Physics Briefing Book: CERN-ESU-004 1 October 2019

CERN-ESU-004
1 October 2019
Physics Briefing Book

Input for the European Strategy for Particle Physics Update 2020
Electroweak Physics: Richard Keith Ellis1 , Beate Heinemann2,3 (Conveners)

Jorge de Blas4,5 , Maria Cepeda6 , Christophe Grojean2,7 , Fabio Maltoni8,9 , Aleandro Nisati10 ,
Elisabeth Petit11 , Riccardo Rattazzi12 , Wouter Verkerke13 (Contributors)
Strong Interactions: Jorgen D’Hondt14 , Krzysztof Redlich15 (Conveners)

Anton Andronic16 , Ferenc Siklér17 (Scientific Secretaries)
arXiv:1910.11775v1 [hep-ex] 25 Oct 2019
Nestor Armesto18 , Daniël Boer19 , David d’Enterria20 , Tetyana Galatyuk21 , Thomas Gehrmann 22 ,
Klaus Kirch23 , Uta Klein24 , Jean-Philippe Lansberg25 , Gavin P. Salam26 , Gunar Schnell27 ,
Johanna Stachel28 , Tanguy Pierog29 , Hartmut Wittig30 , Urs Wiedemann20 (Contributors)
Flavour Physics: Belen Gavela31 , Antonio Zoccoli32 (Conveners)

Sandra Malvezzi33 , Ana M. Teixeira34 , Jure Zupan35 (Scientific Secretaries)
Daniel Aloni36 , Augusto Ceccucci20 , Avital Dery36 , Michael Dine37 , Svetlana Fajfer38 , Stefania Gori37 ,
Gudrun Hiller39 , Gino Isidori22 , Yoshikata Kuno40 , Alberto Lusiani41 , Yosef Nir36 ,
Marie-Helene Schune42 , Marco Sozzi43 , Stephan Paul44 , Carlos Pena31 (Contributors)
Neutrino Physics & Cosmic Messengers: Stan Bentvelsen45 , Marco Zito46,47 (Conveners)
Albert De Roeck 20 , Thomas Schwetz29 (Scientific Secretaries)
Bonnie Fleming48 , Francis Halzen49 , Andreas Haungs29 , Marek Kowalski2 , Susanne Mertens44 ,
Mauro Mezzetto5 , Silvia Pascoli50 , Bangalore Sathyaprakash51 , Nicola Serra22 (Contributors)
Beyond the Standard Model: Gian F. Giudice20 , Paris Sphicas20,52 (Conveners)

Juan Alcaraz Maestre6 , Caterina Doglioni53 , Gaia Lanfranchi20,54 , Monica D’Onofrio24 ,
Matthew McCullough20 , Gilad Perez36 , Philipp Roloff20 , Veronica Sanz55 , Andreas Weiler44 ,
Andrea Wulzer4,12,20 (Contributors)
Dark Matter and Dark Sector: Shoji Asai56 , Marcela Carena57 (Conveners)
Babette Döbrich20 , Caterina Doglioni53 , Joerg Jaeckel28 , Gordan Krnjaic57 , Jocelyn Monroe58 ,
Konstantinos Petridis59 , Christoph Weniger60 (Scientific Secretaries/Contributors)
Accelerator Science and Technology: Caterina Biscari61 , Leonid Rivkin62 (Conveners)

Philip Burrows26 , Frank Zimmermann20 (Scientific Secretaries)
Michael Benedikt20 , Pierluigi Campana54 , Edda Gschwendtner20 , Erk Jensen20 , Mike Lamont20 ,
Wim Leemans2 , Lucio Rossi20 , Daniel Schulte20 , Mike Seidel62 , Vladimir Shiltsev63 ,
Steinar Stapnes20 , Akira Yamamoto20,64 (Contributors)
Instrumentation and Computing: Xinchou Lou65 , Brigitte Vachon66 (Conveners)

Roger Jones67 , Emilia Leogrande20 (Scientific Secretaries)
Ian Bird , Simone Campana20 , Ariella Cattai20 , Didier Contardo68 , Cinzia Da Via69 , Francesco Forti70 ,
20
Maria Girone20 , Matthias Kasemann2 , Lucie Linssen20 , Felix Sefkow2 , Graeme Stewart20 (Contributors)
Editors: Halina Abramowicz71 , Roger Forty20 , and the Conveners

1 49
IPPP, University of Durham, UK Winsconsin University, US
2 50
DESY, Hamburg, Germany Durham University, UK
3 51
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany Pennsylvania State University, US
4
University of Padova, Italy 52
NKUA, Athens, Greece
5 53
INFN Sezione di Padova, Italy Lund University, Sweden
6 54
CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain INFN-LNF, Frascati, Italy
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Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany 55
University of Sussex, UK
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Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium 56
University of Tokyo, Japan
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Università di Bologna and INFN, Bologna, Italy 57
10 FNAL and University of Chicago, US
INFN Roma, Rome, Italy 58
11 Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Aix Marseille University, CNRS/IN2P3, CPPM, 59
Marseille, France University of Bristol, UK
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EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
13 61
NIKHEF and University of Amsterdam, Netherlands ALBA Cells, Barcelona, Spain
14 62
IIHE, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium PSI, Villigen, Switzerland
15 63
University of Wrocław, Poland FNAL, Batavia, US
16 64
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan
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Germany IHEP, China
17 66
Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, McGill University, Canada
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Hungary University of Lancaster, UK
18 68
IGFAE, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, IN2P3, France
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Spain University of Manchester, UK
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University of Groningen, The Netherlands INFN and University of Pisa, Italy
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CERN, Geneva, Switzerland Tel Aviv University, Israel
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Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
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Universität Zürich, Switzerland
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ETH Zürich and PSI, Villigen, Switzerland
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University of Liverpool, UK
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IPNO, Université Paris-Saclay, Univ. Paris-Sud,
CNRS/IN2P3, France
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University of Oxford, UK
27
University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU,
Bilbao, Spain
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Universität Heidelberg, Germany
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KIT, Institut für Kernphysik, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Universität Mainz, Germany
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Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
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INFN and Universita di Bologna, Italy
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INFN Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy
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Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont, CNRS/IN2P3,
University Clermont Auvergne, France
35
University of Cincinnati, Ohio, US
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Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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University of California, Santa Cruz, US
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University of Ljubljana and J. Stefan Institute,
Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Technische Uinversität Dortmund, Germany
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Osaka University, Japan
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Scuola Normale Superiore and INFN Pisa, Italy
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LAL Orsay, Paris, France
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University of Pisa, Italy
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Technische Universität München, Germany
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NIKHEF, Netherlands
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IRFU/DPhP CEA Saclay, France
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LPNHE, Paris, France
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Yale University, US
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Contents
1 Introduction 1
2 Theoretical overview 16
3 Electroweak Physics 24
3.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3.2 Future prospects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
3.3 Summary and conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
4 Strong Interactions 43
4.1 State-of-the-art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
4.2 Hadronic structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
4.3 Electron-proton collisions (LHeC, EIC, FCC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
4.4 Hot and dense QCD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
4.5 Precision QCD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
4.6 QCD and other disciplines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
4.7 Overview and perspectives for QCD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
5 Flavour Physics 65
5.1 Introduction/Theory of Flavour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
5.2 Light sector: spectrum below GeV (short-, mid- and long-term) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
5.3 Heavy sector (short-, mid- and long-term) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
5.4 Flavour and dark sectors (short-, mid- and long-term) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
5.5 The CKM matrix elements: prospects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
5.6 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
6 Neutrino Physics 90
6.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
6.2 Present knowledge of neutrino mixing parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
6.3 Measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
6.4 Determination of neutrino mass and nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
6.5 Search for new neutrino states . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
6.6 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
7 Cosmic Messengers 105

