https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201818202103
Electron Ion Collider: 3D-Imaging the Nucleon
INFN - Sezione di Pavia, via Bassi 6 - I27100 Pavia - Italy
a e-mail: marco.radici@pv.infn.it
Published online: 3 August 2018
The Electron Ion Collider (EIC) is the project for a new US-based, high-energy, high-luminosity facility, capable of a versatile range of beam energies, polarizations, and ion species. Its primary goal is to precisely image quarks and gluons and their interactions inside hadrons, in order to investigate their confined dynamics and elucidate how visible matter is made at its most fundamental level. I will introduce the main physics questions addressed by such a facility, and give some more details on the topic of Transverse Momentum Dependent parton distributions (TMDs).
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