Name: 2014 Long-range plan Joint Town Meetings on QCD at Temple University
Start: 2014-09-13T07:30:00-04:00
End: 2014-09-15T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Howard Gittis Student Center

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

from Saturday 13 September 2014 (07:30) to Monday 15 September 2014 (20:00)

Monday 8 September 2014
Tuesday 9 September 2014
Wednesday 10 September 2014
Thursday 11 September 2014
Friday 12 September 2014
Saturday 13 September 2014

07:30 Breakfast
Breakfast
07:30 - 08:30
Room: Underground
08:30 Chair: Ulrich Heinz and Paul Sorensen
Chair: Ulrich Heinz and Paul Sorensen
08:30 - 09:00
Room: 217CD
Contributions

08:30 Opening remarks / Local organizing committee - Bernd Surrow (Temple University)

08:45 Opening remarks / Program committee - Paul Sorensen (BNL) Ulrich Heinz (Ohio State University)
Chair: Haiyan Gao and Craig Roberts
Chair: Haiyan Gao and Craig Roberts
08:30 - 09:00
Room: 217AB
Contributions

08:30 Opening remarks / Local organizing committee - Nikos Sparveris (Temple University)

08:45 Opening remarks / Program committee - Craig Roberts (ANL) Haiyan Gao (Duke University)
09:00 Chair: Steve Vigdor
Chair: Steve Vigdor
09:00 - 10:30
Room: 217CD
Contributions

09:00 Open questions in theory, why they are interesting, what tools we have to address them - Krishna Rajagopal (MIT)

09:30 Discussion

09:45 Lattice QCD for RHIC and LHC: From now to the next decade - Swagato Mukherjee (BNL)

10:15 Discussion
Chair: Sebastian Kuhn
Chair: Sebastian Kuhn
09:00 - 10:30
Room: 217AB
Contributions

09:00 Theoretical Overview: Nucleon spin structure and orbital angular momentum - Jianwei Qiu (BNL)

09:30 Experimental overview: Nucleon spin structure - Ralf Seidl (RIKEN)

10:00 Parton distribution functions - Jen-Chieh Peng (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Underground
11:00 Chair: Volker Koch
Chair: Volker Koch
11:00 - 12:30
Room: 217CD
Contributions

11:00 The standard model for QGP evolution: Theoretical status and future - Bjoern Schenke (BNL)

11:30 Discussion

11:45 The standard model for QGP evolution: Experimental status and future - Raimond Snellings (Utrecht University)

12:15 Discussion
Chair: Feng Yuan
Chair: Feng Yuan
11:00 - 12:15
Room: 217AB
Contributions

11:00 Nucleon tomography - Andreas Metz (Temple University)

11:30 Pre-Town Meeting summary - Alexei Prokudin (JLab) Leonard Gamberg (PSU)

11:36 SoLID - Jian-Ping Chen (JLab)

11:42 Polarized Drell-Yan at FNAL - Wolfgang Lorenzen (University Of Michigan)

11:48 The importance of a new transverse spin program at RHIC and its impact on future e+p physics - Ming Liu (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:51 Correlations between target and current fragmentation in SIDIS - Harut Avakian (JLab)

11:54 Tensor Spin Observables - Elena Long (University Of New Hampshire)

11:57 SoLID-PVDIS (d/u) - Paul Souder (Syracuse University)

12:00 Studies of chiral-odd GPDs in exclusive production of pseudoscalar mesons - Andrey Kim (University Of Connecticut)

12:03 JLab GPD program results and projections at 12 GeV - Francois-Xavier Girod (JLab)

12:06 Future prospects of di-jet production constraining delta g(x) at low x at STAR at RHIC - Bernd Surrow (Temple University)
12:15 Lunch Break / QCD and Hadron Physics
Lunch Break / QCD and Hadron Physics
12:15 - 13:15
Room: Underground

12:30 Lunch Break / Phases of QCD Matter
Lunch Break / Phases of QCD Matter
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Underground
13:15 Chair: John Arrington
Chair: John Arrington
13:15 - 15:30
Room: 217AB
Contributions

