Konwersatorium im. J.Pniewskiego i L.Infelda

The Electron Ion Collider (EIC) is a facility that will be built at Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, using and upgrading the existing Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider complex. It is a partnership between BNL and Jefferson Laboratory, funded by the US Department of Energy. It will feature very high luminosity collisions between electrons and protons, as well as ions, with a center-of-mass energy of up to 140 GeV. It will have polarized electron and proton beams, with the possibility of polarized light ions. It can use a wide range of nuclei beams, from lightest to very heavy ones like lead and uranium. Ion beams and the possibility of polarizing them as well as electrons will make EIC an ideal tool for investigating the deep and precise structure of matter, including proton tomography, its spin structure, studies of nuclear structure, and precision studies of quantum chromodynamics.