We will hold the 2nd International Workshop on Forward Physics and Forward Calorimeter Upgrade in ALICE, from March 13 - 15, 2023, at University of Tsukuba, Japan. The following topics will be covered at this workshop. 

• Forward physics at high energy in pp, p-A, AA, e-p, e-A collisions
• Initial condition of high energy heavy ion collisions at LHC and RHIC
• Thermalization mechanism, strong fields
• Small-x physics, gluon PDF, saturation and Color Glass Condensate (CGC)
• Forward detector upgrade using Si-W calorimeter and hadron calorimeter at LHC, related detector technologies and upgrade project in other fields

This workshop will be held in-person, but some sessions will be also held in a hybrid mode. The tentative strucure of the workshop is as follows.

[ Day-1 (Mar. 13)] Forward physics and strong fields
[ Day-2 (Mar. 14)] FoCal detector and electronics
[ Day-3 (Mar. 15)] Future projects, Medical applications

Local Organizing Committee:

• Tatsuya Chujo (U. Tsukuba, chair)
• ShinIchi Esumi (U. Tsukuba)
• Abderrahmane Ghimouz (U. Tsukuba)
• Motoi Inaba (Tsukuba Tech.)
• Yasuo Miake (U. Tsukuba)
• Shingo Sakai (U. Tsukuba)

Supported by:

• University of Tsukuba, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences
• Tsukuba-Utrecht CiC (Campus in Campus), Quark Gluon Plasma Research Unit

Poster: PDF

Workshop photo: Link

Past events:

• 1st workshop (March 7-9, 2019, Univ. of Tsukuba)