2014 Long-range plan Joint Town Meetings on QCD at Temple University

13 Sept 2014, 07:30 → 15 Sept 2014, 20:00 US/Eastern

Howard Gittis Student Center

APS Division of Nuclear Physics
2014 Long-range plan Joint Town Meetings on QCD
Temple University, Howard Gittis Student Center
September 13-15, 2014

Paper

• http://arxiv.org/pdf/1208.1244.pdf
• http://arxiv.org/pdf/1212.1701v2.pdf
• http://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.3723v2.pdf
• http://science.energy.gov/~/media/np/nsac/pdf/docs/2013/NSAC_FacilitiesReport.pdf
• http://science.energy.gov/~/media/np/nsac/pdf/docs/NuclearScienceHighRes.pdf
• http://science.energy.gov/~/media/np/nsac/pdf/docs/nuclear_science_low_res.pdf
• http://science.energy.gov/np/nsac/reports/nsac-long-range-plan-2007-subcommittee-white-papers/
• https://phys.cst.temple.edu/qcd/doc/arXiv-WP.pdf
• https://phys.cst.temple.edu/qcd/doc/RHI_WP_final.pdf

Saturday 13 September

07:30 Breakfast

Phases of QCD Matter / Opening: Chair: Ulrich Heinz and Paul Sorensen

1 Opening remarks / Local organizing committee

Speaker: Prof. Bernd Surrow (Temple University)

Slides Introduction.pdf

2 Opening remarks / Program committee

Speakers: Dr Paul Sorensen (BNL), Prof. Ulrich Heinz (Ohio State University)

QCD and Hadron Physics / Opening: Chair: Haiyan Gao and Craig Roberts

3 Opening remarks / Local organizing committee

Speaker: Prof. Nikos Sparveris (Temple University)

Slides Introduction.pdf

4 Opening remarks / Program committee

Speakers: Dr Craig Roberts (ANL), Prof. Haiyan Gao (Duke University)

Slides 140913Temple.pptx

Phases of QCD Matter / Theory Overview: Chair: Steve Vigdor

5 Open questions in theory, why they are interesting, what tools we have to address them

Speaker: Prof. Krishna Rajagopal (MIT)

Slides LRP_2014_Philadelphia_base.pdf

6 Discussion

7 Lattice QCD for RHIC and LHC: From now to the next decade

Speaker: Dr Swagato Mukherjee (BNL)

Slides SwagatoMukherjee.pdf

8 Discussion

QCD and Hadron Physics / Hadron Structure at Short Distance I: Chair: Sebastian Kuhn

9 Theoretical Overview: Nucleon spin structure and orbital angular momentum

Speaker: Dr Jianwei Qiu (BNL)

Slides Qiu-TownMeeting.pdf

10 Experimental overview: Nucleon spin structure

Speaker: Dr Ralf Seidl (RIKEN)

Slides 2014_09_13_seidl_nucleonspin_v1.4.pdf

11 Parton distribution functions

Speaker: Prof. Jen-Chieh Peng (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Slides QCD_Peng.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

Phases of QCD Matter / QGP evolution, EOS and transport properties: Chair: Volker Koch

12 The standard model for QGP evolution: Theoretical status and future

Speaker: Dr Bjoern Schenke (BNL)

Slides schenke_LRP_v3.pdf

13 Discussion

14 The standard model for QGP evolution: Experimental status and future

Speaker: Prof. Raimond Snellings (Utrecht University)

Slides SnellingsLRP.pdf

15 Discussion

QCD and Hadron Physics / Hadron Structure at Short Distance II (Incl. Short presentations): Chair: Feng Yuan

slides QCD-Hadron-Physics-Short-Presentations-I-Saturday-Morning.pdf

16 Nucleon tomography

Speaker: Prof. Andreas Metz (Temple University)

Slides QCD_townmeeting_metz.pdf

17 Pre-Town Meeting summary

Speakers: Dr Alexei Prokudin (JLab), Prof. Leonard Gamberg (PSU)

Slides Temple_Prokudin.pdf

18 SoLID

Speaker: Dr Jian-Ping Chen (JLab)

Slides Chen_townmeeting_2014_SoLID.pdf

19 Polarized Drell-Yan at FNAL

Speaker: Prof. Wolfgang Lorenzen (University Of Michigan)

Slides Lorenzon-pol-DY-FNAL-LRP.pdf

20 The importance of a new transverse spin program at RHIC and its impact on future e+p physics

Speaker: Dr Ming Liu (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Slides QCD-Townhall2014-Spin-TMD-MingLiu.pdf

