Future Possibilities for Lepton-Hadron Collider Physics and Detectors

Abstract

We have considered the physics opportunities of future lepton-hadron colliders and how these opportunities might be realized in a possible polarized eRHIC facility and an e-p collider as part of a staged or final version VLHC. We evaluated the physics priorities based on experience at HERA and, using simulated data for e-p collisions with sqrt(s) > 1 TeV, showed how detector designs would be impacted by the physics.

12 pages, 3 figures, submitted to Snowmass 2001 Proceedings