eRHIC - A precision electron-proton/ion collider facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory

TL;DR

eRHIC is a proposed advanced electron-proton/ion collider at BNL, aiming to leverage past detector experience to optimize future detector and interaction region designs for high-precision nuclear physics experiments.

Contribution

The paper introduces the conceptual design of the eRHIC collider, integrating lessons from HERA detectors to enhance future collider performance.

Findings

Design concepts for the eRHIC accelerator and detector

Integration of detector design with interaction region development

Framework for optimizing collider components

Abstract

An electron-proton/ion collider facility (eRHIC) is under consideration at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). Such a new facility will require the design and construction of a new optimized detector profiting from the experience gained from the H1 and ZEUS detectors operated at the HERA collider at DESY. The details of the design will be closely coupled to the design of the interaction region, and thus to the machine development work in general. An overview of the accelerator and detector design concepts will be provided.