Snowmass 2021 White Paper: Electron Ion Collider for High Energy Physics

Understand

Electron Ion Collider (EIC) is a particle accelerator facility planned for construction at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New York by the United States Department of Energy.

• EIC will provide capabilities of colliding beams of polarized electrons with polarized beams of proton and light ions.
• EIC will be one of the largest and most sophisticated new accelerator facilities worldwide, and the only new large-scale accelerator facility planned for construction in the United States in the next few decades.
• The versatility, resolving power and intensity of EIC will present many new opportunities to address some of the crucial and fundamental open scientific questions in particle physics.