Thursday, November 13, 2025

4:00 pm-5:00 pm

The role of the Electron-Ion Collider in the US nuclear physics portfolio

Abstract: The aim of modern nuclear physics in the US is to understand why matter takes on the specific forms now observed in nature and how that knowledge can benefit society in the areas of commerce, medicine, and national security. The DOE's Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC) strongly recommended the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) as top priority for new construction in its 2015 Long Range Plan. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) enthusiastically endorsed this recommendation, setting a timeline for EIC construction completion in the next decade. A US-based high-intensity Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) can uniquely address profound questions about nucleons - neutrons and protons - and how they are assembled to from the nuclei of atoms. The EIC will provide the ultimate microscope to determine both the static properties of nucleons and nuclei, as well as how matter and energy can be transported through a strongly interacting quantum mechanical environment. I will discuss EIC program in the context of the US nuclear science portfolio and the global particle and nuclear physics research.