Future ep Physics: The Outlook for HERA

TL;DR

The paper discusses the planned upgrades to the HERA collider, including increased luminosity and beam polarization, which will enhance its capability to study proton structure and fundamental interactions.

Contribution

It provides a detailed outlook on the technical upgrades and the expanded physics potential of HERA post-upgrade.

Findings

Enhanced luminosity will improve data collection for proton structure studies.

Polarized lepton beams will enable new insights into electroweak interactions.

Upgraded detectors will facilitate more precise measurements.

Abstract

The luminosity of the electron-proton collider, HERA, will be increased by a factor of five during the long shutdown in the year 2000. At the same time longitudinal lepton beam polarisation will be provided for the collider experiments H1 and ZEUS. These far reaching upgrades to the machine will be matched by upgrades to the detectors. The result will be a unique facility for the study of the structure of the proton and the nature of the strong and electroweak interactions. The physics potential of the upgraded accelerator is discussed here together with a brief description of the HERA machine and collider detector upgrades.