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The future electron-ion collider (EIC) will produce the first-ever high energy collisions between electrons and a wide range of nuclei, opening a new era in the study of cold nuclear matter. Quarks and gluons produced in these collisions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-03 Kyle Devereaux , Wenqing Fan , Weiyao Ke , Kyle Lee , Ian Moult

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will be a novel experimental facility to explore the properties of gluons in nucleons and nuclei, shedding light on their structure and dynamics. The EIC community outlined the physics program of the EIC in a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-04-23 Jihee Kim

Based on rare fluctuations in strong interactions, we argue that there is a strong physical resemblance between the high multiplicity events in photo-nuclear collisions and those in $pA$ collisions, in which interesting long range…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-31 Yu Shi , Lei Wang , Shu-Yi Wei , Bo-Wen Xiao , Liang Zheng

The upcoming p+Pb run at the LHC will probe the nuclear gluon distribution at very small Bjorken x (from $x \sim 10^{-4}$ at mid-rapidity down to $x \sim 10^{-6}$ in the proton fragmentation region) and will allow to test approaches based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-23 Adrian Dumitru , Dmitri E. Kharzeev , Eugene M. Levin , Yasushi Nara

This overview describes several science cases at the Electron-Ion-Collider (EIC) experiment which are traditional to general particle physics. It has an emphasis on connections between future measurements at the EIC and the physics topics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-25 S. V. Chekanov , S. Magill

The operation of HERA with polarized proton and electron beams will allow to study a wide variety of observables in polarized electron-proton collisions at $\sqrt s=300$ GeV. The physics prospects of this project have been elaborated in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. De Roeck , T. Gehrmann

The Future Circular Collider (FCC) design study is aimed at assessing the physics potential and the technical feasibility of a new collider with centre-of-mass energies, in the hadron-hadron collision mode including proton and nucleus…

The future Electron-Ion Collider will utilize high-luminosity high-energy electron+proton ($e+p$) and electron+nucleus ($e+A$) collisions to solve several fundamental questions in the high energy nuclear physics field. Heavy flavor products…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-08-06 Xuan Li

This article summarizes a talk presented at the SLAC Summer Institute 2000, SLAC, Stanford, USA. The HERA ep collider allows the measurement of the proton structure and tests of the Standard Model in a large region of phase space that has…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Hadig

Constituent quarks in a nucleon are the essential elements in the standard ``quark model" associated with the electric charge, spin, mass, and baryon number of a nucleon. Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) describes nucleon as a composite object…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-10 Niseem Magdy , Abhay Deshpande , Roy Lacey , Wenliang Li , Prithwish Tribedy , Zhangbu Xu

Next-generation neutrino oscillation experiments such as DUNE require percent-level knowledge of neutrino--nucleon interaction cross sections. The nucleon axial form factor $F_A(Q^2)$, parameterized by the axial mass $\MA$, is the dominant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-03 Guang Yang , Praveen Kumar

Heavy-ion collisions at the BNL-RHIC collider can probe whether gluon saturation effects in nuclei at small x have set in, or whether leading-twist perturbative estimates of particle production are still applicable. I discuss that soon to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Adrian Dumitru

Experimental measurements in collisions of small systems from p+p to p/d/3He+A at RHIC and the LHC reveal particle emission patterns that are strikingly similar to those observed in A+A collisions. One explanation of these patterns is the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-06-05 J. L. Nagle , W. A. Zajc

The early stages of heavy ion collisions are dominated by high density systems of gluons that carry each a small fraction $x$ of the momenta of the colliding nucleons. A distinguishing feature of such systems is the phenomenon of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-22 Jean-Paul Blaizot

We derive the cross-section for exclusive vector meson production in high energy deeply inelastic scattering off a deuteron target that disintegrates into a proton and a neutron carrying large relative momentum in the final state. This…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-13 Gerald A. Miller , Matthew D. Sievert , Raju Venugopalan

The EIC will deliver collisions of electrons with protons and nuclei at a wide variety of energies and at luminosities up to 1000 times higher than HERA. Precise measurement of both the scattered electron and the hadronic final state is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-09-04 Henry T. Klest

We find supersaturation for the intrinsic gluon distribution of nuclei, i.e. the low $x$ unintegrated nuclear gluon distribution peaks at intermediate transverse momenta $k_t=Q_s$ and vanishes at zero $k_t$. Taking into account the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 H. -J. Pirner , Feng Yuan

The future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will utilize a series of high-luminosity high-energy electron+proton ($e+p$) and electron+nucleus ($e+A$) collisions to explore the inner structure of nucleon and nucleus and the matter formation…

We study the sensitivity of the upcoming electron-ion (EIC) collider to purely electrophilic new physics in the GeV mass range. Within an effective field theory framework, we consider two different scenarios: an axion-like particle (ALP)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-09 Amit Adhikary , Dilip Kumar Ghosh , Sk Jeesun , Sourov Roy