[Electron-proton collider option for the Superconducting Super Collider]. Final report, July 1, 1980-February 28, 1985

The physics of ep collisions has been demonstrated any number of times to be tremendous. If any features of hadron-hadron collisions differ in any essential way from e+e- collider phenomena, then it is imperative to have a means of investigating these differences with ep collisions. The uniqueness of the electron-proton collider is in the study of possible wrong-handed contributions to the weak interaction. Therefore the availability of electrons and positrons of either helicity is of the highest priority in the design of the collider. Other problems which are unique to electron-proton colliders are related to the high current multi-bunch nature of the beams required in the colliders. Emphasis has been on the special problems related to making collisions between electron and proton beams