Speaker
Nathaly Santiesteban
(University of New Hampshire)
Description
The deuteron, a weakly bound spin-1 nucleus, exhibits a tensor-polarized structure that provides unique access to quark and gluon distributions within light nuclear systems, distributions that cannot be simply inferred from the individual proton and neutron.
Experimental data on this tensor system remain limited, and measurements that could fully reveal the 3D structure of the deuteron are still lacking. In this talk, we will explore a new experimental program aimed at studying the Transverse Momentum Distributions (TMDs) of this spin-1 system, which has the potential to unlock new and fascinating insights into the parton structure of light nuclei.
Primary author
Nathaly Santiesteban
(University of New Hampshire)
