Nuclear Particle Astrophysics (NPA) Seminar: Thomas Hemmick, Stony Brook University, “RHIC to eRHIC: Revolution within Evolution”

Thursday Apr 9, 2015, 3:30 PM → 4:30 PM US/Eastern

WLC 108

The physics program based at BNL’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has been wildly successful in discovering and characterizing the Quark-Gluon Plasma. Although the RHIC Heavy Ion program will unquestionably remain vibrant for many years, another longer-term possibility is emerging in the form of the so-called Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). This machine might be realized at Brookhaven as a successor to RHIC (eRHIC) or at Jefferson Lab as injected by CEBAF (MEIC). Increasingly intensive R&D on both the accelerator design(s) and detector technologies is ongoing. It can and will be argued that the EIC represents an historic anomaly of opportunity to unite the most diverse group of nuclear scientists ever assembled at the most flexible collider ever conceived. Although this talk will center mainly on interesting aspects of the ongoing detector R&D program, the author will not be shy in offering candid opinions on the program as a whole.

Hemmick_NPA_Seminar_492015.pdf