General information

The School will focus on the physics of the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), a unique high-energy, high-luminosity polarized and unpolarized collider that will be constructed at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, NY, USA. The aim of the School is to provide an overview of the EIC project, to present current understanding of the physical phenomena that will be studied in EIC, as well as the theoretical expectations what EIC can discover.

The EIC is designed to yield an insight into the nucleon structure by facilitating multi-dimensional maps of the distributions of partons in space, momentum spin, and flavor. EIC will explore the role of the gluons and sea quarks in determining the hadron structure and properties. This will resolve crucial questions, such as whether a substantial “missing” portion of nucleon spin resides in the gluons. By providing high-energy probes of partons’ transverse momenta, the EIC should also illuminate the role of their orbital motion contributing to nucleon spin.

EIC will be the first experimental facility capable of exploring the internal 3-dimensional sea quark and gluon structure of a fast-moving nucleus. Furthermore, the nucleus itself is an unprecedented QCD laboratory for discovering the collective behavior of gluonic matter at an unprecedented occupation number of gluons, and for studying the propagation of fast-moving color charges in a nuclear medium.

While the EIC is primarily being proposed for exploring new frontiers in QCD, it offers a unique new combination of experimental probes potentially interesting to the investigations in Fundamental Symmetries.

(Excerpts from the EIC White Paper)

Lectures will be given by world experts both in experimental and theoretical particle and nuclear physics. Participants are expected to have basic knowledge of particle physics theory and experimental methods. A number of seminars will be given by young researchers working on the subjects related to the topics of the School.