DIS2023: XXX International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects

Inclusive Physics with the EPIC Detector at the Electron Ion Collider

29 Mar 2023, 11:30

20m

Auditorium (MSU Kellogg Center)

Parallel talk WG6: Future Experiments WG1+WG6 joint

Speakers

Barak Schmookler (Stony Brook University) Claire Gwenlan (University of Oxford (GB)) Paul Richard Newman (University of Birmingham (GB)) Tyler Kutz

Description

Prospects for inclusive physics studies at the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) using the EPIC detector are explored. EPIC is currently under rapid development and is expected to be operational from the first day of data taking. Simulations are used to determine the detector acceptance and resolutions, and to estimate some significant sources of systematic uncertainty such as backgrounds and inefficiencies in electron identification. Expected luminosities and beam polarizations in ep and eA collisions allow projections of the EPIC detector performance into measurements of charged- and neutral-current cross sections and asymmetries. The impact of these measurements on derived quantities such as polarized and unpolarized parton distribution functions is evaluated.

Presentation materials

epic_inclusive_DIS2023.pdf