HE-LHC: The High-Energy Large Hadron Collider

• Main Authors: Abada, A. (Author), Abbrescia, M. (Author), AbdusSalam, S. S (Author), Abdyukhanov, I. (Author), Abelleira Fernandez, J. (Author), Abramov, A. (Author), Aburaia, M. (Author), Acar, A. O (Author), Adzic, P. R (Author), Agrawal, P. (Author), Aguilar-Saavedra, J. A (Author), Aguilera-Verdugo, J. J (Author), Aiba, M. (Author), Aichinger, I. (Author), Aielli, G. (Author), Akay, A. (Author), Akhundov, A. (Author), Aksakal, H. (Author), Albacete, J. L (Author), Albergo, S. (Author)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2021-09-20T17:29:31Z.
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 Abstract In response to the 2013 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics (EPPSU), the Future Circular Collider (FCC) study was launched as a world-wide international collaboration hosted by CERN. The FCC study covered an energy-frontier hadron collider (FCC-hh), a highest-luminosity high-energy lepton collider (FCC-ee), the corresponding 100 km tunnel infrastructure, as well as the physics opportunities of these two colliders, and a high-energy LHC, based on FCC-hh technology. This document constitutes the third volume of the FCC Conceptual Design Report, devoted to the hadron collider FCC-hh. It summarizes the FCC-hh physics discovery opportunities, presents the FCC-hh accelerator design, performance reach, and staged operation plan, discusses the underlying technologies, the civil engineering and technical infrastructure, and also sketches a possible implementation. Combining ingredients from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the high-luminosity LHC upgrade and adding novel technologies and approaches, the FCC-hh design aims at significantly extending the energy frontier to 100 TeV. Its unprecedented centre-of-mass collision energy will make the FCC-hh a unique instrument to explore physics beyond the Standard Model, offering great direct sensitivity to new physics and discoveries.