Description
The Future Circular Collider (FCC) programme, proposed at CERN, consists of a luminosity-frontier electron-positron collider (FCC-ee) as a first stage, followed by an energy-frontier hadron collider (FCC-hh) as a second stage, and promises the most far-reaching physics programme for the post-LHC era. FCC-ee is a precision instrument to study the Z, W, Higgs and top particles, and offers unprecedented sensitivity to signs of new physics. Most of the FCC-ee infrastructure can later be reused for the subsequent hadron collider, FCC-hh. The FCC-hh provides proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of around 100 TeV and can directly produce new particles with masses of up to several tens of TeV.
Following the recommendation of the 2020 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, the CERN Council launched the FCC Feasibility Study in 2021. This study covered, physics objectives and potential, geology, civil engineering, technical infrastructure, territorial implementation, environmental aspects, design of accelerators and detectors and R&D needs, socio-economic benefits, and cost. The Feasibility Study was completed in March 2025. As of 2026, the FCC-ee is now the proposed future machine at CERN.
This talk will focus on preparations for project implementation, infrastructure development, the conceptual designs of FCC-ee, covering potential detector concepts. This will be expanded on to talk about the physics and computing status of FCC-ee studies.
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