The Electron-Ion Collider: Exploring the smallest building blocks of matter Dr Yulia Furletova,Jefferson Lab
Event details
The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) is an advanced accelerator that will be built at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, in partnership with Jefferson Lab, and is designed to explore the smallest building blocks of matter. By observing how electrons scatter off ions, researchers can understand the forces (such as the strong force, which holds atoms together) and particles that make up the universe. The EIC will help to answer key questions on the structure of protons, the behaviour of quarks and gluons, as well as how matter behaves at extreme densities. Specialised detectors, placed around the collision area, will be able to measure particles that emerge during the collisions, allowing scientists to gather detailed data for analysis. The EIC’s experimental setup requires not only an advanced accelerator and detectors, but also the use of powerful computing infrastructure to manage and analyse the massive volumes of data produced. In this talk, Dr Yulia Furletova will discuss the EIC's scientific goals, design, and experimental setup.
This webinar is open to all and also forms part of the Binding Blocks Nuclear Physics Masterclass for A-level students (or equivalent).
About the speaker
Dr Yulia Furletova received her PhD from Hamburg University (Germany) in 2004. Her research was related to physics beyond the Standard Model, in particular the search for leptoquarks. Yulia was responsible for the beam and background monitoring detector at the ZEUS experiment (Germany) and participated in offline reconstruction software development. Yulia was a research associate in University of Bonn (Germany) and a staff scientist at Juelich Research Center (Germany), where she worked on development of a neutron imaging detector.
Yulia joined Jefferson Lab in 2015 as a staff scientist working for the Electron Ion Collider (EIC) project. She is currently involved in the EIC central detector design and interaction region integration of far-forward detectors.