Electron-Ion Collider: The next QCD frontier

This White Paper presents the science case of an Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), focused on the structure and interactions of gluon-dominated matter, with the intent to articulate it to the broader nuclear science community. It was commissioned by the managements of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLab) with the objective of presenting a summary of scientific opportunities and goals of the EIC as a follow-up to the 2007 NSAC Long Range plan. This document is a culmination of a community-wide effort in nuclear science following a series of workshops on EIC physics over the past decades and, in particular, the focused ten-week program on “Gluons and quark sea…

• YU
  Yale University
• MI
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• UO
  University of Pennsylvania
• PS
  Pennsylvania State University
• OD
  Old Dominion University
• TU
  Temple University
• JI
  Joint Institute for Nuclear Research
• SB
  Stony Brook University
• R
  RIKEN
• LB
  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• LA
  Los Alamos National Laboratory
• TJ
  Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility