Electron-Ion Collider: The next QCD frontier: Understanding the glue that binds us all
Abstract
© 2016, The Author(s). 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.
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Journal articleSubject
Science & TechnologyPhysical Sciences
Physics, Nuclear
Physics, Particles & Fields
Physics
DEEP-INELASTIC-SCATTERING
COLOR GLASS CONDENSATE
VIRTUAL COMPTON-SCATTERING
FINAL-STATE INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-FLAVOR VIOLATION
QUARK-GLUON PLASMA
HARD EXCLUSIVE ELECTROPRODUCTION
DEPENDENT STRUCTURE-FUNCTION
SPIN STRUCTURE
PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS
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10.1140/epja/i2016-16268-9Publication Info
Accardi, A; Albacete, JL; Anselmino, M; Armesto, N; Aschenauer, EC; Bacchetta, A;
... Zheng, L (2016). Electron-Ion Collider: The next QCD frontier: Understanding the glue that binds us
all. European Physical Journal A, 52(9). 10.1140/epja/i2016-16268-9. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/19103.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Haiyan Gao
Henry W. Newson Distinguished Professor of Physics
Prof. Gao's research focuses on understanding the structure of the nucleon in terms
of quark and gluon degrees of freedom of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), search for
QCD exotics, and fundamental symmetry studies at low energy to search for new physics
beyond the Standard Model of electroweak interactions. Most recently, her group's
studies of the structure of the nucleon have been focusing on a precision measurement
of the proton (see

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