Speaker
Description
The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) is a next-generation facility designed to investigate the gluonic structure of nucleons and nuclei via Deep Inelastic Scattering. The EIC physics program, outlined in the EIC White Paper and Yellow Report, led to the development of the general-purpose ePIC detector. To enhance the scientific reach of the EIC, the community supports the addition of a second general-purpose detector with complementary technologies and capabilities. This second detector would enable crucial cross-checks, improved control of systematics, and specific measurements that are less well addressed in ePIC. The second interaction region offers enhanced forward acceptance at low transverse momentum and a secondary beam focus, making it particularly suitable for exclusive, tagging, and diffractive physics studies. In this talk, I present a simulation study focused on incoherent diffractive vector meson production, $e + Pb \rightarrow e' + J/\Psi + X$, using a proposed layout for the second detector. I also discuss muon identification in ePIC and its relevance for developing complementary capabilities in Detector-2.