7.1 Ultra-High Energy charged particles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
7.2 High-Energy gamma rays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
7.3 Ultra High Energy neutrinos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
7.4 Gravitational waves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
7.5 Multimessenger astroparticle physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
7.6 Synergies with HEP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
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8 Beyond the Standard Model 113
8.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
8.2 Electroweak symmetry breaking and new resonances . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
8.3 Supersymmetry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
8.4 Extended Higgs sectors and high-energy flavour dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
8.5 Dark Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
8.6 Feebly-interacting particles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
8.7 Summary and conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
9 Dark Matter and Dark Sectors 142

9.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
9.2 Astrophysical Probes of Dark Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
9.3 Dark matter and Dark sectors at Colliders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
9.4 DM and DS at beam-dump and fixed-target experiments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
9.5 Axions and ALPs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
9.6 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
10 Accelerator Science and Technology 162

10.1 Present state of accelerator technology for HEP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
10.2 Technologies for electroweak sector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
10.3 Path towards highest energies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
10.4 Muon Colliders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
10.5 Plasma acceleration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
10.6 Accelerators Beyond Colliders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
10.7 Energy management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
10.8 The role of National Laboratories in the European Strategy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
10.9 Complementarities and synergies with other fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
11 Instrumentation and Computing 187

11.1 Particle physics instrumentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
11.2 Computing and software for particle physics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
11.3 Interplay between instrumentation and computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
11.4 Developing and preserving knowledge and expertise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
11.5 Summary of key points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Appendices 205
A Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
B Open Symposium scientific programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
C European Strategy Update contributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
References 215
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Chapter 1
Introduction
The European Particle Physics Strategy Update (EPPSU) process takes a bottom-up approach,
whereby the community is first invited to submit proposals (also called inputs) for projects that
it would like to see realised in the near-term, mid-term and longer-term future. National in-
puts as well as inputs from National Laboratories are also an important element of the process.
All these inputs are then reviewed by the Physics Preparatory Group (PPG), whose role is to
organize a Symposium around the submitted ideas and to prepare a community discussion on
the importance and merits of the various proposals. The results of these discussions are then
concisely summarised in this Briefing Book, prepared by the Conveners, assisted by Scientific
Secretaries, and with further contributions provided by the Contributors listed on the title page.
This constitutes the basis for the considerations of the European Strategy Group (ESG), con-
sisting of scientific delegates from CERN Member States, Associate Member States, directors
of major European laboratories, representatives of various European organizations as well as
invitees from outside the European Community. The ESG has the mission to formulate the
European Strategy Update for the consideration and approval of the CERN Council.
For the 2020 EPPSU, the call for inputs was issued at the end of February 2018 with the
deadline for submission set to 18 December 2019. In total 160 submissions were received. The
list is to be found in Appendix C. All the submitted inputs were considered in 11 different cate-
gories. Two categories were singled out for review by the ESG. These were the “National Road
Maps” and “Other” submissions related to communication, outreach, strategy process, tech-
nology transfer or individual contributions. The remaining nine categories dedicated to large
experiments and projects, to physics, instrumentation and computing, and accelerator science
were handled by the PPG, with an evident overlap between the various categories. The Open
Symposium to review these inputs was hosted by the Spanish Community in Granada on 13-16
May 2019.
For the purpose of the Symposium, the PPG members (excluding the chair) took charge
of organizing the parallel discussion sessions according to the following eight themes1
– B1 Electroweak Physics (physics of the W , Z, H bosons, of the top quark, and QED)
– B2 Flavour Physics and CP violation (quarks, charged leptons and rare processes)
1
Note that astrophysics and non-accelerator neutrino and dark matter experiments are under the purview of
APPEC; those topics were included in the parallel session discussions at the Open Symposium to assess comple-
mentarities and enhance synergies, but will not be the subject of recommendations in the EPPSU.
1
2 CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
– B3 Dark matter and Dark Sector (accelerator and non-accelerator dark matter, dark pho-
tons, hidden sector, axions)
– B4 Accelerator Science and Technology
– B5 Beyond the Standard Model at colliders (present and future)
– B6 Strong Interactions (perturbative and non-perturbative QCD, DIS, heavy ions)2
– B7 Neutrino Physics (accelerator and non-accelerator)
– B8 Instrumentation and Computing
Two half-days separated by half-a-day were dedicated to each of the discussion sessions, with
four running in parallel (B1 to B4 and B5 to B8). Each session was convened by two PPG
members, one theorist and one experimentalist where appropriate. The summary of these dis-
cussions was then presented in the plenary session, thus enabling all the Symposium participants
to contribute to the discussions.3
The main purpose of the Symposium was to reach an understanding of the potential merits
and challenges of the proposed research programmes. For that purpose, the conveners enlisted
many experts to summarise concisely the state-of-the-art and the potential progress expected in
the future. The results are presented in the chapters of this Briefing Book: electroweak physics
(Chapter 3), strong interactions (Chapter 4), flavour physics (Chapter 5), neutrino physics and
cosmic messengers (Chapters 6 and 7) and the high- and low-energy Beyond the Standard
Model physics (Chapters 8 and 9). They are preceded by Chapter 2 in which the state of the the-
oretical thinking which led the experimental efforts in the last decades is briefly outlined. The
latter also helps to motivate the need for a vigorous experimental programme, which is required
to make progress towards a deeper understanding of the physical laws that govern the Universe.
The advances in tools necessary to reach new horizons, in accelerator science (Chapter 10) and
instrumentation and computing (Chapter 11) are presented at the end.
In this introduction, the emerging physics landscape and its potential future is sum-
marised, broadly following the structure presented in the last Strategy update, while keeping
track of the advances that have been achieved since 2013. This should determine the set of
priorities for the current Strategy update, which may well be different from the previous one.
1.1 High Luminosity LHC

