Energy-Frontier Lepton-Hadron Collisions at CERN: the LHeC and the FCC-eh

Abstract

Lepton-hadron colliders that use a proton or nucleus beam of current and future hadron colliders and let it collide with an electron beam from a newly built electron accelerator bring attractive physics programs which are strong and complementary to the hadron collider physics. Machine development for Energy Recovery LINAC and physics performance studies of such electron-hadron colliders, specifically the LHeC that uses the existing LHC beam and FCC-eh that is an option of Future Circular Collider program, are ongoing and reviewed in this article.

Comments: 6 pages, 6 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the 21st Particle and Nuclei International Conference (PANIC2017), Beijing, China, September 1-5, 2017