Charting the European Course to the High-Energy Frontier
Abstract
We review the capabilities of two projects that have been proposed as the next major European facility, for consideration in the upcoming update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics: CLIC and FCC. We focus on their physics potentials and emphasise the key differences between the linear or circular approaches. We stress the uniqueness of the FCC-ee programme for precision electroweak physics at the peak and the threshold, as well as its unequalled statistics for Higgs physics and high accuracy for observing possible new phenomena in Higgs and decays, whereas CLIC and FCC-ee offer similar capabilities near the threshold. Whilst CLIC offers the possibility of energy upgrades to 1500 and 3000 GeV, FCC-ee paves the way for FCC-hh. The latter offers unique capabilities for making direct or indirect discoveries in a new energy range, and has the highest sensitivity to the self-couplings of the Higgs boson and any anomalous couplings. We consider the FCC programme to be the best option to maintain Europe's place at the high-energy frontier during the coming decades.
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@article{arxiv.1912.13466,
title = {Charting the European Course to the High-Energy Frontier},
author = {U. Amaldi and E. Aslanides and R. Barate and C. Benvenuti and P. Bloch and T. Camporesi and A. David and D. Denegri and M. Diemoz and L. Di Lella and G. Dissertori and N. Doble and J. Dumarchez and J. Ellis and J. Engelen and C. Fabjan and B. Fuks and P. Gavillet and A. Hoecker and J. Iliopoulos and P. Innocenti and W. Kozanecki and P. Lebrun and C. Llewellyn Smith and C. Lourenço and L. Maiani and L. Malgeri and M. Mangano and F. Moortgat and M. Mulders and S. Myers and F. Nessi-Tedaldi and L. Pape and F. Pauss and R. Perin and T. Rodrigo and G. Rolandi and A. Schopper and J. Schukraft and M. Spiro and L. Sulak and T. Taylor and D. Treille and G. Tonelli and G. Unal and F. Vannucci and J. Varela and T. Virdee and R. Voss and R. Wallny and H. Wenninger and A. Zalewski-Bak and J. Zinn-Justin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.13466},
year = {2020}
}
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Contribution to the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics