Speaker
Abhay Deshpande
(Stony Brook University)
Description
How are the sea quarks, gluons, and their spins distributed in space and momentum inside the nucleon? Where does the saturation of gluon densities set in? How does the nuclear environment affect the distribution of quarks and gluons and their interactions in nuclei? These are profound and compelling questions in QCD that have (evolved and) remain unanswered despite decades of (success of, and) heroic effort by past experimental programs at BNL, CERN, DESY and SLAC. A future (variable) high-energy and high-luminosity Electron Ion Collider (EIC) with possibility of colliding polarized electrons with polarized nucleons/light-nuclei, and a wide range in nuclear species is being considered by the US nuclear science community which promises to quantitatively address and resolve the above mentioned "profound and compelling questions" in QCD. I will present the science highlights and the possible realization scenarios under consideration in the US.
Author
Abhay Deshpande
(Stony Brook University)
