A dedicated eRHIC detector design

13 Apr 2016, 11:00
20m
SR3 (DESY Hamburg)

SR3

DESY Hamburg

Future Experiments WG7 Future Experiments

Speaker

Dr Alexander Kiselev (Brookhaven National Lab)

Description

The 2015 Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science in the US recommended a high-energy high-luminosity polarized Electron-Ion Collider as the highest priority for new facility construction following the completion of presently ongoing projects. The main physics topics to be explored at this new facility are (i) the polarized sea quark and gluon distributions in the nucleon, (ii) QCD dynamics of the low-x, high density gluon regime, (iii) hadronization in the vacuum and the nuclear medium [1]. One of the considered construction options is the addition of a high-energy polarized electron beam to the existing RHIC hadron machine, converting it into an Electron-Ion Collider (eRHIC) [2]. A dedicated eRHIC detector, designed to efficiently register and identify deep inelastic electron scattering (DIS) processes in a wide range of center-of-mass energies available with the new collider is one of the key elements of such an upgrade. The progress on the detector design work will be shown, and the new simulation results will be presented. [1] A. Accardi et al., "Electron Ion Collider: The Next QCD Frontier - Understanding the glue that binds us all" (EIC White Paper), arXiv:1212.1701v3 (2014). [2] E.C. Aschenauer et al., "eRHIC design study (An Electron-Ion Collider at BNL)", arXiv:1409.1633 (2014).

Primary author

Dr Alexander Kiselev (Brookhaven National Lab)

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