Published September 2016 | Version v1
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Electron-Ion Collider: The next QCD frontier. Understanding the glue that binds us all

Creators

  • 1. Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA (United States)
  • 2. Hampton University, Hampton, VA (United States)
  • 3. Universite Paris-Sud 11, CNRS/IN2P3, IPNO, Orsay (France)
  • 4. INFN, Torino (Italy)
  • 5. Torino University (Italy)
  • 6. University of Santiago de Campostela, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
  • 7. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY (United States)
  • 8. University of Pavia, Pavia (Italy)
  • 9. University of Groningen, Groningen (Netherlands)
  • 10. Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparaiso (Chile)
  • 11. Shandong University, Shandong (China)
  • 12. Frankfurt University, FIAS, Frankfurt (Germany)
  • 13. Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (United States)
  • 14. DESY, Hamburg (Germany)
  • 15. Baruch College, CUNY, New York, NY (United States)
  • 16. Centre de Saclay, CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
  • 17. Duke University, Durham, NC (United States)
  • 18. INFN, LNF, Frascati (Italy)
  • 19. Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL (United States)
  • 20. The Catholic University of America, N.E. Washington, DC (United States)
  • 21. Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA (United States)
  • 22. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  • 23. The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (United States)
  • 24. University of Zagreb, Zagreb (Croatia)
  • 25. University of Jyvaskyla, Jyvaskyla (Finland)
  • 26. Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv (Israel)
  • 27. CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)
  • 28. Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
  • 29. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (United States)
  • 30. Columbia University, New York, NY (US)
  • 31. Duke University, Durham, NC (US)
  • 32. Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY (US)
  • 33. Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum (DE)
  • 34. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (US)
  • 35. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA (US)
  • 36. University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (AR)
  • 37. University of Basque Country, Bilbao (ES)
  • 38. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT (US)
  • 39. University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen (DE)
  • 40. Pennsylvania State University, Philadelphia, PA (US)
  • 41. Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (US)
  • 42. Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY (US)
  • 43. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia (CA)
  • 44. Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei (CN)

Description

This White Paper presents the science case of an Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), focused on the structure and interactions of gluon-dominated matter, with the intent to articulate it to the broader nuclear science community. It was commissioned by the managements of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) with the objective of presenting a summary of scientific opportunities and goals of the EIC as a follow-up to the 2007 NSAC Long Range plan. This document is a culmination of a community-wide effort in nuclear science following a series of workshops on EIC physics over the past decades and, in particular, the focused ten-week program on ''Gluons and quark sea at high energies'' at the Institute for Nuclear Theory in Fall 2010. It contains a brief description of a few golden physics measurements along with accelerator and detector concepts required to achieve them. It has been benefited profoundly from inputs by the users' communities of BNL and JLab. This White Paper offers the promise to propel the QCD science program in the US, established with the CEBAF accelerator at JLab and the RHIC collider at BNL, to the next QCD frontier. (orig.)

Availability note (English)

Available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2016-16268-9

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1140/epja/i2016-16268-9;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
European Physical Journal. A
Journal Volume
52
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 1-100
ISSN
1434-6001

INIS

Country of Publication
Germany
Country of Input or Organization
Germany
INIS RN
48000401
Subject category
S73: NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; S43: PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Progress Report
Descriptors DEI
BROOKHAVEN RHIC; CEBAF ACCELERATOR; COLLIDING BEAMS; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON REACTIONS; GRAND UNIFIED THEORY; ION BEAMS; NUCLEAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEONS; PARTICLE STRUCTURE; PROGRESS REPORT; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; RADIATION DETECTORS; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; REVIEWS; SPIN; SPIN ORIENTATION
Descriptors DEC
ACCELERATORS; ANGULAR MOMENTUM; BARYONS; BEAMS; CHARGED-PARTICLE REACTIONS; DOCUMENT TYPES; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FERMIONS; FIELD THEORIES; HADRONS; HEAVY ION ACCELERATORS; LEPTON BEAMS; LEPTON REACTIONS; LINEAR ACCELERATORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; ORIENTATION; PARTICLE BEAMS; PARTICLE MODELS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; STORAGE RINGS; UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS