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HK: Fachverband Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 48: Invited Talks

HK 48.3: Invited Talk

Friday, March 20, 2026, 12:00–12:30, MED 00.915

Precision QCD with ePIC at the Electron-Ion Collider — •Tyler Kutz — Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz

The majority of visible matter in the Universe is hadronic, composed of quarks and gluons whose interactions are modeled by quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Describing the properties of protons, neutrons, and nuclei in terms of their fundamental QCD constituents remains a major experimental and theoretical effort. The electron-ion collider (EIC), being developed at Brookhaven National Lab, is a next-generation facility designed for high-precision studies of QCD. By facilitating collisions of polarized electrons with polarized protons and nuclei, the EIC will enable multi-dimensional probes of nucleon and nuclear structure. These measurements are essential to understanding the origin of nucleon mass and spin, the nucleon's 3D structure, QCD in the nuclear medium, and other emergent QCD phenomena. This talk will give an overview of ePIC, the first EIC detector collaboration, including the collaboration organization, detector capabilities, physics program, and future outlook.

Keywords: quantum chromodynamics QCD; electron-ion collider EIC; quarks; gluons; nuclei