21 Correlations between target and current fragmentation in SIDIS

Speaker: Dr Harut Avakian (JLab)

Slides avakian-TM-target.pdf

22 Tensor Spin Observables

Speaker: Dr Elena Long (University Of New Hampshire)

Slides ELong.pdf

23 SoLID-PVDIS (d/u)

Speaker: Prof. Paul Souder (Syracuse University)

Slides P.Souder.pdf

24 Studies of chiral-odd GPDs in exclusive production of pseudoscalar mesons

Speaker: Dr Andrey Kim (University Of Connecticut)

Slides AKim_JointTownMeeting2014.pdf

25 JLab GPD program results and projections at 12 GeV

Speaker: Dr Francois-Xavier Girod (JLab)

Slides Girod_TownMeeting_QCD.pdf

26 Future prospects of di-jet production constraining delta g(x) at low x at STAR at RHIC

Speaker: Prof. Bernd Surrow (Temple University)

Slides BSurrow-Joint-QCD-Town-Meeting-2014.pdf

12:15 Lunch Break / QCD and Hadron Physics

12:30 Lunch Break / Phases of QCD Matter

QCD and Hadron Physics / Hadron Structure at Long Distance (Incl. Short presentations): Chair: John Arrington

slides Hadron-Physics-Short-Presentations-II.pdf

27 Electro-magnetic Form Factors of nucleons

Speaker: Prof. Ron Gilman (Rutgers University)

Slides 2014LRP-NucleonFormFactors.pdf

28 Parity-violating electron scattering and Hadron Structure

Speaker: Prof. Krishna Kumar (Stony Brook University)

Slides pvesqcdtown.pdf

29 Charged pion form factors

Speaker: Prof. Tanja Horn (Catholic University of America)

Slides horn_meson_ff_qcd_town_meeting_2014.pdf

30 Expressions of chiral dynamics in hadrons and nuclei

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Phillips (Ohio University)

Slides Phillips.pdf

31 Probing Hadron Structure with Photons

Speaker: Dr Calvin Howell (Duke University And TUNL)

Slides Howell_QCDTM2014_fv.pdf

32 The axial form factor of the proton

Speaker: Prof. Steve Pate (New Mexico State University)

Slides Pate_QCD_2014.pdf

33 Q-Qbar Creation Studies

Speaker: Dr Mac Mestayer (JLab)

Slides Mac-Mestayer-qqbar-creation-studies.pdf

34 J/Psi near threshold from SoLID

Speaker: Dr Zhiwen Zhao (ODU / Jefferson Lab)

Slides ZhiwenZhao_SoLID_JPsi_townmeeting_2014.pdf

35 Problems with the Two-Nucleon System

Speaker: Prof. Blaine Norum (University of Virginia)

Slides LRP_2014_Presentation.pdf

36 Chiral dynamics: 2 photons and a few nucleons

Speaker: Prof. Harold Griesshammer (George Washington University)

Slides Griesshammer.pdf

37 Nucleon EM polarizabilities from Compton Scattering below pion threshold

Speaker: Prof. Mohammad Ahmed (North Carolina Central University / TUNL)

Slides Ahmed-QCD-Town-Meeting-Short_Pret.pdf

38 Elastic Nucleon Form Factor Program with Super Bigbite

Speaker: Dr Seamus Riordan (University Of Massachusetts Amherst)

Slides lrp_slides_v4.pdf

Phases of QCD Matter / BES and QCD Phase Diagram: Chair: Rosi Reed

39 BES I Results, Motivation for BES II, Future Facilities

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Cebra (UC Davis)

Slides LRP_TownMeeting_Cebra_v4_Temple.pdf

40 Discussion

41 Studying the QCD Phase Diagram via BES

Speaker: Prof. Mikhail Stephanov (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Slides qcdtown-2014-slides.pdf

42 Dynamical modeling at low collision energy and high mu_b

Speaker: Prof. Hannah Petersen (Frankfurt Institute For Advanced Studies)

Slides petersen_town_meeting_v5.pdf

43 Discussion

Phases of QCD Matter / Community Input: Chair: Ulrich Heinz and Paul Sorensen

slides ShortContr_HotQCD_Saturday3-3-30.pdf

44 Studying the QCD phase structure at high baryon density

Speaker: Dr Nu Xu (LBNL)

Slides NuXu_HotQCD.pdf

45 Quantifying the properties of QCD matter with relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Speaker: Prof. Scott Pratt (Michigan State University)

Slides pratt_shortcontribution.pdf

46 Forward-central pion-quarkonia correlations at RHIC

Speaker: Dr Michal Sumbera (Nuclear Physics Institute ASCR)

Slides Sumbera_HotQCD.pdf

47 Coherent pion photoproduction

Speaker: Prof. William Briscoe (The George Washington University)

Slides SkinWJB.pdf

15:30 Coffee Break

Joint Session: Chair: Jim Napolitano

48 Introduction - Temple University President

Speaker: Prof. Zein-Eddine Meziani (Temple University)

49 Welcome Address by Temple University President

Speaker: Dr Neil Theobald (Temple University)

50 Nuclear Theory since 2007 and for the next decade: An overview

Speaker: Prof. David Kaplan (Institute For Nuclear Theory)

Slides NT_Talk.pdf

51 Discussion

52 Highlights from QCD and Hadron Physics since 2007

Speaker: Dr Rolf Ent (JLab)

Slides Holt_Ent_town_meeting_Sep_13.pptx

53 Vision for QCD and Hadron Physics

Speaker: Prof. Naomi Makins (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Slides QCDTownMtg14.pdf

54 Discussion

55 RHIC and LHC Overview: Where are we? Where are we going?

Speaker: Prof. Bill Zajc (Columbia University)

Slides ZajcQCDTownMeeting2014.pdf ZajcQCDTownMeeting2014.pptx

56 Discussion

18:35 Short Break

Joint Session: Chair: Richard Milner

57 Why we need an EIC: a view from 30,000 feet

Speaker: Prof. Berndt Mueller (BNL / Duke University)

Slides QCD_Town_Meeting_140914_BM.pdf

58 Why we need an EIC: a view from 10,000 meters

Speaker: Prof. Bob McKeown (JLab)

Slides BMCK_EIC_TownMeeting2014-2.pdf BMCK_EIC_TownMeeting2014-2.pptx

59 Discussion

Sunday 14 September

07:30 Breakfast

Joint Session: Chair: Jianwei Qiu

60 Theoretical issues in Nucleon Structure

Speaker: Prof. Xiangdong Ji (University of Maryland)

Slides nucleon_ji.pptx

61 Probing Nucleon Structure at an EIC

Speaker: Prof. Zein-Eddine Meziani (Temple University)

Slides EIC_TownM_meziani-09-14-14.pptx

62 Probing the properties of QCD with atomic nuclei: theoretical aspects

Speaker: Prof. Yuri Kovchegov (Ohio State University)

Slides Temple.pdf Temple.pptx

63 Probing the properties of QCD with atomic nuclei: experimental aspects

Speaker: Dr Thomas Ullrich (BNL)

Slides TownMeeting-Ullrich-EIC-eA.pdf

64 Discussion

11:00 Coffee Break

Joint Session / Community Input: Chair: Craig Roberts

65 Next-generation nuclear DIS with spectator tagging at EIC

Speaker: Dr Christian Weiss (JLab)

Slides weiss_eic.pdf

66 Neutron Spin Structure via Spectator Tagging at the EIC

Speaker: Prof. Charles Hyde (Old Dominion University)

Slides CEH-NeutronSpinTagging.pdf

67 Transverse momentum dependence of sea quark distributions

Speaker: Dr Harut Avakian (JLab)

Slides avakian-TM-sea.pdf

68 Why QGP Physicists should want to study e+A

Speaker: Prof. Barbara Jacak (Stony Brook University)

Slides Jacak_TM_EIC.pdf

69 Joint Session / EIC White paper discussion - Part I

12:40 Lunch Break

Joint Session / EIC White paper discussion: Chair: Abhay Deshpande

slides EICBulletRecoPresentation.pdf EICBulletRecoPresentation.pptx

70 Joint Session / Discussion about EIC part of the white paper writing and assignments - Part II

Joint Session / Reports from other Town Meetings: Chair: Paul Sorenson

71 Report from Computational Nuclear Physics Town Meeting

Speaker: Dr Peter Petreczky (BNL)

Slides town14.pdf

72 Report from Computational Nuclear Physics Town Meeting

Speaker: Prof. Martin Savage (Institute for Nuclear Theory)

Slides SAVAGE_TownHall_QCD_v1.4_pdf.pdf

73 Report from Education and Innovation Town Meeting

Speaker: Dr Thia Keppel (JLab)

Slides E-I-Summary_QCD_Keppel.pdf

74 Discussion

16:00 Coffee Break

Phases of QCD Matter / Low-x, pA, spin: Chair: Adrian Dumitru

75 Unique opportunities in p+A collisions at RHIC and LHC

Speaker: Dr Zhong-Bo Kang (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

Slides Kang-2.pdf

76 Discussion

77 p+A experiments at RHIC and the LHC and related upgrades

Speaker: Prof. John Lajoie (University of Iowa)

