Speaker
Christoph Montag
(BNL)
Description
The future electron-ion collider will open exciting new frontiers for research
in nuclear physics and QCD. The US nuclear physics community, with world-wide support,
has compiled a comprehensive white paper that provides a detailed description of the
potential of such a machine and the associated design requirements.
Brookhaven National Laboratory is proposing eRHIC, an electron-ion collider based
on the highly successful RHIC facility. An electron storage ring is planned to
be installed in the existing RHIC tunnel to provide electron-ion collisions at
a center-of-mass energy of 29 to 140 GeV with luminosities up to 10^34 cm^-2 sec^-1.
An overview of the eRHIC machine design will be presented.
Primary author
Christoph Montag
(BNL)
