1. Physics Opportunities with Meson Beams for EIC
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Briscoe, William J., Doring, Michael, Haberzettl, Helmut, Manley, D. Mark, Naruki, Megumi, Smith, Greg, Strakovsky, Igor, and Swanson, Eric S.
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Nuclear Experiment ,High Energy Physics - Experiment ,High Energy Physics - Phenomenology ,Nuclear Theory - Abstract
Over the past two decades, meson photo- and electroproduction data of unprecedented quality and quantity have been measured at electromagnetic facilities worldwide. By contrast, the meson-beam data for the same hadronic final states are mostly outdated and largely of poor quality, or even non-existent, and thus provide inadequate input to help interpret, analyze, and exploit the full potential of the new electromagnetic data. To reap the full benefit of the high-precision electromagnetic data, new high-statistics data from measurements with meson beams, with good angle and energy coverage for a wide range of reactions, are critically needed to advance our knowledge in baryon and meson spectroscopy and other related areas of hadron physics. To address this situation, a state-of-the-art meson-beam facility needs to be constructed. The present letter summarizes unresolved issues in hadron physics and outlines the vast opportunities and advances that only become possible with such a facility., Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1503.07763. That is extension vs published version in EPJA51, 129 (2015)
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- 2021