[Jlab-seminars] Today's Physic's Seminar: Tobias Toll; Gluon distribution, fluctuations and saturation at an Electron Ion Collider

[Stephanie Tysor]

Physics Seminar 

Tobias Toll 

Shiv Nadar University 





Gluon distribution, fluctuations and saturation at an Electron Ion Collider 



Abstract: 



I will talk about how the electron ion collider (EIC) will be able to extract a clear signal for gluon saturation, as well as making precision measurements of gluon spatial distributions and fluctuations, using diffractive events. While the charge radius of the proton is well known, its gluon radius and shape has never been measured. Furthermore, gluons exist in nature solely as vacuum fluctuations, and by measuring how they fluctuate inside heavy nuclei will put to the test our understanding of 
quantum field theory and the vacuum. It turns out that a firm handle of initial state spatial distributions and fluctuations of gluons also play an important role in our understanding of heavy ions collisions at the LHC and RHIC, as well as for some aspects of the young universe shortly after Big Bang. 



Friday, June 16, 2017 

11:00 am 

CEBAF F113 

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Stephanie Tysor 
Hall A Administrative Assistant 
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility 
(office)757-269-6005 (fax)757-269-5235 
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