AF3: Accelerators for EW/Higgs
Co-Conveners : Marc Ross (SLAC), Qing Qin (IHEP, Beijing), Georg Hoffstaetter (Cornell)
Description
Electro-weak physics and the Higgs are currently of major interest to the HEP community and will likely persist into the foreseeable future. Technology for linear and circular e+e- machines are fairly mature. This Group will focus on the remaining technical issues and explore possible cost reduction schemes. Some of the proposed topics are:
- Question/Topic1 Identification and mitigation of cost drivers
- Question/Topic 2 Room temperature and superconducting RF
- Question/Topic 3 Positron sources
- Question/Topic 4 IR magnets
- Question/Topic 5 Additional topics related to cost reduction and performance improvement
- Question/Topic 6 Alternative approaches in the context of EW/Higgs studies such as muon colliders, gamma-gamma, ?
Many relevant publications can be found at: https://www.nature.com/collections/cajfiddcee , https://www.nature.com/collections/heigibehfc, https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.11775
Also see D. Schulte’s summary Granada ESUPP (2019) presentation: https://indico.cern.ch/event/808335/contributions/3365234/attachments/1842874/3023173/ESU_higgs_final.pdf
AF3 Milestones:
- Meet 16 December 2020 to
- step through the report outline, review plans for submissions, and enlist contributors to common sections;
-schedule meetings to accompany progress of the report. - plan joint workshops between AF topical groups.
See: (for a compilation of Technology-related contributions). We plan to ‘cross-cut’ these in the report. (link missing)
Submitted LOI
Here is the list of submitted LOIs to this topic. First index before “/” corresponds to the primary frontier used for the submission.