Speaker
David Morrison
(BNL)
Description
As a particular realization of an electron ion collider (EIC), the
eRHIC project envisions the addition of a high intensity polarized
electron beam to the existing RHIC facility, providing $e$$+$$p$ and
$e$$+$A collisions and enabling precision studies of the partonic
structure of hadronic matter. To fully exploit the physics potential
of eRHIC, the PHENIX Collaboration is proposing a detector built upon
sPHENIX, a planned upgrade of the current PHENIX experiment. This new
detector, ePHENIX, uses the sPHENIX superconducting solenoid and
barrel calorimetry and adds to this foundation precision tracking,
particle-identification and calorimetry in the barrel, electron-going
and hadron-going directions, opening a broad range of exciting EIC
physics measurements (see \url{http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.1209}). We
give an overview of ePHENIX detector design and discuss its broad
capabilities for both nucleon structure imaging and high density
nuclear matter studies.
| On behalf of collaboration: | PHENIX |
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Author
David Morrison
(BNL)
