2022 Town Hall Meeting on Hot & Cold QCD

23 Sep 2022, 08:30 → 25 Sep 2022, 18:00 America/New_York

Stata Center, 32-123 (MIT)

Welcome to the 2022 NSAC Long-Range Plan Town Hall Meeting on Hot and Cold QCD, host in a Hybrid format by MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science and Department of Physics.

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The results of the concluding ‘recommendations and initiatives’ survey are available here.

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The full meeting program is available under the timetable tab.

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Useful links:

• Event updates sign-up on APS-Engage platform
• 2014 QCD Town Hall Meeting and resulting White Papers on Hot QCD and Cold QCD
• 2022 Fundamental Symmetries, Neutrons, and Neutrinos Town Meeting
• 2022 Nuclear Structure, Reactions and Astrophysics Town Meeting
• NSAC Long Range Plan Charge Letter

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Conveners (alphabetic order):

• Bjoern Schenke (BNL)
• Anne Sickles (Illinois)
• Feng Yuan (LBNL)
• Xiaochao Zheng (UVA)

Organizing Committee (alphabetic order):

• Ian Cloet (ANL)
• Or Hen (MIT)
• David Lawrence (JLab)
• Wei Li (Rice)
• Swagato Mukherjee (BNL)
• Bjoern Schenke (BNL)
• Anne Sickles (Illinois)
• Ramona Vogt (LLNL & UCD)
• Feng Yuan (LBNL)
• Xiaochao Zheng (UVA)

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Friday, 23 September ¶

Welcome¶

Convener: Or Hen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

1 LOC Welcoming¶

Speaker: Or Hen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Wecoming_Hen.pdf

2 MIT Dean of Science Welcome¶

Speaker: Nergis Mavalvala (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

3 Conveners Opening¶

Speaker: Feng Yuan (LBNL)

Feng_Yuan_v1 Feng Yuan.pdf

Plenary I¶

Convener: Anne Sickles (Illinois)

4 Diversity Equity and Inclusion in Nuclear Physics Collaborations¶

Speaker: Rosi Reed (Lehigh)

RReedDEI_QCDTownHall2022v6.pdf

5 EIC Project and Accelerator¶

Speaker: Rolf Ent (JLab)

EIC_Project_QCD_Town_Hall_Meeting_v2.09.23.2022 Rolf Ent.pptx

6 EIC ePIC Detector¶

Speaker: John Lajoie (ISU)

John_Lajoie_v5 John Lajoie.pdf

7 EIC Generic R&D Program¶

Speaker: Thomas Ullrich (Yale & BNL)

RD_DET2_TownMeeting_TU_rev Thomas Ullrich.pdf

8 Discussion¶

10:30 Coffee Break

Plenary II¶

Convener: Feng Yuan (LBNL)

9 EIC Science: ep Reactions¶

Speaker: Hatta Yoshitaka (BNL)

Yoshitaka_Hatta_v2 Yoshitaka Hatta.pdf

10 EIC Science: eA Reactions¶

Speaker: Anna Stasto (PSU)

Anna_Stasto_v1 Anna Stasto.pdf

11 EIC Theory Workshop Summary¶

Speaker: Iain Stewart (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

EICTheoryAlliance.pdf

12 Discussion¶

13 Lattice theory for Hot and Cold QCD¶

Speaker: Martha Constantinou (Temple)

Hot_Cold_QCD_TownHall_LRP_2022_Constantinou Martha Constantinou (1).pdf

14 Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Applications for QCD (exp)¶

Speaker: Cristiano Fanelli (W&M)

NSAC-LRP_MIT_2022_3.pdf

15 Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Applications for QCD (theory)¶

Speaker: Phiala Shanahan (MIT)

Phiala_Shanahan_v1.pdf

16 Discussion¶

12:50 Lunch (on your own)

Cold QCD Parallel I¶

Convener: Ian Cloet (ANL)

17 Open questions in cold QCD¶

Speaker: Xiangdong Ji (UMD)

xiangdong_ji_v2 xiangdong ji.pptx

18 Nucleon Spin Structure from global analysis¶

Speaker: Werner Vogelsang (Tuebingen)

Werner_Vogelsang_v2 Werner Vogelsang.pdf

19 Nucleon Spin Structure at Low-x¶

Speaker: Yuri Kovchegov (OSU)

yuri_kovchegov_v2 Yuri Kovchegov.pdf

20 3D Structure of Hadrons probed with Electrons and Positrons¶

Speaker: Carlos Munoz Camacho (IJCLab-Orsay)

