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Deep inelastic scattering — using a twenty-first-century electron–hadron collider of sufficient energy and intensity — could teach us much more about nuclear matter at the smallest resolvable scales, as well as add to our understanding of the Higgs boson and to the search for physics beyond the standard model.

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Figure 1: Total momentum density x∑f(x) of partons in the proton as a function of their momentum fraction x, at Q2 = 10 GeV2 (as an example).
Figure 2: The proposed layout of the LHeC.

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  1. Paul Newman is in the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK,

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  2. Anna Stasto is in the Department of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802-6300, USA,

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