13:15 Electro-magnetic Form Factors of nucleons - Ron Gilman (Rutgers University)

13:40 Parity-violating electron scattering and Hadron Structure - Krishna Kumar (Stony Brook University)

14:05 Charged pion form factors - Tanja Horn (Catholic University of America)

14:25 Expressions of chiral dynamics in hadrons and nuclei - Daniel Phillips (Ohio University)

14:45 Probing Hadron Structure with Photons - Calvin Howell (Duke University And TUNL)

15:05 The axial form factor of the proton - Steve Pate (New Mexico State University)

15:08 Q-Qbar Creation Studies - Mac Mestayer (JLab)

15:11 J/Psi near threshold from SoLID - Zhiwen Zhao (ODU / Jefferson Lab)

15:14 Problems with the Two-Nucleon System - Blaine Norum (University of Virginia)

15:17 Chiral dynamics: 2 photons and a few nucleons - Harold Griesshammer (George Washington University)

15:20 Nucleon EM polarizabilities from Compton Scattering below pion threshold - Mohammad Ahmed (North Carolina Central University / TUNL)

15:23 Elastic Nucleon Form Factor Program with Super Bigbite - Seamus Riordan (University Of Massachusetts Amherst)
13:30 Chair: Rosi Reed
Chair: Rosi Reed
13:30 - 15:00
Room: 217CD
Contributions

13:30 BES I Results, Motivation for BES II, Future Facilities - Daniel Cebra (UC Davis)

14:00 Discussion

14:10 Studying the QCD Phase Diagram via BES - Mikhail Stephanov (University of Illinois at Chicago)

14:30 Dynamical modeling at low collision energy and high mu_b - Hannah Petersen (Frankfurt Institute For Advanced Studies)

14:50 Discussion
15:00 Chair: Ulrich Heinz and Paul Sorensen
Chair: Ulrich Heinz and Paul Sorensen
15:00 - 15:30
Room: 217CD
Contributions

15:00 Studying the QCD phase structure at high baryon density - Nu Xu (LBNL)

15:07 Quantifying the properties of QCD matter with relativistic heavy-ion collisions - Scott Pratt (Michigan State University)

15:14 Forward-central pion-quarkonia correlations at RHIC - Michal Sumbera (Nuclear Physics Institute ASCR)

15:21 Coherent pion photoproduction - William Briscoe (The George Washington University)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Underground
16:00 Chair: Jim Napolitano
Chair: Jim Napolitano
16:00 - 18:35
Room: 217ABCD
Contributions

16:00 Introduction - Temple University President - Zein-Eddine Meziani (Temple University)

16:05 Welcome Address by Temple University President - Neil Theobald (Temple University)

16:15 Nuclear Theory since 2007 and for the next decade: An overview - David Kaplan (Institute For Nuclear Theory)

16:45 Discussion

16:55 Highlights from QCD and Hadron Physics since 2007 - Rolf Ent (JLab)

17:15 Vision for QCD and Hadron Physics - Naomi Makins (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

17:35 Discussion

17:45 RHIC and LHC Overview: Where are we? Where are we going? - Bill Zajc (Columbia University)

18:25 Discussion
18:35 Short Break
Short Break
18:35 - 18:45
Room: Seating Area Outside 217
18:45 Chair: Richard Milner
Chair: Richard Milner
18:45 - 20:00
Room: 217ABCD
Contributions

18:45 Why we need an EIC: a view from 30,000 feet - Berndt Mueller (BNL / Duke University)

19:05 Why we need an EIC: a view from 10,000 meters - Bob McKeown (JLab)

19:25 Discussion
Sunday 14 September 2014

07:30 Breakfast
Breakfast
07:30 - 08:30
Room: Underground
08:30 Chair: Jianwei Qiu
Chair: Jianwei Qiu
08:30 - 11:00
Room: 217ABCD
Contributions

08:30 Theoretical issues in Nucleon Structure - Xiangdong Ji (University of Maryland)

09:00 Probing Nucleon Structure at an EIC - Zein-Eddine Meziani (Temple University)

09:30 Probing the properties of QCD with atomic nuclei: theoretical aspects - Yuri Kovchegov (Ohio State University)

