## Our Areas of Research

### Physics Fellowship Program

The RIKEN BNL Research Center offers a Fellow system at Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) allowing joint appointments with universities and research laboratories throughout the world, enabling talented researchers to hold tenure track positions at their home institution as well as a Fellow position with the Center.

This system was established to increase the research potential of the Center and to disseminate its research activities and results. To date, nine RHIC Physics Fellows have received the U.S. Department of Energy Outstanding Junior Investigator Award and over 50 Fellows have received tenure at their home institutions since the inception of the program.

Institutions interested in initiating a new RHIC Physics Fellow position may obtain details on how to proceed by contacting Maureen McNeill-Shea, 1(631) 344-2758.

### RBRC Research Groups

##### Theory

This group conducts QCD related research that includes heavy ion physics, the quark gluon plasma, color glass condensate and hard QCD/spin physics.

##### Computing

This group's mission is to solve the dynamics of QCD from first principle lattice simulations using in-house computer resources.

##### Experimental

This group studies the spin structure of the proton via polarized p+p collisions at RHIC as well as the properties of quark gluon plasma.

The RIKEN BNL Research Center is part of Brookhaven's Nuclear & Particle Physics Directorate.

There are no conferences scheduled at this time.

1. NOV

15

Thursday

RIKEN Lunch Seminar

"Exclusive $\rho$ meson production in $eA$ collisions: collinear factorization and the CGC"

Presented by Renaud Boussarie, BNL

12 pm, Building 510, Room 2-160

Thursday, November 15, 2018, 12:00 pm

Hosted by: Yuta Kikuchi

We will focus on the theoretical description of exclusive ρ meson production in eA collisions, using a hybrid factorization scheme which involves Balitsky's shockwave description of the Color Glass Condensate in the t channel, and Distribution Amplitudes (DAs) in the s channel. We will first give a quick introduction to the shockwave framework and to collinear factorization up to twist 3 for DAs, then we will apply these framweworks to the production of a longitudinal meson at NLO accuracy, and to the production of a transverse meson at twist 3 accuracy. We will insist on the experimental applications, and on several theoretical questions raised by our results: the dilute BFKL limit at NLO for diffraction, and collinear factorization breaking at twist 3.

2. NOV

16

Friday

Nuclear Theory / RIKEN

"Casimir effect in Yang-Mills theory"

Presented by Dimitra Karabali, Lehman College CUNY

2 pm, CFNS Seminar Room 2-38

Friday, November 16, 2018, 2:00 pm

Hosted by: Niklas Mueller

We consider the Casimir effect in a gauge-invariant Hamiltonian formulation of nonabelian gauge theories in $(2+1)$ dimensions. We compare our analytical results with recent lattice simulations.