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A future Electron-Ion Colllider (EIC) is the ideal laboratory for studying the gluon distributions in both nucleons and nuclei for $\sqrt{s}$ = 63 - 158 (40 - 110) GeV/A for e+p (e+A) collisions. Whilst gluon distributions have been studied…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-07-15 M. A. C. Lamont

This article presents a very brief review of the physics of Ultra-Peripheral Collisions (UPC) at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and other nuclear facilities. I discuss several processes of interest such as electron-position pair…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-19 C. A. Bertulani

The future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will operate a series of high-luminosity high-energy electron+proton ($e+p$) and electron+nucleus ($\textit{e + A}$) collisions to study several fundamental questions in the high energy and nuclear…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-04-24 Xuan Li

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 upcoming Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will address several outstanding puzzles in modern nuclear physics. Key questions-such as the partonic structure of nucleons and nuclei and the origin of their mass and spin-can be explored through…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-02-26 Wan Chang , Elke-Caroline Aschenauer , Alexander Jentsch , Arjun Kumar , Zhoudunming Tu , Zhongbao Yin

The Large Hadron Electron Collider (LHeC) project is the proposal to use the existing LHC proton/ion beams and construct a new electron beam line to perform high-energy electron-proton/ion collisions. In this talk, we consider some of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-02 Ilkka Helenius , Hannu Paukkunen , Néstor Armesto

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory will be a precision Quantum Chromodynamics machine that will enable a vast physics program with electron+proton/ion collisions across a broad center-of-mass range.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-13 Matthew Kelsey , Reynier Cruz-Torres , Xin Dong , Yuanjing Ji , Sooraj Radhakrishnan , Ernst Sichtermann

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

We discuss the physics of large impact parameter interactions at the LHC: ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs). The dominant processes in UPCs are photon-nucleon (nucleus) interactions. The current LHC detector configurations can explore small…

We argue that measurements of forward neutrons from nuclear breakup in inclusive high energy photon-nucleus ($\gamma A$) scattering provide a novel way to study small-$x$ dynamics of QCD in heavy-ion ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs). Using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-03 M. Alvioli , V. Guzey , M. Strikman

The future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) is a proposed new facility to collide high-energy electrons with beams of polarized protons/light nuclei and unpolarized nuclei. We overview the goals of the project and key measurements at the EIC. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 V. Guzey

Lambda polarization can be measured through its self-analyzing weak decay, making it an ideal candidate for studying spin effects in high energy scatterings. In lepton-nucleon deeply inelastic scatterings (DIS), Lambda polarization…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-08-31 Zhaohuizi Ji , Xiaoyan Zhao , Aiqiang Guo , Qinghua Xu , Jinlong Zhang

Efficient detection of spectator fragments is key to the main topics at an electron-ion collider (eIC). Any process which leads to emission of fragments or $\gamma$'s breaks coherence in diffractive processes. Therefore this is equivalent…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2010-03-11 Sebastian White , Mark Strikman

Moving highly-charged ions carry strong electromagnetic fields that act as a field of photons. In collisions at large impact parameters, hadronic interactions are not possible, and the ions interact through photon-ion and photon-photon…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-07-10 Carlos A. Bertulani , Spencer R. Klein , Joakim Nystrand

We discuss how photoproduction and electroproduction processes will provide a precise tool to study nuclear structure in the small-$x$ region in the future Electron-Ion Collider. In particular, we emphasize how exclusive vector meson…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-08-22 Heikki Mäntysaari

Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) experiments at the planned Electron-Ion Collider will be affected by details of the hadron formation inside the nuclear volume. Besides semi-inclusive particle production experiments decays of the target…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 A. B. Larionov , M. Strikman

One of the more promising observables to probe the high energy regime of the QCD dynamics in the future Electron-Ion Colliders (EIC) is the exclusive vector meson production cross section in coherent and incoherent interactions. Such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-24 M. Krelina , V. P. Goncalves , J. Cepila

A future Electron Ion Collider (EIC) will be able to provide collisions of polarized electrons with protons and heavy ions over a wide range of center-of-mass energies (20 $\mathrm{GeV}$ to 140 $\mathrm{GeV}$) at an instanteous luminosity…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-11-15 Xiaoxuan Chu , Elke-Caroline Aschenauer , Jeong-Hun Lee , Liang Zheng

An important part of the physics program at the future electron-ion collider is to understand the nature of hadronization and the transport of energy and matter in large nuclei. Open heavy flavor production in deep inelastic scattering…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-07 Hai Tao Li , Ze Long Liu , Ivan Vitev

This paper begins with a summary of the status of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, including the lead-ion injector chain and the plans for the first phases of commissioning and operation with colliding proton beams. In a later phase, the…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-09-02 John M. Jowett