An Assessment of U.S.-Based Electron-Ion Collider Science (2018) / Chapter Skim
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In addition, the development of an EIC would advance accelerator science and technology in nuclear science; it would also benefit other fields of acceleratorbased science and society, from medicine through materials science to elementary particle physics. Understanding of protons and neutrons, or "nucleons" -- the building blocks of atomic nuclei -- has advanced dramatically, both theoretically and experimentally, in the past half century.
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With deeper understanding of the quark-gluon structure of matter, scientists are poised to reach a deeper picture of these building blocks, and atomic nuclei themselves, as collective many-body systems with new emergent behavior. Viewing nucleons and nuclei as complex interacting many-body systems gives rise to profound questions about the nature of ordinary matter.
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It would be the most sophisticated and challenging accelerator currently proposed for construction in the United States and would significantly advance accelerator science and technology here and around the world. The committee's study resulted in a set of nine findings, which are summarized here.
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The committee looked carefully at the requirements for building an EIC, and at the proposed design concepts for an EIC that uses existing infrastructure, ac celerator expertise, and experience at both Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) and the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (often referred to as the Jefferson Laboratory, or JLab)
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Future accelerator facilities with high energy or high luminosity will benefit significantly from the expertise developed for an EIC, and so the committee finds that Finding 9: The broader impacts of building an EIC in the United States are significant in related fields of science, including in particular the accelerator science and technology of colliders and workforce development. An EIC would have impact on other research areas, including particle physics, astrophysics, and theoretical and computational modeling, as well as rich intellectual connections to atomic and condensed matter physics.
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