Within the high priority large-scale scientific projects, the exploitation of the full potential of
the Large Hadron Collider, including the high-luminosity (HL-LHC) upgrade of the machine
and detectors to collect ten times more data than in the initial design, was top of the list of the
2013 Strategy update. The HL-LHC upgrade of the accelerator and of the ATLAS and CMS
detectors was approved by the CERN Council in June 2016.
By the end of Run 2 in December 2018, the ATLAS and CMS experiments collected
about√160 fb−1 and the LHCb experiment about 10 fb−1 of pp interactions at centre-of-mass en-
ergy s = 13 TeV, exceeding the expectations. In the heavy-ion mode, the collected integrated
luminosity also exceeded the projections. The very successful Run 2 data collection allowed
ATLAS and CMS to develop new methodologies to study the properties of the Higgs boson
(H), substantially improving in many channels the projected precision on the H couplings by
2
A glossary of acronyms is available in Appendix A.
3
The presentations that made up the scientific programme of the Open Symposium are listed in Appendix B.
1.2. DESIGN STUDIES FOR PUSHING THE ENERGY FRONTIER 3
the end of HL-LHC. Typically, the experimental uncertainty matches the statistical one and the
total uncertainty is dominated by that on the theory input, which enters in the interpretation of
pp scattering data (see Fig. 3.2 in Chapter 3). The couplings of H to the SM bosons and to the
third generation fermions can be measured to the percent level, provided an improvement in the
theory input by a factor of at least two is achieved.
The LHCb Upgrade II, combined with the enhanced B-physics capabilities of ATLAS and
CMS Phase II upgrades, will enable a wide range of flavour observables to be determined at HL-
LHC with unprecedented precision, complementing and extending the reach of Belle II, and of
the high transverse-momentum physics programme.
It is thus clear that the next two decades will see a very dynamic HL-LHC programme
occupying a large fraction of the community. Its success will rely not only on the experimen-
talists involved in the LHC experiments but also on a strong support of the theory community
and, last but not least, new advances in the computing software and infrastructure.
1.2 Design studies for pushing the energy frontier

The recommendation of the previous Strategy update was for CERN to undertake design studies
for accelerator projects in a global context, with emphasis on pp and e+ e− high-energy frontier
machines. These design studies were to be coupled to a vigorous accelerator R&D programme,
including high-field magnets and high-gradient accelerating structures, in collaboration with
national institutes, laboratories and universities worldwide.
Two relevant inputs were submitted to the present strategy deliberations: the project im-
plementation plan for the compact linear e+ e− collider (CLIC) [ID146]4 and the Conceptual
Design Report for a Future Circular Collider (FCC) [ID132, ID133, ID135] in two operational
modes, as a e+ e− collider and a pp collider, staggered in time in that order.
√
The CLIC linear collider would start as a Higgs, WW and t ¯ factory at s = 380 GeV,
t
√
while the tunnel could be extended with time to achieve s of 1.5 TeV in the second stage and
to 3 TeV in the final stage. The whole programme would last 34 years from the start of the
construction.
+ −
The FCC design is such that it could start √ as an e e collider (FCC-ee) evolving in time
from a Z, H, WW and t t¯ factory by increasing
√ s from about 90 GeV to 365 GeV. In the second
stage, the FCC would be turned into a s = 100 TeV pp machine (FCC-hh) with high-field
magnets of up to 16 T, also suitable for heavy-ion collisions. With the addition of an energy
recovery electron linac (ERL) of 60 GeV, also ep interactions could be explored providing ad-
ditional input to achieve the ultimate precision of the FCC-hh. This integrated FCC programme
would last 70 years from the start of the project implementation.
As part of the FCC project studies, also a high-energy version of the LHC (HE-LHC) with
FCC-hh magnets and conversely a low-energy FCC-hh with the LHC-type magnets were con-
sidered. While these options would push the energy frontier, they were deemed less attractive
than the FCC integrated programme.
The readiness of these projects was subject to intense scrutiny during the Granada Sym-
posium and the conclusions are summarised in Chapter 10. No show-stoppers were found on
the technical side, however there are still challenges ahead with time scales for addressing them
quite uncertain, more so in the case of FCC-hh than for CLIC. In the global context, CLIC
4
This notation is used to refer to the submitted documents, in this case ID = 146, accessible via Appendix C.
and FCC-ee are “competing” with the International Linear Collider (ILC) project proposed to
be built in Japan [ID77], and with the circular CEPC of China [ID29]. In the latter case, the
CEPC could be turned at a later stage into a pp collider similarly to the FCC project. As Higgs
factories, all the four contenders have a similar reach, as established during the Open Sympo-
sium (see Chapter 3). There are no major technical obstacles for their realisation, however more
effort is required before construction of any of them could start.
The accelerator community, led in Europe by CERN with partners in the US and Japan,
is investing efforts in the design of high-field magnets based on the Nb3 Sn superconductor and
first successful tests of dipole magnets with 11 T field have recently been reported5 . This is
motivated by the needs of the HL-LHC upgrade programme. Substantial progress has been
achieved in the development of superconducting and normal conducting high-gradient acceler-
ating structures, needed for the e+ e− colliders, which is also driven by light source facilities all
over the world. CERN has also invested in developing novel accelerator technologies such as
the dual-beam acceleration for CLIC or proton-driven plasma wake-field acceleration (AWAKE
project) [ID35, ID58]. Lately, the idea of a µ + µ − collider [ID120] is gaining traction in Eu-
rope as it represents a unique opportunity to achieve a multi-TeV energy domain beyond the
reach of e+ e− colliders, and within a much shorter circular tunnel than for a pp collider. The
biggest challenge remains to produce an intense beam of cooled muons, but novel ideas are
being explored.
The details and the time-lines needed to develop some of these technologies are discussed
in Chapter 10. An interesting observation is that the estimated time quoted for development
of 16 T magnets for the FCC-hh is comparable to the one projected, albeit with lesser confi-
dence level, for the development of the novel acceleration technologies from proof-of-principle
towards an accelerator conceptual design.
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1.3 An e e collider complementary to the LHC
Already the previous Strategy update expressed interest in the initiative of the Japanese particle
physics community to host the ILC and welcomed this initiative. The negotiations in Japan are
ongoing but no clear statement has been made at this time. As described above, three additional
potential Higgs factory projects have been submitted for consideration in this European Strategy
Update process.
From the national inputs submitted to the present Strategy update process, a clear support
is evident for an e+ e− Higgs factory as the next large-scale facility after the LHC. In the absence
of clear signs of physics beyond the Standard Model, the hierarchy problem between the mass
of the Higgs boson and the Planck scale still remains a strong argument to look for new physics
at the energy frontier, and Higgs coupling measurements provide a powerful probe of the EW
symmetry-breaking mechanism. The new physics, it is argued, would influence the values
of the Higgs couplings to the fundamental constituents of matter and interactions, and could
be detected provided they are measured with sufficient precision to be sensitive to the relevant
energy scales (for detailed discussion see Chapters 3 and 8). Thus a Higgs factory could already
provide the first hints of new physics.
The comparison of the performance of the various proposed Higgs factories was thus
very much in the focus of the Open Symposium. The most precise determination of the Higgs
couplings would be achieved by an e+ e− factory in combination with improvements of the
5
Recently a field of 14.1 T was achieved in a demonstrator dipole magnet at Fermilab.
1.4. BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL AT COLLIDERS 5
knowledge of the Standard Model couplings from a Tera-Z facility (as proposed for the FCC-
ee), followed by the high yield production of Higgs at a 100 TeV pp collider. Beyond Higgs
physics, FCC-ee would also offer an interesting flavour physics program as well as searches for
the dark sector.
On a time scale of 70 years, the integrated FCC programme would allow to determine the
Higgs self-coupling to explore the nature of the electroweak phase transition with a precision
of 5%. A similar sensitivity for this particular aspect could emerge from the CLIC integrated
programme on a shorter time scale.
1.4 Beyond the Standard Model at Colliders

