Nuclear Cold QCD: Review and Future Strategy

The goals and outcomes of a workshop held at Stony Brook University (CFNS) in January 2025 are summarized. The workshop focused on advancing our understanding of cold nuclear matter (CNM) effects in hadron-nucleus collisions. The workshop explored the challenges and complexities of applying perturbative QCD to $h+A$ collisions, specifically in our understanding of nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs), medium-induced gluon radiation, and gluon saturation. An outcome of the workshop was a white paper exploring the development of a universal theoretical framework for interpreting experimental data from the fixed-target collisions at low to intermediate $\sqrt{s_{NN}}$ through the LHC and synergies with future Electron-Ion Collider data. Some of the findings will be discussed in this talk.\\