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.
Proposed Names
ePIC – electron Proton/Ion Collisions
EPIC – Electron Proton and Ion Collider experiment
EPIC – Eic exPerIment of Chromodynamics
EPICA – Electron on Proton and Ion Collider Apparatus, or Electron-Proton/Ion Collider Apparatus
ARES – A Robust Eic Spectrometer (Ares being the greek god of war and the son of Zeus and Hera)
ATHENA – A Totally Hermetic Electron-Nucleus Apparatus (Athena was Zeus’s favorite child)
PERSEI – Precision Experiment Recording the Scattering of Electrons and Ions
IONE – ION Electron collider detector (Greek name meaning Violet [flower]; name of a sea nymph)
NICE – New Ion Collider with Electrons experiment
THEIA – THe EIc Apparatus
SPICE – Spin Ion Collisions with Electrons experiment
DICE – Dynamical Ion Collisions with Electrons experiment
ICE – Ions Colliding with Electrons experiment
HELIX – Hermetic ELectron-Ion eXperiment
SiMPLECS, SiMPLECS@3T, SiMPLECS@EIC – Silicon and MPgds for Large Experiment with Calorimeters and Solenoid (at 3 Tesla)
PEIPE – Polarized Electron Ion Proton Experiment
ELEIDA – ELEctron Ion Detector Apparatus (Eleida is a name meaning “rare beauty”)
ENSUEX – Eic Nucleon Structure Ultimate EXplorer
POSEIDON – Physics On a Solenoidal Electron-Ion collider Detector Of Nuclear interactions
NEREID – Nuclear Experiment Researching Electron-Ion collision Detection
XeIeX – eXperiment for Energetic Ion-Electron interaXions