TownHall_positrons_v3.pdf

21 TMD: Theory and Measurements¶

Speaker: Zhongbo Kang (UCLA)

Kang_version_6 Zhongbo Kang.pptx

22 The High Intensity Gamma Source¶

Speaker: Calvin Howell (Duke)

Howell_LEQCD-at-HIGS_QCDTM2022_fv Calvin Howell.pdf

Hot QCD Parallel I¶

Convener: Ramona Vogt (UCD & LNL)

23 RHIC highlights and future I¶

Speaker: Megan Connors (GSU)

Megan Connors RHIC_2022LRPTownHallMIT_connors_v7 Megan Connors.pdf

24 Jet theory¶

Speaker: Abhijit Majumder (Wayne)

majumder-jet-theory Abhijit Majumder.pdf

25 RHIC highlights and future II¶

Speaker: Prithwish Tribedy (BNL)

prithwish_tribedy_v1 Prithwish Tribedy.pdf

26 Flow and transport properties¶

Speaker: Jean-Francois Paquet (Vanderbilt)

jfpaquet_townhall_sept2022_transport_coeffs_v1.pdf

27 Lattice QCD for RHIC and LHC¶

Speaker: Peter Petreczky (BNL)

townhall22.pdf

16:20 Coffee Break

Cold QCD Parallel II¶

Convener: Or Hen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

28 Parton Distributions from Global Analysis¶

Speaker: Nobuo Sato (JLab)

nobuo_sato_v2 nobuo sato.pdf

29 Precision Physics with SOLID and Moller¶

Speaker: Paul Souder (Syracuse)

Paul_Souder_v1 Paul Souder.pdf

30 Probes for the Origin of Hadron Mass¶

Speaker: Sylvester Joosten (ANL)

sylvester-joosten-hadron-mass-v3 Sylvester Joosten.pdf

31 The Drell–Yan Program at FNAL¶

Speaker: Dustin Keller (UVA)

Dustin_Keller_v1 Dustin Keller.pdf

32 Saturation from RHIC and Future EIC¶

Speaker: Xiaoxuan Chu (BNL)

Xiaoxuan_Chu_v1 Xiaoxuan Chu.pdf

Hot QCD Parallel II¶

Convener: Wei Li (Rice)

33 CMS and ATLAS HI Physics at LHC Run 3+4 and Beyond¶

Speaker: Yen-Jie Lee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

20220923-TwonHall_yenjie_v6.pdf

34 ALICE + ALICE 3 / other experiments beyond Run 4¶

Speaker: Anthony Timmins (Houston)

Timmins_ALICE_LHC_v2 AnthonyTimmins.pdf

35 Heavy flavor in small systems/forward @ LHC¶

Speaker: Matt Durham (LANL)

Matt_Durham_v1 Matt Durham.pdf

36 Jets & Heavy flavors: From HICs to EIC¶

Speaker: Ivan Vitev (LANL)

Ivan Vitev HF_HItoEIC2022_Vitev_v3 .pdf

18:30 Coffee Break

Open Mic¶

Convener: Or Hen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

37 How Important is QCD for the Nuclear Chart?¶

Speaker: Harald Griesshammer (GWU)

griesshammer_harald_unitarity.v0.99 Harald Griesshammer.pdf

38 Polarized Ion Beams beyond Helium-3 for EIC¶

Speaker: Chao Peng (ANL)

Chao_Peng_v1 Chao Peng.pdf

39 Double Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering with SoLID spectrometer at Jefferson Laboratory¶

Speaker: Alexandre Camsonne (JLab)

solid_ddvcs_Camsonne_Alexandre.pdf

40 Vector meson-proton scattering lengths from omega to upsilon¶

Speaker: Igor Strakovsky (GWU)

2022TownHall_SL_Igor.pdf

41 K-long beam experiment at JLab¶

Speaker: Igor Strakovsky (GWU)

2022TownHall_KLF_Igor.pdf

42 Opportunities for precision QCD physics in hadronization at Belle II¶

Speaker: Anselm Vossen (Duke)

Anselm_Vossen_v2 Anselm Vossen.pdf

43 Community agreements¶

Speaker: Christine Nattrass (University of Tennessee)

