An energy recovery electron accelerator for DIS at the LHC

The Large Hadron Electron Collider (LHeC) is a proposed faci lity which will exploit the LHC beams for electron–proton/nucleus scattering, using a new 60 GeV electron accelerator. Following the release of its detailed conceptual design report last ye ar, the configuration of a linac with racetrack shape has been chosen for its default design. Furt her work has been pursued in order to adapt the electron and high luminosity beam optics, to desig n an LHeC Test Facility at CERN and to maximise the ep luminosity to achieve values close to 10 34 cm − 2 s − 1 as is desirable for precision Higgs physics with the LHeC. The talk presents an overview on the design, recent activities and an outlook for further developments