Name: ePIC and EIC Physics Readiness Workshop (2nd edition)
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 (2nd edition)

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

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

09:00 Greetings by the Physics Department Director - Francesco Valentini (University of Calabria)

09:05 Greetings by the INFN Cosenza's coordinator - ENRICO TASSI (Universita della Calabria)

09:10 Greetings by the INFN National Representative for ePIC Italia - Domenico Elia (INFN Bari)

09:20 Orientation - Salvatore Fazio (University of Calabria and INFN-Cosenza)

09:30 Introduction by the PACs (10' + 5') - Rachel Montgomery Salvatore Fazio (University of Calabria and INFN-Cosenza)

09:45 EIC running conditions and scenarios for the first 5 years (20' + 5') - 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 Day 1: Morning 2 - THEORY
Morning 2 - THEORY
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

11:30 Opportunities with constraining vacuum and nuclear FFs (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 Day 1: 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 Day 1: 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 - GLOBAL DISCUSSION
Wednesday, 18 March 2026
09:00 Day 2: 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 (25' + 5') - ENRICO TASSI (Universita della Calabria)

09:30 Synergies between UPCs at the LHC and the EIC (25' + 5') - Charlotte Van Hulse Charlotte Van Hulse

10:00 Elastic e-p scattering at ePIC for Early Physics (25' + 5') - Mikhail Osipenko (INFN sez. di Genova)

10:30 HERA to EIC - synergies and prospects (25' + 5') - Paul Newman (member@bham.ac.uk;staff@bham.ac.uk)
11:00 Cofee break
Cofee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Seminar Room
11:30 Day 2: 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 the dRICH Aerogel and planned performance studies (25' + 5') - Luisa Occhiuto

12:00 Holistic PID reconstruction (25' + 5') - Alexander Kiselev (BNL)

12:30 Jets reconstruction and control of systematics (25' + 5') - Brian Page (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Seminar Room
14:00 Day 2: 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 - Brian Page (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

14:30 Discussion - Hard Probes

15:00 BSM + EW - plan for impact studies - Zuhal Seyma Demiroglu (Stony Brook University) Zuhal Seyma Demiroglu (Stony Brook University)

15:30 LANL Group Report - Yasser Corrales Morales (LANL) Yasser Corrales Morales (LANL)

15:40 BNL BSM/EW Physics Program - Jae Nam (Temple University) Jae Nam (Temple University)

15:50 Discussion of BSM+EW for the full EIC
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:20
Room: Seminar Room
16:20 Day 2: Afternoon 2 - physics outreach
Afternoon 2 - physics outreach
16:20 - 17:30
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

16:20 Intro to the outreach session (5') - Marta Ruspa (Univ Piemonte Orientale & INFN, Torino)

16:25 The Masterclasses program for various experiments (15' + 5') - Annalisa De Caro (University and INFN Salerno)

16:45 Discussion - outreach ideas!
17:30 Bus Trasfer
Bus Trasfer
17:30 - 18:10
Room: Seminar Room

18:30 Promenade tour of the city of Cosenza
Promenade tour of the city of Cosenza
18:30 - 20:30
Room: Seminar Room

20:30 Social Dinner (self supported)
Social Dinner (self supported)
20:30 - 22:30
Room: Seminar Room

22:30 Bus Trasfer back to hotels and campus
Bus Trasfer back to hotels and campus
22:30 - 22:50
Room: Seminar Room
Thursday, 19 March 2026
09:00 Day 3: Morning 1 - Machine Background + reports by ECRs
Morning 1 - Machine Background + reports by ECRs
09:00 - 11:00
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

09:30 DVCS studies - update and plans (20' + 5') - Oliver Jevons (staff@gla.ac.uk;member@gla.ac.uk)

09:55 Suppression of the incoherent contribution to the differential cross section of phi production in e+Au collisions (20' + 5') - Maci Kesler (Kent State University)

10:20 Probing gluon saturation with dihadron correlations (20' + 5') - Gabriel Garcia (BNL)

10:45 Discussion
11:00 Cofee break
Cofee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Seminar Room
11:30 Day 3: Morning 2 - TDR & NIM A
Morning 2 - TDR & NIM A
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

11:30 TDR - plans and timelines (25' + 5') - Silvia Dalla Torre (INFN, Trieste)

12:00 Discussion - TDR readiness

12:30 NIM A special issue (10' + 5') - 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 Day 3: Joint Session with S&C
Joint Session with S&C
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

14:00 PID Reconstruction Update - Chandradoy Chatterjee (INFN Trieste)

14:20 Discussion

14:30 Particle Flow and Electron Finder Algorithms: Update - Derek Anderson (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility)

14:40 Muon Finder Algorithm: Update - Stephen Kay (University of York)

14:50 Discussion

15:00 Mini-tutorial on background data structure and analysis - Dmitry Romanov (Jefferson lab)

15:25 Background effects in Tracking and Vertex reconstruciton - Shujie Li (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

15:45 Discussion: Machine Backgrounds in Physics Analyses - Dmitrii Kalinkin (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
16:00 Cofee break
Cofee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Seminar Room
16:30 Day 3: Joint Session with S&C
Joint Session with S&C
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Seminar Room
Contributions

16:30 Simulation Campaign Update - Sakib Rahman (NPPS-BNL)

17:15 Rucio - Stephen Kay (University of York)