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EIC@IP6 Naming Competition

The community has submitted many proposals for the name of the collaboration. The proposals can be found below.

A vote will be organized in May, stay tuned, and in the meantime please register to the IP6 mailing list.

ePICelectron Proton/Ion Collisions

EPICElectron Proton and Ion Collider experiment

EPICEic exPerIment of Chromodynamics

EPICAElectron on Proton and Ion Collider Apparatus, or Electron-Proton/Ion Collider Apparatus

ARESA Robust Eic Spectrometer (Ares being the greek god of war and the son of Zeus and Hera)

ATHENAA Totally Hermetic Electron-Nucleus Apparatus (Athena was Zeus’s favorite child)

PERSEIPrecision Experiment Recording the Scattering of Electrons and Ions

IONEION Electron collider detector (Greek name meaning Violet [flower]; name of a sea nymph)

NICENew Ion Collider with Electrons experiment

THEIATHe EIc Apparatus

SPICESpin Ion Collisions with Electrons experiment

DICEDynamical Ion Collisions with Electrons experiment

ICEIons Colliding with Electrons experiment

HELIXHermetic ELectron-Ion eXperiment

SiMPLECS, SiMPLECS@3T, SiMPLECS@EICSilicon and MPgds for Large Experiment with Calorimeters and Solenoid (at 3 Tesla)

PEIPEPolarized Electron Ion Proton Experiment

ELEIDAELEctron Ion Detector Apparatus (Eleida is a name meaning “rare beauty”)

ENSUEXEic Nucleon Structure Ultimate EXplorer

POSEIDONPhysics On a Solenoidal Electron-Ion collider Detector Of Nuclear interactions

NEREIDNuclear Experiment Researching Electron-Ion collision Detection

XeIeX – eXperiment for Energetic Ion-Electron interaXions