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Electron-Ion Collider Accelerator Collaboration will meet on June 4 at premiere accelerator physics conference - IPAC 2025. More than a thousand accelerator experts from around the world will meet on June 1-6, 2025, at Taipei, Taiwan, during IPAC 2025. The EIC Accelerator Collaboration is planning to hold the EICAC satellite meeting during IPAC 2025, where we will review the status of the EIC project, the status and updates from the EIC AC Working Groups, and also the plans for expanding the Working Group and collaboration activities. See here the agenda of June 4 EICAC IPAC2025 satellite event. ...

The EIC Accelerator Collaboration has made submission to the European Particle Physics Strategy (ESPP) update. See EIC AC submission “Advancing Global Collaboration through the Electron-Ion Collider” here All submissions to ESPP are here.

Dr. Tatiana Pieloni, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), has taken on the role of international co-chair of the EIC Accelerator Collaboration. Pieloni assumes the responsibilities of this role previously held by Carsten Welsch of the University of Liverpool. This prestigious appointment recognizes Pieloni’s outstanding contributions to accelerator physics and extensive experience in international scientific collaboration. “It is an honor to join the EIC project at such a pivotal moment,” said Pieloni. “I look forward to collaborating with colleagues worldwide to push the boundaries of physics and contribute to the success of this innovative project, which will certainly pave the way for even more ambitious research and the development of future accelerators.” ...

The momentum for the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), the world’s first fully polarized electron-ion collider, is building as experts from around the globe gather to push the boundaries of nuclear physics. On May 21, during the 15th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC’24) in Nashville, Tennessee, the new EIC Accelerator Collaboration was formally launched through a kick-off event, opened by Joanne Hewett, director of Brookhaven National Lab. Nearly 200 accelerator experts convened to learn about the unique challenges and exciting opportunities that the EIC presents. The accelerator collaboration is essential for the design and construction of a collider that meets and possibly even exceeds the recommendations of the U.S. National Science Advisory Committee Long Range Plan and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences’ requirements. Jim Yeck, EIC project director from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, emphasized the importance of this gathering. ...

The role of the EIC Accelerator Collaboration in shaping the Electron-Ion Collider was discussed in the leading Accelerator News website. Particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN have previously revolutionised our understanding of physics, leading to breakthrough discoveries such as the Higgs boson, a vital building block of our universe. But little is known about how quarks and gluons form the core of nearly all visible matter. ...