The glue that binds us all -- Latin America and the Electron-Ion Collider
Abstract
The Electron-Ion Collider, a next generation electron-hadron and electron-nuclei scattering facility, will be built at Brookhaven National Laboratory. The wealth of new data will shape research in hadron physics, from nonperturbative QCD techniques to perturbative QCD improvements and global QCD analyses, for the decades to come. With the present proposal, Latin America based physicists, whose expertise lies on the theory and phenomenology side, make the case for the past and future efforts of a growing community, working hand-in-hand towards developing theoretical tools and predictions to analyze, interpret and optimize the results that will be obtained at the EIC, unveiling the role of the glue that binds us all. This effort is along the lines of various initiatives taken in the U.S., and supported by colleagues worldwide, such as the ones by the EIC User Group which were highlighted during the Snowmass Process and the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5).
Cite
@article{arxiv.2409.18407,
title = {The glue that binds us all -- Latin America and the Electron-Ion Collider},
author = {A. C. Aguilar and A. Bashir and J. J. Cobos-Martínez and A. Courtoy and B. El-Bennich and D. de Florian and T. Frederico and V. P. Gonçalves and M. Hentschinski and R. J. Hernández-Pinto and G. Krein and M. V. T. Machado and J. P. B. C. de Melo and W. de Paula and R. Sassot and F. E. Serna and L. Albino and I. Borsa and L. Cieri and I. M. Higuera-Angulo and J. Mazzitelli and Á. Miramontes and K. Raya and F. Salazar and G. Sborlini and P. Zurita},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.18407},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
White Paper contribution to the Latin American Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructure (III LASF4RI). Updated version includes an extended discussion of the "Perspectives and Challenges" section and an additional section about "Current projects and future Latin American contributions to the EIC". Accepted for publication in Brazilian Journal of Physics