Electron Ion Collider: The Next QCD Frontier - Understanding the glue that binds us all
Abstract
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.
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@article{arxiv.1212.1701,
title = {Electron Ion Collider: The Next QCD Frontier - Understanding the glue that binds us all},
author = {A. Accardi and J. L. Albacete and M. Anselmino and N. Armesto and E. C. Aschenauer and A. Bacchetta and D. Boer and W. K. Brooks and T. Burton and N. -B. Chang and W. -T. Deng and A. Deshpande and M. Diehl and A. Dumitru and R. Dupré and R. Ent and S. Fazio and H. Gao and V. Guzey and H. Hakobyan and Y. Hao and D. Hasch and R. Holt and T. Horn and M. Huang and A. Hutton and C. Hyde and J. Jalilian-Marian and S. Klein and B. Kopeliovich and Y. Kovchegov and K. Kumar and K. Kumerički and M. A. C. Lamont and T. Lappi and J. -H. Lee and Y. Lee and E. M. Levin and F. -L. Lin and V. Litvinenko and T. W. Ludlam and C. Marquet and Z. -E. Meziani and R. McKeown and A. Metz and R. Milner and V. S. Morozov and A. H. Mueller and B. Müller and D. Müller and P. Nadel-Turonski and H. Paukkunen and A. Prokudin and V. Ptitsyn and X. Qian and J. -W. Qiu and M. Ramsey-Musolf and T. Roser and F. Sabatié and R. Sassot and G. Schnell and P. Schweitzer and E. Sichtermann and M. Stratmann and M. Strikman and M. Sullivan and S. Taneja and T. Toll and D. Trbojevic and T. Ullrich and R. Venugopalan and S. Vigdor and W. Vogelsang and C. Weiss and B. -W. Xiao and F. Yuan and Y. -H. Zhang and L. Zheng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.1701},
year = {2014}
}
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The Second Edition, 164 pages