Electron-Ion Collider UK Gathering 2025

8 Dec 2025, 12:00 → 9 Dec 2025, 14:00 Europe/London

The aim of this meeting is to bring together UK based Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) researchers in person, to share ideas and discuss UK strategy and direction for EIC research. All are welcome, including colleagues not previously involved in EIC activities.

Monday 8 December

12:00 → 13:00 Arrival/Lunch

A light sandwich lunch will be provided from 12:00 onwards.

13:00 → 15:00 Afternoon 1 - UK ePIC Work Package Activities

13:00 Welcome/Introduction

Speaker: Stephen Kay (University of York)

13:10 UKRI Infracstructure Fund - Workpackages and Overview

Speaker: Daria Sokhan (CEA Saclay)

13:40 Low Q2 Tagger

Speaker: Kenneth Livingston (University of Glasgow)

14:10 DIRC Detector Characterisation Tests

Speaker: Kathleen Ramage

14:35 Muon Detection with ePIC

Speaker: Stuart Fegan (University of York)

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee/Tea Break

15:30 → 17:30 Afternoon 2 - UK EIC Activities

15:30 EIC Overview and UK Involvement

Speaker: Paul Newman (University of Birmingham, UK)

16:00 Rivet Progress Report and Tutorial/Demo

Speakers: Andy Buckley (University of Glasgow), Christian Gutschow (UCL)

19:00 → 21:00 Group Dinner

Everest Gurkha Nepalese Restaurant - Booked at 19:00.

Roughly a 10 minute walk.

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Tuesday 9 December

08:30 → 09:00 Breakfast Coffee

09:00 → 11:00 Morning 1 - UK ePIC Contributions

09:00 ePIC Luminosity Monitoring Systems

Speaker: Stephen Kay (University of York)

09:30 Inclusive DIS

Speaker: Stephen Maple (University of Birmingham)

10:00 DVJ/Psi -> MuMu

Speaker: Alex Smith (University of York)

10:30 Studying the performance of the ePIC detector with DVCS

Speaker: Oliver Jevons (staff@gla.ac.uk;member@gla.ac.uk)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee/Tea Break

11:30 → 13:00 Morning 2 - UK EIC Plans/Discussion

11:30 Use of Multi-Dimensional S-weights in Background Suppression

Speaker: Asli Acar

12:00 MSHT PDFs

Speaker: Thomas Cridge (University College London)

12:30 Photoproduction and Beyond in ep Collisions at EIC

Speaker: Frank Krauss (IPPP Durham)

13:00 → 14:00 Departure/Lunch