The aim of future colliders is the exploration of the unknown at very short distances, in the
search for an understanding of the fundamental physical laws and an explanation of the many
mysteries that still surround the world of particle physics. In this context, the study of physics
beyond the Standard Model (BSM) is a primary element of any future collider programme. The
discovery of the Higgs boson has triggered the need to start a new physics programme of precise
determinations of the Higgs properties and, correspondingly, of electroweak measurements with
improved precision. These tests provide powerful probes of any kind of new physics that affects
directly the electroweak symmetry breaking sector. A typical example is the case of Composite
Higgs, for which future facilities can probe the degree of naturalness (fine-tuning) well below
the percent level. There are several proposed projects around the world to carry out the Higgs
precision programme (see Chapter 3) and their respective physics reach for BSM physics is
documented in Chapter 8.
The exploration of short distances can proceed through direct or indirect searches. Pro-
posed future colliders can explore new physics extensively, up to multi-TeV scales, through
direct searches. Just to take some quantitative examples, FCC-hh can probe gluino masses6 up
to 17 TeV, stop masses up to 10 TeV and √ masses of scalar particles from a second Higgs doublet
up to the range of 5 − 20 TeV. CLIC at s = 3 TeV can perform general searches for any new
particle with electroweak interactions essentially up to the kinematical limit, which corresponds
to masses of 1.5 TeV for pair production. Direct searches provide the only way to have hands-on
access to new phenomena.
The indirect searches consist of looking for deviations from the Standard Model expec-
tations, like for example in modification of Higgs couplings or of kinematic distributions with
sensitivities to virtual effects of the theory content. Indirect searches can probe in a model de-
pendent way masses well beyond the collider kinematical limit, but typically cannot identify
the specific source of new physics. For a selection of physics scenarios, addressed in Chapter 8,
lepton and hadron colliders are complementary. Hadron colliders have a better reach for direct
searches of new states because at the lepton colliders there is a natural limit imposed by the
available centre-of-mass energy. Lepton colliders tend to perform better in indirect searches
in spite of the substantially lower centre-of-mass energy. Weakly coupled theories where high
luminosity is an important factor are better explored at hadron colliders.
Colliders operating at very high energy also contribute in a complementary way to the
Higgs, the electroweak precision and the flavour programmes. This includes rare Higgs de-
cays (e.g. H → µ µ, νν, Zγ) which benefit from the large luminosity of hadron colliders and of
effective operators whose contribution to scattering processes grows with the collision energy.
6
Natural units are adopted throughout this document, i.e. taking c = 1.
Diversity in research is a key element for a future strategy in particle physics, especially
in view of the rapidly evolving status of theoretical understanding. Feebly-interacting and long-
lived particles are good examples of motivated paradigms, as discussed in Chapter 8. The in-
vestigation of these and other alternative paradigms requires a variety of experimental facilities,
not limited to colliders, but complemented by beam-dump, fixed-target and other experiments.
1.5 Neutrino Physics

