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.
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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 Despande
- 09:45 The gluon contribution to nucleon spin - Antje Bruell
- 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?
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
- 15:30-16:30 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)
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
- 11:00 Discussion of EIC accelerator designs and R&D plans
- 1-page summary for Galveston (T. Roser and L. Merminga)
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)
- 16:00 EIC Collaboration structure and organization - Abhay Deshpande