Speaker
Dr
Salvatore Fazio
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Description
The 2015 U.S. Nuclear Physics Long-Range Plan recommended the realization of an
electron-ion collider (EIC) as the next large construction project in the United States. A
U.S.-based EIC has also recently been endorsed by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
With the design of an EIC, advancements in theory and further development of phenomenological tools, we are now preparing for the next step in subnuclear tomographic imaging. The
collider’s large range of center-of-mass energies in combination with very high luminosity and
polarization of both the lepton and the hadron beams, will open a unique opportunity for very
high precision measurements of both cross sections and spin-asymmetries. This will allow us
for a detailed investigation of the partonic substructure of hadrons in multi-dimensions, as
well as addressing the role of orbital angular momentum with respect to the nucleon spin.
Generalized parton distributions (GPDs) describe the multi-dimensional partonic structure
of a nucleon in coordinate space, providing new information about the internal dynamics of
quarks and gluons. Measurements of GPDs with hard exclusive processes, with all related
probes, are an essential element of the EIC science program. This talk will highlight key measurements, experimental challenges, and finally discuss the EIC’s expected impact over the
current knowledge of the partonic multidimensional structure of hadrons in space coordinates.
Primary author
Dr
Salvatore Fazio
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
