Physics Opportunities with Meson Beams for EIC
Abstract
Over the past two decades, meson photo- and electroproduction data of unprecedented quality and quantity have been measured at electromagnetic facilities worldwide. By contrast, the meson-beam data for the same hadronic final states are mostly outdated and largely of poor quality, or even non-existent, and thus provide inadequate input to help interpret, analyze, and exploit the full potential of the new electromagnetic data. To reap the full benefit of the high-precision electromagnetic data, new high-statistics data from measurements with meson beams, with good angle and energy coverage for a wide range of reactions, are critically needed to advance our knowledge in baryon and meson spectroscopy and other related areas of hadron physics. To address this situation, a state-of-the-art meson-beam facility needs to be constructed. The present letter summarizes unresolved issues in hadron physics and outlines the vast opportunities and advances that only become possible with such a facility.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2108.07591,
title = {Physics Opportunities with Meson Beams for EIC},
author = {William J. Briscoe and Michael Doring and Helmut Haberzettl and D. Mark Manley and Megumi Naruki and Greg Smith and Igor Strakovsky and Eric S. Swanson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.07591},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
7 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1503.07763. That is extension vs published version in EPJA51, 129 (2015)