Speaker
Matthew Lamont
(BNL)
Description
Over the last decade, there has been a plethora of new and exciting results in heavy-ion collisions emanating from the CERN and Brookhaven Laboratories. These results have led to a sea change of the view on how the evolution of a high energy heavy-ion collision proceeds. What has become apparent is that in order to validate claims of perfect fluidity, for example, the initial conditions at small-x need to be well understood. Whilst d+A and p+A collisions provide a handle on some of these effects, for precision measurements and precise knowledge of the kinematics, e+A collisions become essential.
A proposal has been developed at Brookhaven National Lab to add an electron accelerator to the current RHIC complex, providing for electron beams ranging from 5 GeV to 30 GeV. Complementing the programme on polarised e+p scattering, a broad programme on e+A physics is envisioned which will range from investigating saturation physics at low-x to hadronization at high-x. In this poster, I will show the recent progress made on the golden measurements which were identified in the proceedings of the Fall programme at the INT [1].
[1] “Gluons and the quark sea at high energies: Distributions, polarization and tomography.”,Eds D. Boer, M. Diehl, R. Milner, R. Venugopalan, W. Vogelsang, BNL-96164-2011, INT-PUB-11-034, JLAB-THY-11-1373
Author
Matthew Lamont
(BNL)
