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  • Electron-Ion Collider Flyover

    April 21, 2021

    Animation developed by HDR depicting EIC design concepts.

About the EIC Directorate

Brookhaven National Laboratory is the host site for the future Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), a unique high-energy, high-luminosity polarized collider that will be one of the most challenging and exciting accelerator complexes ever built. The EIC will be a discovery machine, providing answers to long-elusive mysteries of matter related to our understanding the origin of mass, structure, and binding of atomic nuclei that make up the entire visible universe.

The EIC Directorate will work closely with domestic and international partners to deliver the $1.6B—$2.6B EIC construction project and then begin EIC operations