The Large Hadron Electron Collider Project

TL;DR

The paper discusses the conceptual design of the Large Hadron Electron Collider (LHeC), a proposed high-luminosity electron-proton collider to complement the LHC, including its physics goals, design options, and detector concepts.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive conceptual design report for the LHeC, detailing its collider configurations, interaction region, detector design, and physics motivation.

Findings

Designs for ep/eA collider based on ring and linear accelerators

Interaction region optimized for simultaneous ep and pp operation

Physics motivation for a high-luminosity electron-nucleon collider

Abstract

A Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for the Large Hadron Electron Collider, the LHeC, is being prepared, to which an introduction was given for the plenary panel discussion on the future of deep inelastic scattering held at DIS09. This is briefly summarised here. The CDR will comprise designs of the ep/eA collider, based on ring and linear electron accelerators, of the interaction region, designed for simultaneous $ep$ and $pp$ operation, of a new, modular detector, and it will present basics on the physics motivation for a high luminous Tera scale electron-nucleon collider as a complement to the LHC.