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Electron–ion collider

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determines the rates of interactions between electrons and nucleons. The weaker a mode of interaction is, the higher luminosity is required to reach an adequate measurement of the process. The luminosity is inversely proportional to the product of the beam sizes of the two colliding species, which
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In order to allow understanding of spin dependence of the electron-nucleon collisions, both the ion beam and the electron beam must be polarized. Achieving and maintaining high levels of polarization is challenging. Nucleons and electrons pose different issues. Electron polarization is affected by
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of the beams, the larger the luminosity. Whereas the electron beam emittance (for a storage ring) is determined by an equilibrium between damping and diffusion from synchrotrotron radiation, the emittance for the ion beam is determined by the initially injected value. The ion beam emittance may be
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In the year 2022, the Office of Science in Department of Energy reported that the budget for Electron–Ion Collider would be $ 30M, while the project required $ 120M to meet its defined milestone in 2023, causing the EIC pre-construction schedule to be "stretched".
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S.; Biswal, S.; Blümlein, J.; Böttcher, H.; Bogacz, A.; Bracco, C.; Brandt, G.; Braun, H.; et al. (2012). "A Large Hadron Electron Collider at CERN Report on the Physics and Design Concepts for Machine and Detector".
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as the design of a future EIC in the United States. In addition to the site selection, it was announced that the BNL EIC had acquired CD-0 (mission need) from the Department of Energy.
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The Electron–Ion Collider user group consists of more than 1400 physicists from over 290 laboratories and universities from 38 countries around the world.
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emerge from the lower level constituent dynamics of quarks and gluons. Formulations of these mysteries, encompassing research projects, include the
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An electron–ion collider allows probing of the substructure of protons and neutrons via a high energy electron. Protons and neutrons are composed of
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Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC) named the construction of an electron–ion collider one of the top priorities for the near future in
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On 18 September 2020, a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at BNL, officially launching the development and building of the EIC.
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In 2020, The United States Department of Energy announced that an EIC will be built over the next ten years at
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would make use of the existing LHC accelerator and add an electron accelerator to collide electrons with the
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A. Accardi et al., "Electron Ion Collider: The Next QCD Frontier – Understanding the glue that binds us all"
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Some of the remaining mysteries associated with atomic nuclei include how nuclear properties such as
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Brookhaven National Laboratory's conceptual design, eRHIC, proposes upgrading the existing
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has a declared design for an EIC scheduled to be built in the 2020 decade. In Europe,
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E. C. Aschenauer et al., “eRHIC Design Study: An Electron–Ion Collider at BNL,”
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Particle accelerator under construction in Upton, New York, USA
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Index

particle accelerator
collider
spin-polarized
electrons
ions
deep inelastic scattering
Department of Energy
nuclear physics
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Upton, New York
Brookhaven National Laboratory
CERN
LHeC
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider
Office of Science
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
LHeC
hadrons
synchrotron radiation
Sokolov Ternov effect
quantum fluctuations
Thomas BMT equation
luminosity
emittances
beam cooling
electron cooling
stochastic cooling
intrabeam scattering
quarks
strong interaction

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