Electron beam for LHC

Abstract A method of delivering a small energy spread electron beam to the LHC interaction points is proposed. In this method, heavy ions are used as carriers of projectile electrons. Acceleration, storage and collision-stability aspects of such a hybrid beam is discussed and a new beam-cooling method is presented. This discussion is followed by a proposal of the Parasitic Ion–Electron collider at LHC (PIE@LHC). The PIE@LHC provides an opportunity, for the present LHC detectors, to enlarge the scope of their research program by including the program of electron–proton and electron–nucleus collisions with minor machine and detector investments.