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APS Division of Nuclear Physics: 2007 Long Range Plan

QCD and Hadron Physics Town Meeting Agenda:

Note: people are encouraged to make 1-slide presentations during the General discussion times. Please contact the appropriate discussion leader in advance.

Note: Buses will leave the Doubletree Hotel 30 minutes before the start of the meeting each day.

Friday January 12
(Phases of QCD Matter Town Meeting meets separately)

• 08:30-09:00 Introduction: Charges and Guidelines (Ji and Meziani), White Paper from the 2000 LRP Hadronic Physics Town Meeting pdf, NSAC charge pdf
• 09:00-12:00 Session 1: Hadron Structure at Short Distance
  (discussion leader: Deshpande)
  • 09:00-09:30 Parton distributions at high-energy, Jian-Wei Qiu, pdf
  • 09:30-10:00 Parton distributions at large x, J. P. Chen, ppt
    
  • 10:00-10:20 coffee break
    
  • 10:20-10:50 Transverse Momentum Distributions, N. Makins, pdf
  • 10:50-11:20 Report from the GPD workshop, M. Vanderhaegen, ppt
  • 11:20-12:00 General discussion and (3 min, 1 slide) short presentations: Souder ppt, Gao ppt, Caldwell ppt, Hyde-Wright pdf
• 12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
  
• 13:00-15:30 Session 2: Hadron Structure at Long Distance
  (discussion leader: Peng)
  • 13:00-13:30 Electro-magnetic Form Factors, J. Arrington, ppt
  • 13:30-14:00 Weak form factors and Standard Model Tests, G. Cates, pdf
  • 14:00-14:20 Chiral Dynamics with Pions, Nucleons, and Deltas, D. Phillips, pdf
  • 14:20-14:40 Chiral Structure of Few-nucleon Systems, H. Griesshammer, pdf
  • 14:40-15:00 Probing Chiral Dynamics with Photons, H. Weller, ppt, avi
  • 15:00-15:30 General Discussion and (3', 1 slide) presentations: Stoler ppt, Miskimen ppt, Norum pdf
• 15:30-16:00 coffee break
  
• 16:00-18:00 Session 3: Nuclear Physics at Short Distance
  (Discussion Leader: Keppel)
  • 16:00-16:35 How does short distance behavior affect the nucleus, D. Geesaman, ppt
  • 16:35-16:50 Nuclei at short distance scale, R. Ransome, ppt
  • 16:50-17:05 QCD processes in the nucleus, W. Brooks, ppt
  • 17:05-17:20 Partons in the nucleus, J. Owens, pdf
  • 17:20-17:30 Hypernuclear spectroscopy, J. Reinhold, ppt
  • 17:30-18:00 General discussion and (3', 1 slide) presentations: Hafidi pdf

Saturday January 13
(joint session with QCD and Hadron Physics Town Meeting)

• 8:30-8:40 Welcome address
• 8:40-9:25 JLab 12 GeV upgrade and science program, A. Thomas, pdf
• 9:25-10:10 RHIC II upgrade and science program, W. Zajc, ppt
  
• 10:10-10:30 coffee break
  
• 10:30-10:50 International opportunities: LHC, B. Wyslouch, pdf
• 10:50-11:10 International opportunities: FAIR, W. Henning, ppt
• 11:10-11:30 International opportunities: J-PARC, N. Saito, ppt
• 11:30-11:40 International opportunities: discussion
• 11:40-12:20 QCD Theory: challenges, opportunities and community needs, D. Kaplan, pdf
  
• 12:20-13:30 Lunch Break
  
• 13:30-14:00 Computational QCD, J. Negele, pdf
• 14:00-14:35 Gluons at high density, Y. Kovchegov, ppt
• 14:35-15:10 Central questions in proton structure, W. Vogelsang, pdf
• 15:10-15:50 Opportunities in low-x physics, B. Surrow, pdf
  
• 15:50-16:10 Coffee Break
  
• 16:10-16:50 Opportunities in hadron structure, R. Ent, ppt
• 16:50-17:30 e+p/A facilities, L. Merminga, ppt
• 17:30-18:45 Community input and discussion of priorities, Draft EIC Bullet v3 doc

Sunday January 14
(Phases of QCD Matter Town Meeting meets separately)

• 09:00-10:00 Session 4-a: Hadron spectroscopy (Mesons)
  (discussion leaders: Capstick and Meyer)
  • 09:00-09:30 Theory Overview: from heavy quark to light quark systems, T. Barnes, ppt
  • 09:15-09:30 Theory Overview: meson phenomenology, J. Dudek, pdf
  • 09:30-10:00 Experimental overview; current and future, A. Dzierba, pdf
• 10:00-10:30 coffee break
  
  • 10:30-12:00 Session 4-b: Hadron spectroscopy (Excited Baryons)
  • 10:30-11:00 Experimental overview; current and future, V. Burkert, ppt
  • 11:00-11:15 Overview: theoretical developments, T.-S.H. Lee, pdf
  • 11:15-11:30 Other facilities/detectors for baryon physics, V. Crede, pdf
  • 11:30-12:00 Short presentations and general discussion:, Sandorfi ppt, Stepanyan ppt, Stoler ppt, Weygand ppt
• 12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
  
• 13:00-15:00 Session 5: Theory
  (discussion leader: Negele)
  • 13:00-13:25 Effective Field Theory, I. Stewart, pdf
  • 13:25-13:50 Roles of Phenomenology and Model Building, A. Szczepaniak, ppt
  • 13:50-14:15 Lattice QCD, K. Orginos, pdf
  • 14:15-15:00 General discussion, Edwards ppt, Miller pdf, Savage pdf
• 15:00-15:30 coffee break
  
• 15:30-16:00 Education and Outreach, Jolie Cizewski, ppt
• 16:00-18:00 Recommendations and whitepaper assignments (Ji and Meziani)

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