Conveners
Plenary Session 2
- Martha Constantinou (Temple University)
Description
co-host: Oleg Eyser
One of the motivations for the recent upgrade of Jefferson Lab was to precisely explore the connection between the fundamental quarks and gluons of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)- the accepted theory of the strong force- and the effective hadron descriptions of the strong interaction. The ultimate goal being an accurate understanding of the emergence of nuclei from QCD. The key experiments of...
The Beam Energy Scan (BES) program at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC) provides us a unique opportunity to study the phase structure of QCD matter at finite temperatures and densities. Phase II of the RHIC BES program will provide precision measurements for heavy-ion collisions below 20 GeV in collision energy. This talk will highlight recent theoretical progress towards a...
Unraveling the rich structure of hadrons requires studying its quark and gluon degrees of freedom including their transverse momenta and the origin of the proton spin in terms of the spin and orbital angular momenta of its constituents. To that end, a large number of experiments have been carried out over the past four decades at accelerator laboratories in the United States, Europe and Japan....
Nucleon structure is encoded in parton distribution functions (PDFs). Spin-averaged and spin-dependent PDFs contain information on the momentum distributions and spins of quarks and gluons. Measurements from collider and fixed target experiments provide rich datasets for precise determination of PDFs. In this talk, I will review the recent results and future prospects that relate to collinear PDFs.
