Polish scientists from the National Center for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) are co-creating the research program of experiments planned in the American Elektron-Jon Collider (EIC), which is to be built at the Brookhaven National Laboratory for about $ 2 billion.

The new device will allow a better understanding of the structure of the smallest building blocks of matter and the interactions that make it exist. Physicists around the world are preparing an EIC research program and working on optimizing the design of accelerators and experiments using their beams.

Two opposing accelerators will collide electrons with protons or atomic ions, with the possibility of polarization of both beams. The researchers preparing new experiments include Polish group of theoretician physicists from the NCBJ Department of Basic Research. Doctors Paweł Sznajder and Jakub Wagner together with colleagues from the French CEA have prepared the PARTONS computing platform that allows generating predictions for EIC based on existing theoretical knowledge about “strong interactions”.