Electron-Ion Collider Collaboration Meeting

6-7 April, 2007, at MIT

The meetings will take place in Building 26 Room 414 - The Kolker Room of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science at MIT.

Directions can be found at MIT map

A printable version of this agenda can be found here.

Agenda

Friday, April 6, 2007

Session 1: The Nucleon: Science case - Chair: Abhay Deshpande

  • 09:00 Welcome, overview of meeting goals - Richard Milner
  • 09:15 Central questions in proton structure - Werner Vogelsang and Abhay Deshpande
  • 09:45 The gluon contribution to nucleon spin - Antje Bruell
  • 10:30 Coffee
  • 11:00-12:00 Short presentations (~15 min each)
    • The gluon distribution in the proton - Allen Caldwell
    • GPD determinations with EIC - Christian Weiss
  • 12:00 Discussion: Explicit planning for Galveston:
    • What plots and simulations plots to be improved and finalized?
    • What open questions remain and how do we address them?
  • 12:30 Lunch (brought in)

Session 2: The Nucleus: Science case - Chair: Peter Jacobs

  • 13:30 Study of the universal nature of the strong gluon fields in nuclei - Thomas Ullrich
  • 14:00 Saturation physics – Yuri Kovchegov
  • 14:30 Development of MC generators: problems, issues, solutions – Brian Cole
  • 15:00 Coffee
  • 15:30-16:30 Short Presentations (~10-15 min each)
    • Perspectives on universality - Krishna Rajagopal
    • The Oompf factor in eA: The A dependence of the saturation scale - Thomas Lappi
    • Diffraction in eA - Cyrille Marquet
    • Longitudinal structure functions at an electron-ion collider - James Dunlop
    • prospects of charm measurements at a new electron-ion collider - Zhangbu Xu
  • 16:30 Discussion: Explicit planning for Galveston:
    • What plots and simulations plots to be improved and finalized?
    • What open questions remain and how do we address them?
  • 17:00 Finalization of:
    • 1-page science summary for EIC (R. Milner)
    • 1-page EIC accelerator specifications (A. Deshpande and R. Ent)

20:00 Dinner at Ristorante Fiore

Saturday, April 7, 2007

Session 3: EIC Accelerator - Chair: Chris Tschalär

  • Each talk should both overview the accelerator design (with cost and time scales) and detail the R&D plans (with cost and time scales).
  • 9:00 Discussion eRHIC R&D and realization plan - Thomas Roser
  • 9:45 Discussion eLIC R&D and realization plan - Lia Merminga
  • 10:30 Coffee
  • 11:00 Discussion of EIC accelerator designs and R&D plans
    • 1-page summary for Galveston (T. Roser and L. Merminga)
  • 12:30 Lunch (brought in)

Session 4: EIC Detector and Collaboration organization - Chair: Allen Caldwell

  • 13:30 EIC Detector R&D plans - Bernd Surrow and Rolf Ent
  • 14:30 Preparation for Galveston - Rolf Ent
    • 1 page science overview (R. Milner)
    • 1 page accelerator specifications (R. Ent and A. Deshpande)
    • 1 page accelerator R&D overview (T. Roser and L. Merminga)
    • 1 page detector R&D overview (B. Surrow and R. Ent)
    • The draft recommendation for Galveston
    • List of likely questions and answers (E. Aschenauer)
  • 15:30 Coffee
  • 16:00 EIC Collaboration structure and organization - Abhay Deshpande

Updated Thursday, April 5, 2007 14:57