The discovery of neutrino oscillations is a “laboratory” proof of physics beyond the Standard
Model, because new particle states or new interactions are required to generate the relevant
mass term in the theory. The neutrino sector looks very different from the charged fermion
one. The neutrinos are known to be orders of magnitude lighter than the charged leptons. The
explanations for this lightness span many orders of magnitude in the scale of new physics.
There could be light (sterile neutrinos) or heavier neutral leptons. Neutrinos could be their
own antiparticles in which case lepton number conservation would be violated. This property
could potentially be linked to the matter-antimatter asymmetry observed in the Universe. Their
mixing pattern is also very different from the one observed for the charged fermions, with some
terms still not fully known. Neutrino physics is an integral part of the flavour quest. It is thus
essential to pursue the exploration of the neutrino sector with accelerator, reactor, solar and
atmospheric neutrino experiments. The rich programme already approved and the outlook for
future progress are discussed in detail in Chapter 6.
In 2013 CERN was mandated with developing a neutrino programme to pave the way
for a substantial European role in future leading long-baseline experiments in the US and in
Japan. This recommendation led to the establishment of the CERN Neutrino Platform (NP)
in 2014 in which about 90 European institutions are involved. The main goal of the CERN
NP is to support and participate in detector R&D and construction for projects with European
interest and expertise (e.g. prototypes for the DUNE experiment at LBNF in the US and the near
detector ND280 for T2K in Japan). In addition a neutrino group was set up at the CERN EP
department in 2016 to help enhance coherence of efforts in the European neutrino community.
The CERN NP has been successful in fostering the European effort in advancing the study
of neutrino oscillations. This is reflected in a very successful town meeting organised as part of
the preparations for the European Strategy Update and its conclusions [ID45], which provide
a broad view of the European present and future activities in this domain. From the European
perspective, the world-wide, broad and challenging experimental programme in unravelling the
neutrino sector, with synergies in particle, nuclear and astroparticle physics, requires a contin-
uous balanced support. Continuation of the CERN NP may be an appropriate way to facilitate
this.
1.6 Theory
As already acknowledged in the previous Strategy update, theory is a strong driver of parti-
cle physics and provides essential input to experiments. In addition to the important work
connected closely to experiments, such as precision calculations and event generators, there
are innumerable examples that show how apparently abstract theoretical investigations have
led to central developments influencing experimental physics. By speculating on the extrava-
gant concept of local hidden variables while working at CERN, John Bell laid the foundations
of the most insightful experimental tests of quantum mechanics and quantum entanglement.
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It was abstract research on extensions of space-time symmetries in quantum field theory that
prompted experimentalists to design hermetic detectors with optimal rapidity coverage and to
improve triggering techniques. Peter Higgs’ celebrated 1964 paper had the purely theoretical
aim to show that Gilbert’s theorem is invalid for gauge theories. At the time, applications to
electroweak interactions were well beyond the horizon.
Theoretical research in fundamental physics needs to be broad in scope and not only
limited to the goals of ongoing experimental projects. A free and diverse theoretical activity,
although prone to a number of unsuccessful attempts, is much more likely to lead to scientific
breakthroughs than if limited to a targeted research programme.
1.7 Flavour Physics and CP violation

The observed pattern of masses and mixings of the fundamental constituents of matter, quarks
and leptons, remains a puzzle (often called the flavour puzzle) in spite of a plethora of new
experimental results obtained since the last Strategy update. It is hard to imagine that the new
physics necessary to stabilise the Higgs mass would have no impact on the flavour sector. Con-
versely, solving the flavour puzzle may indicate the way to the new physics.
The field of flavour and CP violation, with its many parameters entering the predictions
of the Standard Model only through measurements, is traditionally explored through a wide
spectrum of experiments all over the world. These include measurements of electric dipole
moments of charged and neutral particles and molecules, rare muon decays with high intensity
muon beams at PSI, FNAL and KEK, rare kaon decays at CERN and KEK, and a variety of
charm and/or beauty particle decays at the LHC with, in particular, the LHCb experiment. New
results are expected in the near future from the Belle II experiment at KEK in Japan and from
LHCb (currently undergoing an upgrade). A detailed discussion of the short-, mid- and long-
term programme is presented in Chapter 5. All these experiments are very challenging as they
require large statistics and excellent control of experimental uncertainties commensurate with
the expectations of the Standard Model, which in many cases are very precise. The reward is
sensitivity to large scales for new physics, often by orders of magnitude higher than from direct
detection experiments or precision electroweak measurements, as illustrated in Fig. 5.1. In the
mid-term planning in Europe, much can be gained from the Upgrade II of the LHCb experiment
for the HL-LHC, that is still pending approval, in addition to the hope that the pending question
of lepton number universality will be fully resolved. On the longer term, the Tera-Z option of
the FCC-ee also offers an attractive program of exploring flavour physics with high precision.
From both the experimental and the theory side, a novel synergy between the searches for
flavour violating decays and for feebly interacting and dark particles is emerging. High energy
colliders will explore the high-mass range (above 10 GeV). Nevertheless fixed target experi-
ments, the proposed LHC projects dedicated to long-lived particles, and beam-dump facilities,
may provide complementary information to explore a lower mass range (1 MeV to 10 GeV, and
even beyond in some cases) and open interesting new research lines.
The search for flavour and CP violation in the quark and lepton sectors at different energy
frontiers has a great potential to lead to new physics at moderate cost and therefore flavour
physics should remain at the forefront of the European Strategy.
1.8 Dark Matter and the Dark Sector

Within the context of General Relativity there is ample evidence from galactic and cosmolog-
ical observations that dark matter (DM) is the dominant form of matter in the Universe, and
detecting it in the laboratory remains one of the great challenges of particle physics. The exis-
tence of DM is another compelling evidence of physics beyond the Standard Model. It is highly
plausible that DM is part of a richer hidden sector (HS), whose constituents may include multi-
ple species of massive particles, one or more of which may mix with Standard Model particles
such as the Higgs boson, the photon or neutrinos, via the so-called HS-SM portals. The current
understanding of the basic properties of dark matter and its interactions is poor.
Historically direct-detection DM experiments have been dominated by WIMP searches,
motivated by the so-called “WIMP miracle”: the qualitative observation that particles with
masses of the order of 100 GeV, and weak interactions with SM particles, will end up with
roughly the observed thermal relic density after freeze out in the standard Big Bang cosmology.
However given the present limits from multiple overlapping direct detection experiments, the
paradigm is changing and in principle the mass of dark matter particles could be anything from
as light as 10−22 eV to as heavy as primordial black holes of tens of solar masses. A comprehen-
sive suite of experiments and techniques are required in order to cover the many possibilities.
Accelerator-based beam-dump and fixed-target experiments can perform sensitive and
comprehensive searches of sub-GeV DM and its associated dark sector mediators. They will
broadly test models of thermal light DM that are as yet underexplored. Future colliders (ILC/
CLIC, FCC-ee/hh/eh and HL/HE-LHC) all have an excellent potential to explore models of
thermal DM in the GeV to 10 TeV mass range. New search strategies at the LHC, for long-
lived feebly-interacting particles, with detectors located far away from the interaction point,
offer a complementary reach. The search for ultralight DM particles like the axion has gained
significant momentum. They would arise as a consequence of one solution to the strong CP
problem: why QCD appears to preserve CP symmetry. The axions or axion-like particles could
be detected directly in dedicated experiments, or produced in the laboratory in prospective light-
shining-through-wall experiments. A detailed account of the various scenarios and relevant
experimental programme is presented in Chapter 9.
Europe has the opportunity to play a leading role in the searches for DM by fully exploit-
ing the opportunities offered by the CERN facilities, such as the SPS, the potential Beam Dump
Facility (BDF), and the LHC itself, and by supporting the programme of searches for axions
to be hosted at other European institutions. The preparatory study of the BDF facility is now
mature and a decision should be taken on its implementation following this Strategy update; its
potential sensitivity to new physics should be compared to that of competing proposals, such as
long-lived particle searches at the LHC, to inform this decision. There is a strong complemen-
tarity and synergy between direct DM detection experiments, under the auspices of APPEC,
and the programme for its production and discovery in accelerator-based experiments. CERN
support for direct dark matter searches based on technologies for which CERN has expertise
could deliver a decisive boost to their sensitivity.
1.9 Strong Interactions

Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is firmly established as the theory of strong interactions. It
encodes the dynamics of quarks and gluons (partons). The dependence of the QCD coupling
αs (Q) on the energy scale Q is predicted in QCD to evolve from a strong coupling at low
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energy scales to a weak coupling at high energy scales. As a consequence, quarks and gluons
are confined into hadronic bound states at low energies, while they behave as asymptotically
free at high energies. It is worth noting that the binding energy of QCD dynamics generates
∼ 95% of the proton and neutron mass, and thus ordinary matter, and only ∼ 5% originates
from the coupling of quarks to the Higgs field.
The concept of asymptotic freedom allows for precise quantitative predictions for QCD
processes at high energy colliders to be obtained through systematic perturbation expansion.
For a full exploitation of precision collider data, these calculations need to attain high accu-
racy, which comes with many conceptual and technical challenges. Moreover, the perturab-
tive calculations are performed at the level of partons and have to be translated into exper-
imental observables which involve hadronic states. This step introduces the low-energy, non-
perturbative, QCD dynamics into the predictions for which the quantitative understanding is less
fully developed. However, the QCD factorisation theorem allows to separate the low-energy and
high-energy dynamics, enabling predictions for collider processes by parametrising the strong-
coupling dynamics into empirical quantities such as decay form-factors, parton distributions or
hadronisation models. These have often dual relevance, as fundamental objects of investigation
and as input to predictions.
To turn present and future hadron colliders into precision machines, without compromis-
ing their sensitivity to a wide spectrum of novel physics effects, and to take full advantage of the
investment into theoretical calculations, an independent determination of the proton structure is
very important. A programme based on fixed target experiments and on dedicated ep machines
has been proposed in Europe, in the US and in China. It is discussed in detail in Chapter 4. The
high-energy end of the proposed facilities at CERN such as the LHeC and/or FCC-eh have in
addition the potential to complement the programme of BSM physics discussed above.
The early Universe has undergone a series of phase transitions of fundamental quantum
fields, in particular the transition of matter from a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in which par-
tons are deconfined. This high temperature phase is experimentally accessible in the heavy-ion
collision experiments. The challenge is in understanding how collective phenomena and macro-
scopic properties, involving many degrees of freedom, emerge under extreme conditions from
the microscopic laws of QCD. Though the creation of QGP as an almost perfect liquid has been
experimentally established, studies of heavy-ion collisions at the LHC (by the dedicated experi-
ment ALICE, as well as the other experiments) and at RHIC (Brookhaven) have been a constant
source of surprises, driving the theory developments. The observation of collective effects in
pp collisions came as another surprise and opened a new area of studies for the heavy-ion com-
munity. A high-energy AA/pA/pp research programme at present and future colliders would
be unique to Europe and would lead to a profound understanding of hot and dense QCD matter.
The lower-energy research programme of QCD matter at the SPS at CERN, is complementary
to other emerging facilities worldwide in the US (BES at BNL), in Germany (FAIR), in Russia
(NICA at JINR) or in Japan (J-PARC), and brings valuable contributions in the exploration of
the QCD phase diagram.
The mathematical framework for quantitative predictions of QCD for low scales and/or
high density processes is numerical lattice QCD (LQCD). Over the past years, an increased
computing power, together with the development of new algorithms and analytical frontier tech-
niques, have enabled precise determination of a wide range of hadronic observables. Continued
efforts and support in developing new theoretical methods and better algorithms are needed to
reach a fully predictive power of LQCD. Future progress in fundamental understanding and pre-
cision phenomenology of QCD will rely on a diverse research programme with close interplay
between theoretical advances and experimental measurements.
1.10 A diverse experimental physics programme

There is a variety of tools to progress in addressing the fundamental puzzles of Nature, with
no solution in the Standard Model, the list of which (on the particle-physics side: the origin
of electroweak symmetry breaking, the nature of the Higgs boson, the pattern of quark and
lepton masses, the neutrino nature and mass; on the cosmology side: dark matter, dark energy,
inflation, the matter-antimatter asymmetry) did not change in the post-Run 2 LHC era. To deci-
pher the fundamental laws of nature, a judicious combination of abstract methods in theoretical
physics and precise experimental scrutiny is needed. These two elements are complementary
and are both essential for progress in particle physics. Experimentally, one way ahead in the
exploration is to increase the reach of direct searches by increasing the energy scale at which
the puzzles can be explored. The alternative way is to perform precision measurements of rare
processes fuelled by quantum-mechanical effects of the theory at short distances. These indi-
rect searches can in principle be performed at much lower energies. While the selection of the
next large-scale collider project is currently focused upon, there is thus a strong case for also
maintaining a diverse physics programme of smaller-scale experiments.
In preparation for the 2020 European Strategy Update, a study group for “Physics Beyond
Colliders” was initiated by CERN, originally to explore the full scientific potential of CERN’s
accelerator complex and its scientific infrastructure in the next two decades through projects
with unique physics reach, complementary to the LHC, HL-LHC and other possible future col-
liders [ID42]. It became a forum for discussing projects that target fundamental questions, some
of which could in fact be realised outside CERN. Furthermore, given the long time-scales in-
volved in planning and realising large-scale projects, it is essential to propose a parallel research
programme to attract and educate next generations of scientists capable of carrying out the ever
more challenging experiments. This was also recognised in the previous Strategy update which
recommended that such experiments be supported in Europe, as well as the European partici-
pation in experiments in other regions of the world. The proposals for new experiments of this
smaller-scale type are discussed in Chapters 5, 8 and 9.
1.11 Essential tools for the future of particle physics

