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The physics and technology of the Future Circular Collider

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Michael Benedikt and Frank Zimmermann describe the Future Circular Collider, a proposed collider-based research infrastructure that can be realized in successive steps.

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Fig. 1: Model of the proposed Future Circular Collider (FCC) 100 km tunnel and the current Large Hadron Collider (LHC) 27 km tunnel.

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  1. Mangano, M. et al. Future Circular Collider Study – Physics Opportunities Vol. 1 (CERN, 2018).

  2. Council of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The European Strategy for Particle Physics Update 2013. CERN https://cds.cern.ch/record/1567258/files/esc-e-106.pdf (2013).

  3. Benedikt, M. et al. Future Circular Collider Study — The Hadron Collider (FCC-hh) Vol. 3 (CERN, 2018).

  4. Benedikt, M. et al. Future Circular Collider Study — The Lepton Collider (FCC-ee) Vol. 2 (CERN, 2018).

  5. Benedikt, M. et al. Future Circular Collider — European Strategy Update Documents (FCC, 2019).

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    Michael Benedikt

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    Frank Zimmermann

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FCC Conceptual Design Report volumes 1–4: http://fcc-cdr.web.cern.ch

FCC study information: http://cern.ch/fcc

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Benedikt, M., Zimmermann, F. The physics and technology of the Future Circular Collider. Nat Rev Phys 1, 238–240 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-019-0048-0

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