Name: EMMI Workshop: Light-ion collisions 2026
Start: 2026-09-21T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-25T14:00:00+02:00
Location: Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik (KIP)

EMMI Workshop: Light-ion collisions 2026

von Montag, 21. September 2026(08:00) bis Freitag, 25. September 2026(14:00)

Montag, 21. September 2026

08:00 Registration

08:00 - 08:45
Room: HS2
08:45 Overviews: 1/3
1/3
08:45 - 10:15
Room: HS2
Beiträge

08:45 EMMI Workshop Introduction - Aleksas Mazeliauskas (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg) Alexander Tichai (Technische Universitaet Darmstadt) Andrea Dubla (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH(GSI)) Federica Capellino (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH(GSI)) Giuliano Giacalone (CERN) Reyes Alemany Fernandez (CERN) Wilke van der Schee (CERN)

09:00 CERN Accelerator Complex - Maciej Slupecki (CERN)

09:25 The Standard Model of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions - Jean-Francois Paquet (Vanderbilt University)

09:50 Nuclear Structure in High Energy Nuclear Collisions - Thomas Duguet (CEA/Saclay)
10:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 - 10:45
Room: HS2
10:45 Overviews: 2/3
2/3
10:45 - 12:00
Room: HS2
Beiträge

10:45 ALICE LIC Overview - Romain Schotter (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

11:10 ATLAS LIC Overview - Tomasz Bold (AGH Krakow)

11:35 CMS LIC Overview - Subash Chandra Behrera (INFN-Sezione di Roma I)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
Room: HS2
13:30 Overviews: 3/3
3/3
13:30 - 14:45
Room: HS2
Beiträge

13:30 LHCb LIC Overview - Chiara Lucarelli (CERN)

13:55 Overview of Experimental Results from STAR in Light-Ion Collision Systems - Sijie Zhang (Yale University)

14:20 The sPHENIX physics program in O+O collisions at RHIC - Rosi Reed (Lehigh University)
14:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
14:45 - 15:15
Room: HS2
15:15 Collective Flow: 1/2 + Femtoscopy
1/2 + Femtoscopy
15:15 - 16:15
Room: HS2
Beiträge

15:15 Proton femtoscopic source in light ion collisions with the ALICE experiment - NEELIMA AGRAWAL (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

15:30 Femtoscopic signatures of unique nuclear structures in light-ion collisions - Daniel Kincses (Eotvos University)

15:45 Higher-Order Cumulants of Mean Transverse Momentum and Harmonic Flow in Heavy- and Light-Ion Collisions - Tribhuban Parida (AGH University of Krakow)

16:00 An investigation of radial collectivity in Oxygen+Oxygen collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}} = 5.36$ TeV via the $v_{0}(p_{\rm T})$ observable - Rohit Agarwala (Bodoland University, IN)
16:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:15 - 16:45
Room: HS2
16:45 Discussion: Centrality determination across theory and experiment
Centrality determination across theory and experiment
16:45 - 18:00
Room: HS2
Beiträge

16:45 Unified wounded-parton description of multiplicity distributions in light and heavy ion collisions - Rupam Samanta (Institute of Nuclear Physics (IFJ, PAN), Poland)

17:00 A 3D Hydrodynamic Assessment of Centrality Definitions and Initial-State Estimators in Light-Ion Collisions - Andreas Kirchner (Duke University)

17:15 Centrality Determination in Experiments
18:15 Reception

18:15 - 20:15
Room: HS2
Dienstag, 22. September 2026
09:00 Hard Probes: 1/3
1/3
09:00 - 10:25
Room: HS2
Beiträge

09:00 Jet and Heavy Flavor Quenching Overview - Daniel Pablos (Universidad de Oviedo)

09:25 Jet production in O+O collisions with the sPHENIX detector - JAEBEOM PARK

09:40 Unified jet-medium treatment in light ions and their azimuthal anisotropies - Kevin P. Pala (Universidade de São Paulo)

09:55 Evolution of Parton Energy Loss Across Collision Systems: Insights from the DREENA Framework - Bithika Karmakar (Czech Technical University in Prague)

10:10 Looking for the Small Size Limit of Energy Loss at the LHC - Riccardo Longo (University and INFN Torino)
10:25 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:25 - 11:00
Room: HS2
11:00 Hard Probes: 2/3
2/3
11:00 - 12:00
Room: HS2
Beiträge

11:00 nPDF fits within the nCTEQ framework - Katrin Greve (Universität Münster)

11:15 Cold nuclear matter baselines for jet quenching searches in light-ion collisions - Florian Jonas (CERN)

