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Short range correlated nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) pairs are an important part of the nuclear ground state. They are typically studied by scattering an electron from one nucleon in the pair and detecting its spectator correlated partner…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-05-17 F. Hauenstein , A. Jentsch , J. R. Pybus , A. Kiral , M. D. Baker , Y. Furletova , O. Hen , D. W. Higinbotham , C. Hyde , V. Morozov , D. Romanov , L. B. Weinstein

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) is a next-generation accelerator primarily designed to study the internal structure of nucleons through high-precision electron-hadron collisions. In this work, we explore the feasibility of employing a 1 MW…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Nishat Fiza , Mehedi Masud , Kim Siyeon , Guang Yang

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 Electron-Ion Collider~(EIC), a forthcoming powerful high-luminosity facility, represents an exciting opportunity to explore new physics. In this article, we study the potential of the EIC to probe the coupling between axion-like…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-01 Reuven Balkin , Or Hen , Wenliang Li , Hongkai Liu , Teng Ma , Yotam Soreq , Mike Williams

We present the first calculation of quantum electrodynamics (QED) nuclear medium effects under the experimental conditions of future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) experiments. Our work offers numerical estimates, particularly in the context…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-11 Shohini Bhattacharya , Oleksandr Tomalak , Ivan Vitev

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will provide a unique experimental platform to explore the properties of gluons in nucleons and nuclei, offering new insights into their structure and dynamics. The EIC community has outlined a detailed…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-12-17 Jihee Kim

Quarks and gluons are the fundamental constituents of nucleons. Their interactions rather than their mass, is responsible for $99\%$ of the mass of all visible matter in the universe. Measuring the fundamental properties of matter has had a…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-05-06 Astrid Morreale

Exploring the nucleon's sea quark and gluon structure is a prime objective of a future electron-ion collider (EIC). Many of the key questions require accurate differential semi-inclusive (spin/flavor decomposition, orbital motion) and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-17 T. Horn , P. Nadel-Turonski , C. Weiss

The Future Circular Collider (FCC) is a post-LHC project aiming at direct and indirect searches for physics beyond the SM in a new 100 km tunnel at CERN. In addition, the FCC-ee offers unique possibilities for high-precision studies of the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-08-26 Francesco Giuli

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

Lepton scattering is an established ideal tool for studying inner structure of small particles such as nucleons as well as nuclei. As a future high energy nuclear physics project, an Electron-ion collider in China (EicC) has been proposed.…