Nattrass_CommunityAgreements Christine.pdf

44 Engaging minorities in Nuclear Physics¶

Speaker: Cesar da Silva (LANL)

cesar_dasilva_diversity_v0 Cesar da Silva.pptx

45 Results from the BNL-MSI Nuclear Physics Traineeship Program¶

Speaker: Mickey Chiu (BNL)

BNL_PREP_NPT_chiu Mickey Chiu.pdf

46 Visualization of the Subatomic World¶

Speakers: Richard Milner (MIT), Rolf Ent (Jefferson Lab)

Visualization_of_the_subatomic_world.pptx

47 Input from the JLab Users Organization to the LRP process¶

Speaker: Carlos Munoz Camacho (IJCLab-Orsay)

JLUO_TownHall_v8.pdf

48 A Better Angle on Hadron Transverse Momentum Distributions at the EIC¶

Speaker: Johannes Michel (MIT)

johannes_michel_v4 J M.pdf

49 On the Importance of hadronic interaction physics program at EIC Era¶

Speaker: Ming Liu (LANL)

Ming-Liu-QCD-TownHall-v2 Ming Liu.pdf

50 Physics Opportunities with a Second EIC Detector¶

Speaker: Charles Hyde (ODU)

CHyde_EIC-2ndDetector_v2 Charles Hyde.pdf

51 Studying QCD with UPCs at the LHC¶

Speaker: Daniel Tapia Takaki (UK)

DTT - iann-qcd flyer Daniel Tapia Takaki.pdf

DTT - UPC FoCal - September 23 2022 Daniel Tapia Takaki.pdf

52 MUSE: The MUon Scattering Experiment¶

Speaker: Ethan Cline (Stony Brook University)

ethan_cline_v1 Ethan Cline.pdf

53 A US-based MicroPattern Gaseous Detection Center¶

Speaker: Cynthia Keppel (for Kondo Gnanvo) (JLab)

MPGD_Keppel.pptx

54 ALICE FoCal upgrade¶

Speaker: Norbert Novitzky (ORNL)

AliceFoCal Norbert Novitzky.pdf

55 Inter-American Network of Networks of QCD challenges¶

Speaker: Daniel Tapia Takaki (UK)

DTT - iann-qcd flyer Daniel Tapia Takaki.pdf

56 Gluon saturation search at Bjorken-x<1e-4 in LHC¶

Speaker: Cesar Luiz da Silva (LANL)

cesar_dasilva_smallx_v0 Cesar da Silva.pptx

Saturday, 24 September ¶

Cold QCD Parallel III¶

Convener: David Lawrence (JLab)

57 Hadron Spectroscopy Theory¶

Speaker: Jozef Dudek (William & Mary)

jozef_dudek_v1 Jozef Dudek.pdf

58 Hadron Spectroscopy Measurements¶

Speaker: Justin Stevens (William & Mary)

justin_stevens_v2 Justin Stevens.pdf

59 A High Luminosity Upgrade for CLAS12¶

Speaker: Stepan Stepanyan (JLab)

Stepanyan_TownHall2022_LRP_CLAS12 Stepan Stepanyan.pdf

60 Advances in Lattice QCD¶

Speaker: Yong Zhao (ANL)

QCDTownhall_yzhao.pdf

61 Quantum Information Science for QCD Research¶

Speaker: Zohreh Davoudi (UMD)

Zohreh_Davoudi_v1 Zohreh Davoudi.pdf

Hot QCD Parallel III¶

Convener: Bjoern Schenke (BNL)

62 Future facility for high mu_B physics¶

Speaker: Nu Xu (LBNL)

nu_xu_HighMuB_24Sept2022 Nu Xu.pdf

63 Theory overview of dense QCD matter¶

Speaker: Claudia Ratti (Houston)

Claudia_Ratti_v1 Claudia Ratti.pdf

64 Initial State of HICs from UPCs and the role of EIC¶

Speaker: Zhoudunming (Kong) Tu (BNL)

QCD_Townhall_MIT_2022_KongTu Kong Tu.pdf

65 Opportunities in small systems and connection to nuclear structure¶

Speaker: Jiangyong Jia (Stony Brook)

JiangyongJia_qcdtownhall_final.pdf

66 Bayesian Analysis in Heavy ion Physics¶

Speaker: Yi Chen (MIT)

20220924_BayesianAnalysisInHeavyIons_QCDTownHallMeeting_YiChen_v14 Yi Chen.pdf

10:10 Coffee Break

Cold QCD Parallel IV¶

Convener: Or Hen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

67 The JLab Hall C Program¶

Speaker: Ed Kinney (Colorado)

