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The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) is a proposed machine to explore the behaviour of the fundamental particles and forces that bind atomic nuclei together. The design and construction of the EIC are underway at Brookhaven National Laboratory…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Jun Lu , Jeremy Levitan Noah Gavin , Aniket Ingrole , Holger Witte , Peng Xu , Ye Bai

This overview describes several science cases at the Electron-Ion-Collider (EIC) experiment which are traditional to general particle physics. It has an emphasis on connections between future measurements at the EIC and the physics topics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-25 S. V. Chekanov , S. Magill

A future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will deliver luminosities of $10^{33} - 10^{34}$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$ for collisions of polarized electrons and protons and heavy ions over a wide range of center-of-mass energies (40 $\mathrm{GeV}$ to 145…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-07-12 Xiaoxuan Chu , Elke-Caroline Aschenauer , Jeong-Hun Lee

An Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) with suitable forward detection capabilities would enable a unique experimental program of deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) from polarized light nuclei (deuterium 2H, helium 3He) with spectator nucleon tagging.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-03 V. Guzey , D. Higinbotham , Ch. Hyde , P. Nadel-Turonski , K. Park , M. Sargsian , M. Strikman , C. Weiss

The ePIC detector is being designed as a general-purpose detector to deliver the full physics program of the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) in BNL USA. Particle Identification (PID) plays a crucial role in the EIC physics program. Over a wide…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-01-07 Chandradoy Chatterjee

This is a brief overview of the spin physics opportunities at a high energy, high luminosity, polarized Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). It covers measurements of electroweak polarized structure functions, quark and gluon PDFs, TMDs, GPDs and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-23 Daniël Boer

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory will be a precision Quantum Chromodynamics machine that will enable a vast physics program with electron+proton/ion collisions across a broad center-of-mass range.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-13 Matthew Kelsey , Reynier Cruz-Torres , Xin Dong , Yuanjing Ji , Sooraj Radhakrishnan , Ernst Sichtermann

The self-interactions of gluons determine all the unique features of QCD and lead to a dominant abundance of gluons inside matter already at moderate $x$. Despite their dominant role, the properties of gluons remain largely unexplored.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Ullrich

The future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will utilize a series of high-luminosity high-energy electron+proton ($e+p$) and electron+nucleus ($e+A$) collisions to explore the inner structure of nucleon and nucleus and the matter formation…

We illustrate how the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) can be used to discover dark bosons with masses in the $\sim$ (10~MeV -- 10~GeV) regime, having a wide range of properties. We only require that the dark bosons have a non-negligible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-05 Hooman Davoudiasl , Hongkai Liu

The proposed high-energy and high-luminosity Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will provide one of the cleanest environments to precisely determine the nuclear parton distribution functions (nPDFs) in a wide $x$-$Q^{2}$ range. Heavy flavor…

The Electron-ion collider in China (EicC) is a proposed future electron-ion collider designed to achieve a high luminosity, with a center-of-mass energy ranging from 15 to 20 GeV. Excellent particle identification (PID) with extensive…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-05-25 Xin Li , Yuxiang Zhao , Yutie Liang , Xu Sun

We study the single-inclusive production of prompt photons in electron proton collisions, $ep \to \gamma X $, for kinematics relevant at the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). We perform a perturbative calculation of the differential cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-31 Daniel Rein , Marc Schlegel , Werner Vogelsang

Lambda polarization can be measured through its self-analyzing weak decay, making it an ideal candidate for studying spin effects in high energy scatterings. In lepton-nucleon deeply inelastic scatterings (DIS), Lambda polarization…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2023-08-31 Zhaohuizi Ji , Xiaoyan Zhao , Aiqiang Guo , Qinghua Xu , Jinlong Zhang

