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The Large Hadron-Electron Collider at the HL-LHC
The Large Hadron–Electron Collider (LHeC) is designed to move the field of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) to the energy and intensity frontier of particle physics. Exploiting energy-recovery technology, it collides a novel, intense electron beam with a proton or ion beam from the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC). The accelerator and interaction region are designed for concurrent electron–proton and proton–proton operations. This report represents an update to the LHeC’s conceptual design report (CDR), published in 2012. It comprises new results on the parton structure of the proton and heavier nuclei, QCD dynamics, and electroweak and top-quark physics. It is shown how the LHeC will open a new chapter of nuclear particle physics by extending the accessible kinematic range of lepton–nucleus scattering by several orders of magnitude. Due to its enhanced luminosity and large energy and the cleanliness of the final hadronic states, the LHeC has a strong Higgs physics programme and its own discovery potential for new physics. Building on the 2012 CDR, this report contains a detailed updated design for the energy-recovery electron linac (ERL), including a new lattice, magnet and superconducting radio-frequency technology, and further components. Challenges of energy recovery are described, and the lower-energy, high-current, three-turn ERL facility, PERLE at Orsay, is presented, which uses the LHeC characteristics serving as a development facility for the design and operation of the LHeC. An updated detector design is presented corresponding to the acceptance, resolution, and calibration goals that arise from the Higgs and parton-density-function physics programmes. This paper also presents novel results for the Future Circular Collider in electron–hadron (FCC-eh) mode, which utilises the same ERL technology to further extend the reach of DIS to even higher centre-of-mass energies
An experiment for electron-hadron scattering at the LHC
Novel considerations are presented on the physics, apparatus and accelerator
designs for a future, luminous, energy frontier electron-hadron ()
scattering experiment at the LHC in the thirties for which key physics topics
and their relation to the hadron-hadron HL-LHC physics programme are discussed.
Demands are derived set by these physics topics on the design of the LHeC
detector, a corresponding update of which is described. Optimisations on the
accelerator design, especially the interaction region (IR), are presented.
Initial accelerator considerations indicate that a common IR is possible to be
built which alternately could serve and collisions while other
experiments would stay on in either condition. A forward-backward
symmetrised option of the LHeC detector is sketched which would permit
extending the LHeC physics programme to also include aspects of hadron-hadron
physics. The vision of a joint and physics experiment is shown to
open new prospects for solving fundamental problems of high energy heavy-ion
physics including the partonic structure of nuclei and the emergence of
hydrodynamics in quantum field theory while the genuine TeV scale DIS physics
is of unprecedented rank.Comment: 27 pages, 24 figures, 6 tables; to appear in Eur. Phys. J.