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  • An experiment for electron-...
    André, K. D. J.; Bella, L. Aperio; Armesto, N.; Bogacz, S. A.; Britzger, D.; Brüning, O. S.; D’Onofrio, M.; Ferreiro, E. G.; Fischer, O.; Gwenlan, C.; Holzer, B. J.; Klein, M.; Klein, U.; Kocak, F.; Kostka, P.; Kumar, M.; Mellado, B.; Milhano, J. G.; Newman, P. R.; Piotrzkowski, K.; Polini, A.; Ruan, X.; Russenschuk, S.; Schwanenberger, C.; Vilella-Figueras, E.; Yamazaki, Y.

    The European physical journal. C, Particles and fields, 01/2022, Volume: 82, Issue: 1
    Journal Article

    Novel considerations are presented on the physics, apparatus and accelerator designs for a future, luminous, energy frontier electron-hadron ( eh ) 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 eh and hh collisions while other experiments would stay on hh 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 eh and hh 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.