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

We outline the physics opportunities provided by the Electron Ion Collider (EIC). These include the study of the parton structure of the nucleon and nuclei, the onset of gluon saturation, the production of jets and heavy flavor, hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-25 Raktim Abir , Igor Akushevich , Tolga Altinoluk , Daniele Paolo Anderle , Fatma P. Aslan , Alessandro Bacchetta , Baha Balantekin , Joao Barata , Marco Battaglieri , Carlos A. Bertulani , Guillaume Beuf , Chiara Bissolotti , Daniël Boer , M. Boglione , Radja Boughezal , Eric Braaten , Nora Brambilla , Vladimir Braun , Duane Byer , Francesco Giovanni Celiberto , Yang-Ting Chien , Ian C. Cloët , Martha Constantinou , Wim Cosyn , Aurore Courtoy , Alexander Czajka , Umberto D'Alesio , Giuseppe Bozzi , Igor Danilkin , Debasish Das , Daniel de Florian , Andrea Delgado , J. P. B. C. de Melo , William Detmold , Michael Döring , Adrian Dumitru , Miguel G. Echevarria , Robert Edwards , Gernot Eichmann , Bruno El-Bennich , Michael Engelhardt , Cesar Fernandez-Ramirez , Christian Fischer , Geofrey Fox , Adam Freese , Leonard Gamberg , Maria Vittoria Garzelli , Francesco Giacosa , Gustavo Gil da Silveira , Derek Glazier , Victor P. Goncalves , Silas Grossberndt , Feng-Kun Guo , Rajan Gupta , Yoshitaka Hatta , Martin Hentschinski , Astrid Hiller Blin , Radja Boughezal , Timothy Hobbs , Alexander Ilyichev , Jamal Jalilian-Marian , Chueng-Ryong Ji , Shuo Jia , Zhong-Bo Kang , Bishnu Karki , Weiyao Ke , Vladimir Khachatryan , Dmitri Kharzeev , Spencer R. Klein , Vladimir Korepin , Yuri Kovchegov , Brandon Kriesten , Shunzo Kumano , Wai Kin Lai , Richard Lebed , Christopher Lee , Kyle Lee , Hai Tao Li , Jifeng Liao , Huey-Wen Lin , Keh-Fei Liu , Simonetta Liuti , Cédric Lorcé , Magno V. T. Machado , Heikki Mantysaari , Vincent Mathieu , Nilmani Mathur , Yacine Mehtar-Tani , Wally Melnitchouk , Emanuele Mereghetti , Andreas Metz , Johannes K. L. Michel , Gerald Miller , Hamlet Mkrtchyan , Asmita Mukherjee , Swagato Mukherjee , Piet Mulders , Stéphane Munier , Francesco Murgia , P. M. Nadolsky , John W Negele , Duff Neill , Jan Nemchik , E. Nocera , Vitalii Okorokov , Fredrick Olness , Barbara Pasquini , Chao Peng , Peter Petreczky , Frank Petriello , Alessandro Pilloni , Bernard Pire , Cristian Pisano , Daniel Pitonyak , Michal Praszalowicz , Alexei Prokudin , Jianwei Qiu , Marco Radici , Khépani Raya , Felix Ringer , Jennifer Rittenhouse West , Arkaitz Rodas , Simone Rodini , Juan Rojo , Farid Salazar , Elena Santopinto , Misak Sargsian , Nobuo Sato , Bjoern Schenke , Stella Schindler , Gunar Schnell , Peter Schweitzer , Ignazio Scimemi , Jorge Segovia , Kirill Semenov-Tian-Shansky , Phiala Shanahan , Ding-Yu Shao , Matt Sievert , Andrea Signori , Rajeev Singh , Vladi Skokov , Qin-Tao Song , Stanislav Srednyak , Iain W. Stewart , Raza Sabbir Sufian , Eric Swanson , Sergey Syritsyn , Adam Szczepaniak , Pawel Sznajder , Asli Tandogan , Yossathorn Tawabutr , A. Tawfik , John Terry , Tobias Toll , Oleksandr Tomalak , Fidele Twagirayezu , Raju Venugopalan , Ivan Vitev , Alexey Vladimirov , Werner Vogelsang , Ramona Vogt , Gojko Vujanovic , Wouter Waalewijn , Xiang-Peng Wang , Bo-Wen Xiao , Hongxi Xing , Yi-Bo Yang , Xiaojun Yao , Feng Yuan , Yong Zhao , Pia Zurita

An electron-proton/ion polarized beam collider (EPIC) with high luminosity and center-of-mass energy $\sqrt s = 25$ GeV would be a valuable facility for fundamental studies of proton and nuclear structure and tests of quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. J. Brodsky

Unravelling the internal structure of hadrons and nuclei in terms of the quarks and gluons of Quantum Chromodynamics is a central focus of current nuclear physics research. Directly observing gluonic states in the nucleus would be…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-12-17 William R. Milner , Richard G. Milner

We present the baseline design of the electron ring collimation system for the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). The system addresses beam losses in a high-current electron storage ring with…

We discuss the measurement of the charged-current elastic scattering process $e^-p\rightarrow\nu_e n$ at the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). This process provides sensitivity to the poorly constrained axial form factor of the nucleon, which…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2026-01-07 Henry T. Klest