Study of the fundamental structure of matter with an electron-ion collider
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In this article, the authors present an overview of the scientific opportunities that would be offered by a high-energy electron-ion collider and discuss the relevant physics of polarized and unpolarized electron-proton collisions and of electron-nucleus collisions.Abstract:
▪ Abstract We present an overview of the scientific opportunities that would be offered by a high-energy electron-ion collider. We discuss the relevant physics of polarized and unpolarized electron-proton collisions and of electron-nucleus collisions. We also describe the current accelerator and detector plans for a future electron-ion collider. This review is dedicated to the memory of Professor Vernon W. Hughes.read more
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Heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in the LHC era: from proton–proton to heavy-ion collisions
Anton Andronic,François Arleo,François Arleo,Roberta Arnaldi,A. Beraudo,Elena Bruna,Davide Caffarri,Z. Conesa del Valle,J. G. Contreras,Torsten Dahms,Andrea Dainese,Magdalena Djordjevic,Elena G. Ferreiro,Hirotsugu Fujii,Pol Bernard Gossiaux,R. Granier de Cassagnac,C. Hadjidakis,M. He,H. van Hees,W. A. Horowitz,R. S. Kolevatov,R. S. Kolevatov,B.Z. Kopeliovich,Jean-Philippe Lansberg,Maria Paola Lombardo,Carlos Lourenco,G. Martinez-Garcia,L. Massacrier,L. Massacrier,Camelia Mironov,Andre Mischke,Marlene Nahrgang,Matthew Nguyen,Joakim Nystrand,S. Peigne,S. Porteboeuf-Houssais,I. K. Potashnikova,Andry Malala Rakotozafindrabe,Ralf Rapp,Patrick Robbe,M. Rosati,Philippe Rosnet,Helmut Satz,Rainer Martin Schicker,Ingo Schienbein,Ivan Schmidt,Enrico Scomparin,Rishi Sharma,Johanna Stachel,Diego Stocco,Michael Strickland,Raphaël Tieulent,Barbara Antonina Trzeciak,Jan Uphoff,Ivan Vitev,Ramona Vogt,Ramona Vogt,Kazuhiro Watanabe,Kazuhiro Watanabe,H. K. Woehri,P. Zhuang +60 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the study of open heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in high-energy hadronic collisions, as tools to investigate fundamental aspects of Quantum Chromodynamics, from the proton and nucleus structure at high energy to deconfinement and the properties of the Quark-Gluon Plasma.
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Extraction of spin-dependent parton densities and their uncertainties
TL;DR: In this paper, the spin-dependent parton distributions and their uncertainties from data for polarized deep-inelastic lepton-nucleon and proton-proton scattering were extracted by means of a global QCD analysis.
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A first unbiased global determination of polarized PDFs and their uncertainties
TL;DR: In this paper, the NNPDFpol1.1.0 set of spin-dependent parton distribution functions (PDFs) and their uncertainties were used for the first time.
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Heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in the LHC era: from proton-proton to heavy-ion collisions
Anton Andronic,François Arleo,François Arleo,Roberta Arnaldi,A. Beraudo,Elena Bruna,Davide Caffarri,Z. Conesa del Valle,J. G. Contreras,Torsten Dahms,Andrea Dainese,Magdalena Djordjevic,Elena G. Ferreiro,Hirotsugu Fujii,Pol Bernard Gossiaux,R. Granier de Cassagnac,C. Hadjidakis,M. He,H. van Hees,W. A. Horowitz,R. S. Kolevatov,R. S. Kolevatov,B.Z. Kopeliovich,Jean-Philippe Lansberg,Maria Paola Lombardo,Carlos Lourenco,G. Martinez-Garcia,L. Massacrier,L. Massacrier,Camelia Mironov,Andre Mischke,Marlene Nahrgang,Matthew Nguyen,Joakim Nystrand,S. Peigne,S. Porteboeuf-Houssais,I. K. Potashnikova,Andry Malala Rakotozafindrabe,Ralf Rapp,Patrick Robbe,M. Rosati,Philippe Rosnet,Helmut Satz,Rainer Martin Schicker,Ingo Schienbein,Ivan Schmidt,Enrico Scomparin,Rishi Sharma,Johanna Stachel,Diego Stocco,Michael Strickland,Raphaël Tieulent,Barbara Antonina Trzeciak,Jan Uphoff,Ivan Vitev,Ramona Vogt,Ramona Vogt,Kazuhiro Watanabe,Kazuhiro Watanabe,H. K. Woehri,P. Zhuang +60 more
TL;DR: This report reviews the study of open heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in high-energy hadronic collisions, as tools to investigate fundamental aspects of Quantum Chromodynamics, from the proton and nucleus structure at high energy to deconfinement and the properties of the Quark–Gluon Plasma.
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Nuclear shadowing
TL;DR: The phenomenon of shadowing of nuclear structure functions at small values of Bjorken-x$ is analyzed in this paper, where Glauber-like rescatterings, Gribov inelastic shadowing and ideas based on high-density Quantum Chromodynamics are discussed.
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