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This White Paper presents the science case of an Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), focused on the structure and interactions of gluon-dominated matter, with the intent to articulate it to the broader nuclear science community. It was commissioned by the managements of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) with the objective of presenting a summary of scientific opportunities and goals of the EIC as a follow-up to the 2007 NSAC Long Range plan. This document is a culmination of a community-wide effort in nuclear science following a series of workshops on EIC physics and, in particular, the focused ten-week program on "Gluons and quark sea at high energies" at the Institute for Nuclear Theory in Fall 2010. It contains a brief description of a few golden physics measurements along with accelerator and detector concepts required to achieve them, and it benefited from inputs from the users' communities of BNL and JLab. This White Paper offers the promise to propel the QCD science program in the U.S., established with the CEBAF accelerator at JLab and the RHIC collider at BNL, to the next QCD frontier.
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Neutrino Fluxes at a Muon Collider
The neutrino flux around a 10 TeV muon collider is about 120 times higher than earlier estimates, with non-negligible additional sources from showers, rock interactions, and collisions.
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First constraints on the nonperturbative gluon Collins-Soper kernel
First lattice-QCD constraints on the nonperturbative gluon Collins-Soper kernel are obtained at near-physical pion mass with uNNLL LaMET matching on a single a=0.15 fm ensemble.
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Single inclusive hadron and jet production in lepton-hadron scattering
Single inclusive high-PT hadron and jet production in lepton-hadron scattering is factorized using a joint QCD+QED approach with universal lepton distribution functions, and predictions are given for JLab and EIC energies.
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Energy-Flow Moments for Elliptic Gluon Wigner Tomography
The normalized cos2φ moment of energy flow in DIS dijet production provides a linear projection of the elliptic gluon Wigner harmonic after kinematic subtraction within leading-power small-x factorization.
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TMD factorization in diffractive heavy-quark production in photon-nucleus collisions
TMD factorization holds for diffractive massive quark-antiquark-gluon production in the correlation limit, with a new mass-dependent quark diffractive TMD in the antiquark-gluon hard pair case.
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The twist-3 gluon contribution to $A_N$ in $J/\psi$ production in $pp$ collisions
Only the C-even twist-3 gluon distribution contributes to the J/psi single transverse-spin asymmetry, providing a probe of gluon TMDs with sizable predicted effects at collider energies.
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Extraction of the color dipole amplitude with physics-informed neural networks
Physics-informed neural networks extract a model-independent color dipole amplitude from inclusive HERA data that predicts exclusive J/ψ photoproduction cross-sections without parameter retuning.
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Conformal moments of the two-loop coefficient functions in DVCS
Conformal moments of the two-loop DVCS coefficient functions have been computed with a new technique.
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Unpolarized GPDs at small $x$ and non-zero skewness
Unpolarized GPDs and GTMDs at small x with non-zero skewness are expressed via the dipole amplitude N and odderon O with modified rapidity Y = ln min{1/|x|, 1/|ξ|}.
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Parton distributions in the shockwave formalism
A single shockwave Feynman-rule framework reproduces and extends prior small-x parton distributions, yielding new quark GTMD/GPD/PDF and diffractive-TMD results.
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Accessing nucleon transversity with one-point energy correlators
The paper proposes that one-point energy correlators in transversely polarized proton-proton collisions access the nucleon's transversity distribution through a single-spin asymmetry with sin(φ_s - φ_n) angular depend...
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Analytic Solution for the Helicity Evolution Equations at Small $x$ and Large $N_c\&N_f$
An exact analytic solution of the revised large-Nc and large-Nf small-x helicity evolution equations in QCD, yielding all-order polarized DGLAP anomalous dimensions and small-x growth intercepts.
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Determination of Fragmentation Functions from Charge Asymmetries in Hadron Production
Non-singlet fragmentation functions of pions and kaons are determined at NNLO QCD from charge asymmetry measurements in e+e- annihilation and SIDIS, yielding a scaling index of 0.7 and strangeness suppression of 0.5.