Kinney_HallC_v1 Ed Kinney.pdf

68 Two-Photon Exchange Measurements with Positron beams¶

Speaker: Axel Schmidt (GWU)

axel_schmidt_v0 Axel Schmidt.pdf

69 QCD in Nuclei and Cold Nuclear Matter¶

Speaker: Larry Weinstein (ODU)

ColdNuclearQCD2022.pptx

Hot QCD Parallel IV¶

Convener: Ramona Vogt (UCD & LNL)

70 fixed target @ STAR for space radiation¶

Speaker: Daniel Cebra (UCD)

Daniel_Cebra_v2 Daniel Cebra.pdf

71 Nuclear Data and Its Relation to QCD¶

Speaker: David Brown (BNL)

nuclear-data-and-QCD_brown_v1 David Brown.pdf

Hot QCD Open Mic¶

Convener: Ramona Vogt (UCD & LNL)

72 Deciphering Exotic Hadron Structures with Heavy Ion Collisions¶

Speaker: Jinfeng Liao (Indiana University)

Jinfeng_Liao_Exotics_v1 Jinfeng Liao.pdf

73 Relativistic Fluid Dynamics: From Heavy-Ions to Neutron Star Mergers¶

Speaker: Jorge Noronha (Illinois)

Noronha_flash_talk_QCD_town_hall_MIT_2022 Jorge Noronha.pdf

74 New phenomena for cool, dense QCD¶

Speaker: Rob Pisarski (BNL)

revd_rob_pisarski Rob Pisarski.pdf

75 Modular Event Generators¶

Speaker: Rainer Fries (Texas A&M University)

Rainer Fries QCD_Townhall_2022_RJFries.pptx

76 Jets as mult-scale probes of QCD matter¶

Speaker: Rosi Reed (Lehigh)

RReedQCDTownHall_Jetsv1 Rosi Reed.pdf

77 Hadronic transport is needed for studying the dense nuclear matter equation of state¶

Speaker: Agnieszka Sorensen (INT/UW)

Agnieszka_Sorensen_v4 Agnieszka Sorensen.pdf

78 Equity and inclusion at major conferences¶

Speaker: Christine Nattrass (University of Tennessee)

Nattrass_MajorConferenceStats Christine.pdf

79 We should all use Rivet¶

Speaker: Christine Nattrass (University of Tennessee)

Nattrass_Rivet Christine.pdf

80 Simulation of heavy ion collisions with Trajectum¶

Speaker: Govert Nijs (MIT)

govert_nijs_v1 Govert Nijs.pdf

81 Novel Spin Transport in Hot Dense QCD Fluid¶

Speaker: Jinfeng Liao (Indiana University)

Jinfeng_Liao_Spin_v1 Jinfeng Liao.pdf

82 The need for more p+A running at RHIC - Discovery of subatomic smoke rings¶

Speaker: Mike Lisa (OSU)

Mike_Lisa_TownHall_v1 Michael Lisa.pdf

83 Flavor dependent hadronization studies at the LHC¶

Speaker: Rene Bellwied (UH)

Rene_Bellwied_v1 Rene Bellwied.pdf

84 In-medium jet acoplanarity and intra-jet broadening in the QGP¶

Speaker: Sahoo Nihar (Shandong University)

nihar_sahoo_v1.pdf

85 Discovery of the Breit-Wheeler Process and its Application to Nuclear Charge and Mass Radii Measurements¶

Speaker: Daniel Brandenburg (BNL)

Daniel Brandenburg jdb_lrp_at_MIT_09242022.pdf

86 A TeV Muon-Ion Collider at BNL - the ultimate QCD frontier and novel accelerator technology initiatives¶

Speaker: Darin Acosta (Rice)

DarinWei_AcostaLi_v2 Wei Li.pdf

Cold QCD Open Mic¶

Convener: Or Hen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

87 Exploring GPDs using Timelike Compton Scattering with SoLID at Jefferson Lab¶

Speaker: Zhiwen Zhao (Duke)

solid_tcs_zhao_v1 Zhiwen Zhao.pdf

88 Generalized Polarizabilities of the Proton¶

Speaker: Michael Paolone (NMSU)

PaoloneMichael_Slide-polarizabilities Michael Paolone.pdf

89 Can quark and gluon angular momentum and mass distributions be observed?¶

Speaker: Simonetta Liuti (UVA)

