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From precision physics to the energy frontier with the Compact Linear Collider

Accelerator Physics 2020-04-22 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Instrumentation and Detectors

Abstract

The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is a proposed high-luminosity collider that would collide electrons with their antiparticles, positrons, at energies ranging from a few hundred Giga-electronvolts (GeV) to a few Tera-electronvolts (TeV). By covering a large energy range and by ultimately reaching multi-TeV e+ee^+e^- collisions, scientists at CLIC aim to improve the understanding of nature's fundamental building blocks and to discover new particles or other physics phenomena. CLIC is an international project with institutes world-wide participating in the accelerator, detector and physics studies. First e+ee^+e^- collisions at CLIC are expected around 2035, following the High-Luminosity phase of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

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@article{arxiv.2001.05224,
  title  = {From precision physics to the energy frontier with the Compact Linear Collider},
  author = {Eva Sicking and Rickard Ström},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.05224},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

The article presents an up-to-date overview of the CLIC project for a general audience as presented to the 2020 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics

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