The Hadronic Interaction Workshop

18 Mar 2025, 12:00 → 20 Mar 2025, 17:20 Asia/Shanghai

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

The Central China Normal University (CCNU) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) are jointly organising the Hadronic Interaction Workshop during March 18-20, 2025. 

The workshop will be hosted at CUHK, Hong Kong China, and the meeting venue is the Yasumoto International Academic Park (YIA) LT2 in the campus.

The on-site registration date is March 18th, and the scientific meeting is March 19-20, 2025 

 

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Tuesday, 18 March

14:00 → 17:00 On-site registration

Wednesday, 19 March

08:50 → 09:00 Welcome

09:00 → 09:45 Measurement of Hadronic Cross Sections for Proton and Nuclei in Space with the DAMPE Experiment

Speaker: Yifeng Wei 魏逸丰 (University of Science and Technology of China)

09:45 → 10:30 Status and Prospects of the LHCf experiment

Precise knowledge of high energy hadronic interaction is an important key to understand air shower development. The LHCf experiment measures neutral particles such as photons, neutral pions, and neutrons, produced in the very forward region of LHC collisions, which contribute to the air shower development. Since the LHC start, LHCf performed many operations with pp collisions at several collision energies from 0.9 to 13.6 TeV and pPb. In addition, we will have an operation with proton-oxygen collisions scheduled in this July.
In this talk, we will present the results and prospects from the obtained data the as well as for proton-oxygen collision data.

Speaker: Hiroaki Menjo (Nagoya University)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:45 EPOS: a comprehensive MC for high-energy collisions from pp, pA to AA

Speaker: Klaus Werner

11:45 → 12:30 Forward Hadron Productions in proton-nucleus collisions at NLO

Speaker: Bowen Xiao

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 14:45 Forward particle production in pA collisions

Speaker: Xiaohui Liu

14:45 → 15:30 Parton Shower Algorithm Incorporating Saturation Effects

Speaker: Jian Zhou

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 16:45 HIJING: a MC model for particle and jet production in pp, pA and AA collisions

Speaker: Wei-tian Deng

16:45 → 17:30 Hadrons from a Multi-Phase Transport Model

TBD

Speaker: Zi-Wei Lin (East Carolina University)

18:00 → 21:00 Conference Dinner

Thursday, 20 March

09:00 → 09:45 Dai-mei Zhou- A Brief Introduction to PACIAE 4.0

Speaker: Dai-mei Zhou

09:45 → 10:30 EPOS Updates

Speaker: Tanguy Pierog

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:15 Investigation of hadronic interaction models through muon content analysis in EAS with the LHAASO-KM2A

This study investigates hadronic interaction models through a detailed analysis of muon content in extensive air showers (EAS) using the LHAASO-KM2A detector. The primary objective is to evaluate the consistency of muon production predictions from three hadronic interaction models (EPOS-LHC, QGSJET-II-04, and SIBYLL 2.3d) and spectral models (Gaisser H3a, Horandel, GSF, and LHAASO spectrum) against experimental data. Data collected between August 2021 and December 2023 from the full LHAASO-KM2A array are analyzed, covering cosmic ray energies from 300 TeV to 30 PeV. Key measurements include the muon content, its lateral distribution, relative fluctuations, and attenuation length. Comparisons between MC predictions and data highlight discrepancies in existing models, particularly in their treatment of muon production at ultra-high energies. These findings underscore the necessity of refining hadronic interaction models to better align with experimental observations, thereby enhancing the accuracy of cosmic ray composition studies and EAS simulations. This work contributes to resolving long-standing challenges in high-energy astrophysics, and validates LHAASO-KM2A’s capabilities in advancing our understanding of cosmic ray interactions.

Speaker: Xiaoting Feng (Shandong University)

11:15 → 11:30 Preliminary results of using LHAASO to test high-energy hadron interaction models

The LHAASO experiment can measure muons and parameters related to the shower maximum in an extensive air shower. These parameters depend on the assumptions of the hadronic interaction model. This study uses parameters measured by LHAASO experiment to test hadronic interaction models. We will present the preliminary results of the testing of the EPOS-LHC and QGSJETII-04 models using the LHAASO experiment.

Speaker: Zhiyong You 游智勇

11:30 → 12:00 Concluding Remarks

14:00 → 17:00 Free discussion