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Description
Understanding the properties of nuclear matter and its emergence through the underlying partonic structure and dynamics of quarks and gluons requires a new experimental facility dedicated to hadron structure research, the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC). The EIC will be built at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in partnership with Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (JLAB) and will start operation in the middle of the next decade. It will be capable of colliding polarized and unpolarized electrons on polarized protons/light nuclei and on unpolarized heavy nuclei over a Center of Mass energy range between 20-140 GeV. The will address some of the most profound questions concerning the emergence of nuclear properties by precisely imaging gluons and quarks inside protons and nuclei such as their distributions in space and momentum, their role in building the nucleon spin and the properties of gluons in nuclei at high energies. This talk will present the science, status and the promise of the EIC.