11:30 Evidence for Parton Energy Loss in Oxygen–Oxygen Collisions with ALICE - Nicolas Strangmann (Goethe University Frankfurt)

11:45 From Lead to Helium: Partonic Energy Loss in Very Light Ion Collisions - Coleridge Faraday (University of Cape Town)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
Room: HS2
13:30 Heavy Flavour
13:30 - 14:40
Room: HS2
Beiträge

13:30 Heavy Flavour Collectivity Overview - Maria Lucia Sambataro (Università di Catania - LNS (INFN))

13:55 Probing deconfinement and related phenomena from small to large systems with $\Upsilon$~meson measurements with the CMS experiment - Georgios Krintiras (The University of Kansas (US))

14:10 Search for onset of QGP signatures from fixed-target to light-ion collisions with the LHCb detector - Carlos Vázquez Sierra (A Coruña)

14:25 Langevin versus hydrodynamic transport of charm quarks in oxygen–oxygen collisions - Ruwen Schulz (Heidelberg Graduate School fP(HGSFP))
14:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
14:40 - 15:10
Room: HS2
15:10 Hard Probes: 3/3
3/3
15:10 - 16:10
Room: HS2
Beiträge

15:10 Investigating the onset and path-length dependence of energy loss with hard probes in light ions at ATLAS - Anne Sickles (University of Illinois)

15:25 Colour decoherence as a probe of medium effects in small systems - Chiara Le Roux (Wits University)

15:40 Early-Stage Jet Quenching - ismail soudi (Universitat Bielefeld)

15:55 Unambiguously Detecting Hard Scattering of Jet Partons off QGP Quasiparticles using Jet Substructure Measurements in Oxygen Collisions - Arjun Kudinoor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
16:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:10 - 16:40
Room: HS2

16:40 Discussion: What do we learn from the system-size dependence of hard probes? Which observables are most informative?
What do we learn from the system-size dependence of hard probes? Which observables are most informative?
16:40 - 17:40
Room: HS2
Mittwoch, 23. September 2026
09:00 Nuclear Theory: 1/2
1/2
09:00 - 10:30
Room: HS2
Beiträge

09:00 Nuclear forces from QCD - Evgeny Epelbaum

09:25 Towards calibrating chiral interactions across energy scales - Andreas Ekström (Chalmers University of Technology)

09:50 Bayesian analysis in heavy-ion collisions - Govert Nijs

10:15 Constraining nuclear dynamics from ultrarelativistic collisions - Matthew Luzum (University of São Paulo)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: HS2
11:00 Collective Flow: 2/2
2/2
11:00 - 12:00
Room: HS2
Beiträge

11:00 Probing the initial geometry and the onset of collectivity with anisotropic flow in light-ion collisions at LHC-ALICE - Alexian Lejeune (Czech Technical University in Prague (CZ))

11:15 Collective Flow and Soft-QCD Observables in Light-Ion Collisions with ATLAS - Soumya Mohapatra (Columbia University)

11:30 Engineering QGP Droplets and Imaging Light-Nucleus Structure with STAR Light-Ion Collisions - Chunjian Zhang (Fudan University)

11:45 Mapping the longitudinal structure of collective dynamics in O+O and Ne+Ne collisions at the LHC - Jie Zhu (Bielefeld University)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30
Room: HS2
13:30 Nuclear Theory: 2/2
2/2
13:30 - 14:40
Room: HS2
Beiträge

13:30 Ab initio nuclear theory: status and roadmap - Gaute Hagen (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

13:55 Quantum Monte Carlo with Neural Quantum States - Bryce Fore (Argonne National Laboratory)

14:10 ab initio light nuclear structure and reaction cross sections - Shihang Shen

14:25 Operator-Level Nuclear Structure Constraints from STAR Isobar Data - João Paulo Picchetti (Universidade de São Paulo (USP))
14:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
14:40 - 15:10
Room: HS2
15:10 0νββ Decay
15:10 - 16:30
Room: HS2
Beiträge

15:10 0νββ decay - BSM aspects and NME dilemma - Jordy de Vries (KVI)

15:35 0νββ decay - Status of NME and connection to high-energy collisions - Benjamin Bally

16:00 LEGEND - Status and prospects - Susanne Mertens (Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik)

16:15 Microscopic nuclear structure calculations for 76Ge/76Se isobar collisions - Dorian Frycz (University of Barcelona, ICCUB)
16:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00
Room: HS2

17:00 Discussion: Nuclear structure in heavy-ion collisions – What is the deal?
Nuclear structure in heavy-ion collisions – What is the deal?
17:00 - 18:00
Room: HS2
Donnerstag, 24. September 2026
09:00 Neutron Skin, EOS
09:00 - 10:20
Room: HS2
Beiträge