Physicists and engineers have designed and constructed generations of accelerators with in-
creasing centre-of-mass energy and beam intensity, and complex particle detectors, confronting
also the associated computing challenges. The discovery at the LHC of the Higgs boson was
the result of different scientific and technical expertise coming together with a common goal.
This amazing achievement could not have been possible without the success of each of these
contributions, and any future particle-physics programme must rely on the synergy between
all of these different components. Supporting and developing them is therefore an essential
prerequisite for continuing our exploration of the fundamental laws of Nature.
There is no lack of original ideas for how to exploit existing infrastructures and how to ex-
plore energy scales higher than those presently available. The way forward involves challenges
that cannot be addressed without constant progress in advancing accelerator science, designing
better detectors, and developing proper computer infrastructures. These issues are discussed
in Chapters 10 and 11, and summarised below. Moreover, the support of the theory commu-
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nity is essential in these endeavours, not only through generation of new ideas but also in the
development of expert computational tools as discussed below.
1.11.1 Accelerator Science

New accelerator facilities are considered for the future scientific advances in particle physics.
Their development is driving progress in accelerator science which will have a tremendous
impact on the size, performance and cost of future facilities for societal applications such as in
medical or industrial applications, not to mention for advances in other accelerator-driven fields
of science which need light and neutron sources.
Future pp colliders drive the development of high field magnets, with the goal of achiev-
ing fields of 16 T with the Nb3 Sn superconductor. The estimates of time-scales necessary to
develop new approaches and technologies range from as little as five years for optimising the
existing technologies to as much as 20 years for the 16 T option. Higher fields will require
advances in the development of high temperature superconductors (HTS) and the accelerator
science in Europe could motivate these developments [ID105].
For the proposed e+ e− options the main challenges for both linear and circular colliders
are the RF cavities (energy) and nanobeam (luminosity) performances. In that respect there are
strong synergies with modern synchrotron and FEL light-source requirements, which should
therefore be fully exploited through close collaboration between European and overseas part-
ners. The designs for the first phases of CLIC and ILC are mature and complete. Their power
and cost budget are estimated to be on a scale similar to the LHC making them well suited for
implementation.
The design of a µ + µ − collider, previously studied in the US, is gaining traction in Europe
thanks to new ideas in muon cooling. The manipulation of muon √ beams is similar to that of
the proton ones and the LHC tunnel could be used to achieve s = 14 TeV. A strong R&D
programme would be needed to develop this facility as a possible candidate for a high-energy
physics project; for that to happen, the formation of a global collaboration will be essential to
carry out the work coherently and efficiently.
Plasma-based particle accelerators, where accelerating fields are created by the collective
motion of plasma electrons driven by lasers or particle beams, have shown capability of reach-
ing an order of magnitude higher gradients than presently achieved, although the possibility to
reach the beam quality needed for HEP applications remains to be demonstrated. In the past
decade significant progress has been made in plasma wake-field acceleration. In view of the
great promise of these novel acceleration techniques and the substantial effort worldwide to de-
velop them, the advanced linear collider study group, ALEGRO [ID7], aims to foster studies on
accelerators for applications to high-energy physics, with the ambition of proposing a machine
that would address the future goals of particle physics.
There is a rich R&D programme for improving the existing facilities, building and devel-
oping new facilities, as described in detail in Chapter 10. An important issue, which has been
brought into focus with the ambitions to push the energy frontier, is energy management. It
is the HEP community’s responsibility to develop sustainable models and optimised technolo-
gies in terms of energy consumption, aiming also at exporting improved technologies for other
applications in society. It is essential for the future of particle physics that accelerator science
be supported with high priority and that the already existing expertise be preserved. A strong
cooperation between national institutes and CERN is vital for the progress of the field.
1.11.2 Instrumentation and Computing

The landscape of proposed next generation experiments is broad in terms of detector tech-
nologies designed to fulfill the physics programmes of the future. These various technologies
are being developed to address well-defined technological challenges such as as micron-scale
spatial resolution and low mass, picosecond time resolution, high-performance photodetectors
(also operating at cryogenic temperature and low dark current), radiation tolerance, large num-
ber of channels, high readout speed, and large sensitive area at low cost. The need for combined
features (adding time and/or energy measurement in 4D tracking and 5D imaging) becomes
more and more pressing. Also, for all types of particle detectors, the integration of advanced
electronics and data transmission functionalities plays an increasingly important role. Beyond
R&D activities driven by the needs to fulfill specific experimental requirements, it is essen-
tial that the community maintains the ability to carry out generic detector R&D work that has
the potential to bring about tool-driven revolutions, and this, concurrently through the design,
planning and execution of large experimental projects. Generic technology innovation often
emerges from synergies within the field of particle physics, with other fields of science, or with
industry. Therefore it is important to ensure that European programmes such as AIDA2020
or ATTRACT be appropriately supported in order to preserve and stimulate the community’s
potential for innovation.
The development of novel particle physics instruments requires specialized infrastruc-
tures, tools and access to test facilities. National labs and large institutions play a central role
in support for the community by providing access to these types of specialized infrastructures,
tools and facilities. One example is the European network of test beam and specialized irradi-
ation facilities that currently exists, and for which the continued and coordinated support has
been identified as of utmost importance for the community. In addition, technical personnel are
required to efficiently exploit the specialized infrastructures, tools and facilities needed for de-
tector R&D. The support of these personnel often remains a challenge, that must be addressed.
In addition to detector development activities, the scientific outcomes of an experiment
are made possible by the development of an efficient computing and software infrastructure. In
the coming years, however, the science programmes at the HL-LHC Run 4 and beyond, Belle-II
at SuperKEKB, future circular and linear colliders, and large neutrino experiments, will to-
gether require about an order of magnitude more computing resources than presently available,
while increase in funding for computing is not expected. To meet the challenges the particle
physics community must carry out carefully planned and coordinated R&D programmes to im-
prove the efficiency of HEP software and algorithms, adopt new hardware, and take advantage
of industrial trends and emerging technologies. To carry out these activities, a significant in-
vestment in skilled developers is of the highest importance. Furthermore, exploiting synergies
among experiments, other disciplines and with industry will be vital to provide a sustainable
future for software and computing in the field. There are many vehicles for these synergies to
be exploited: for example, both the WLCG and HEP Software Foundation (HSF) will have an
important role promoting coherence in various development activities.
More generally, the requirement of efficiency to extract the maximum physics potential
from an experimental research programme requires an increasingly holistic approach to the
design of experiments and their associated computing and software systems. For example, the
evaluation of various detector designs must include the computing burden as a metric. Yet the
detector and the computing/software communities have been drifting apart, and individuals that
can bridge the growing gap are rare. This is a challenge to the community.
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Another challenge faced by the particle physics community is the limited amount of suc-
cess in attracting, developing and retaining instrumentation and computing experts, which poses
a growing risk to the field. It is of utmost importance that activities carried out by these experts
be recognized correctly as fundamental research activities bearing a large impact on the final
physics results.
1.11.3 Theoretical and Phenomenological tools

