Speaker
Description
The LHeC is the proposal of an upgrade of the HL-LHC to provide electron-hadron collisions with centre-of-mass energies $\mathcal{O}(1)$ TeV and instantaneous luminosities $\mathcal{O}(10^{34})$ cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$. The existing design identifies IP2 as the interaction point. In this talk we present initial accelerator considerations on a common IR to be built which alternately could serve $𝑒ℎ$ and $ℎℎ$ collisions at the HL-LHC, while other experiments would stay on $ℎℎ$ in either condition [1]. 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 and heavy-ion physics.
[1] K. D. J. Andre et al., An experiment for electron-hadron scattering at the LHC, Eur. Phys. J. C 82 (2022) 1, 40, e-Print: 2201.02436 [hep-ex].
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