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<div class="ContentPasted0">In the last year, several workshops aimed at pursuing an energy upgrade to 22 GeV of CEBAF with the goal of advancing the frontiers of our knowledge across the spectrum of topics in nuclear physics have been organized by the JLab
user community and staff with guidance from JLab management. This upgraded facility at the luminosity frontier will open up a rich and unique experimental nuclear physics program that combines the illustrious history of the laboratory with an exciting scientific
future. Following the workshops, an editorial committee has collected input from the community and assembled a White Paper that outlines the scientific program with CEBAF at 22 GeV.
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<div class="ContentPasted0">The document is openly available in the following link
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<div class="ContentPasted0">The initial author list contains the editorial committee, workshop participants who submitted contributions, as well as some others who made direct contributions to the document. We recognize that many colleagues beyond this initial
list have made important contributions to this program. While this grass-roots effort started with conversations among the workshop participants, many others have expressed interest in this program, contributed through discussions outside of the workshops,
or plan to contribute in the future.</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0">We would like to invite all of you to sign this document as coauthor and join us in this effort.</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0">If you wish to support the CEBAF energy upgrade project, you can sign the document as a coauthor by completing this form:</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0">The deadline for signing as a coauthor is June 7 at close of business (5 p.m. EDT).
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<div class="ContentPasted0">We plan to submit the document to the arXiv after this date, and subsequently for publication in a refereed journal.</div>
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<div class="ContentPasted0">On behalf of the editorial committee,</div>
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Patrizia Rossi<br>
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