Slides The_p+A_Programs_at_RHIC_and_the_LHC.pdf The_p+A_Programs_at_RHIC_and_the_LHC.pptx

78 Discussion

79 Opportunities for RHIC Spin in the Coming Decade

Speaker: Dr Elke Aschenauer (BNL)

Slides eca-rhic.spin.HotQCD.pptx

80 Discussion

QCD and Hadron Physics / Theory (Incl. Short presentations): Chair: Craig Roberts

slides Short-Presentation-Sunday.pdf

81 Lattice-based studies of QCD

Speaker: Dr D.G. Richards (JLab)

Slides temple.pdf

82 Continuum-based studies of QCD

Speaker: Dr Ian Cloet (ANL)

Slides cloet_town_meeting_2014.pdf

83 pQCD at the collider (LHC/RHIC)

Speaker: Prof. Iain Stewart (MIT)

Slides Stewart_QCDcolliders2.pdf

84 Precision Jet Physics in Electron-Proton Collisions

Speaker: Dr Chris Lee (LANL)

Slides Christopher_Lee_14Sep.pdf

85 OAM and GTMDs

Speaker: Prof. Simonetta Liuti (University of Virginia)

Slides liuti_TownMeeting14.pdf

86 The prospects of two-photon physics with lattice QCD

Speaker: Prof. Brian Tiburzi (City College Of New York)

Slides tiburzi.pdf

87 Transverse force on quarks in DIS

Speaker: Prof. Matthias Burkardt (NMSU)

Slides Temple14.pdf

Monday 15 September

07:30 Breakfast

Phases of QCD Matter / Jet studies of QCD matter: Chair: Jiangyong Jia

88 Probing properties of QGP with jets at RHIC and LHC: a theoretical perspective

Speaker: Dr Xin-Nian Wang (LBNL)

Slides hotQCD-xnwang.pdf

89 Discussion

90 Jet studies at LHC & RHIC now and tomorrow

Speaker: Prof. Gunther Roland (MIT)

Slides HotQCD_Roland.pdf

91 Discussion

92 What jets studies at RHIC can tell us about QGP properties

Speaker: Prof. Jamie Nagle (University of Colorado)

Slides nagle_QCDtownmeeting_2014_postversion.pdf nagle_QCDtownmeeting_2014_postversion.pptx

93 Discussion

QCD and Hadron Physics / Hadron Spectroscopy I: Chair: Volker Burkert

94 Theory Overview: QCD and Meson spectrum

Speaker: Dr Michael Pennington (JLab)

Slides Pennington_Mesons@Temple.pdf

95 Experiment Overview on Meson Spectroscopy: Current and future

Speaker: Prof. Curtis Meyer (Carnegie Mellon University)

Slides Meyer_Mesons_Town_Meeting.pdf

96 Theory Overview on Baryon Spectroscopy

Speaker: Dr Michael Doering (George Washington University)

Slides Doering_QCD_Town_Meeting_2014.pdf

10:00 Coffee Break

Phases of QCD Matter / Heavy quarks and quarkonium as a probe of the QGP: Chair: Xin-Nian Wang

97 Experimental summary of the next decade with heavy quarks and quarkonium

Speaker: Dr Lijuan Ruan (BNL)

Slides LongRangePlanMeeting_LijuanRuan.pdf

98 Discussion

99 Theory: what we know about the QGP from HQ and what we can still learn

Speaker: Prof. Derek Teaney (Stony Brook University)

Slides dteaney_hq.pdf

100 Discussion

QCD and Hadron Physics / Hadron Spectroscopy II (Incl. Short presentations): Chair: Patrizia Rossi

slides Short-Presentations-Monday-Morning-I.pdf

101 Experimental overview on Baryon Spectroscopy: Current and future

Speaker: Prof. Ralf Gothe (University Of South Carolina)

document Write-up-for-the-White-Paper.pdf

Slides Presentation-Temple-RG.pptx Presentation-Temple-RWG.pdf

102 Baryon Spectroscopy with Photoproduction of Mesons at MAMI - Mainz

Speaker: Prof. William Briscoe (The George Washington University)

Slides MainzEta.pdf

103 Why we need meson beams

Speaker: Prof. Igor Strakovsky (The George Washington University)

Slides IStrakovsky.pdf

104 Hadron spectroscopy at FIU: New Opportunities

Speaker: Prof. Lei Guo (Florida International University)

Slides DOE_QCD_Guo_2014.pdf

105 Contribution to LRP from the N* structure exploration in exclusive electroproduction

Speaker: Dr Victor Mokeev (Jefferson Lab)

