Selected design issues of a dedicated facility for generic QCD studies

TL;DR

This paper discusses the importance of establishing a dedicated facility for generic QCD research to address fundamental questions about hadronic matter and vacuum, offering new insights into quark and gluon dynamics.

Contribution

It highlights the need for a specialized research facility to advance understanding of QCD and proposes design considerations for such a dedicated setup.

Findings

Emphasizes the scientific importance of a dedicated QCD facility.

Identifies key challenges and questions in QCD research.

Suggests design issues for future dedicated QCD experiments.

Abstract

QCD, even if presently out of fashion, deserves a dedicated, generic research program providing new challenges for the theory and aiming at understanding hadronic matter and vacuum in terms of quark and gluon degrees of freedom. Such a research program needs a dedicated facility to re-address basic questions which remain unanswered and to open new vistas.