CLIC - from the machine to the science

by Erica Brondolin (CERN)

Thursday 7 Nov 2019, 09:30 → 10:30 Europe/Vienna

Library (HEPHY)

The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is a TeV-scale high-luminosity linear electron- positron collider under study at CERN. For an optimal exploitation of its physics potential, CLIC is foreseen to be built and operated in three stages, at centre-of- mass energies of 380 GeV, 1.5 TeV and 3 TeV, respectively, for a site length ranging from 11 km to 50 km. Each of the three energy stages adds cornerstones of the full CLIC physics programme, such as Higgs width and couplings, top-quark properties, Higgs self-coupling, and searches for new phenomena through direct and indirect measurements. The construction of the first CLIC energy stage could start by 2026 and first beams would be available by 2035, marking the beginning of a broad CLIC physics programme spanning 25–30 years. An overview of the CLIC project, its physics potential and the design, technology, and implementation aspects of the accelerator and the detector will be presented.