ELECTRON ION COLLIDER USER GROUP MEETING 2016

6 Jan 2016, 09:00 → 9 Jan 2016, 18:00 US/Pacific

UC Berkeley

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Wednesday 6 January

Introductory lectures on EIC science

Convener: Ernst Sichtermann (LBNL)

1 Welcome + overview of the meeting/discussions

Speaker: Jacak Barbara (LBNL / UCB)

2 QCD at EIC

(40 + 10)

Speaker: Yuri Kovchegov (Ohio State)

3 Detector requirements at EIC

(40 + 10)

Speaker: Elke Aschenauer (BNL)

11:00 Coffee Break

4 EIC Accelerator frontiers and challenges

(40 + 10)

Speaker: Uli Wienands (SLAC)

Physics in the Long Range Plan

Conveners: After Coffee Break: Rolf Ent (JLAB), Before Coffee Break: Peter Jacobs (LBNL)

5 EIC in the Long Range Plan and the next 10 years

(20+10)

Speaker: Don Geesaman (ANL)

6 Views from the DOE

(20+10)

Speaker: Tim Hallman (DOE/NP)

7 EIC users Group aims and aspirations

Discussion

Speaker: Charles Hyde (Old Dominion)

15:30 Coffee Break

8 QCD in 2025 (in both ep AND eA)

(30+5)

Speaker: Jianwei Qiu (BNL)

9 eRHIC Machine Status, Plan, R&D Milestones

(35+10)

Speaker: Thomas Roser (BNL)

10 JLEIC Machine Status, Plan, R&D Milestones

(35+10)

Speaker: Fulvia Pilat (JLAB)

Thursday 7 January

Physics beyond the White Paper/LRP

Conveners: After Coffee Break: Christine Aidala (U Michigan), Before Coffee Break: Feng Yuan (LBNL)

11 Discussion on International Participation in Projects

Discussion

Speaker: Rolf Ent (JLAB)

12 TMDs and saturation physics

(25 + 5)

Speaker: Bowen Xiao (CCNU, China)

13 GPDs and transverse geometry in high-energy ep/pp/pA collisions

(25 + 5)

Speaker: Jakub Wagner (Warsaw)

10:30 Coffee Break

14 Lattice QCD insights for EIC

(25 + 5)

Speaker: Lin Huey-Wen (LBNL)

15 Jets at EIC

(25 + 5)

Speaker: Ivan Vitev (LANL)

16 Physics in small systems: what to expect in eA given “the ridge” in pA and high multiplicity pp

(25 + 5)

Speaker: Ulrich Heinz (Ohio State)

Detectors at EIC

Conveners: After Coffee Break: Ming Liu (LANL), Before Coffee Break: Ken Barish (UC Riverside)

17 JLEIC (large acceptance)

(20 + 5)

Speaker: Pawel Nadel-Turonski (JLAB)

18 JLEIC (second phase, dedicated to specific measurements)

(20 + 5)

Speaker: Kawtar Hafidi (ANL)

19 BeAST detector

(20 + 5)

Speaker: Alexander Kiselev (BNL)

20 ePHENIX/CELESTE detector

(20 + 5)

Speaker: Nils Feege (Stony Brook)

15:40 Coffee Break

21 IR design issues

(20 + 5)

Speaker: Mike Sullivan (SLAC)

22 Physics with light ions

(25 + 5)

Speaker: Misak Sargsyan (FIU)

23 Reception

Registered attendees and by invitation only

24 The Intersection of Art and Science

Public Lecture

Speaker: Frank Wilczek (MIT)

Friday 8 January

EICUG Organization

(short presentations and open Mic)

Conveners: Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook), Richard Milner (LBNL)

25 EICUG structure & role of EIC steering committee

(20+10) - Discussion

Speaker: Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook)

26 Lab Managements’ views

(2 x 10+5 minutes)

Speakers: Berndt Mueller (BNL), Bob McKeown (JLAB)

27 New ideas, new groups, new ways to do things?

Open Mic

Speaker: Richard Milner (MIT)

11:15 Coffee Break

28 Further discussions on EICUG formation and EIC science goals

Discussion

Speaker: Richard Milner (MIT)

Collective behavior of partons in nucleons and nuclei & their consequences: Parallel Session

Should cover: Spin effects including transverse spin, saturation/coherent effects & hadronization

Conveners: Christine Aidala (U Michigan), Leonard Gamberg (Penn State)

29 Gluon Sivers at EIC

(20 + 4)

Speaker: Liang Zheng (CCNU)

30 Transverse spin observables and multi-parton correlations in hadrons at an EIC

(20 + 4)

Speaker: Daniel Pitonyak (BNL)

31 W physics

(20 + 4)

