EIC User Group

The EICUG Organization


Purpose

The Electron-Ion Collider User Group (EICUG) is an international affiliation of scientists dedicated to developing and promoting the scientific, technological, and educational goals and motivations for a new high energy Electron-Ion Collider. A detailed scientific description can be found in the last edition of the White Paper (Eur.Phys.J. A 52 (2016) 268), as well as in the EIC Yellow Report (Nucl.Phys. A1026 (2022) 122447), which contains also a detailed description of the requirements for a general-purpose large-acceptance conceptual detector. The EIC has been recommended as highest priority in both the 2015 U.S. Nuclear Science Advisory Committee Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science “Reaching for the Horizon”, and the 2023 U.S. Nuclear Science Advisory Committee Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science “New Era of Discovery”.


Membership, Phone Book and Organization

Membership in the EICUG is open to all scientists actively engaged in Electron-Ion Collider related science, detector R&D, simulations and design. Information regarding joining the EICUG is available at the dedicated page on this site. The EICUG maintains its membership database, a.k.a. the “phone book”. The EICUG organization is defined by the Phase III of the EICUG Charter, which was approved in December of 2022. The Steering Committee has completed the implementation and the transition to the new structure described in this document by June 1, 2023.



Governance

The EICUG is governed by the Steering Committee SC.

The SC is formed by twelve (12) members: the Chair line (Chair, Past Chair, Chair-elect), three regular members, two representatives from world regions outside the US, one early-career scientist, one representative of the ePIC Collaboration, two representatives selected by the host laboratories (Jefferson Lab, Brookhaven National Lab) / EIC Project.

The ePIC Collaboration and the host laboratories / EIC Project appoint their representatives for a one year term, and can reappoint or replace them at their discretion.

All other SC members are elected for a three-years term based on a broad call for volunteers and nominations to the entire EICUG community. Nominations for the elections shall be solicited by the Elections and Nominating Committee. Every year, three new members (one of which is the Chair-elect) shall be elected for three-years terms.

The SC appoints the Elections and Nominating Committee.

The officers of the EICUG are the SC Chair, the Chair-elect and the most recent Past Chair. The SC Chair is the EICUG Spokesperson.

The SC mailing list is eicug-sc@eicug.org


Steering Committee

Meetings

The EICUG Steering Committee meets weekly on Thursday, 10:00AM (EDT) for a 1h meeting discussing EICUG matters.

Current Leadership

Chair line

  • Chair: Or Hen (MIT, USA), term August 2024 - August 2025
  • Chair-elect: Douglas Higinbotham (JLab, USA), term August 2024 - August 2025
  • Past Chair: Marco Radici (INFN - Pavia, Italy), term August 2024 - August 2025

Regular Members

  • Charlotte Van Hulse (University of Alcalà, Madrid, Spain), term August 2024 - August 2027
  • Martha Constantinou (Temple University, USA), term August 2023 - August 2026
  • Alex Jentsch (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA), term August 2023 - August 2026

International Representatives

  • Marta Ruspa (University of Torino and INFN-Torino, Italy), term August 2023 - August 2025
  • Carlos Muñoz Camacho (IJCLab, Orsay, France), term August 2024 - August 2027

Early Career Member

  • Henry Klest (Argonne National Laboratory, USA), term August 2024 - August 2025

Lab/EIC Project Representatives

  • Rolf Ent (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, USA)
  • Peter Steinberg (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)

ePIC Representative

  • John Lajoie (Iowa State University, USA)

Information about previous leadership teams of the Steering Committee can be found at the “Previous Leadership” page.


Elections and Nominating Committee

  • Chair : Nicola Rubini (University of Bologna and INFN-Bologna, Italy), term January 2025 - August 2027
  • Members
    • Adrian Dumitru (CUNY, USA), term January 2025 - August 2027
    • Brian Page (BNL, USA), term January 2025 - August 2027
    • Marie Boer (Virginia Tech. University, USA), term August 2023 - August 2026
    • Guillaume Beuf (NCBJ, Poland), term August 2023 - August 2026


Previous Leadership Teams

For information about previous leadership teams of the IB, SC and other committees please see the “Previous Leadership” page.


Working Groups

Please see the working groups page for more information.