Back in January, CERN released a conceptual report outlining preliminary designs for a Future Circular Collider (FCC), which if built, would have the potential to be the most powerful particle collider the world over. Earlier this month, attendees of the 2019 FCC week in Brussels got the first look at what this could look like with the release of the four volume FCC study conceptual design report (CDR).
In a special ceremony, on the first day of the conference, Christian Caron, Executive Editor for the European Physical Journal (EPJ) at Springer Nature, handed over the four volumes to Fabiola Gianotti, CERN's Director General; Frédérick Bordry, CERN's Director of Accelerators & Technologies; and Michael Benedikt, FCC study leader.
The four volumes of the FCC CDR demonstrate the technical feasibility and identify the physics opportunities offered by the different collider options that lie at the core of the FCC study. Moreover, they point to key areas for future technological R&D (research and development) that would guarantee the efficient realisation and operation of such a new research infrastructure for fundamental physics. The combination of a high luminosity lepton collider (FCC-ee) as a first step, followed by an energy-frontier proton collider (FCC-hh) will offer unprecedented precision in studying nature at its most fundamental scales through a diverse physics programme spanning 70 years.
Last but not least, the design report also addresses the significant socio-economic impact through investment in such large-scale scientific tools; and how their international and innovative nature can prove vital motors for economic and societal development on a broader scale.
The FCC design report informs the ongoing update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics and helps shape a global vision for high-energy physics research beyond the LHC. Today, the FCC is a worldwide collaboration of more than 150 universities, research institutes and industrial partners actively dedicated to the future of high-performant particle colliders and pursuing R&D on innovative technologies that could boost the efficiency of future particle accelerators. The broad range of scientific and technological disciplines as well as the related cultural diversity that some 1350 contributors introduced into the FCC design report considerably strengthens the collaborative spirit and integrative approach of this project, allowing in particular for unique perspectives that accelerated the progress of the study.
The first volume covering the "Physics Opportunities" was published in EPJC while the three volumes on "The Lepton Machine - FCC-ee", "The Hadron Machine - FCC-hh" and the "High-Energy LHC - HELHC" were published in EPJ Special Topics.
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