Slides brDC0v-Temple_mokeev8.pdf Temple_mokeev8.pdf

106 XYZ states in charmonium and bottomonium

Speaker: Dr Ryan Mitchell (Indiana University)

Slides xyz.pdf

107 Amplitude analysis: linking experiment and theory

Speaker: Prof. Adam Szczepaniak (Indiana University)

Slides Szczepaniak-09-13-2014.pdf

QCD and Hadron Physics / QCD and Nuclei: Chair: Haiyan Gao

108 Effect of short-range interactions on nuclei

Speaker: Dr Doug Higinbotham (JLab)

Slides higinbotham-f1.pdf

109 Nuclei at short distance scales

Speaker: Prof. Patricia Solvignon (University Of New Hampshire)

Slides Nuclei_ShortDistance.pdf

110 Parton distributions in nuclei

Speaker: Prof. Wally Melnitchouk (JLab)

Slides Melnitchouk.pdf

111 Short presentations and general discussion

Speaker: Dr Henry Weller (Duke University and TUNL)

Slides Weller_final_qcd_townmeeting.pdf

Phases of QCD Matter / Community Input: Chair: Ulrich Heinz and Paul Sorensen

slides ShortContr_HotQCD_Monday11.20-13.00.pdf

112 Interplay of QCD and electromagnetism in relativistic heavy-ion collisions

Speaker: Prof. Ho-Ung Yee (University Of Illinois at Chicago and RBRC)

Slides Ho-Ung-Yee_HotQCD.pdf

113 Dileptons and chiral symmetry restoration

Speaker: Dr Paul Hohler (Texas A&M University)

Slides Hohler_HotQCD.pdf

114 Future Dilepton Measurements at RHIC

Speaker: Prof. Frank Geurts (Rice University)

Slides Geurts_HotQCD.pdf

115 Soft photon measurements: present and future

Speaker: Dr Takao Sakaguchi (BNL)

Slides Sakaguchi_HotQCD.pdf

116 Upsilon measurements with sPHENIX

Speaker: Prof. Tony Frawley (Florida State University)

Slides Frawley_HotQCD.pdf

117 Future high statistics heavy flavor physics opportunities with the ALICE Run 3 upgrade

Speaker: Prof. Christine Nattrass (University Of Tennessee Knoxville)

Slides Nattrass_HotQCD.pdf

118 Summary of the 3rd Workshop on Jet Modification in the RHIC and LHC Era

Speaker: Prof. Rosi Reed (Wayne State University)

Slides RReed_HotQCD.pdf

119 Jet-hadron, gluon-hadron and hadron-hadron angular correlations at p_T=10-20 GeV/c

Speaker: Prof. Justin Frantz (Ohio University)

Slides Frantz_HotQCD.pdf

120 Effective theory for precision jet physics in heavy ion collisions beyond the energy loss approach

Speaker: Dr Ivan Vitev (LANL)

Slides Vitev_HotQCD.pdf

121 Calculating jet transport coefficients in lattice QCD

Speaker: Prof. Abhijit Majumder (Wayne State University)

Slides Majumder_HotQCD.pdf

122 Future low-x opportunities at the LHC: ALICE FoCal

Speaker: Prof. Joern Putschke (Wayne State University)

Slides Putschke_HotQCD.pdf

123 The importance of running p+A at RHIC during the JLab-12 GeV e+A era and its impact on the future EIC e+A physics

Speaker: Dr Ming Liu (LANL)

Slides MingLiu_HotQCD.pdf

124 Ultraperipheral heavy-ion physics with CMS

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Takaki (University of Kansas)

Slides DTTakaki_HotQCD.pdf

125 A new frontier for RHIC: Collectivity and thermalisation in small systems

Speaker: Dr Juergen Schukraft (CERN)

Slides Schukraft_HotQCD.pdf

13:00 Lunch Break

Phases of QCD Matter /WP discussion and draft recommendations: Chair: Ulrich Heinz and Paul Sorensen

126 WP discussion and draft recommendations

Slides

• EducationProposal.pdf
• Recommendations_approved.pptx
• Recommendations.pptx

QCD and Hadron Physics / Discussion, WP writing and assignments, Recommendations: Chair: Haiyan Gao and Craig Roberts

127 Discussion, WP writing and assignments, Recommendations

16:00 Coffee Break

Phases of QCD Matter / More WP discussion: Chair: Ulrich Heinz and Paul Sorensen

128 Vote on recommendations and structure of WP, Writing assignments

17:30 Adjourn