Advancing Nuclear Physics: New Horizons with Fixed-Target Proton-Nucleus Experiments at Intermediate Energies

Jul 10, 2025, 8:00 AM → Jul 11, 2025, 6:35 PM America/New_York

CFNS, Peter Paul Seminar Room, C 120 Physics Building (Stony Brook University/Online)

This event may be attended in person, or virtually using Zoom.

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Thu, July 10

9:00 AM → 10:10 AM Session: Day 1 Session 1

9:00 AM Welcome opening

Speaker: Dr Niseem (Magdy) Abdelrahman (Texas Southern University)

Talk_Jul_9.pdf

9:05 AM Overview of the AGS capabilities for fixed target experiments

Speaker: Vincent Schoefer (BNL)

SchoeferFixedTargetWorkshop_StonyBrook.pdf

SchoeferFixedTargetWorkshop_StonyBrook.pptx

9:35 AM Extraction and transport from AGS for fixed target experiments

Speaker: Kevin Brown (BNL)

FixedTargetNP-AGS2025.pptx

magnet.pdf

10:10 AM → 10:40 AM Coffee Break

10:40 AM → 12:10 PM Session: Day 1 Session 2

10:45 AM Color Transparency and the role of fixed-target proton beam experiments

Speaker: Dipangkar Datta

cfns25_dutta.pdf

11:20 AM Ion beam test requirement for generic R&D

Speaker: Charles Hyde (Old Dominion University)

IonBeamTests.pdf

11:45 AM Proximity Focusing RICH Detector at ePIC

Speaker: Brian Page (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

pfRICHSummary_fixedTargetWksp_2025-07-10.pdf

12:10 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch Break

2:00 PM → 3:45 PM Session: Day 1 Session 3

2:00 PM Polarized target and beam development before EIC Era

Speaker: Richard Milner (MIT)

New_horizons_EPIOS.pdf

2:25 PM Transverse Momentum Distributions

Speaker: Leonard Gamberg (Penn State)

Gamberg_SB_25-F4.pdf

2:50 PM Insight into fixed target proton beam at CBM/HADES: physics and instrumentation

Speaker: Tetyana Galatyuk

20250710_HADES_CBM_AdvancingNuclearPhysics_TetyanaGalatyuk.pdf

3:15 PM ePIC overview and test beam requirements

Speaker: Oskar Hartbrich (ORNL)

out_cfns_complete.pdf

3:45 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 4:20 PM Perspective for a fixed target facility and leading to the EIC

Speaker: Abhay Deshpande (Stony Brook University & CFNS)

4:20 PM → 5:20 PM Open Discussion

Fri, July 11

9:00 AM → 10:35 AM Session: Day 2 Session 1

9:00 AM Overview of AGS in late 80s/early 90s

Speaker: Yasuyuki Akiba (RIKEN)

AGS HI exp.pptx

9:35 AM Electromagnetic probes and NA60+

Speaker: Axel Drees

Drees_NA60-DiCE.pptx

10:10 AM Searching for new physics using ion beam-dump experiments

Speaker: Hongkai Liu

Ion_beam-dump.pdf

10:35 AM → 10:55 AM Coffee Break

10:55 AM → 12:05 PM Session: Day 2 Session 2

10:55 AM Fixed Target Experiment at STAR

Speaker: Daniel Cebra (UC Davis)

CFNS_STAR_FXT_Cebra_2025.pdf

11:30 AM Short range High Momentum Correlations - Looking Backward and Now Forward

Speaker: Mark Strikman

12:05 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch Break

1:30 PM → 2:35 PM Session: Day 2 Session 3

1:30 PM Baryon Stopping at the Fixed-Target Experiment

Speaker: Zhangbu Xu (BNL)

xzb2AGS2_072025.pdf

1:50 PM Nuclear Structure at the Fixed-Target experiment

Speaker: Jiangyong Jia

JiangyongJia_2025_0711_FXT_v0.pdf

2:10 PM A summary of net-proton fluctuation studies

Speaker: Ashish Pandav (LBL)

SUNY_FXT_pandavA_e0.pdf

2:35 PM → 2:45 PM Coffee Break

2:45 PM → 3:45 PM Session: Day 2 Session 4

2:45 PM Studies of short-range correlations with hadronic probes

Speaker: Julian Kahlbow

cfns_jkahlbow.pdf

3:10 PM Polarization measurements at the Fixed-Target experiment

Speaker: Zhoudunming Tu (BNL)

AGS-fixedTarget-2025.pdf

3:30 PM Laying the Framework for EMCAL R&D and Future Gamma Spectroscopy in Fixed Target Experiments

Speaker: Mark Harvey

MH_EMCAL_RnD_CFNS-Workshop.pdf

3:45 PM → 4:25 PM Open Discussion

4:25 PM → 5:25 PM Session: Close Out

4:25 PM Workshop Overview

WorkshopSummary.pdf

4:50 PM Future Steps