Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2016

DOI

10.1140/epja/i2016-16268-9

Publication Title

The European Physical Journal A

Volume

52

Issue

9

Pages

268 (1-100)

Abstract

This White Paper presents the science case of an Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), focused on the structure and interactions of gluon-dominated matter, with the intent to articulate it to the broader nuclear science community. It was commissioned by the managements of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) with the objective of presenting a summary of scientific opportunities and goals of the EIC as a follow-up to the 2007 NSAC Long Range plan. This document is a culmination of a community-wide effort in nuclear science following a series of workshops on EIC physics over the past decades and, in particular, the focused ten-week program on "Gluons and quark sea at high energies" at the Institute for Nuclear Theory in Fall 2010. It contains a brief description of a few golden physics measurements along with accelerator and detector concepts required to achieve them. It has been benefited profoundly from inputs by the users’ communities of BNL and JLab. This White Paper offers the promise to propel the QCD science program in the US, established with the CEBAF accelerator at JLab and the RHIC collider at BNL, to the next QCD frontier.

Comments

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Original Publication Citation

Accardi, A., Albacete, J. L., Anselmino, M., Armesto, N., Aschenauer, E. C., Bacchetta, A., . . . Zheng, L. (2016). Electron-Ion Collider: The next QCD frontier. The European Physical Journal A, 52(9), 268. doi:10.1140/epja/i2016-16268-9

ORCID

0000-0001-7282-8120 (Charles Hyde)

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