The ePIC detector at Electron-Ion Collider

The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) is an apparatus for producing collisions of polarized electrons with polarized protons at high luminosity and with light nuclei, as well as with unpolaized heavy nuclei. The EIC will usher in a new frontier in nuclear physics with experiments designed to answer fundamental questions about the structure of matter: how does the mass and spin of the nucleon arise? and what are the properties of systems of dense systems of gluons? The experiment to be ready for Day-1 operations at EIC, ePIC, is currently being designed by a collaboration of more than 160 of institutions around the world to bring around a versatile detector capable of realizing the full EIC science program. This talk will introduce the EIC and the ePIC general-purpose detector, discuss its unique challenges and solutions for them.