Speaker
Matthew Wing
(UCL)
Description
The possibility of using plasma wakefield acceleration to build an
electron-proton collider (VHEeP) at a centre-of-mass energy of 9 TeV was
presented at the DIS2015 workshop. In this talk, the physics case is
further developed, with more detailed studies at low parton momentum
fractions, x, down to 10^-8. The VHEeP collider also has sensitivity to
the production of leptoquarks approaching the kinematic limit and thus
extends the reach currently accessible. Other exotic physics such as a
quark sensitivity can also be probed at higher energies or smaller distances.
These and other studies are presented, demonstrating that an ep collider
with an energy a factor of 30 above HERA has sensitivity to new physical
phenomena.
Primary authors
Allen Caldwell
(MPI Munich)
Matthew Wing
(UCL)
