Description du projet
Une nouvelle infrastructure de recherche pour percer les secrets de l’Univers
Aujourd’hui, le modèle standard de la physique des particules est la meilleure théorie pour décrire les éléments de base de l’Univers. Elle a cependant ses limites, qui empêchent de mieux comprendre la matière, l’énergie et les lois de la nature. Les mystères autour du boson de Higgs en sont un bon exemple. Le projet FCCIS, financé par l’UE, fournira une conception et un plan d’application destinés à une nouvelle infrastructure de recherche composée d’un tunnel circulaire de 100 km et d’une douzaine de sites en surface. Initialement, le projet présentera un collisionneur électron-positron, en vue de l’améliorer et de le transformer en un collisionneur de hadrons aux frontières de l’énergie qui sera à disposition de la communauté mondiale d’ici la fin du XXIe siècle. Le projet confirmera les catalyseurs basiques dans des accélérateurs de particules, afin de consolider la position de chef de file de l’UE dans la production de science d’excellence au cours des prochaines décennies.
Objectif
What is the Origin of Everything? The Standard Model of Particle Physics explains everything except for the parts that it does not cover. This limitation calls for a science mission to gain a deeper understanding of matter, energy and the fundamental laws of nature. The first step is to elucidate the mysteries that revolve around the Higgs boson. Is it point like? Does it interact with itself? The best way to answer these such questions is to create a clean experimental environment with a highest luminosity particle collider. The Future Circular Collider Innovation Study (FCCIS) will deliver a conceptual design and an implementation plan for a new research infrastructure, consisting of a 100 km long, circular tunnel and a dozen surface sites. It will initially host an electron-positron particle collider. With an energy frontier hadron collider as a second step, it can serve a world-wide community through the end of the 21st century.
This project will validate the key performance enablers at particle accelerators. Extreme luminosities, a factory producing a million Higgs bosons, luminosities up to 100 times the present world record with parts-per-million energy precision will strengthen Europe’s leadership in excellent science for many decades. This project will attract academic and industrial leaders to develop a feasible and affordable project that incorporates ecodesign and resource efficiency from an early stage onwards. The project includes work with the host states France and Switzerland to ensure that the infrastructure blends in with the territorial boundary conditions. A socio-economic impact analysis will reveal the added value that this infrastructure will generate during its first phase and serve as the basis for developing a funding and implementation plan. This project emphasizes the user capacity building process with theoretical and experimental physicists at an international scale to ensure an exploitation of the facility from the start.
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