The general scientific goal of this workshop is the search for the high gluonic density regime and saturation at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This topic lies at the heart of the current experimental program at the LHC and is one of the main motivations of building Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), currently under construction at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL, USA). Discovery of saturation, is one of the main goals in nuclear physics at the LHC and the EIC and follows the European strategy in nuclear physics. This new regime of QCD gives access to the non-linear structure of QCD in a weak coupling context. Controlled calculations are therefore possible and recent calculations within the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) framework at next-to-leading promise to make predictions more reliable. Observation of the onset of gluon saturation is expected for hard events at highest center of mass energies (due to growth of gluon densities with energy) and at small, but perturbative hard scales (to gain access to higher order correlators of gluonic fields); since gluon densities are further enhanced through the number of nucleons, saturation effects are expected to be further enhanced in large nuclei.
Key Topics:
- Saturation effects vs. collinear approaches
- Gluon saturation and transverse momentum dependent
- Diffractive events
This meeting will also be part of the LHC Forward Physics WG.
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