[2023.08.31] 14:00-15:00 ❘ Dr. Rolf Ent (Jefferson Lab USA) :The Electron-Ion Collider: The Quest to Understand the Fundamental Structure of Matter
******** CTC Particle Physics Seminar ********
Speaker： Dr. Rolf Ent (Jefferson Lab USA)
Title ： The Electron-Ion Collider: The Quest to Understand the Fundamental Structure of Matter
Time ： 14:00-15:00, Thursday, 2023/8/31
Place ： P512, 5F, 3rd General Building, Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ.
Host ： Prof. Po-Ju Lin (NCU)
Abstract:
Nuclear matter is made of quarks that are bound by gluons that also bind themselves. Unlike with the more familiar atomic and molecular matter, the interactions and structures in nuclear matter are inextricably mixed up, and observed properties of nucleons and nuclei, such as mass and spin, emerge out of this complex system. Ongoing and future QCD research offers the exciting prospect to obtain a multi-dimensional picture of the inner quark-gluon structure of protons and atomic nuclei and to inform us how the properties and structure of nuclear matter have emerged from the dynamics of QCD. A future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) is planned at Brookhaven National Lab, in partnership with Jefferson Lab. The EIC will have a versatile range of beam energies, polarizations, and ion species, as well as high luminosity, to precisely image quarks, gluons, and their interactions in protons and complex atomic nuclei. Using its versatility, the EIC can probe deep inside nuclei where structures and dynamics are expected to become dominated by dense systems of gluons, possibly reaching a state of saturation. The overarching EIC goal is an understanding of the internal structure of nuclear matter comparable to our knowledge of the electronic structure of atoms. The present status of the EIC and the worldwide efforts towards the realization of the ePIC detector will also be presented.
Speaker： Dr. Rolf Ent (Jefferson Lab USA)
Title ： The Electron-Ion Collider: The Quest to Understand the Fundamental Structure of Matter
Time ： 14:00-15:00, Thursday, 2023/8/31
Place ： P512, 5F, 3rd General Building, Nat'l Tsing Hua Univ.
Host ： Prof. Po-Ju Lin (NCU)
Abstract:
Nuclear matter is made of quarks that are bound by gluons that also bind themselves. Unlike with the more familiar atomic and molecular matter, the interactions and structures in nuclear matter are inextricably mixed up, and observed properties of nucleons and nuclei, such as mass and spin, emerge out of this complex system. Ongoing and future QCD research offers the exciting prospect to obtain a multi-dimensional picture of the inner quark-gluon structure of protons and atomic nuclei and to inform us how the properties and structure of nuclear matter have emerged from the dynamics of QCD. A future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) is planned at Brookhaven National Lab, in partnership with Jefferson Lab. The EIC will have a versatile range of beam energies, polarizations, and ion species, as well as high luminosity, to precisely image quarks, gluons, and their interactions in protons and complex atomic nuclei. Using its versatility, the EIC can probe deep inside nuclei where structures and dynamics are expected to become dominated by dense systems of gluons, possibly reaching a state of saturation. The overarching EIC goal is an understanding of the internal structure of nuclear matter comparable to our knowledge of the electronic structure of atoms. The present status of the EIC and the worldwide efforts towards the realization of the ePIC detector will also be presented.