Flavours at FCC Workshop

Europe/Zurich
4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

CERN

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Gino Isidori (University of Zurich (CH)), Guy Wilkinson (University of Oxford (GB)), Stephane Monteil (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR)), Zoltan Ligeti (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))
Description

Physics at the Flavoured Circular Collider: preparing for heavy quark and lepton studies in the post HL-LHC/Belle II era

Experimentalists and theorists from the world-wide particle physics community are invited to participate in an extended workshop, beginning autumn 2025 and scheduled to continue until summer 2027 to deepen our understanding of the potential of the FCC-ee for heavy-flavour physics in the quark and lepton sector.  This will build on the studies performed for the Conceptual Design Report and Feasibility Study Report and seek to set the agenda, and prepare the tools, for physics in the post HL-LHC and Belle II era.

The workshop will be focused on the physics opportunities and challenges at FCC-ee, with the following goals:

  • Obtain realistic estimates for precision on key flavour benchmarks;
  • Identify and develop strategies for potentially limiting systematics from experiment and theory; 
  • Work closely with the physics performance and detector-concept groups to investigate the requirements on and impact of various detector designs;
  • Formulate new measurement strategies and identify new decay modes of interest;
  • Understand the complementarities with the HL-LHC;
  • Explore the interplay with the Higgs, electroweak, and possible hidden sectors;
  • Assess whether there exists a physics case for extending the TeraZ programme beyond $6 \times 10^{12}$ decays.

As well as pure flavour studies, the workshop will address electroweak measurements at the Z pole involving fully reconstructed heavy-flavour final states, and will also consider the rich possibilities that exist in hadron spectroscopy with the TeraZ dataset. In addition, consideration will be given to how the flavour programme can be extended at FCC-hh, and what requirements this will place on detectors.

The workshop will begin with a kickoff hybrid meeting at CERN on Nov. 19–21, 2025.  A hands-on tutorial session in FCC software on the afternoon of Tuesday 18 has been organised (see the left-hand menu). Registration can proceed from https://indico.cern.ch/event/1602605/.

The output of the workshop will be communicated in a report that will be a resource for the TDRs of the collaborations that will form after project approval, motivate future theoretical work, and inform the eventual operational plan of the FCC-ee.

In order to join the workshop discussions, please sign up on the mailing lists and mattermost channels that can be found under Subscription to mailing lists in the left-hand menu bar.    (This information is only visible to workshop registrants.)

We gratefully acknowledge the support of Brookhaven National Laboratory and CERN in funding the first meeting.

           

Registration
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Participants
Zoom Meeting ID
65002567247
Host
Stephane Monteil
Alternative host
Guy Wilkinson
Useful links
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    • 09:00 12:30
      Setting the scene

      Welcome and introductory talks to the Workshop

      • 09:00
        Workshop goals, FCC-ee essentials, and the flavour reach of HL LHC 25m
        Speaker: Stephane Monteil (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR))
      • 09:35
        Why flavour? 25m
        Speaker: Yosef Nir
      • 10:10
        The flavour reach of Belle II and commonalities with FCC-ee 25m
        Speaker: Karim TRABELSI (TYL - KEK)
      • 10:45
        Coffee 30m
      • 11:15
        Exploring New Physics at the flavour frontier with FCC-ee 25m
        Speaker: Joe Davighi
      • 11:50
        Detector challenges and concepts at FCC-ee 25m
        Speaker: Mogens Dam (University of Copenhagen (DK))
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 14:00 16:00
      WG1: rare decays
      • 14:00
        Rare $b$-decays at FCC-ee: status and future directions 20m
        Speaker: Eluned Anne Smith (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))
      • 14:30
        Rare b hadron decays at FCC-ee: theoretical opportunities and challenges 20m
        Speaker: Méril REBOUD (CNRS - IJClab)
      • 15:00
        $B\rightarrow$ invisible and related modes at FCC-ee 20m
        Speaker: Paula Alvarez Cartelle (University of Cambridge (GB))
      • 15:30
        FEI: reconstructing B-decays with missing energy at Belle II and beyond 20m
        Speaker: Valerio Bertacchi
    • 16:00 16:30
      Coffee break 30m
    • 16:30 17:30
      Beyond the WGs: session 1
      • 16:30
        Flavour physics at FCC-hh 20m
        Speaker: Diego Martinez Santos (University of A Coruna - UDC (ES))
      • 17:00
        Strange physics at FCC-ee 20m
        Speaker: Radoslav Marchevski (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL))
    • 18:30 20:30
      Workshop reception

      In extension area of R1 (i.e. close to, but not in, 'Glass Box')

    • 09:00 11:00
      WG3: CP-conserving (mostly) measurements
    • 11:00 11:30
      Coffee break 30m
    • 11:30 12:30
      WG2: CP-violating measurements
      • 11:30
        CKM angle alpha : status and prospective 20m
        Speakers: Olivier DESCHAMPS, Dr Olivier Deschamps (Université Clermont Auvergne (FR))
      • 12:00
        CP Violation at FCC-ee -- Interplay with Flavor and EDMs 20m
        Speaker: Joachim Brod (University of Cincinnati)
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 14:00 15:00
      WG2: CP-violating measurements
      • 14:00
        Time-dependent CP violation in $B_s^0 \to \phi \mu^+ \mu^-$ with the IDEA detector concept 20m
        Speaker: Valeriia Lukashenko (University of Zurich (CH))
      • 14:30
        CP Violation in B Decays at the FCC-ee: A Theorist's Perspective 20m
        Speaker: Robert Fleischer (Nikhef)
    • 15:00 15:30
      Coffee break 30m
    • 15:30 17:30
      WG4: charm
    • 19:30 22:30
      Dinner: Instructions in slide for those who signed up

      Dinner in Meyrin