EF07: QCD and strong interactions: Heavy Ions

• co-Conveners: Yen-Jie Lee, Swagato Mukherjee
• Email list: SNOWMASS-EF-07-HEAVY-IONS@FNAL.GOV
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• EF07 Meetings: Indico
• Energy Frontier Calendar: Google Calendar

EF07 studies the prospects for heavy-ion physics at future high energy heavy-ion colliders (such as RHIC, LHC, HL-LHC, and FCC) and the physics at future high energy electron-ion colliders (such as EIC, LHeC), with particular emphasis on the impact that those studies will have on the physics program of the Energy Frontier.

• What can we learn from the jet and jet substructure measurements about the nature of the Quark-gluon plasma? How do we apply those techniques to the studies of jets and the possible jet energy loss in EIC?
• What is the best use of heavy-ion beams for the search of new physics?
• What is the origin of the flow-like correlation from high multiplicity proton-proton and proton-ion collisions? Can we see it in ee and eA collisions?
• What are the heavy flavor hadrons and quarkonia production mechanisms in ee, eA, pp, pA and AA collisions? What is the relevance of co-moving matter effects and recombination for the classical observables such as charm and beauty jet?
• What can we learn about the exotic hadron structure with pp, pA and AA collisions?
• How do we use heavy-ion beam to improve the understanding of inclusive hadron and charm production?
• What is the connection to the new physics search at forward region and the studies of cosmic rays?
• What is the emerging physics opportunity on proton tomography and gluon saturation with EIC? What are the relevant HEP applications?

• EIC:
  • Heavy Flavor @ EIC: Xin Dong (LBL, STAR/sPHENIX), Stephen Sekula (SMU), Ivan Vitev(LANL)
  • Proton tomograph @ EIC for HEP applications: Timothy Hobbs (SMU), Salvatore Fazio (BNL), Alexey Prokudin (PSU), Alessandro Vicini (Milan)
  • Gluon saturation @ EIC: Cyrille Marquet … [TBC]
  • EW&BSM @ EIC: Yulia Furletova (JLAB), Ciprian Gal (SBU), Claire Gwenlan (Oxford)
  • Jets @ EIC: Miguel Arratia (UCR), Zhong-Bo Kang (UCLA), Stefan Prestel (Lund)
• HIC:
  • Search for New Physics with Heavy Ion Beam: Marco Drewes (Theory) and Andrea Giammanco (CMS).
  • Quarkonia and exotic hadron production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions: Matthew Durham (LHCb) and Xiaojun Yao (Theory)
  • Ultra Peripheral Heavy Ion Collisions: Zhangbu Xu (STAR), Jian Zhou (Theory), Mariusz Przybycien (ATLAS/ZEUS)
  • High-Density QCD in Small Collision Systems: Jaki Noronhahostler (Theory), Wei Li (CMS/STAR), Dennis Perepelitsa (ATLAS/sPHENIX)
  • Heavy Flavor Production in Heavy Ion Collisions: Gian Michelle Innocenti (ALICE), Jing Wang (CMS), Jin Huang (sPHENIX)
  • Jet and Jet Substructure in Heavy Ion Collisions: James Mulligan (ALICE), Leticia Cunqueiro Mendez (ALICE), Yi Chen (CMS), Anne Sickles (ATLAS)
  • EW Physics in Heavy Ion Collisions and the Impact to nuclear PDF: Hannu Paukkunen (Theory), Georgios Krintiras (CMS) and Emilien Champon (CMS)

Letters of Intent submitted to Energy Frontier (as primary frontier) shown in this link. Here is the list of submitted LOIs that include EF as primary or secondary topic. First index before “/” corresponds to the primary frontier used for the submission.