Electron Ion Collider Meeting at Stony Brook

Wang Center for Asian Arts, Lecture Hall 2

December 7, 8, 2007

AGENDA

Friday, December 7, 2007

8:00-Noon Registration, at the lecture hall 2 entrance, light breakfast



Session I:  Low x physics & spin
Chair: A. Caldwell (MPI, Munich)
09:00-09:30
Welcome
EIC project overview and Orientation

A. Deshpande (SBU/RBRC)
09:30-10:05
Excitement in low x physics and the status of theory
A. Mueller (Columbia)
10:15-10:50
Connections between low x physics and single spin asymmetries
S. Brodsky (SLAC)
11:00-11:15
COFFEE

11:15-11:50
Experimental issues in low & single spin asymmetries
L. Bland (BNL)
12:00-01:00
EIC in 2007 NSAC Long Range Plan (~30 min)
Discussion (~30 min)
R. Tribble (Texas A&M)
All
01:00-02:00
LUNCH


Session II: Electron Ion Collider(s) at BNL, Jlab & CERN
Chair: L. Merminga (Jlab)
02:00-04:00
Jlab:
ELIC Design status (12+3)
IR Design & beam-beam simulations for ELIC (25+5)

S. Derbenev (Jlab)
A. Bogacz (Jlab)

BNL:
eRHIC Design status (20+5)
Beam-beam R&D for eRHIC (15+5)

Coherent Electron Cooling (BNL & Jlab) (20+10)

V. Ptitsyn (BNL)
Y. Hao (BNL)

V. Litvinenko (BNL)
04:00-04:15
COFFEE

04:15-04:40
e-beam polarimetry studies for eRHIC and ELIC
W. Lorenzon (Michigan)
04:45-05:30
EIC at CERN: LHeC Status and plans
J. Dainton (Liverpool)
05:30-06:00
Discussion
All



7:00
Reception & Dinner at SUNWOOD


Saturday, December 8, 2007

8:00AM light breakfast



Session III: New physics with EIC
Chair: S. Vigdor (BNL)
09:00-10:00
Broadening the scope of EIC Physics:

Short presentations (3-5 slides) and discussion L. McLerran, S.Vigdor, S. Brodsky

Discussion leader: S.Vigdor

L. McLerran (BNL)
S. Brodsky (SLAC)
10:00-10:35
Recent thoeretical development in Deep (semi-)Exclusive DVCS  & vector meson production
M. Strikman (PSU)
10:45:11:00
COFFEE

11:00:11:35
Hard exclusive processes - experimental results and simulations for EIC
A. Sandacz (Warsaw)
11:45:01:00
e-p Physics Working Group

Status of simulations, physics topics, and WG organization (30+10)
Non-diffractive meson (pi+) production with EIC (15+5)
Discussion (15)


A. Bruell (Jlab)
C. Weiss (Jlab)
All
01:00:02:00
LUNCH


Session IV: Working Group Summaries and future planning
Chair: R. Milner (MIT)
02:00-03:20
e-A Physics working group

Development of a Monte Carlo generator for e+A collisions (15+5)
Status of physics and detector simulations for e+A prorgam (15+5)
Jet physics in e+A collisions (15+5)
Diffraction in e+A collisions (15+5)


R. Longacre (BNL)
M. Lamont (BNL)
G. Soyez (BNL)
C. Marquet (Columbia)
03:20-03:45
Issues of hadron-beam polarimetry for the EIC (summary of topical WG in PSTP'07)
Y. Makdisi (BNL)
03:45-04:00
COFFEE

04:00-05:00
Discussion on EIC Detector R&D activities, needs and how to move forward?
E. Aschenauer (Jlab),
E. Kinney (Colorado) &
B. Surrow (MIT)
05:00-05:15
Good bye, thank you & see you at Hampton U. in May 2008
End of Meeting
R. Ent (Jlab)



06:30-
EIC Steering Committee + WG conveners Meeting