Speaker: Hongxi Xing (LANL)

32 OAM

(20 + 4)

Speaker: Simonetta Liuti (U Virginia)

33 Hadron distributions in a jet

(20 + 4)

Speaker: Felix Ringer (LANL)

16:00 Coffee Break

34 TMD's at High Density: Quantum Evolution

(20 + 4)

Speaker: Matt Sievert (BNL)

35 Jets at EIC

Speaker: Brian Page (BNL)

36 Partonic structure of photons

(20 + 4)

Speaker: Xiaoxuan Chu (BNL)

37 Correlation of hadrons in current and target fragmentation regions

(20 + 4)

Speaker: Harut Avakian (JLAB)

Hadron structure, nuclear environment & binding: Parallel Session

Should cover: 3D imaging of nucleons and nuclei, energy loss studies, color propagation, hadronization in cold and hot QCD matter, physics potential with spectator tagged reactions at the EIC

Conveners: Kawtar Hafidi (ANL), Tanja Horn (CUA), Will Horowitz (U Cape Town)

38 TMD's at High Density: Quasi-Classical Approximation

Speaker: Matt Sievert (BNL)

39 Incoherent diffraction as a probe of fluctuations

Speaker: Heikki Mäntysaari (BNL)

40 Structure Functions and Nuclear PDFs in eA Collisions

Speaker: Thomas Ullrich (BNL / Yale)

41 Actually Measuring Intrinsic Kt using DIS

Speaker: Mark Baker (BNL)

42 Possible searches for leptoquarks

Speaker: Yulia Furletova (JLAB)

16:00 Coffee Break

43 Nuclear gluons with charm at EIC

Speaker: Christian Weiss (JLAB)

44 Nuclear Effects at an EIC

Speaker: Jerry Miller (U Washington)

45 Tagging with few body nuclei

Speaker: Charles Hyde (Old Dominion U)

46 NLO SIDIS Theory

Speaker: Hongxi Xing (LANL)

Detector R&D studies, software needs and development for the EIC motivated by the physics measurements: Parallel Session

Should cover: EIC R&D program activities underway

Conveners: Carlos Munoz-Camacho (Orsay), Klaus Dehmelt (Stony Brook)

47 Computing for EIC

(20 + 5)

Speaker: Markus Diefenthaler (JLAB)

48 Calorimetry

(20 + 5)

Speaker: Jin Huang (BNL)

49 Gas Tracking

(20 + 5)

Speaker: Matt Posik (Temple U)

50 Polarimetry

(12 + 3)

Speaker: Joshua Hoskins (U Manitoba)

51 Low Q-tagger, Luminosity detector

(15 +5)

Speaker: Rich Petti (BNL)

15:50 Coffee Break

52 DIRC/photosensors

(15 +5)

Speaker: Greg Kalicy (ODU / JLAB)

53 TOF/photosensors

(15 +5)

Speaker: Choi IhnJea (UIUC)

54 Aerogel, Dual-radiator RICH

(15 +5)

Speaker: Zhiwen Zhao (Duke U)

55 Maps

(15+5)

Speaker: Ernst Sichtermann (LBNL)

56 Polarized He3 ion source for RHIC

(15 +5)

Speaker: Richard Milner (MIT)

57 Magnetic Cloak

(12 +3)

Speaker: Nils Feege (Stony Brook)

58 Banquet at Lawrence Hall of Science

Saturday 9 January

Physics beyond the White Paper/LRP

Conveners: After Coffee Break: Spencer Klein (LBNL), Before Coffee Break: Richard Seto (UC Riverside)

59 EIC Detector R&D overview

(20 + 5)

Speakers: Carlos Munoz-Camacho (Orsay), Klaus Dehmelt (Stony Brook)

60 Insights from heavy ion physics: parton propagation and hadronization in nuclei and quark gluon plasma

(25 + 5)

Speaker: Yacine Mehtar-Tani (U. Washington/INT)

61 Electroweak physics at EIC

(25 + 5)

Speaker: Sonny Mantry (U. of North Georgia)

10:25 Coffee Break

62 Physics at EIC with real photons

(25 + 5)

Speaker: Justin Stevens (JLAB)

63 Hadronization in the current and target fragmentation regions

(25 + 5)

Speaker: Christian Weiss (JLab)

64 LHEC status and plans

(30 + 5)

Speaker: Nestor Armesto (University Santiago de Compostela)

Moving forward

Convener: Thomas Ullrich (BNL / Yale)

65 EIC Physics Discussions in Japan

(25 + 5)

Speaker: Yuji Goto (RIKEN)

66 Next Steps: EICUG activities toward CD0; identify and set up topical groups

Speaker: Zein-Eddine Meziani (Temple)