TL;DR
The paper explores how the future Electron-Ion Collider can utilize photoproduction and electroproduction processes, especially exclusive vector meson production, to study nuclear structure, gluonic density profiles, and saturation effects.
Contribution
It highlights the potential of the EIC to precisely map gluonic densities and fluctuations using exclusive vector meson production and diffractive cross section measurements.
Findings
Exclusive vector meson production can map gluonic density profiles.
Diffractive cross section measurements are sensitive to saturation effects.
The EIC will enable detailed studies of nuclear structure at small-x.
Abstract
We discuss how photoproduction and electroproduction processes will provide a precise tool to study nuclear structure in the small- region in the future Electron-Ion Collider. In particular, we emphasize how exclusive vector meson production at the EIC can be used to accurately map the gluonic density profile of nuclei, including its event-by-event fluctuations. In addition, we show how measurements of the total diffractive cross section will be sensitive to saturation effects.
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