Speaker
Description
The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is a proposed
high-luminosity linear electron-positron collider at the energy
frontier. For optimal physics potential CLIC is foreseen to be built and
operated in a staged approach, with three centre-of-mass energy stages;
ranging from a few hundred GeV up to 3 TeV. The initial energy stage is
planned to operate just above the top-quark pair production threshold
around 380 GeV, with focus on precision measurements of the Higgs-boson
and the top-quark properties. Reaching precisions beyond the HL-LHC
reach, this programme further provides very competitive constraints on
models describing physics beyond the Standard Model. The subsequent
energy stages of CLIC will focus on measurements of rare Higgs-boson
processes, as well as direct and indirect searches for new physics, and
precision measurements of possible new particles. This talk will
summarise and discuss analysis results from the Higgs physics programme
and the top-quark physics programme. The results presented are based on
full detector simulations including relevant background processes.
