A STORAGE RING BASED OPTION FOR THE LHEC

The LHeC aims at the generation of hadron-lepton col- lisions with center of mass energies in the TeV scale and luminosities of the order of 1032-1033 cm−2 sec−1 by tak- ing advantage of the existing LHC 7 TeV proton ring and adding a high energy electron accelerator. This paper presents technical considerations and potential parameter choices for such a machine and outlines some of the chal- lenges arising when an electron storage ring based option, constructed within the existing infrastructure of the LHC, is chosen.