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A high-energy $e^+e^-$ Linear Collider has been considered since a long time as an important complement to the LHC. Unprecedented precision measurements as well as the exploration of so far untouched phase space for direct production of new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-26 Jenny List , Gudrid Moortgat-Pick , Jürgen Reuter

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 Future Circular Collider (FCC) is a post-LHC project aiming at searches for physics beyond the SM in a new 80--100~km tunnel at CERN. Running in its first phase as a very-high-luminosity electron-positron collider (FCC-ee), it will…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-21 Peter Skands , David d'Enterria

The Compact Linear Collider, CLIC, is a proposed e$^+$e$^-$ collider at the TeV scale whose physics potential ranges from high-precision measurements to extensive direct sensitivity to physics beyond the Standard Model. This document…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-12-20 P. Roloff , R. Franceschini , U. Schnoor , A. Wulzer

The physics program accessible in $e^+e^-$ collisions at the Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee) is summarized. The FCC-ee aims at collecting multi-ab$^{-1}$ integrated luminosities in $e^+e^-$ at $\sqrt{s}$ = 90, 160, 240, and 350 GeV,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-03-11 David d'Enterria

In the following we stress the advantages of the NICA research programme in the context of studying the spectator-induced electromagnetic phenomena present in proton-nucleus and heavy ion collisions. We point at the specific interest of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2013-01-23 Andrzej Rybicki , Antoni Szczurek , Mariola Klusek-Gawenda , Iwona Sputowska

The Electron-Ion Collider is under construction at BNL. It will have high-energy high-intensity polarized beams of electrons and hadrons. These beams will allow a high accuracy investigation of nucleon structure in the low- to very-low-x…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2024-06-18 B. Wojtsekhowski

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) is a proposed machine to explore the behaviour of the fundamental particles and forces that bind atomic nuclei together. The design and construction of the EIC are underway at Brookhaven National Laboratory…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Jun Lu , Jeremy Levitan Noah Gavin , Aniket Ingrole , Holger Witte , Peng Xu , Ye Bai

Understanding the substructure of atomic nuclei, particularly the clustering of nucleons inside them, is essential for comprehending nuclear dynamics. Various cluster configurations can emerge depending on excitation energy, the number and…

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

We discuss the prospects of using jets as precision probes in electron-nucleus collisions at the future Electron-Ion Collider. Jets produced in deep-inelastic scattering can be calibrated by a measurement of the scattered electron. Such…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2020-08-03 Miguel Arratia , Youqi Song , Felix Ringer , Barbara V. Jacak

A unique new facility, capable of colliding beams of electrons with a wide range of nuclei as well as polarized protons and light ions, has been proposed to study the role of gluons in matter and perform precision mapping of the structure…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 C. A. Aidala

We summarize how future measurements of electromagnetic (e.m.) probes at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), in connection with theoretical analysis, can advance our understanding of strongly interacting matter at high energy…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 G. David , R. Rapp , Z. Xu

Jet production and jet substructure in reactions with nuclei at future electron-ion colliders will play a preeminent role in the exploration of nuclear structure and the evolution of parton showers in strongly-interacting matter. In the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-30 Hai Tao Li , Ivan Vitev

The proposed high-energy and high-luminosity Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will provide one of the cleanest environments to precisely determine the nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) in a wide $x$-$Q^{2}$ range. Heavy flavor…

Here, we propose a novel approach to experimentally and theoretically study the properties of QCD matter under new extreme conditions, namely having an initial temperature over 300~MeV and baryonic charge density over three times the values…

There are a large number of physics programs one can explore in electron-nucleus collisions at a future electron-ion collider. Collision geometry is very important in these studies, while the measurement for an event-by-event geometric…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-12-30 L. Zheng , E. C. Aschenauer , J. H. Lee

We study the potential for precision electroweak (EW) measurements and beyond-the-Standard Model (BSM) searches using cross-section asymmetries in neutral-current (NC) deep inelastic scattering at the electron-ion collider (EIC). Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-27 Radja Boughezal , Alexander Emmert , Tyler Kutz , Sonny Mantry , Michael Nycz , Frank Petriello , Kağan Şimşek , Daniel Wiegand , Xiaochao Zheng

Circular colliders have the advantage of delivering collisions to multiple interaction points, which allow different detector designs to be studied and optimized - up to four for FCC-ee. On the one hand, the detectors must satisfy the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-07-12 Patrizia Azzi , Emmanuel Perez

The unique physics opportunities accessible with nuclear collisions at the CERN Future Circular Collider (FCC) are summarized. Lead-lead (PbPb) and proton-lead (pPb) collisions at $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ = 39 and 63 TeV respectively with…