10:00 Probing the properties of QCD with atomic nuclei: experimental aspects - Thomas Ullrich (BNL)

10:30 Discussion
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:20
Room: Underground
11:20 Chair: Craig Roberts
Chair: Craig Roberts
11:20 - 12:40
Room: 217ABCD
Contributions

11:20 Next-generation nuclear DIS with spectator tagging at EIC - Christian Weiss (JLab)

11:25 Neutron Spin Structure via Spectator Tagging at the EIC - Charles Hyde (Old Dominion University)

11:30 Transverse momentum dependence of sea quark distributions - Harut Avakian (JLab)

11:35 Why QGP Physicists should want to study e+A - Barbara Jacak (Stony Brook University)

11:40 Joint Session / EIC White paper discussion - Part I
12:40 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:40 - 13:40
Room: Underground
13:40 Chair: Abhay Deshpande
Chair: Abhay Deshpande
13:40 - 14:45
Room: 217ABCD
Contributions

13:40 Joint Session / Discussion about EIC part of the white paper writing and assignments - Part II
14:45 Chair: Paul Sorenson
Chair: Paul Sorenson
14:45 - 16:00
Room: 217ABCD
Contributions

14:45 Report from Computational Nuclear Physics Town Meeting - Peter Petreczky (BNL)

15:00 Report from Computational Nuclear Physics Town Meeting - Martin Savage (Institute for Nuclear Theory)

15:15 Report from Education and Innovation Town Meeting - Thia Keppel (JLab)

15:30 Discussion
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Underground
16:30 Chair: Adrian Dumitru
Chair: Adrian Dumitru
16:30 - 18:00
Room: 217CD
Contributions

16:30 Unique opportunities in p+A collisions at RHIC and LHC - Zhong-Bo Kang (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

16:50 Discussion

17:00 p+A experiments at RHIC and the LHC and related upgrades - John Lajoie (University of Iowa)

17:20 Discussion

17:30 Opportunities for RHIC Spin in the Coming Decade - Elke Aschenauer (BNL)

17:50 Discussion
Chair: Craig Roberts
Chair: Craig Roberts
16:30 - 18:30
Room: 217AB
Contributions

16:30 Lattice-based studies of QCD - D.G. Richards (JLab)

17:00 Continuum-based studies of QCD - Ian Cloet (ANL)

17:30 pQCD at the collider (LHC/RHIC) - Iain Stewart (MIT)

18:00 Precision Jet Physics in Electron-Proton Collisions - Chris Lee (LANL)

18:03 OAM and GTMDs - Simonetta Liuti (University of Virginia)

18:06 The prospects of two-photon physics with lattice QCD - Brian Tiburzi (City College Of New York)

18:09 Transverse force on quarks in DIS - Matthias Burkardt (NMSU)

Monday 15 September 2014

07:30 Breakfast
Breakfast
07:30 - 08:30
Room: Underground
08:30 Chair: Jiangyong Jia
Chair: Jiangyong Jia
08:30 - 10:00
Room: 200B
Contributions

08:30 Probing properties of QGP with jets at RHIC and LHC: a theoretical perspective - Xin-Nian Wang (LBNL)

08:50 Discussion

09:00 Jet studies at LHC & RHIC now and tomorrow - Gunther Roland (MIT)

09:20 Discussion

09:30 What jets studies at RHIC can tell us about QGP properties - Jamie Nagle (University of Colorado)

09:50 Discussion
Chair: Volker Burkert
Chair: Volker Burkert
08:30 - 10:00
Room: 217AB
Contributions

08:30 Theory Overview: QCD and Meson spectrum - Michael Pennington (JLab)

09:00 Experiment Overview on Meson Spectroscopy: Current and future - Curtis Meyer (Carnegie Mellon University)

09:30 Theory Overview on Baryon Spectroscopy - Michael Doering (George Washington University)
10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:20
Room: Underground
10:20 Chair: Xin-Nian Wang
Chair: Xin-Nian Wang
10:20 - 11:20
Room: 200B
Contributions