09:00 QCD phase diagram with heavy and light ion collisions and connection to neutron stars - Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

09:25 From neutron skins to neutron stars - Charles Horowitz (Indiana University)

09:50 PUMA - status and prospects - Alexandre Obertelli (TU Darmstadt)

10:05 Probing 48Ca neutron skin measurement capabilities at the LHC - Maxim Virta (Niels Bohr Institute)
10:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:50
Room: HS2
10:50 Initial State Physics
10:50 - 12:05
Room: HS2
Beiträge

10:50 Probing light nuclear structure and gluon saturation in ultra-peripheral collisions - Hendrik Roch (University of Jyväskylä)

11:05 Vector meson photoproduction as a probe of nuclear structure at the LHC - Olga Bessidskaia Bylund (Universite Paris-Saclay, IJCLab, CNRS)

11:20 Synergies with UPC/saturation programs - Austin Baty (University of Illinois Chicago)

11:35 Initial momentum anisotropies in the kT-factorisation of the CGC - Oscar Garcia-Montero (IGFAE,Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)

11:50 Event-by-event fluctuations of the elliptic flow in O+O collisions - Renata Krupczak (University Bielefeld)
12:05 Lunch
Lunch
12:05 - 13:30
Room: HS2
13:30 Pre-equilibrium dynamics: Thermalization / Kinetic Theory
Thermalization / Kinetic Theory
13:30 - 14:55
Room: HS2
Beiträge

13:30 Thermaization across system sizes - Soeren Schlichting (Universität Bielefeld)

13:55 Investigating Collective Behavior in He-He Collisions with CoMBolt-RTA, a Massive Quasiparticle Kinetic Theory Model - Seyed Farid Taghavi (Technical University of Munich)

14:10 Anisotropic Flows and Universal Collective Response in Ion Collisions in Relativistic Boltzmann Transport - Vincenzo Nugara (INFN - LNS)

14:25 Collective effects in O-O and Ne-Ne collisions at 5.36 TeV from a hybrid approach - Lucas Constantin (Goethe-University Frankfurt)

14:40 The smallest QGP droplet from QCD Kinetic Theory - Ferdinando Frascà (Heidelberg University)
14:55 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
14:55 - 15:25
Room: HS2
15:25 Pre-equilibrium dynamics: Cold Atoms / Kinetic Theory
Cold Atoms / Kinetic Theory
15:25 - 16:35
Room: HS2
Beiträge

15:25 Single-atom-resolved images of quantum gases - Martin Zwierlein (MIT)

15:50 Exploring Collectivity in Few-body Systems with Density Functional Theory - Uri Sharell (Institute for theoretical physics Heidelberg) Toshali mitra (ITP, University of Heidelberg)

16:05 Anisotropic flow in O+O and Ne+Ne collisions from kinetic theory and hydrodynamics - Clemens Werthmann (Ghent University)

16:20 Relaxation of initial azimuthal anisotropies in the pre-equilibrium stage - Sergio Barrera Cabodevila (Heidelberg University)
16:35 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:35 - 17:05
Room: HS2
17:05 Polarization
17:05 - 18:20
Room: HS2
Beiträge

17:05 Polarization overview - Eduardo Grossi (IPhT Sacley)

17:30 Probing the Quark-Gluon Plasma with Spin Correlations - Enrico Speranza (University of Florence)

17:45 Predictions for hyperon polarization in OO collisions from Trajectum - Raul Wolters (Utrecht University)

18:00 Spin polarization from heavy ions to O-O collisions - Francesco Palli (University of Florence & INFN)
20:15 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
20:15 - 23:15
Freitag, 25. September 2026
09:00 Future programs and facilities
09:00 - 10:15
Room: HS2
Beiträge

09:00 Gearing up for GSI/FAIR: State-of-the-art simulations of dense baryonic matter - Hannah Elfner (Goethe-University Frankfurt)

09:25 Synergies with HIE-ISOLDE - Nico Orce (University of the Western Cape)

09:45 SPS LIC program - Maja Mackowiak-Pawlowska (Warsaw University of Technology)

10:00 Synergies with Cosmic Rays - Thomas Pöschl (University of Freiburg)
10:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 - 10:45
Room: HS2
10:45 Discussion: Future of light ions at the LHC
Future of light ions at the LHC
10:45 - 12:30
Room: HS2
Beiträge

10:45 The case for a second ion injector @ HL-LHC: the ATLAS perspective - Monica Dunford (Heidelberg University)

11:00 Workshop Summary

11:15 New Ion Collisions @ LHC Run 4 - Giuliano Giacalone (ITP Heidelberg) Reyes Alemany Fernandez (CERN)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: HS2