg interactions in a parton cascade
Burkhard Kämpfer (Dresden)
Quasiparticle description of QCD matter at non-vanishing baryon density
   Evening 20:00h: Conference Dinner at Hotel Birkenhöhe

THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 2005

09:00 - 12:10Morning Session (chair: Dirk Rischke)
Peter Senger (Darmstadt): 
The compressed baryonic matter (CBM) experiment at FAIR
Marek Gazdzicki (Frankfurt): 
Search for the critical point - a possible future experimental program at the CERN SPS
B r e a k / R e f r e s h m e n t s
D. Teaney (Brookhaven): 
What is the mean free path at RHIC?
Nu Xu (Berkeley): 
Search for partonic equation of state in high-energy nuclear collisions

16:30 - 17:00 R e f r e s h m e n t s
17:00 - 19:00Afternoon Session (chair: Rob Pisarski)
Andre Peshier (Giessen)
Broad quasiparticles in hot QCD
Gergely Gabor Barnafoldi (Budapest)
Hadron production in  dAu  collision at RHIC energies
Helena Santos (Lisboa)
 J/psi  and  psi ' production in nucleus-nucleus collisions at the CERN/SPS (NA50 Experiment final results)
Hendrik van Hees (College Station)
Thermalization of heavy quarks in the quark-gluon plasma

FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2005

09:00 - 12:10Morning Session (chair: Peter Braun-Munzinger)
Ralf Rapp (College Station): 
Electromagnetic radiation in QCD and heavy-ion collisions
Harald Appelshäuser (Frankfurt): 
Dileptons at SPS
B r e a k / R e f r e s h m e n t s
Laura Fabbietti (Garching): 
e+/e- pairs production in C+C collisions at 2 AGeV
Klaus Reygers (Münster): 
Direct photons from SPS to RHIC

16:30 - 17:00 R e f r e s h m e n t s
17:00 - 19:10Afternoon Session (chair: Friedrich Beck)
Yasushi Nara (Frankfurt)
Toward a unified description of the space-time evolution at RHIC
Andreas Morsch (Geneva)
Jet physics with heavy ion collisions at the LHC
Rene Bellwied (Detroit)
The physics of RHIC in the LHC era
Philippe Crochet (Aubiere)
Dilepton physics with ALICE
   Evening 20:30h:"Glühwein"-Party

End of the workshop