The Future of Color Transparency, Hadronization and Short-Range Nucleon-Nucleon Correlation Studies

Dear Colleagues,

The objectives of the topic of this Special Issue (SI) are to develop theoretical and experimental approaches to successfully describe partonic nature of matter including the apparent reaction dependence of QCD predictions, differences between three-quark and quark-antiquark states in sense of the subsequent nucleon modifications and interactions including short-range correlations (SRC).

This topic may serve a roadmap for the future developments and a guide to areas for possible collaborations.

The SI aims to explore the options for new theoretical and experimental efforts towards studying the partonic origin of nuclear structure, the insights one would gain from nucleon-nucleon short-range correlations and resolving the puzzling lack of color transparency in protons as reported by a new A(e,e’p) experiment  at the recently upgraded Jefferson Lab.

New experimental searches including those at future facilities such as the electron-ion collider (EIC) are considered to be discussed.

Related studies on a connection of color transparency/coherence phenomenon with final state interactions in deep inelastic scattering, hadronization in the nuclear medium, heavy-ion collisions, and quantum entanglement are welcome to contribute.

Other ideas expected are: connections to form factors, virtuality dependence of final-state interactions (FSI) and connections to SRC, halographic light-front QCD, connections to quantum entanglement, connections to hadronization. New experimental ideas to be included are: rescattering in D(e,e’p), diffractive break-up of the deuteron, polarized deuteron and 3He reactions, extreme kinematics, use of spectator tagging and new possibilities at JLab, J-PARC, PANDA and the future EIC.

In this Special Issue, we aim to collect contributions from the participants of a series of recent workshops on the topics mentioned above to build up a comprehensive review volume.

Prof. Dr. Misak Sargsian
Prof. Dr. Dipangkar Dutta
Dr. Holly Szumila-Vance
Prof. Dr. Mark Strikman
Dr. Dien Nguyen
Guest Editors

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