Liuti_MIT_Town_22 [Autosaved].pptx

90 Light Meson Structure¶

Speaker: Horn Tanja (CUA)

Tanja-Horn-Light-Meson-Structure-v1 Tanja Horn.pdf

91 The Neutral Particle Spectrometer Science Program in Hall C as JLab¶

Speaker: Horn Tanja (CUA)

Tanja-Horn-Neutral-Particle-Spectrometer-Science-v1 Tanja Horn.pdf

92 Low-Energy Compton Scattering: A Poster Child for Theory-Experiment Synergy and Relevance¶

Speaker: Harald Griesshammer (GWU)

griesshammer_harald_polarisabilities_v1.0 Harald Griesshammer.pdf

93 Amplitude analyses and light hadron spectroscopy¶

Speaker: Arkaitz Rodas (College of William and Mary)

Arkaitz_Rodas_v1.pdf

94 The calorimetric electron scattering method : towards high precision measurement of the proton structure, hidden sector search and more¶

Speaker: Dipangkar Dutta (Mississippi State University)

dipangkar_dutta_v1 Dipangkar Dutta.pdf

95 Insight into Emergence of Hadron Mass from the Studies of Nucleon Resonance Electroexcitation¶

Speaker: Victor Mokeev (JLab)

Victor_Mokeev_v2.pdf

96 Polarized EMC Effect in the Neutron with New Superconducting Detectors¶

Speaker: Whitney Armstrong (ANL)

Whitney_Armstrong_v2 Whitney Armstrong.pdf

12:20 Lunch (supplied by MIT)

Plenary III¶

Convener: Xiaochao Zheng (UVA)

97 Cold QCD at JLab and RHIC: Theory Advances¶

Speaker: Jianwei Qiu (JLab)

QCD-Townhall-Theory-Qiu Jianwei Qiu.pdf

98 Ultra-peripheral Collisions Measurements¶

Speaker: Spencer Klein (LBNL)

Spencer Klein V4UPCsQCDtownmeeting Spencer Klein.pdf

99 Probing Cold QCD at RHIC¶

Speaker: Elke-Caroline Aschenauer (BNL)

ECAschenauer.RHIC.ColdQCD.Sa14.45 Elke-Caroline Aschenauer.pptx

100 The Jefferson Lab 12 GeV Program¶

Speaker: Jim Napolitano (Temple)

Jim_Napolitano_12GeV_v2 Jim Napolitano.pdf

15:40 Coffee Break

Plenary IV¶

Convener: Bjoern Schenke (BNL)

101 Electron Scattering at the Intensity Frontier with SOLID¶

Speaker: Zein-Eddine Meziani (ANL)

SoLID-THM-final-v2 Meziani.pdf

102 JLab upgrade perspectives¶

Speaker: Cynthia (Thia) Keppel (JLab)

Keppel_JLabUpgrade_v1 Cynthia Keppel.pptx

103 Probes of High Temperature QCD¶

Speaker: Dennis Perepelitsa (Colorado)

dennis_perepelitsa_v1 Dennis Perepelitsa.pdf

104 High Temperature QCD Theory¶

Speaker: Xin-Nian Wang (LBNL)

xnwang-QCD-Townhall_v2 Xin-Nian Wang.pdf

18:10 Coffee Break

Plenary V¶

Convener: Anne Sickles (Illinois)

105 Probes of High Density QCD¶

Speaker: Xin Dong (BNL)

20220923_Townhall_BES.pdf

106 High Density QCD Theory¶

Speaker: Jacquelyn Noronha-Hostler (Illinois)

DNP_TOWNHALL_NORONHAHOSTLER.key

DNP_TOWNHALL_NORONHAHOSTLER.pdf

107 Open Discussion¶

Speaker: Anne Sickles (Illinois)

Sunday, 25 September ¶

Plenary VI¶

Convener: Feng Yuan (BNL)

108 Nuclear Physics Education and Outreach¶

Speaker: Raul Briceno (ODU)

Raul_Briceno_v1 Raul Briceno.pdf

109 Intersections of QCD and Nuclear Data¶

Speaker: Ramona Vogt (LLNL & UCD)

Ramona_Vogt_v2 Ramona Vogt.pdf

110 Town Hall Discussion¶

QCD Town Hall Draft R&I.pdf

10:00 Coffee Break

111 Town Hall Discussion¶

112 Meeting summary¶

QCD Town Hall Final R&I.pdf