New opportunities for beyond-the-Standard Model searches at the EIC

Jul 21, 2025, 8:00 AM → Jul 24, 2025, 5:00 PM America/New_York

C-120 (Peter Paul Seminar Room)

Radja Boughezal (Argonne National Laboratory), Zuhal Seyma Demiroglu (Stony Brook University), Ciprian Gal, Krishna Kumar, Sonny Mantry, Frank Petriello

This event is part of the CFNS Workshop/Ad-Hoc Meeting series. See the CFNS conferences page for other events.

The ramp-up of EIC activities has generated increased interest in exploring connections between high-energy physics and the EIC science program. The focus of the connections has primarily been in the context of QCD studies with less attention paid to beyond-the-Standard-Model (BSM) studies. Recent work has revealed a much richer connection between the BSM programs in HEP and at the EIC than previously expected. 

Many examples of both direct and indirect searches for new physics that leverage the unique features of the EIC have been given. The wide kinematic range of the EIC, including previously unexplored (x,Q²) bins, can help disentangle BSM effects within effective field theory analyses. 

The ability of the EIC to polarize both beams unlocks connections to low energy precision experiments such as the muon g-2 and electric dipole moments. 

The EIC program will build upon previous explorations done with parity-violating electron scattering and charged-lepton flavor violating observables. The availability of heavy nuclei beams can boost searches for hidden dark photons and axion-like particle due to Z² enhancements of coherent scattering cross sections. 

In many cases, the EIC can:

• Exceed the reach of the LHC and other HEP experiments
• Fill blind spots in the new physics parameter space. 

We believe that the time is ripe to foster deeper connections between HEP and EIC. This workshop aims to:

• Bring together experts from both communities
• Reveal and expand these growing connections
• Chart a path forward for the EIC's BSM physics program

Organizing Committee: 

• Radja Boughezal (Argonne National Laboratory)
• Zuhal Seyma Demiroglu (CFNS, Stony Brook University)
• Ciprian Gal (Jefferson Lab)
• Krishna Kumar (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
• Sonny Mantry (University of North Georgia)
• Frank Petriello (Northwestern University)

 

This workshop is hosted at and supported by

Mon, July 21

Coffee

Session: Electroweak Physics and Future Opportunities at the EIC

1 Status of the EIC (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)

Speaker: Thomas Ullrich (BNL)

2 Opportunities with a 2nd EIC detector (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)

Speaker: Pawel Nadel-Turonski (University of South Carolina)

11:00 AM Coffee

3 Overview of precision EW studies with SMEFT (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)

Speaker: Sally Dawson (BNL)

Lunch

Session: From HERA to EIC: Electroweak Physics and Beyond

4 EW and BSM Physics: From HERA to EIC (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)

Speaker: Yulia Furletova (Jefferson Lab)

5 The Standard Model Effective Field Theory and low-energy experiments (30 min talk + 15 min discussion)

Speaker: Vincenzo Cirigliano (Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington)

3:30 PM Coffee

6 Searches for CLFV at the EIC (30 min talk + 15 min discussion)

Speaker: Emanuele Mereghetti (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

7 A tale of two neutrinos: sterile neutrinos at the EIC (30 min talk + 15 min discussion)

Speaker: Sebastián Urrutia Quiroga (INT, University of Washington)

Tue, July 22

Coffee

Session: Explorations in Electroweak and QCD Dynamics

8 TBD (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)

Speaker: Kaori Fuyuto (Los Alamos National Lab)

9 TBD (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)

Speaker: Andrew Hurley (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

11:00 AM Coffee

10 Quarks of QCD at the EIC: Exploring the limits of the strong interaction force (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)

Speaker: Fredrick Olness (SMU Physics Department)

Lunch

Session: QCD Structure and Electroweak Precision Studies

11 TBD (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)

Speaker: Raju Venugopalan (BNL)

12 Gravitational form factors in a QCD context - TBC (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)

Speaker: Yoshitaka Hatta (BNL)

3:45 PM Coffee

13 TBD (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)

Speaker: Tyler Kutz (U of Mainz)

Workshop Dinner

Wed, July 23

Coffee

Session: DIS Structure and Factorization

14 Structure functions (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)

Speaker: Keping Xie (University of Pittsburgh)

15 Extraction of the Weak Mixing Angle at the EIC (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)

Speaker: Michael Nycz (Jefferson Lab)

11:00 AM Coffee

16 Joint QED and QCD Factorization in DIS (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)

Speaker: Justin Cammarota (William & Mary)

Lunch

Session: Dark Sectors and Flavor Violation

17 Single top production vía flavor violation 2HDM

Speaker: Melina Gómez Bock (UPAEP)

18 Looking for dark particles at the EIC

Speaker: Hooman Davoudiasl (BNL)

3:45 PM Coffee

19 Searches for flavor-violating particles at the EIC

Speaker: Ethan Neil (University of Colorado)

Thu, July 24

Coffee

Session: Light Dark Matter and EIC Discovery Potential

20 Towards new constraints on light, dark sectors through EIC studies (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)

Speaker: Susan Gardner (University of Kentucky)

21 Electron-Ion Collider as a Discovery Tool for Invisible Dark Bosons (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)

Speaker: Hongkai Liu (BNL)

11:00 AM Coffee

22 EIC Early Science (45 min talk + 15 min discussion)

Speaker: Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook University & CFNS)

Lunch