A Large Hadron Electron Collider at CERN

J. L. Abelleira Fernandez , C. Adolphsen , P. Adzic , A. N. Akay , H. Aksakal , J. L. Albacete (1, 2) , B. Allanach , S. Alekhin (3) , P. Allport , V. Andreev , R. B. Appleby , E. Arikan , N. Armesto , G. Azuelos , M. Bai , D. Barber (4) , J. Bartels , O. Behnke , J. Behr , A. S. Belyaev , I. Ben-Zvi , N. Bernard , S. Bertolucci , S. Bettoni , S. Biswal , J. Blümlein , H. Böttcher (4) , A. Bogacz , C. Bracco (5) , J. Bracinik , G. Brandt , H. Braun (6) , S. Brodsky , O. Brüning , E. Bulyak , A. Buniatyan , Hans Burkhardt (6) , I. T. Cakir , O. Cakir , R. Calaga , A. Caldwell , V. Cetinkaya , V. Chekelian , E. Ciapala , R. Ciftci , A. K. Ciftci , B. A. Cole , J. C. Collins , O. Dadoun (7) , J. Dainton , A. De. Roeck , D. d'Enterria , P. Dinezza , A. Dudarev , A. Eide , R. Enberg (8) , E. Eroglu , K. J. Eskola , L. Favart , M. Fitterer (6) , S. Forte , A. Gaddi , P. Gambino , H. García Morales , T. Gehrmann , P. Gladkikh , C. Glasman , A. Glazov , R. Godbole , B. Goddard (6) , T. Greenshaw , A. Guffanti (9) , V. Guzey , C. Gwenlan , T. Han , Y. Hao , F. Haug , W. Herr , A. Hervé , B. J. Holzer , M. Ishitsuka , M. Jacquet (7) , B. Jeanneret (6) , E. Jensen , J. M. Jimenez , J. M. Jowett , H. Jung , H. Karadeniz , D. Kayran , A. Kilic , K. Kimura , R. Klees (10) , M. Klein , U. Klein , T. Kluge , F. Kocak , M. Korostelev (6) , A. Kosmicki , P. Kostka , H. Kowalski , M. Kraemer , G. Kramer , D. Kuchler (6) , M. Kuze , T. Lappi , P. Laycock , E. Levichev , S. Levonian (11) , V. N. Litvinenko , A. Lombardi , J. Maeda , C. Marquet (12) , B. Mellado , K. H. Mess , A. Milanese , J. G. Milhano , S. Moch (4) , I. I. Morozov , Y. Muttoni , S. Myers , S. Nandi , Z. Nergiz , P. R. Newman , T. Omori (13) , J. Osborne , E. Paoloni , Y. Papaphilippou (6) , C. Pascaud (7) , H. Paukkunen , Emile Perez (14) , T. Pieloni , E. Pilicer , B. Pire (15) , R. Placakyte , A. Polini , V. Ptitsyn , Y. Pupkov , V. Radescu , S. Raychaudhuri , L. Rinolfi , E. Rizvi , R. Rohini , J. Rojo , S. Russenschuck , M. Sahin , C. A. Salgado , K. Sampei , R. Sassot , E. Sauvan (16) , M. Schaefer , U. Schneekloth , T. Schörner-Sadenius , D. Schulte (6) , A. Senol , A. Seryi (17) , P. Sievers (6) , A. N. Skrinsky , W. Smith , D. South , H. Spiesberger , A. M. Stasto , M. Strikman (18) , M. Sullivan , S. Sultansoy , Y. P. Sun , B. Surrow , L. Szymanowski (19) , P. Taels , I. Tapan , T. Tasci , E. Tassi , H. Ten. Kate , J. Terron , H. Thiesen , L. Thompson , P. Thompson , K. Tokushuku , R. Tomás García , D. Tommasini , D. Trbojevic , N. Tsoupas , J. Tuckmantel (6) , S. Turkoz , T. N. Trinh , K. Tywoniuk , G. Unel , T. Ullrich , J. Urakawa (13) , P. Vanmechelen , A. Variola (7) , R. Veness , A. Vivoli (7) , P. Vobly , J. Wagner (19) , R. Wallny , S. Wallon (20) , G. Watt , C. Weiss , U. A. Wiedemann , U. Wienands , F. Willeke , B. -W. Xiao , V. Yakimenko , A. F. Zarnecki , Zhen Zhang (7) , F. Zimmermann (6) , R. Zlebcik , F. Zomer (7)

1 IPNO - Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay
2 IPHT - Institut de Physique Théorique - UMR CNRS 3681
3 IHEP - Institute for High Energy Physics [Protvino]
4 DESY - Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron [Zeuthen]
5 FIZEAU - Laboratoire Hippolyte Fizeau
6 CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research
7 LAL - Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
8 Uppsala University
9 Edin. - University of Edinburgh
10 TTK - Institut für Theoretische Teilchenphysik und Kosmologie
11 LLR - Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet
12 CERN Theoretical Physics Department
13 High energy accelerator research organization - KEK
14 IRFU - Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l'Univers
15 CPHT - Centre de Physique Théorique [Palaiseau]
16 LAPP - Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules
17 SLAC - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
18 Physics Department
19 NCBJ - National Center for Nuclear Research [Warsaw]
20 LPT - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique d'Orsay [Orsay]

This document provides a brief overview of the recently published report on the design of the Large Hadron Electron Collider (LHeC), which comprises its physics programme, accelerator physics, technology and main detector concepts. The LHeC exploits and develops challenging, though principally existing, accelerator and detector technologies. This summary is complemented by brief illustrations of some of the highlights of the physics programme, which relies on a vastly extended kinematic range, luminosity and unprecedented precision in deep inelastic scattering. Illustrations are provided regarding high precision QCD, new physics (Higgs, SUSY) and electron-ion physics. The LHeC is designed to run synchronously with the LHC in the twenties and to achieve an integrated luminosity of O(100)\,fb$^{-1}$. It will become the cleanest high resolution microscope of mankind and will substantially extend as well as complement the investigation of the physics of the TeV energy scale, which has been enabled by the LHC.

Domaines: Physique des Hautes Energies - Expérience [hep-ex]; Physique des accélérateurs [physics.acc-ph]

J. L. Abelleira Fernandez, C. Adolphsen, P. Adzic, A. N. Akay, H. Aksakal, et al.. A Large Hadron Electron Collider at CERN. 2012. ⟨hal-00755325⟩