Monday, December 10, 2012

1212.1701 (Abhay Deshpande et al.)

Electron Ion Collider: The Next QCD Frontier - Understanding the glue
that binds us all
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Abhay Deshpande, Zein-Eddine Meziani, Jian-Wei Qiu, Robert McKeown, Steven Vigdor, Elke C. Aschenauer, William Brooks, Markus Diehl, Rolf Ent, Haiyan Gao, Roy Holt, Thomas Ludlam, Tanja Horn, Andrew Hutton, Yuri Kovchegov, Krishna Kumar, Alfred H. Mueller, Michael Ramsey-Musolf, Thomas Roser, Franck Sabatie, Ernst Sichtermann, Thomas Ullrich, Werner Vogelsang, Feng Yuan
This White Paper presents the science case of an Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), focused on the structure and interactions of gluon-dominated matter, with the intent to articulate it to the broader nuclear science community. It was commissioned by the managements of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) with the objective of presenting a summary of scientific opportunities and goals of the EIC as a follow-up to the 2007 NSAC Long Range plan. This document is a culmination of a community-wide effort in nuclear science following a series of workshops on EIC physics and, in particular, the focused ten-week program on "Gluons and quark sea at high energies" at the Institute for Nuclear Theory in Fall 2010. It contains a brief description of a few golden physics measurements along with accelerator and detector concepts required to achieve them, and it benefited from inputs from the users' communities of BNL and JLab. This White Paper offers the promise to propel the QCD science program in the U.S., established with the CEBAF accelerator at JLab and the RHIC collider at BNL, to the next QCD frontier.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1701

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