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Factorized QED and QCD Contribution to Deeply Inelastic Scattering
The NLO factorized QED contribution to the leading e+q->e+X subprocess of DIS is computed and shown to be infrared safe with no free parameters beyond the factorization scale.
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Resummation for Lattice QCD Calculation of Generalized Parton Distributions at Nonzero Skewness
A threshold factorization and resummation scheme for quasi-GPD matching in LaMET is derived and shown to be self-consistent on a GPD model.
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Unbiased Data-Driven Determination of the Nuclear Dipole Amplitude in the Color Glass Condensate
The 208Pb dipole amplitude is learned from R_pPb and coherent J/ψ photoproduction data with the BK equation embedded in training, giving Q²_s0(Pb)/Q²_s0(p) = 3.17 and an MV-type initial condition.
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Spin and momentum fraction carried by partons in the nucleon
Lattice QCD at physical quark masses, extrapolated to the continuum, yields total proton momentum fraction 0.995(60)(29) and spin 0.507(43)(65), satisfying both sum rules and giving the first complete flavor decomposi...
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Transverse Charge Distribution as a Probe of Nucleon Transversity
A charge-flow measurement built only from track angles and charge signs contains a leading-twist chiral-odd dipole that matches the charge-weighted Collins moment, giving enhanced transversity-sensitive asymmetries.
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Radiative corrections in neutral-current (anti)neutrino elastic scattering at $\text{GeV}$ energies I: Nucleon targets
Radiative corrections to neutral-current (anti)neutrino-nucleon elastic scattering are computed within low-energy EFT and reach a few percent, comparable to the strange-quark effects they must be disentangled from.
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Exclusive Quark and Gluon Dijet Production as Probes of GPDs at Collider Energies
Exclusive quark and gluon dijet electroproduction is analyzed in collinear factorization as a GPD probe, extending prior work with helicity GPDs and an electromagnetic channel, with HERA comparisons and EIC projections.
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New Energy-Loss Constraints on Dark Sectors from Deeply Inelastic Scattering with Initial State Radiation
A factorization-based method is outlined to derive energy-loss constraints on dark sector particles (spin 0 to 2) from ISR-modified lepton distributions in DIS, illustrated for MeV-GeV spin-0 cases at the EIC.
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Twisting Small-$x$ Gluon Tomography with Orbital Angular Momentum
Proposes OAM-resolved extension of small-x gluon tomography via twisted lepton currents yielding tunable M-resolved elliptic correlations A_2^(M)(q_T, R_γ) with projection zeros unavailable in plane-wave setups.
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Quantum Simulation of Generalized Parton Distributions in the Schwinger Model
Quantum algorithm for GPDs in Schwinger model using Wilson fermions, with polynomial resource scaling and exact-diagonalization benchmarks matching theory.
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A generalised-$k_t$ jet algorithm for Deep Inelastic Scattering
The authors define a generalised-k_t jet algorithm family for DIS in the Breit frame, extending the prior p=0 case, and test its use for struck-quark jet identification and non-perturbative effects.
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Azimuthal decorrelation in diffractive dijet production
All-order resummation of soft gluons for transverse energy-energy correlators in diffractive dijet production demonstrates sensitivity of acoplanarity to diffractive TMDs.
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Mellin Moments of the Unpolarized Gluon PDF in the Proton from Nonlocal Operators in Lattice QCD
Lattice QCD extracts the ratio of the third to first Mellin moment of the gluon PDF at 2 GeV from nonlocal operators on an Nf=2+1+1 ensemble.
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Quantum simulating multi-particle processes in high energy nuclear physics: dijet production and color (de)coherence
A quantum-circuit framework maps partonic cross-sections for multi-particle QCD processes in media, benchmarked on dipole formation and antenna radiation at leading order.
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Transverse energy-momentum tensor distributions in polarized nucleons
Transverse EMT distributions in polarized nucleons are derived in the quantum phase-space formalism; they reduce to standard light-front densities (including bad components) in the infinite-momentum frame.
