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An experiment for electron-hadron scattering at the LHC
- Abstract:
- 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.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1140/epjc/s10052-021-09967-z
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- Springer Nature
- Journal:
- The European Physical Journal C More from this journal
- Volume:
- 82
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 40
- Publication date:
- 2022-01-15
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-12-21
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1434-6052
- ISSN:
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1434-6044
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English
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1232738
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pubs:1232738
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2022-01-17
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- 2022
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