Exploring synergies between the “Hot and Dense QCD” efforts and the upcoming EIC program

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) will be the new, most sophisticated accelerator facility for studying the properties of cold nuclear matter at high intensity and resolving power. The EIC will address fundamental open questions such as the origin of nucleon mass and spin. These envisioned pillars of EIC physics may seem outside of the direct focus for the high-energy nuclear physicists involved in the studies of hot and dense nuclear matter. Nevertheless, there are many synergies and complementarities between the two subfields, for example, on detector technologies and experimental techniques. Above all, considerable benefits to both communities exist in the joint pursuit of physics questions of interest to both communities, including, for example, emergent properties of dense gluonic systems, limits of collective behavior, and hadronization in nuclear matter. In this talk, I will explore such open questions and discuss what could be addressed through synergetic activities with future data from the two existing colliders and the upcoming EIC.