10:20 Experimental summary of the next decade with heavy quarks and quarkonium - Lijuan Ruan (BNL)

10:40 Discussion

10:50 Theory: what we know about the QGP from HQ and what we can still learn - Derek Teaney (Stony Brook University)

11:10 Discussion
Chair: Patrizia Rossi
Chair: Patrizia Rossi
10:20 - 11:10
Room: 217AB
Contributions

10:20 Experimental overview on Baryon Spectroscopy: Current and future - Ralf Gothe (University Of South Carolina)

10:45 Baryon Spectroscopy with Photoproduction of Mesons at MAMI - Mainz - William Briscoe (The George Washington University)

10:48 Why we need meson beams - Igor Strakovsky (The George Washington University)

10:51 Hadron spectroscopy at FIU: New Opportunities - Lei Guo (Florida International University)

10:54 Contribution to LRP from the N* structure exploration in exclusive electroproduction - Victor Mokeev (Jefferson Lab)

10:57 XYZ states in charmonium and bottomonium - Ryan Mitchell (Indiana University)

11:00 Amplitude analysis: linking experiment and theory - Adam Szczepaniak (Indiana University)
11:10 Chair: Haiyan Gao
Chair: Haiyan Gao
11:10 - 13:00
Room: 217AB
Contributions

11:10 Effect of short-range interactions on nuclei - Doug Higinbotham (JLab)

11:40 Nuclei at short distance scales - Patricia Solvignon (University Of New Hampshire)

12:05 Parton distributions in nuclei - Wally Melnitchouk (JLab)

12:35 Short presentations and general discussion - Henry Weller (Duke University and TUNL)
11:20 Chair: Ulrich Heinz and Paul Sorensen
Chair: Ulrich Heinz and Paul Sorensen
11:20 - 13:00
Room: 200B
Contributions

11:20 Interplay of QCD and electromagnetism in relativistic heavy-ion collisions - Ho-Ung Yee (University Of Illinois at Chicago and RBRC)

11:27 Dileptons and chiral symmetry restoration - Paul Hohler (Texas A&M University)

11:34 Future Dilepton Measurements at RHIC - Frank Geurts (Rice University)

11:41 Soft photon measurements: present and future - Takao Sakaguchi (BNL)

11:48 Upsilon measurements with sPHENIX - Tony Frawley (Florida State University)

11:55 Future high statistics heavy flavor physics opportunities with the ALICE Run 3 upgrade - Christine Nattrass (University Of Tennessee Knoxville)

12:02 Summary of the 3rd Workshop on Jet Modification in the RHIC and LHC Era - Rosi Reed (Wayne State University)

12:09 Jet-hadron, gluon-hadron and hadron-hadron angular correlations at p_T=10-20 GeV/c - Justin Frantz (Ohio University)

12:16 Effective theory for precision jet physics in heavy ion collisions beyond the energy loss approach - Ivan Vitev (LANL)

12:23 Calculating jet transport coefficients in lattice QCD - Abhijit Majumder (Wayne State University)

12:30 Future low-x opportunities at the LHC: ALICE FoCal - Joern Putschke (Wayne State University)

12:37 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 - Ming Liu (LANL)

12:44 Ultraperipheral heavy-ion physics with CMS - Daniel Takaki (University of Kansas)

12:51 A new frontier for RHIC: Collectivity and thermalisation in small systems - Juergen Schukraft (CERN)
13:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Underground
14:00 Chair: Ulrich Heinz and Paul Sorensen
Chair: Ulrich Heinz and Paul Sorensen
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 200B
Contributions

14:00 WP discussion and draft recommendations
Chair: Haiyan Gao and Craig Roberts
Chair: Haiyan Gao and Craig Roberts
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 217AB
Contributions

14:00 Discussion, WP writing and assignments, Recommendations
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: 217C
16:30 Chair: Ulrich Heinz and Paul Sorensen
Chair: Ulrich Heinz and Paul Sorensen
16:30 - 17:30
Room: 200B
Contributions

16:30 Vote on recommendations and structure of WP, Writing assignments
17:30 Adjourn
Adjourn
17:30 - 18:00

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