Name: ePIC and EIC Physics Readiness Workshop
Start: 2026-03-17T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-19T18:00:00+01:00
Location: University of Calabria, Physics Department & INFN Cosenza

ePIC and EIC Physics Readiness Workshop

from Tuesday 17 March 2026 (09:00) to Thursday 19 March 2026 (18:00)

Monday 16 March 2026
Tuesday 17 March 2026
09:00 Morning 1 - Introduction
Morning 1 - Introduction
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

09:00 Local greetings

09:15 Orientation - Salvatore Fazio (University of Calabria and INFN-Cosenza)

09:25 Introduction by the PACs - Rachel Montgomery Salvatore Fazio (University of Calabria and INFN-Cosenza)

09:45 EIC running conditions and scenarios for the first 5 years - E. C. Aschenauer (BNL)

10:10 ESR - Feedback from Refereees on structure/contents of the main document - John Lajoie (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

10:30 Discussion on main document
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Seminar Room
11:30 Morning 2 - THEORY
Morning 2 - THEORY
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

11:30 Opportunities in PDFs (20'+5') - Maria Pia Zurita (UCM)

11:55 Opportunities in TMDs (20'+5') - Marco Radici (INFN - Sezione di Pavia)

12:20 Opportunities in gluon saturation (20'+5') - Michael Fucilla (Università della calabria)

12:45 Discussion on theory opportunities
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Seminar Room
14:00 Afternoon 1 - ESR
Afternoon 1 - ESR
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

14:00 ESR - The Inclusive appendix - Stephen Maple (University of Birmingham) Win Lin (Stony Brook University)

14:15 ESR - feedback by referees on Inclusive

14:30 Discussion - Inclusive

15:00 ESR - The SIDIS appendix - Anselm Vossen (member@duke.edu;faculty@duke.edu) Ralf Seidl (Tokyo University QNSI)

15:15 ESR - feedback by referees on SIDIS

15:30 Discussion - SIDIS
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Seminar Room
16:30 Afternoon 2 - ESR
Afternoon 2 - ESR
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

16:30 ESR - The EDT appendix - Stephen Kay (University of York) Zhoudunming Tu (BNL)

16:45 ESR - feedback by referees on EDT

17:00 Discussion - EDT

17:30 ESR - real time editing and adjusting (hands on)
Wednesday 18 March 2026
09:00 Morning 1 - HERA/LHC/EIC synergies
Morning 1 - HERA/LHC/EIC synergies
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

09:00 PDFs - Impact of LHC at the beginning of the EIC era - ENRICO TASSI (Universita della Calabria)

09:30 HERA to EIC - synergies and prospects - Paul Newman (member@bham.ac.uk;staff@bham.ac.uk)

10:00 UPC and nPDFs - Impact of LHC at the beginning of the EIC era - Charlotte Van Hulse Charlotte Van Hulse

10:30 Elastic e-p scattering at ePIC for Early Physics - Mikhail Osipenko (INFN sez. di Genova)
11:00 Cofee break
Cofee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Seminar Room
11:30 Morning 2 - PID and Jets simulation and reco
Morning 2 - PID and Jets simulation and reco
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

11:30 Simulation of PID systems at ePIC - Chandradoy Chatterjee (INFN Trieste)

12:00 Holistic PID reconstruction - Alexander Kiselev (BNL)

12:30 Jets reconstruction and control of systematics - Brian Page (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Seminar Room
14:00 Afternoon 1 - ESR
Afternoon 1 - ESR
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

14:00 ESR - The Hard Probes appendix - Rongrong Ma (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Shyam Kumar (University and INFN Bari)

14:15 ESR - feedback by referees on Hard Probes

14:30 Discussion - Hard Probes

15:00 BSM + EW - plan for impact studies

15:30 Discussion of BSM+EW for the full EIC
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Seminar Room
16:30 Afternoon 2 - physics outreach
Afternoon 2 - physics outreach
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

16:30 Physics outreach in ePIC - E. C. Aschenauer (BNL)

16:50 Ongoing outreach activities in Italy - Marta Ruspa (Univ Piemonte Orientale & INFN, Torino)

17:10 ePIC outreach to hgih and mid-school students (masterclass...)

17:30 Discussion - outreach ideas!
Thursday 19 March 2026
09:00 Morning 1 - reports by ECRs
Morning 1 - reports by ECRs
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

09:00 Suppression of the incoherent contribution to the differential cross section of phi production in e+Au collisions - Maci Kesler (Kent State University)

09:25 Contributed talk

09:50 Contributed Talk

10:10 Contributed Talk

10:30 Probing gluon saturation with dihadron correlations - Gabriel Garcia (BNL)
11:00 Cofee break
Cofee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Seminar Room
11:30 Morning 2 - TDR & NIM A
Morning 2 - TDR & NIM A
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

11:30 TDR - plans and timelines - Silvia Dalla Torre (INFN, Trieste)

12:00 Discussion - TDR readiness

12:30 NIM A special issue - John Lajoie (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

12:45 Discussion on NIM A special issue
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Seminar Room

14:00 Afternoon 1 - joint session with S&C
Afternoon 1 - joint session with S&C
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Seminar Room

16:00 Cofee break
Cofee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Seminar Room

16:30 Afternoon 2 - joint session with S&C
Afternoon 2 - joint session with S&C
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Seminar Room

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