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We present an overview of the scientific opportunities that would be offered by a high-energy electron-ion collider. We discuss the relevant physics of polarized and unpolarized electron-proton collisions and of electron-nucleus collisions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Abhay Deshpande , Richard Milner , Raju Venugopalan , Werner Vogelsang

We provide an assessment of the energy dependence of key measurements within the scope of the machine parameters for a U.S. based Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) outlined in the EIC White Paper. We first examine the importance of the physics…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2017-09-12 E. C. Aschenauer , S. Fazio , J. H. Lee , H. Mäntysaari , B. S. Page , B. Schenke , T. Ullrich , R. Venugopalan , P. Zurita

Extensive experimental data from high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions were recorded using the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). The comprehensive set of measurements from the first three years of RHIC…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-09-29 PHENIX Collaboration , K. Adcox

Electromagnetic probes are arguably the most universal tools to study the different physics processes in high energy hadron and heavy ion collisions. In this paper we summarize recent measurements of real and virtual direct photons at…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 Gabor David

We describe the design concept and estimated performance of an iron-scintillator sampling calorimeter for the future Electron Ion Collider. The novel aspect of this detector is a multi-dimensional readout coupled with foreseen excellent…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-29 Rowan Kelleher , Anselm Vossen , William W. Jacobs , Gerard Visser , Simon Schneider , Yordanka Ilieva , Pawel Nadel-Turonski

Measurement of heavy quark production is one of the tools used to investigate the matter produced in extremely hot and dense conditions in heavy ion collisions at RHIC. The PHENIX experiment has measured mid-rapidity transverse momentum…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Cesar Luiz Silva

A method of delivering a monochromatic electron beam to the LHC interaction points is proposed. In this method, heavy ions are used as carriers of the projectile electrons. Acceleration, storage and collision-stability aspects of such a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Mieczyslaw Witold Krasny

A Hadron Blind Detector (HBD) is being developed for the PHENIX experiment at RHIC. It consists of a Cherenkov radiator operated with pure CF4 directly coupled in a windowless configuration to a triple-GEM detector element with a CsI…

One of the more promising observables to probe the high energy regime of the QCD dynamics in the future Electron-Ion Colliders (EIC) is the exclusive vector meson production cross section in coherent and incoherent interactions. Such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-24 M. Krelina , V. P. Goncalves , J. Cepila

Detectors at future e+e- collider need special calorimeters in the very forward region for a fast estimate and precise measurement of the luminosity, to improve the hermeticity and mask the central tracking detectors from backscattered…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-02-01 Ivanka Bozovic-Jelisavcic

Experiments at the future Electron Ion Collider require excellent hadron identification in a broad momentum range, in harsh conditions. A RICH capable to fulfill the PID requirements of the EIC could use MPGD-based photon detectors with…

A detector concept, named IDEA, optimized for the physics and running conditions at the FCC-ee is presented. After discussing the expected running conditions and the main physics drivers, a detailed description of the individual…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-03-31 The IDEA Study Group

An Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) would enable next-generation measurements of deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) on the deuteron with detection of a forward-moving nucleon (p, n) and measurement of its recoil momentum ("spectator tagging"). Such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 W. Cosyn , V. Guzey , M. Sargsian , M. Strikman , C. Weiss

We propose the development and construction of a novel muon-ion collider (MuIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in the USA as an upgrade to succeed the electron-ion collider (EIC) that is scheduled to commence in the early 2030s, by…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-01-14 Darin Acosta , Wei Li

In late 2001 the first polarized proton collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) took place. The PHENIX experiment at RHIC has a broad program to investigate the spin structure of the proton. This program will be described,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 C. Aidala

The performance of the Baby Barrel Electromagnetic Calorimeter (Baby BCAL) - a small-scale lead-scintillating-fiber (Pb/ScFi) prototype of the GlueX Barrel Electromagnetic Calorimeter (BCAL) - was tested in a dedicated beam campaign at the…

We introduce an array-scalable, magnon-based detector (MOSAIC) to search for the spin-dependent interactions of electron-coupled axion dark matter. These axions can excite single magnons in magnetic targets, such as the yttrium iron garnet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-24 Clarence Chang , T. J. Hobbs , Dafei Jin , Yi Li , Marharyta Lisovenko , Valentine Novosad , Zain H. Saleem , Tanner Trickle , Gensheng Wang

Short range correlated nucleon-nucleon ($NN$) pairs are an important part of the nuclear ground state. They are typically studied by scattering an electron from one nucleon in the pair and detecting its spectator correlated partner…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-05-17 F. Hauenstein , A. Jentsch , J. R. Pybus , A. Kiral , M. D. Baker , Y. Furletova , O. Hen , D. W. Higinbotham , C. Hyde , V. Morozov , D. Romanov , L. B. Weinstein

Beam-beam effects in eRHIC, the proposed ERL-based Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) at BNL, have several unique features distinguishing them from those in hadron-colliders and lepton-colliders. Taking the advantage of the fact that the electron…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2014-10-23 Y. Hao , V. N. Litvinenko , V. Ptitsyn

An Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) with center-of-mass energies sqrt(s_{eN}) ~ 20-100 GeV and luminosity L ~ 10^{34} cm^{-2} s^{-1} would offer new opportunities to study heavy quark production in high-energy electron or photon scattering on…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2017-01-04 E. Chudakov , D. Higinbotham , Ch. Hyde , S. Furletov , Yu. Furletova , D. Nguyen , M. Stratmann , M. Strikman , C. Weiss