A large hadron electron collider at the LHC



Klein, Max
(2021) A large hadron electron collider at the LHC. In: DIS08, London.

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Abstract

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 operation. This report represents an update of the Conceptual Design Report (CDR) of the LHeC, published in 2012. It comprises new results on parton structure of the proton and heavier nuclei, QCD dynamics, electroweak and top-quark physics. It is shown how the LHeC will open a new chapter of nuclear particle physics in extending the accessible kinematic range in lepton-nucleus scattering by several orders of magnitude. Due to enhanced luminosity, large energy and the cleanliness of the hadronic final states, the LHeC has a strong Higgs physics programme and its own discovery potential for new physics. Building on the 2012 CDR, the report represents a detailed updated design of the energy recovery electron linac (ERL) including new lattice, magnet, superconducting radio frequency technology and further components. Challenges of energy recovery are described and the lower energy, high current, 3-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 which arise from the Higgs and parton density function physics programmes. The paper also presents novel results on the Future Circular Collider in electron-hadron mode, FCC-eh, which utilises the same ERL technology to further extend the reach of DIS to even higher centre-of-mass energies.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Unspecified)
Additional Information: ## TULIP Type: Conference Proceedings (contribution) ##
Uncontrolled Keywords: deep-inelastic scattering, high-lumi LHC, QCD, Higgs, top and electroweak physics, nuclear physics, beyond Standard Model, energy-recovery-linac, accelerator physics
Divisions: Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Physical Sciences
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 31 Jan 2022 09:24
Last Modified: 18 Jan 2023 21:14
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6471/abf3ba
Open Access URL: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-64...
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3147811