Speaker
Rolf Ent
(Jefferson Lab)
Description
The interior landscape of nucleons includes a strong-force driven sea of quarks, antiquarks
and gluons, with a net surplus of a few ever-present valence quarks. In order to understand
how the properties and structure of all forms of nuclear matter emerge from the dynamics of
QCD, it is essential to precisely image the gluons and quarks, and to understand the role
they and their interactions play in nucleons and nuclei. For this, a new accelerator facility
is required, the Electron-Ion Collider, to match the valence quark studies of the upgraded
Jefferson Lab. Such a future facility would be the world's first polarized electron-proton
collider, and the world's first e-A collider. The science foreseen at and the status of such
a future US-based polarized Electron-Ion Collider will be presented.
Author
Rolf Ent
(Jefferson Lab)
