EEEMCAL Physics Meeting Summary (8/30/22)

Talking points:

• EM calorimeters (electron endcap and barrel) are absolutely essential from day one. They are not add-on

• Approach: develop strategy and science first, then reach out to EIC PM and/or funding agencies again for feedback

• Physics topics to put forward for EEEMCAL MSRI pre-proposal - main feature: detection and identification of the scattered electron

• Inclusive polarized: Gluon spin structure - gluon saturation (go from p to A)

• Inclusive: F_L --> unpolarized, Rosenbluth function of angle - inclusive SF detection, doesn't need polarized beam and gets into gluon structure)

• Inclusive on nuclei --> nuclear PDFs (F2) - on the way to gluon saturation

• Exclusive: DVCS + eA

• Action Items:

• Look for plots towards the pre-proposal

• Gluon saturation (Renee)
• F_L (Richard)
• F2 (Renee)
• DVCS angular distribution of photon from DVCS (Richard)

• Develop a way to demonstrate that the EMCals are essential for the physics (cannot be done without these detectors)

• Comparison of simulation projections with and "without" EMCals in backward and barrel - "without" could be with a very poor calorimeter, e.g., ultra-thin (1mm thick?) etc.

• Create a space in the EEEMCAL Wiki to collect information for the pre-proposal (Tanja)

• Circulate solicitation of the NSF MSRI (Tanja)

• Circulate example pre-proposals (Tanja)