Speaker
Pawel Nadel-Turonski
(Jefferson Lab)
Description
Unpolarized and polarized deep inelastic lepton scattering off light nuclei
(deuterium, He-3) with detection of spectator nucleon(s) at EIC offers
unique opportunities to address fundamental open questions of QCD such
as the spin structure of the neutron, the effect of nuclear binding on
quark and gluon distributions, and the onset of coherent nuclear effects
in high-energy processes. We present an overview of the physics of
"tagged DIS" on polarized light ions, the key processes and observables,
emphasizing the advantages of forward nucleon tagging in collider kinematics.
We report about results of recent R&D simulating the extraction of the
unpolarized and polarized neutron structure functions from tagged DIS
off deuterium and demonstrating the feasibility of such measurements
with EIC, and outline future directions in this effort.
Primary author
Dr
Vadim Guzey
(Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute)
Co-authors
Prof.
Charles Hyde
(Old Dominion University)
Christian Weiss
(Jefferson Lab)
Dr
Douglas Higinbotham
(Jefferson Lab)
Dr
KiJun Park
(Old Dominion University)
Mark Strikman
Prof.
Misak Sargsian
(Florida International University)
Pawel Nadel-Turonski
(Jefferson Lab)
Prof.
Sebastian Kuhn
(Old Dominion University)
Dr
Wally Melnitchouk
(Jefferson Lab)
