The Future Circular Collider: Recent development in physics and detector studies

Abstract:

Along the path defined by The European Strategy for Particle Physics,  a financial and technical feasibility study of the FCC colliders and their infrastructure has been carried out for the next upgrade of the strategy around 2025/6. The FCC program combines in the same 100km infrastructure a high luminosity Higgs and Electroweak factory e+e- collider, FCC-ee, followed by a 100 TeV hadron collider.

The main challenges of the current effort are both about physics potential and performance studies and for detector design to fully exploit its potential, while being technically feasible and affordable on the project time scale (start of operations around 2040).

The most striking detector challenges will be highlighted, then focusing on the IDEA experiment proposed for the FCC-ee by the INFN Italian community. While providing a global view of the IDEA subdetectors and the new technologies used , more details will be given about the project of an ultra-low mass Drift Chamber as the central tracking system of IDEA.