The International Linear Collider: A Global Project
Abstract
The International Linear Collider (ILC) is now under consideration as the next global project in particle physics. In this report, we review of all aspects of the ILC program: the physics motivation, the accelerator design, the run plan, the proposed detectors, the experimental measurements on the Higgs boson, the top quark, the couplings of the W and Z bosons, and searches for new particles. We review the important role that polarized beams play in the ILC program. The first stage of the ILC is planned to be a Higgs factory at 250 GeV in the centre of mass. Energy upgrades can naturally be implemented based on the concept of a linear collider. We discuss in detail the ILC program of Higgs boson measurements and the expected precision in the determination of Higgs couplings. We compare the ILC capabilities to those of the HL-LHC and to those of other proposed e+e- Higgs factories. We emphasize throughout that the readiness of the accelerator and the estimates of ILC performance are based on detailed simulations backed by extensive RandD and, for the accelerator technology, operational experience.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1903.01629,
title = {The International Linear Collider: A Global Project},
author = {Philip Bambade and Tim Barklow and Ties Behnke and Mikael Berggren and James Brau and Philip Burrows and Dmitri Denisov and Angeles Faus-Golfe and Brian Foster and Keisuke Fujii and Juan Fuster and Frank Gaede and Paul Grannis and Christophe Grojean and Andrew Hutton and Benno List and Jenny List and Shinichiro Michizono and Akiya Miyamoto and Olivier Napoly and Michael Peskin and Roman Poeschl and Frank Simon and Jan Strube and Junping Tian and Maksym Titov and Marcel Vos and Andrew White and Graham Wilson and Akira Yamamoto and Hitoshi Yamamoto and Kaoru Yokoya},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.01629},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
104 pages, 88 figures; v2: minor typo corrections; v3: many minor changes, including small corrections to the Tables and Figures in Section 11