The project is built to achieve optimum balance between researchers who are already established leaders in their field (ERs) and those who are either starting a career or at an early stage of it (ESRs). Clearly, as seen by the list of publications across nodes and involving ESRs alongside ERs, the RISE interactions are having a strong impact in helping the latter to start building new networks or strengthen existing ones.
Further notice that this is done around a research topic that is forefront, i.e. the investigation of non-minimal Higgs sectors realised in BSM scenarios. This endeavour is timely, as it is part of the CERN project, one of the largest ever in science. These are exciting times for Europe as it can establish further its leading role in particle physics. Finding a Higgs boson and studying its properties is clearly a landmark in European science, yet, to find more of these objects at the LHC would be an unmistakable evidence that we have to surpass the SM. Hence, the physics community has now and will continue to have its eyes on CERN for a long time.
Through this RISE consortium we have committed European institutions strongly to this project in order to not only make sure that they will take part in (potential) major future discoveries at the LHC but also to strengthen the links between institutions across Europe and with the rest of the world at a time when a scientific revolution is bound to take place, no matter the outcome of the LHC. In fact, even the case of no new discoveries at the CERN machine will represent an exciting time, as we will have to abandon a variety of paradigms about BSM physics, notably, Supersymmetry, as its theoretical consistency requires some of its states to be seen at the LHC.
Under these circumstances, it is clear that the next experimental facility will be an electron-positron collider, designed to study the discovered Higgs boson. Herein, high energy physics research will again be pursued by a worldwide collaboration. This RISE project is therefore also part of the commitment to improve Europe's future scope in research and innovation by putting in contact the world leading experts in complementary aspects of Higgs physics at various ends of our planet under the leadership of key European institutions for this new collider era. This RISE collaboration is therefore necessarily of lasting impact.
This RISE consortium is greatly contributing to the success of collider programmes to which Europe is committed in a specific field that is and will inevitably continue to be pursued at these machines. The benefits will be twofold. On the one hand, we believe it to be extremely important that the solution to the discussed physics issues, which will be tackled at these experimental facilities, can have a dominant European contribution. On the other hand, it is mandatory that collaborations with overseas research groups are fostered or maintained, in order to guarantee a truly international aspect to European research. This project is accomplishing both aspects and will see them through successful implementation.
