Understanding the Glue That Binds Us All -- The Science & the Promise of the future Electron Ion Collider (EIC) - CANCELED

A high-luminosity high-energy polarized electron-hadron collider will be built at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in partnership with Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (TJNAF) and will start operation in the middle of the next decade. The EIC will be capable of colliding polarized & unpolarized electrons on polarized protons/light nuclei and on unpolarized heavy nuclei over a Center of Mass energy range between 20-100 GeV (upgradable to 140 GeV). The EIC will reuse the existing injector complex, the tunnel, and one of the hadron rings of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). When operational, it will be the first polarized electron-proton/ion and the first electron-nucleus collider in the world. An unprecedented scientific program, focusing on understanding the role of “gluons” in QCD described by US The National Academy of Sciences as "Compelling, Fundamental and Timely" is planned. It will include 1) understanding the origin of proton’s (and neutron’s) spin - something SLAC pioneered around the turn of the last century, 2) the origins of hadronic mass and 3) the study of a novel state of gluon matter (color glass condensate) predicted - but yet to be experimentally established. An experimental collaboration (ePIC) is finalizing the design of a new detector, with significant international contributions. In this talk I will present the science, status and the promise of the EIC.

Speaker: Abhay Deshpande, State University of New York

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