Summary of workshop on Future Physics with HERA Data

TL;DR

This paper summarizes a 2014 workshop on future physics analyses using preserved HERA data, emphasizing opportunities to deepen understanding of QCD and the importance of data preservation for long-term scientific research.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of potential future analyses of HERA data, highlighting new research directions and the significance of data preservation for ongoing and future studies.

Findings

HERA data can still significantly contribute to QCD understanding

Data preservation enables future analyses beyond initial experiments

The workshop identified key areas for future HERA physics research

Abstract

Recent highlights from the HERA experiments, Hermes, H1 and ZEUS, are reviewed and ideas for future analyses to fully exploit this unique data set are proposed. This document is a summary of a workshop on future physics with HERA data held at DESY, Hamburg at the end of 2014. All areas of HERA physics are covered and contributions from both experimentalists and theorists are included. The document outlines areas where HERA physics can still make a significant contribution, principally in a deeper understanding of QCD, and its relevance to other facilities. Within the framework of the Data Preservation in High Energy Physics, the HERA data have been preserved for analyses to take place over a timescale of 10 years and more. Therefore, although an extensive list of possibilities is presented here, safe storage of the data ensures that it can also be used in the far future should new ideas and analyses be proposed.