18–22 Sept 2017
Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences
Europe/Warsaw timezone

Physics of a U.S.-Based Electron Ion-Collider

22 Sept 2017, 12:30
30m
Main Lecture Hall (Główna Aula)

Main Lecture Hall (Główna Aula)

Speaker

Thomas Ullrich (Yale University (US))

Description

The 2015 Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science in the US recommends a
high-energy, high-luminosity polarized Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) as
the highest priority for new facility construction after the completion
of FRIC. The project is currently reviewed by the National Academy of
Science. The EIC will, for the first time, precisely image gluons in
nucleons and nuclei. It will reveal the origin of the nucleon spin and
will explore a new quantum chromodynamics (QCD) frontier of ultra-dense
gluon fields. This science will be made possible
by the EIC’s unique capabilities for collisions of polarized electrons
with polarized protons, polarized light ions, and heavy nuclei at high
luminosity.
In my talk I will give an overview of the physics motivation and program
of an EIC with a focus on the opportunities for small-x physics in e+A
collisions and how an EIC will affect our understanding of of heavy-ion
collisions at RHIC and the LHC.

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