This report is based on a ten-week program on "Gluons and the quark sea at high-energies", which took place at the Institute for Nuclear Theory in Seattle in Fall 2010. The principal aim of the program was to develop and sharpen the science…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 D. Boer , M. Diehl , R. Milner , R. Venugopalan , W. Vogelsang , A. Accardi , E. Aschenauer , M. Burkardt , R. Ent , V. Guzey , D. Hasch , K. Kumar , M. A. C. Lamont , Y. Li , W. J. Marciano , C. Marquet , F. Sabatie , M. Stratmann , F. Yuan , S. Abeyratne , S. Ahmed , C. Aidala , S. Alekhin , M. Anselmino , H. Avakian , A. Bacchetta , J. Bartels , H. BC , J. Beebe-Wang , S. Belomestnykh , I. Ben-Zvi , G. Beuf , J. Blumlein , M . Blaskiewicz , A. Bogacz , S. J. Brodsky , T. Burton , R. Calaga , X. Chang , I. O. Cherednikov , P. Chevtsov , G. A. Chirilli , C. Ciofi degli Atti , I. C. Cloet , A. Cooper-Sarkar , R. Debbe , Ya. Derbenev , A. Deshpande , F. Dominguez , A. Dumitru , R. Dupre , B. Erdelyi , C. Faroughy , S. Fazio , A. Fedotov , J. R. Forshaw , R. Geraud , K. Gallmeister , L. Gamberg , J. -H. Gao , D. Gassner , F. Gelis , G. P. Gilfoyle , G. Goldstein , K. Golec-Biernat , V. P. Goncalves , M. Gonderinger , M. Guzzi , P. Hagler , H. Hahn , L. Hammons , Y. Hao , P. He , T. Horn , W. A. Horowitz , M. Huang , A. Hutton , B. Jager , W. Jackson , A. Jain , E. C. Johnson , Z. -B. Kang , L. P. Kaptari , D. Kayran , J. Kewisch , Y. Koike , A. Kondratenko , B. Z. Kopeliovich , Y. V. Kovchegov , G. Krafft , P. Kroll , S. Kumano , K. Kumericki , T. Lappi , T. Lautenschlager , R. Li , Z. -T. Liang , V. N. Litvinenko , S. Liuti , Y. Luo , D. Muller , G. Mahler , A. Majumder , S. Manikonda , F. Marhauser , G. McIntyre , M. Meskauskas , W. Meng , A. Metz , C. B. Mezzetti , G. A. Miller , M. Minty , S. -O. Moch , V. Morozov , U. Mosel , L. Motyka , H. Moutarde , P. J. Mulders , B. Musch , P. Nadel-Turonski , P. Nadolsky , F. Olness , P. N. Ostrumov , B. Parker , B. Pasquini , K. Passek-Kumericki , A. Pikin , F. Pilat , B. Pire , H. Pirner , C. Pisano , E. Pozdeyev , A. Prokudin , V. Ptitsyn , X. Qian , J. -W. Qiu , M. Radici , A. Radyushkin , T. Rao , R. Rimmer , F. Ringer , S. Riordan , T. Rogers , J. Rojo , T. Roser , R. Sandapen , R. Sassot , T. Satogata , H. Sayed , A. Schafer , G. Schnell , P. Schweitzer , B. Sheehy , J. Skaritka , G. Soyez , M. Spata , H. Spiesberger , A. M. Stasto , N. G. Stefanis , M. Strikman , M. Sullivan , L. Szymanowski , K. Tanaka , S. Taneja , S. Tepikian , B. Terzic , Y. Than , T. Toll , D. Trbojevic , E. Tsentalovich , N. Tsoupas , K. Tuchin , J. Tuozzolo , T. Ullrich , A. Vossen , S. Wallon , G. Wang , H. Wang , X. -N. Wang , S. Webb , C. Weiss , Q. Wu , B. -W. Xiao , W. Xu , B. Yunn , A. Zelenski , Y. Zhang , J. Zhou , P. Zurita

An Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) with suitable forward detection capabilities would enable a unique experimental program of deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) from polarized light nuclei (deuterium 2H, helium 3He) with spectator nucleon tagging.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-03 V. Guzey , D. Higinbotham , Ch. Hyde , P. Nadel-Turonski , K. Park , M. Sargsian , M. Strikman , C. Weiss

At small x, the gluon distribution dominates the nuclear wave function. The increase needs to be tamed in avoid violating unitarity constraints. The most efficient way to study this in colliders is through e+A collisions as the nucleus is…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-07-02 Matthew Lamont

The quantitative knowledge of heavy nuclei's partonic structure is currently limited to rather large values of momentum fraction $x$ -- robust experimental constraints below $x \sim 10^{-2}$ at low resolution scale $Q^2$ are particularly…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-12-13 E. C. Aschenauer , S. Fazio , M. A. C. Lamont , H. Paukkunen , Pia Zurita

We investigate the evolution of nuclear excitation in electron-nucleus (e+A) collisions at the upcoming Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) using the BeAGLE event generator. Leveraging the EIC's unique collider kinematics, we demonstrate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-10 Niseem Magdy

An Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) with center-of-mass energies sqrt(s_{eN}) ~ 20-100 GeV and luminosity L ~ 10^{34} cm^{-2} s^{-1} would offer new opportunities to study heavy quark production in high-energy electron or photon scattering on…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-01-04 E. Chudakov , D. Higinbotham , Ch. Hyde , S. Furletov , Yu. Furletova , D. Nguyen , M. Stratmann , M. Strikman , C. Weiss

A polarized $ep/eA$ collider (Electron--Ion Collider, or EIC), with polarized proton and light-ion beams and unpolarized heavy-ion beams with a variable center--of--mass energy $\sqrt{s} \sim 20$ to $\sim100$~GeV (upgradable to $\sim 150$…

A number of physics arguments for a high-luminosity high energy polarized Electron- Nucleon/Nucleus-Collider (i.e. with a luminosity of at least 10^{33} cm^{-2} sec^{-1} and an invariant energy squarred of at least s >= 100 GeV^2) are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Schäfer

In the context of future electron-ion collision experiments, particularly the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) and the Electron-Ion Collider in China (EicC), investigating exclusive photoproduction processes is of paramount importance. These…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-10 Xin Wu , Xinbai Li , Zebo Tang , Kaiyang Wang , Wangmei Zha