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physics.acc-ph2025

Future Circular Collider Feasibility Study Report: Volume 3, Civil Engineering, Implementation and Sustainability

M. Benedikt, F. Zimmermann, B. Auchmann +1461

Volume 3 of the FCC Feasibility Report presents studies related to civil engineering, the development of a project implementation scenario, and environmental and sustainability asp…

astro-ph2005

Simulating the High Energy Gamma-ray sky seen by the GLAST Large Area Telescope

F. Longo, P. Azzi, D. Bastieri +26

This paper presents the simulation of the GLAST high energy gamma-ray telescope. The simulation package, written in C++, is based on the Geant4 toolkit, and it is integrated into a…

hep-ex2025

ECFA Higgs, electroweak, and top Factory Study

H. Abidi, J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra, S. Airen +373

The ECFA Higgs, electroweak, and top Factory Study ran between 2021 and 2025 as a broad effort across the experimental and theoretical particle physics communities, bringing togeth…

hep-ph2019

Beyond the Standard Model Physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC

X. Cid Vidal, M. D'Onofrio, P. J. Fox +294

This is the third out of five chapters of the final report [1] of the Workshop on Physics at HL-LHC, and perspectives on HE-LHC [2]. It is devoted to the study of the potential, in…

hep-ph2019

Opportunities in Flavour Physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC

A. Cerri, V. V. Gligorov, S. Malvezzi +300

Motivated by the success of the flavour physics programme carried out over the last decade at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), we characterize in detail the physics potential of it…

hep-ph2019

Higgs Physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC

M. Cepeda, S. Gori, P. Ilten +374

The discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments, was a success achieved with only a percent of the entire dataset foreseen for the LHC. It opened a lands…

hep-ph2019

Standard Model Physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC

P. Azzi, S. Farry, P. Nason +223

The successful operation of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the excellent performance of the ATLAS, CMS, LHCb and ALICE detectors in Run-1 and Run-2 with collisions at cen…

hep-ex2022

The Future Circular Collider: a Summary for the US 2021 Snowmass Process

G. Bernardi, E. Brost, D. Denisov +41

In this white paper for the 2021 Snowmass process, we give a description of the proposed Future Circular Collider (FCC) project and its physics program. The paper summarizes and up…

hep-ph2017

Physics Behind Precision

P. Azzi, P. Azzurri, S. Biswas +19

This document provides a writeup of contributions to the FCC-ee mini-workshop on "Physics behind precision" held at CERN, on 2-3 February 2016.

physics.acc-ph2013

Comments on "Wall-plug (AC) power consumption of a very high energy e+/e- storage ring collider" by Marc Ross

A. Blondel, M. Koratzinos, A. Butterworth +7

The paper arXiv:1308.0735 questions some of the technical assumptions made by the TLEP Steering Group when estimating in arXiv:1305.6498 the power requirement for the very high ene…

physics.ins-det2017

Test Beam Performance Measurements for the Phase I Upgrade of the CMS Pixel Detector

M. Dragicevic, M. Friedl, J. Hrubec +481

A new pixel detector for the CMS experiment was built in order to cope with the instantaneous luminosities anticipated for the Phase~I Upgrade of the LHC. The new CMS pixel detecto…

hep-ph2019

Future physics opportunities for high-density QCD at the LHC with heavy-ion and proton beams

Z. Citron, A. Dainese, J. F. Grosse-Oetringhaus +182

The future opportunities for high-density QCD studies with ion and proton beams at the LHC are presented. Four major scientific goals are identified: the characterisation of the ma…

physics.acc-ph2025

Future Circular Collider Feasibility Study Report: Volume 2, Accelerators, Technical Infrastructure and Safety

M. Benedikt, F. Zimmermann, B. Auchmann +1461

In response to the 2020 Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, the Future Circular Collider (FCC) Feasibility Study was launched as an international collaboration ho…

physics.ins-det2015

Trapping in irradiated p-on-n silicon sensors at fluences anticipated at the HL-LHC outer tracker

W. Adam, T. Bergauer, M. Dragicevic +682

The degradation of signal in silicon sensors is studied under conditions expected at the CERN High-Luminosity LHC. 200 m thick n-type silicon sensors are irradiated with proton…

hep-ph2009

Proceedings of the Workshop on Monte Carlo's, Physics and Simulations at the LHC PART I

F. Ambroglini, R. Armillis, P. Azzi +56

These proceedings collect the presentations given at the first three meetings of the INFN "Workshop on Monte Carlo's, Physics and Simulations at the LHC", held at the Frascati Nati…

physics.ins-det2026

Impact of front-end parameters of the ARCADIA MD3 on charged particle detection

C. Pantouvakis, S. Garbolino, M. Rignanese +21

The ARCADIA INFN R&D project developed a Fully Depleted Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor (FD-MAPS) using a customized LFoundry 110 nm CIS process. The first in-beam characterization…

hep-ex2022

Searches for Long-Lived Particles at the Future FCC-ee

J. Alimena, P. Azzi, M. Bauer +15

The electron-positron stage of the Future Circular Collider, FCC-ee, is a frontier factory for Higgs, top, electroweak, and flavour physics. It is designed to operate in a 100 km c…

hep-ex2015

Observation of the rare decay from the combined analysis of CMS and LHCb data

The CMS, LHCb Collaborations, : +2807

A joint measurement is presented of the branching fractions and in proton-proton collisions at the LHC by the CMS and LHCb experiments. The data…

hep-ex2003

Top Quark Measurements at the Fermilab Tevatron

P. Azzi

The top quark, discovered at the Tevatron in 1995, is a very interesting particle. Precise measurement of the top properties using large data samples will allow stringent tests of…

physics.ins-det2025

Pixel response characterization of the ARCADIA Fully Depleted MAPS

C. Pantouvakis, M. Rignanese, T. Zenger +24

Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS) achieved widespread use in several scientific applications, thanks to their properties, such as low material budget and high granularity. The…

hep-ex2013

First Look at the Physics Case of TLEP

M. Bicer, H. Duran Yildiz, I. Yildiz +128

The discovery by the ATLAS and CMS experiments of a new boson with mass around 125 GeV and with measured properties compatible with those of a Standard-Model Higgs boson, coupled w…

hep-ph2009

Proceedings of the Workshop on Monte Carlo's, Physics and Simulations at the LHC PART II

F. Ambroglini, R. Armillis, P. Azzi +57

These proceedings collect the presentations given at the first three meetings of the INFN "Workshop on Monte Carlo's, Physics and Simulations at the LHC", held at the Frascati Nati…

physics.ins-det2026

First evaluation of the tracking performance of the ARCADIA Fully Depleted MAPS with 120 GeV proton beam

M. Rignanese, S. Ciarlantini, C. Pantouvakis +19

This work presents test beam characterization of the ARCADIA Main Demonstrator 3, a 200 m thick Fully Depleted MAPS developed using a custom LFoundry 110 nm CIS process on a hi…

hep-ex2025

Future Circular Collider Feasibility Study Report: Volume 1, Physics, Experiments, Detectors

M. Benedikt, F. Zimmermann, B. Auchmann +1461

Volume 1 of the FCC Feasibility Report presents an overview of the physics case, experimental programme, and detector concepts for the Future Circular Collider (FCC). This volume o…