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Physics-Informed Global Extraction of the Universal Small-$x$ Dipole Amplitude
A nonparametric PINN-constrained dipole amplitude simultaneously describes HERA total/charm DIS and J/psi photoproduction while maintaining Fourier positivity, unlike analytic MV-type fits.
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Evaluation of the beam-induced depolarization of the HJET target at the EIC
Beam-induced depolarization of the HJET target at the EIC is ≤0.011% for nominal parameters — an order of magnitude below the jet-polarization accuracy requirement — because only strongly-suppressed high harmonics of ...
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Braking protons at the EIC: from invisible meson decay to new physics searches
The EIC can probe invisible pseudoscalar meson decays down to branching ratios of 10^{-8} and invisibly decaying ALPs with couplings up to 10^5 GeV for masses 0.1-2 GeV.
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Differentiable Principal-Value Inversion for Neural-Network Extraction of Generalized Parton Distributions
A differentiable principal-value integral layer inside a neural network inverts the singular GPD-to-CFF transform, extracting H^(+) from experimental Re H with replica-ensemble uncertainties.
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Exploring nuclear modification using one-point energy correlator at the electron-ion collider
OPEC in e+A collisions factorizes in TMD QCD and predicts ~0.3–0.4 nuclear suppression at small angles, growing with angle, as a probe of cold-nuclear-matter broadening.
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Fermi-liquid view of viscosity in cold and dense nucleon matter
In a quasiparticle Fermi liquid with medium-dependent mass, imposing Landau matching makes the bulk viscosity manifestly non-negative and parametrically smaller than shear viscosity at low temperature, ζ/η ∝ (T/μ*)⁴.
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Saturation effects in exclusive vector meson production in DIS
A dense-limit CGC hotspot calculation shows saturation mildly suppresses exclusive vector meson cross sections in ep, with suppression growing at higher color-charge density.
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GUMP1.0 -- First global extraction of generalized parton distributions from experiment and lattice data with NLO accuracy
A new global extraction, GUMP1.0, fits generalized parton distributions to 2,646 experimental and lattice data points at NLO accuracy and uses them to image the proton and decompose its spin.
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Exclusive $\mathrm{J}/\psi$ production off a dilute proton within a refined hotspot description
A hot-spot model with saturation-scale and hotspot-number fluctuations plus a relativistic wave-function correction reproduces HERA exclusive J/psi data, with saturation-scale fluctuations dominating.
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Decoding the proton's gluonic density with lattice QCD-informed machine learning
A variational autoencoder inverse mapper extracts the proton's gluon PDF from lattice QCD pseudo-Ioffe-time distributions, yielding results consistent with global fits.
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Nucleon Tomography with 0-jettiness
Applying a 0-jettiness veto to transverse single-spin asymmetries in W/Z production at RHIC enhances the asymmetry signal, sharpening the test of the Sivers sign change.
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Mapping the transverse spin sum rule in position space
Derives relativistic spatial distributions of transverse orbital angular momentum, intrinsic spin, and total angular momentum in the transverse plane for spin-0 and spin-1/2 targets via quantum phase-space formalism a...
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Quantum computation of hadron scattering in a lattice gauge theory
On a trapped-ion quantum computer, the authors prepared multiple meson wave packets and simulated their early-time collisions in a 1+1D Z2 lattice gauge theory.
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Relativistic energy-momentum tensor distributions in a polarized nucleon
Relativistic EMT distributions in polarized nucleons recover good and bad light-front components in the IMF after including polarization effects.
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Dihadron azimuthal asymmetry and light-quark dipole moments at the Electron-Ion Collider
Proposal for a new observable—dihadron azimuthal asymmetry in unpolarized SIDIS at EIC—that isolates linear dependence on light-quark dipole couplings via SM-dipole interference.
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Collinearly Improved Balitsky-Kovchegov Evolution of the Gluon Wigner Distribution
Collinearly improved IMST BK evolution moves the elliptic node and reshapes the rapidity and hard-scale dependence of coherent diffractive dijet ⟨cos2φ⟩ relative to LO BK, not just a normalization shift.
