The planned Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory will be a unique, high-luminosity accelerator which will explore the parton and spin structure of protons and nuclei by colliding polarized electrons with polarized protons and ions. The ePIC (electron-Proton/Ion Collider) detector will be the first general-purpose detector designed for the EIC, covering a wide area in the x₁₉ - Q^2 across a range of center-of-mass energies. The backward hadronic calorimeter (nHCal) will be crucial for low-x₁₉ measurements, which are essential to the EIC's physics program. This detector will enhance hermeticity and improve scattered electron tagging by serving as a hadronic veto. This proceeding presents the design, physics motivation, and expected performance of the nHCal.
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