FCC-ee: The Lepton Collider: Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report Volume 2

, A. Abada

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Abstract

In response to the 2013 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study was launched, as an international collaboration hosted by CERN. This study covers a highest-luminosity high-energy lepton collider (FCC-ee) and an energy-frontier hadron collider (FCC-hh), which could, successively, be installed in the same 100 km tunnel. The scientific capabilities of the integrated FCC programme would serve the worldwide community throughout the 21st century. The FCC study also investigates an LHC energy upgrade, using FCC-hh technology. This document constitutes the second volume of the FCC Conceptual Design Report, devoted to the electron-positron collider FCC-ee. After summarizing the physics discovery opportunities, it presents the accelerator design, performance reach, a staged operation scenario, the underlying technologies, civil engineering, technical infrastructure, and an implementation plan. FCC-ee can be built with today's technology. Most of the FCC-ee infrastructure could be reused for FCC-hh. Combining concepts from past and present lepton colliders and adding a few novel elements, the FCC-ee design promises outstandingly high luminosity. This will make the FCC-ee a unique precision instrument to study the heaviest known particles (Z, W and H bosons and the top quark), offering great direct and indirect sensitivity to new physics.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)261-623
Number of pages363
JournalEuropean Physical Journal-Special Topics
Volume228
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 4 Jun 2019

Funding

The editors wish to thank all the scientific, engineering and technical personnel, the students and early stage researchers and all members of personnel involved in the investigations, designs and prototyping for their invaluable contributions that made this work possible. We also want to express our thanks to the administration officers who prepared the ground and created a framework in which this work could be carried out efficiently. The FCC study management team thanks in particular John Poole for his enthusiastic dedication during the editing phase, contributing significantly to deliver a coherent, consistent and readable set of report volumes. Finally, we wish to thank the CERN management for their strong support and encouragement. The research, which led to this publication has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the grant numbers 654305 (EuroCirCol), 764879 (EASITrain), 730871 (ARIES), 777563 (RI-Paths) and from FP7 under grant number 312453 (EuCARD-2).

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Materials Science
  • General Physics and Astronomy
  • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

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