Speaker
elke-caroline Aschenauer
(BNL)
Description
BNL’s plan for an electron-ion collider, eRHIC, a major new research tool that builds
on the existing RHIC facility to advance the long-term vision for Nuclear
Physics to discover and understand the emergent phenomena of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)
will be presented.
The scientific requirements for such a facility, following up on the community-wide
2012 white paper, “Electron-Ion Collider: the Next QCD Frontier” [arXiv:1212.1701],
and the design concept that incorporates new, innovative accelerator techniques
to provide a cost-effective upgrade of RHIC with polarized electron beams colliding
with the full array of RHIC hadron beams, 250 GeV polarized protons and
100 GeV/u heavy ion beams, at a luminosity of 10^33 cm^-2 s^-1 will be shown.
Further the IR design together with the studies for an eRHIC detector realization,
based on the sPHENIX and STAR detector and a model detector, which is completely optimized
to the physics requirements, will also be discussed.
Primary author
elke-caroline Aschenauer
(BNL)
