Opportunities with Heavy Flavor at the EIC - a CFNS Ad hoc Workshop

US/Eastern
Virtually Online

Virtually Online

Christian Weiss (Jefferson Lab), Fredrick Olness (SMU), Ivan Vitev (LANL), Jin Huang (Brookhaven National Lab), Xuan Li (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Description

The CD-0 approval granted by the U.S. Department of Energy for the construction of an Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) is a critical step forward in an ambitious and impactful international high-energy nuclear physics program. The production and propagation of long-lived heavy subatomic particles is a unique and critical part of its research portfolio. The study of heavy quarks, charm and bottom, can be accomplished by measuring the elementary particles that contain them, D-mesons and B-mesons. Heavy flavor jets provide key insights into the effect of mass on the formation of parton showers. Topics that this workshop will cover include:

  • Nucleon and nuclear structure: At the EIC, heavy quarks are produced from gluons carrying a large relative fraction of the nucleon's momentum xB. They can help pin down the poorly known strange, charm, bottom, and gluon content of nucleons and nuclei at moderate and large Bjorken-x. Such advances are not only central to Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), but also necessary to ensure percent level precision in the evaluation of backgrounds for Beyond the Standard Model searches at collider experiments. 
  • Energy loss and hadronization: Heavy flavor production is also an essential part of the e+A program at the EIC. It can provide insights into the space-time picture of hadronization that are simply not possible with light hadrons.  Measurements of open heavy flavor modification can place tight constraints on the opacities of nuclear matter and transport properties of large nuclei.
  • Lessons from HERA and the Hadron colliders: The physics program at the EIC will greatly benefit from the lessons learned at HERA and the tremendous expertise of the DIS community. At the same time the LHC and RHIC have brought about new theoretical and experimental developments. Our intent is to summarize those advances, explore the synergies with the EIC, and use them as a stepping stone to ensure maximum impact of open heavy flavor measurements. 
  • Instrumentation and detector requirements: Instrumentation at mid and forward rapidities at the EIC is absolutely critical for the precise measurements of heavy flavor mesons, baryons, and jets. In this workshop, we will have a dedicated session to discuss and refine the detector requirements for the future heavy flavor and jet measurements at the EIC, improve existing simulation tools, and forge collaborations.

Due to the COVID-19 virus, we will hold the workshop online using Zoom 

Talks for this workshop mainly via invitation.

This event is part of the CFNS workshop/ad-hoc meeting series. See the CFNS conferences page for other events.

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    • 09:50 10:00
      Welcome

      Welcome

      • 09:50
        Welcome 10m
        Speakers: Christian Weiss (Jefferson Lab), Fredrick Olness (SMU), Ivan Vitev (LANL), Jin Huang (Brookhaven National Lab), Xuan Li (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
    • 10:00 11:40
      HF@EIC: Session 1: Wednesday
      Convener: Christian Weiss (Jefferson Lab)
      • 10:00
        Overview of heavy flavor production in DIS 40m
        Speaker: Prof. Robert Thorne (University College London)
      • 10:40
        Lessons from HERA 30m
        Speaker: Dr Achim Geiser (DESY)
      • 11:10
        Charge current reactions and strangeness 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Stephen Sekula (SMU)
    • 11:40 12:00
      Break 20m
    • 12:05 13:35
      HF@EIC: Session 2: Wednesday
      Convener: Fredrick Olness (SMU)
      • 12:05
        Heavy flavor and PDF analysis 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Pavel Nadolsky (Southern Methodist University)
      • 12:35
        Constraints on heavy flavor PDFs from LHC 30m
        Speaker: Prof. Juan Rojo (VU Amsterdam)
      • 13:05
        Constraints on nuclear gluons 30m
        Speaker: Vadim Guzey (Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute)
    • 13:35 13:40
      Break 5m
    • 13:40 16:00
      HF@EIC: Session 3: Wednesday
      Convener: Christian Weiss (Jefferson Lab)
    • 10:00 11:40
      HF@EIC: Thu
      Convener: Ivan Vitev (LANL)
    • 11:40 12:05
      Break 25m
    • 12:05 13:45
      HF@EIC: Thu
      Convener: Fredrick Olness (SMU)
      • 12:05
        Overview of heavy flavor final-state interactions 40m
        Speaker: V. Greco
      • 12:45
        Heavy meson poduction at the EIC 30m
        Speaker: Zelong Liu (LANL)
      • 13:15
        Light flavor suppression in DIS and recent CLAS results 30m
        Speaker: William Brooks (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María)
    • 13:45 14:00
      Break 15m
    • 14:00 16:20
      HF@EIC: Thu
      Convener: Ivan Vitev (LANL)
    • 10:00 11:40
      HF@EIC: Friday
      Convener: Xuan Li (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
    • 11:40 12:10
      Break 30m
    • 12:10 13:40
      HF@EIC: Friday Virtually online

      Virtually online

      Convener: Jin Huang (Brookhaven National Lab)
    • 13:40 13:50
      Break 10m
    • 13:50 16:10
      HF@EIC: Friday
      Convener: Xuan Li (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
      • 13:50
        Electroweak and BSM physics with the EIC 30m
        Speaker: Ciprian Gal (Stony Brook University)
      • 14:20
        Gluon helicity impact from HF tagged DIS 15m
        Speaker: Dr Yuxiang Zhao (Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
      • 14:35
        Topical discussions: (1) Questions left of the day. (2) simulation tools for the EIC detector developments 50m
        Speaker: Chris Pinkenburg (BNL)