Precision QCD with the Electron-Ion Collider
Abstract
This document summarizes the discussions at the program "Precision QCD with the Electron Ion Collider", held from May to June 2025 at the Institute for Nuclear Theory (INT) at the University of Washington. The program was co-sponsored by the INT and by the Center for Frontiers in Nuclear Science (CFNS, Stony Brook University). Over its five-week duration it brought together about 70 theorists, experimentalists and computer scientists all interested in the physics program at the future Electron Ion Collider in preparation at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Key topics at the program were: higher-order perturbative-QCD calculations and techniques; nuclear structure and tomography; comparisons of phenomenological and lattice determinations of parton distribution functions; identification of signature observables for saturated gluons; assessment of the importance of AI techniques for EIC studies and detector development.
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@article{arxiv.2604.04765,
title = {Precision QCD with the Electron-Ion Collider},
author = {C. Alexandrou and M. Arratia and E. C. Aschenauer and A. Avkhadiev and P. V. Balachandran and V. Bertone and I. Borsa and M. Cerutti and X. Chu and W. Cosyn and D. de Florian and A. Dumitru and M. Engelhardt and R. Fatemi and S. Forte and Y. Fu and L. Gamberg and H. Gao and T. Gehrmann and A. Gehrmann-De Ridder and Y. Go and Y. Guo and Y. Hatta and J. Haug and T. J. Hobbs and T. Horn and E. Iancu and J. Jalilian-Marian and Z. B. Kang and M. Klasen and Y. V. Kovchegov and B. Kriesten and J. G. Lajoie and W. Li and X. Li and Y. Li and H. -W. Lin and M. X. Liu and S. Liuti and C. Marquet and P. Meinzinger and W. Melnitchouk and S. Moch and P. Nadel-Turonski and P. Nadolsky and M. Neubert and A. NieMiera and E. R. Nocera and C. Pecar and J. Penttala and C. Pisano and A. Prokudin and J. -W. Qiu and F. Ringer and F. Salazar and R. Sassot and J. Schoenleber and R. Seidl and V. Skokov and A. M. Staśto and R. Sufian and S. Tiwari and M. Ubiali and R. Venugopalan and W. Vogelsang and F. Wunder and F. Yuan and Y. Zhao and W. Zhao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.04765},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
Summary of the 2025 joint CFNS-INT program: Precision QCD with the Electron-Ion Collider. 165 pages, 35 figures