The Electron-Ion Collider will replace the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Lab in the 2030s. The design of the collider and detectors is ongoing. The EIC will accelerate and collide relativistic electrons with relativistic ions from protons up to gold.
The EIC will be a precision machine for imaging the internal structure of protons and nuclei, probing the sea of quarks and gluons inside these. This is done with deep-inelastic scattering of electrons on ions.
The main detector at the EIC will be called the EPIC detector. EPIC is still being designed, and I'm helping to identify the performance needs in the hadron-going (far-forward) direction.
Here's the collaboration at the EIC Users Group Meeting and EPIC Collaboration Meeting in Warsaw in 2023.Â