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Electron-Ion Collision Environment: Distribution of Quark Spin and Orbital Angular Momentum
Using NJL density-dependent quark masses in a light-front dressed-quark model, the paper predicts O(10–40%) medium modifications of GTMDs linked to quark OAM, spin, and spin–orbit correlation, and defines eA/eP GTMD r...
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Polarized Deep-Inelastic Scattering with Spin Correlations in Herwig 7
Herwig 7 now supports NLO POWHEG-matched polarized DIS including neutral and charged currents, with spin-density matrix propagation that affects some shower observables but not others.
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Diffractive Production of Heavy Quarkonia at the Electron Ion Collider
Keeping the full gluon transverse momentum in diffractive quarkonium production matches HERA psi(2S)/J/psi ratios better than the standard dipole limit and yields new EIC Upsilon-ratio predictions.
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Constraining DVCS Compton Form Factors Using Lattice QCD informed Neural Network
A neural network framework informed by lattice QCD uses all-order dispersion relations to significantly constrain both real and imaginary parts of Compton Form Factors extracted from DVCS proton data.
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Maximum phase-space density of linearly polarized gluon TMDs in the saturation region
For the dipole gluon TMD, the Sudakov-limited maximum phase-space density of h_1^{⊥g} is 2 n_g^{max} ∼ 2 α_s^{-3/2} in the saturation region.
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Multiplicity distributions in DIS for heavy nucleus
Homotopy solutions to BFKL Pomeron evolution equations in nuclear DIS produce multiplicity distributions of produced gluons.
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Gravitational form factors of light mesons from Basis Light-Front Quantization
Gravitational form factors of pion and kaon are computed in BLFQ; A(Q^2) agrees with lattice QCD while D(Q^2) is enhanced at low Q^2 due to small-x and zero-mode sensitivity in the truncated model.
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Resolved photoproduction of the $B_c$ meson in electron-proton collisions
Direct gamma-gluon fusion dominates B_c photoproduction in ep collisions, with resolved gluon-gluon contributing O(10%) at low p_T across HERA to EIC energies.
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ALP and $Z^\prime$ boson at the Electron-Ion collider
Projected EIC tri-electron searches would constrain electron-coupled ALPs and Z' bosons more strongly than current experiments at masses of about 10-100 GeV and 10-30 GeV, respectively.
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Flavor physics at the EIC with b-jet tagging
Single b-jet counting in charged-current events at the EIC could probe new flavor-changing physics up to Λ_eff ≈ 5 TeV, about 30 times the collider energy, assuming tight b-tagging and polarized beams.
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QCD Wehrl and entanglement entropies in a gluon spectator model at small-$x$
In a gluon spectator model at small x, the normalized Husimi distribution yields a Wehrl entropy that decomposes into an entanglement entropy term matching CMS data and a transverse residual term.
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Assessing the impact of the electron ion collider in China on Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering
Projected EicC DVCS asymmetry data would substantially reduce uncertainties on all leading-order Compton form factors, most strongly in the sea-quark region.
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Letter of Intent: The Forward Physics Facility
Proposes construction of the Forward Physics Facility at the HL-LHC with four complementary detectors to exploit forward neutrinos and new-particle fluxes for neutrino, QCD, astroparticle, and dark-matter measurements.
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Probing nuclear structure with the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation in full impact-parameter dependence
Extends the full impact-parameter Balitsky-Kovchegov equation to nuclei and supplies saturation-sensitive predictions for DIS and vector-meson production, including a tetrahedral oxygen model.
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Probing Scalar-Mediator Quark Couplings via CLFV Lepton-Nucleon Scattering
The momentum-transfer dependence of the gluon-initiated CLFV subprocess can discriminate between Higgs-like and bottom-only scalar mediator couplings.
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Eliminating beam-induced depolarizing effects in the hydrogen jet target for high-precision proton beam polarimetry at the Electron-Ion Collider
A frequency-domain analysis of EIC beam harmonics shows that a 400 mT guide field is needed to keep the hydrogen jet target from depolarizing.
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