Qiang, J. Hao, Y. Ryne, R.D. Benchmark of Strong-Strong Beam-Beam Simulation of the Kink Instability in an Electron Ion Collider Design JACoW Geneva, Switzerland 978-3-95450-180-9 10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2016-TUPOB62 English 628-631 TUPOB62 ion proton electron simulation emittance Contribution to a conference proceedings 2017 2017-01 http://dx.doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2016-TUPOB62 https://jacow.org/napac2016/papers/tupob62.pdf The kink instability limits the performance of a potential linac-ring based electron-ion collider design. In this paper, we report on the simulation study of the kink instability using a self-consistent strong-strong beam-beam model.