Abstract

The LHeC project aims to supplement the CERN machine infrastructure with a (nominally 60 GeV) electron accelerator, producing electron-proton collisions at an instantaneous luminosity of order 10^33 cm^-2 s^-1 simultaneously with the existing LHC proton-proton collisions. An electron-ion programme is also foreseen. This seminar will focus mainly on the physics potential of an LHeC with this specification and will also briefly cover accelerator and detector aspects.