Abstract
In this talk, I demonstrate that the proposed Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will be an ideal and unique future facility to address many overarching questions about QCD and strong interaction physics at one place. The EIC will be the world's first polarized electron-proton (and light ion), as well as the first electron-nucleus collider at flexible collision energies. With its high luminosity and beam polarization, the EIC distinguishes itself from HERA and the other fixed target electron-hadron facilities around the world. The EIC is capable of taking us to the next QCD frontier to explore the glue that binds us all.
Highlights
Understanding the evolution of our universe from its origin to its current state, and the fundamental structure of all matters within it, is one of the most central goals of human scientific endeavor
It is the discovery of the atomic structure and the nucleus by the Rutherford experiment over 100 years ago that led to the discovery of quantum mechanics and the quantum world, which forever changed our view of the universe that we are living in
It is the modern “Rutherford” experiment, scattering between an electron and a proton, performed at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in the sixties that discovered quarks, the fundamental constituents of the proton, which led. This is an Open Access article published by World Scientific Publishing Company
Summary
Understanding the evolution of our universe from its origin (the Big Bang) to its current state, and the fundamental structure of all matters within it, is one of the most central goals of human scientific endeavor. Understanding the properties of the glue and its role in determining the internal structure and interactions of nucleons and nuclei, as well as their emergence from colored quarks and gluons, as dictated by QCD, is a fundamental and compelling goal of nuclear science. In this talk, I briefly review the proposed Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), and highlight its science case for building it in the United States. Much of the physics presented here are fully documented in the EIC White Paper [1], put together by a writing committee, appointed jointly by the managements of Brookhaven Nationational Laboratory (BNL) and Jefferson Laboratory (JLab), with many valuable suggestions and comments from the broad nuclear physics community
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