While, as discussed above, speculative theoretical research is a powerful driver of progress in
particle physics, theoretical physics has another essential role for collider projects. The inter-
pretation of LHC data would be impossible without theoretical input from higher-order pertur-
bative calculations at the parton level, in combination with parton distribution functions (PDF)
and the modelling of parton showers. The recent advances in theoretical calculations, together
with progress in data analysis and detector performance, have allowed previously unimaginable
precision in measurements at the LHC. This is a critical element for future collider programmes,
since their ability to discover new phenomena heavily relies on accurate background determi-
nations. Only with significant advances in theoretical calculations can one hope to perform a
valuable programme of precision Higgs and electroweak measurements at future high-energy
colliders (see Sect. 3.2.3).
The need for more refined theoretical calculation will only grow in the future, both for
HL-LHC and for colliders at higher energy (see Sect. 4.5). Fully automated NLO tools are now
available and the next challenge is to upgrade them to the NNLO level. To describe the full
hadron collision perturbative calculations are matched with parton showers using automated
Monte Carlo generators. Efficiency and accuracy improvements of these tools are needed to
fully exploit the higher precision of perturbative calculations. The high collision energy of fu-
ture facilities is opening up new challenges (together with new theoretical opportunities) related
to the all-order resummation of large logarithmic terms, due to the presence of different energy
scales in a single scattering process. A better characterisation of the theoretical uncertainties in
the PDFs is also needed.
Monte Carlo event generators [ID114] are indispensable workhorses of particle physics,
bridging the gap between theoretical ideas and first-principle calculations on the one hand, and
the complex detector signatures and data of the experiments. They add to the theoretical in-
put the low-scale transition of partons to hadrons and the multiple partonic interactions which
contribute significantly to the overall particle yield. All experiments are dependent on event
generators to design and tune the detectors and analysis strategies. As the precision of data
increases, the imperfections in the event generators become visible and may lead to extra uncer-
tainties. To mitigate these effects constant improvements in the event generators is mandatory.
The development of these tools is overwhelmingly driven by a vibrant community of academics
at European universities and at CERN. All of this requires very particular skills, theoretical and
computational, that have to be preserved and fostered for the future.
Another theoretical research area with direct impact on future experimental programmes
in particle physics is lattice gauge theory, which is the only known method to compute consis-
tently and systematically QCD observables in the non-perturbative regime. Lattice calculations
can provide reliable results for hadronic decay constants, form factors, and matrix elements that
enter many observables relevant for low-energy and flavour physics, for the determination of
αs , for the extraction of the PDFs, and for properties of the quark-gluon phase transition (see
Sect. 4.5.3).
Advances on all these fronts require not only more resources (funding, manpower, com-
puting time for numerical and algebraic calculations, organised collaborative networks), but
also truly conceptual breakthroughs in theoretical techniques. New ground-breaking ideas are
rapidly developing, although severe challenges remain. An adequately supported programme
of theoretical activities is indispensable for the success of any experimental project and should
be an integral part of the planning of future strategies for particle physics.
1.12 Synergies
There are obvious synergies between the various areas of particle physics research and they are
highlighted in the following chapters. There are also clear synergies between particle physics
and nuclear physics, through the ambition to achieve first-principle understanding of strong dy-
namics based on QCD, but also because of similar experimental tools, as evident in the nuclear
physics programme conducted at CERN. The latter includes not only the low-energy (by par-
ticle physics standards) programmes of the ISOLDE [ID39] and n_TOF facilities, but also the
heavy-ion programme at the SPS and the LHC. There are also synergies with atomic physics as
exemplified by the H experimental programme at the AD antiproton decelarotor.
There are strong synergies with astroparticle physics, which addresses some of the same
fundamental questions as particle physics. These connections are through neutrino physics,
dark matter searches, cosmic ray physics and, potentially in the future, gravitational waves. The
precision measurements of the neutrino properties rely on solar and atmospheric neutrinos for
the determination of several mass and mixing parameters (see Chapter 6). Large underground
neutrino detectors are used in long-baseline accelerator experiments and in astroparticle physics,
with strong synergies between the two domains (see Sect. 7.6). Searches for dark matter from
the halo are performed by dedicated underground experiments but also by large astroparticle
detectors like H.E.S.S., Antares or IceCube, and in the near future the CTA observatory expected
to start operations in 2022. The complementarity is not only through technological advances
but also in the parameter space probed by astroparticle and accelerator-based experiments (see
Sect. 9.3).
The future Einstein Telescope for gravitational wave detection [ID64] will use infrastruc-
ture and techniques that are very similar to those deployed for large underground accelerator
complex. For cosmic ray physics, precise simulation of the properties of air showers is needed
to properly determine the mass of the primary cosmic rays. The shower development is driven
mostly by hadron-nucleus interactions from the highest (1000 TeV c.m.) to the lowest (10 GeV
lab) energies whose theoretical description relies heavily on collider and fixed-target data.
There are thus multiple synergies between particle and astroparticle physics, at the level
of infrastructure, detectors, interaction models and physics goals. These synergies and the
need to foster them has been clearly identified in the national inputs. This can be facilitated
by the newly established EuCAPT Astroparticle Theory Centre as a joint venture of APPEC
and CERN, as well as by further discussions among the many experts in the field. How to
enhance the cooperation between the particle, astroparticle and nuclear physics communities,
fully benefiting from the close collaboration between ECFA, APPEC and NuPECC, must be
part of the discussions around the European Strategy Update.
The development of novel accelerator technologies has always been driven by the needs
of high-energy physics. Today, diverse fields of research and applications benefit from these
developments but also contribute to advances in the field. Examples include fusion energy, high
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temperature superconductors, medical applications, photonics and neutronics. And, last but not
least, plasma acceleration promises developments of compact facilities with a wide variety of
applications compatible with university capacities and small and medium sized laboratories. A
detailed discussion is presented in Sect. 10.9.
An important aspect of the European Strategy Update is to recognize the potential im-
pact of the development of accelerator and associated technologies on the progress in other
branches of science, such as astroparticle physics, cosmology and nuclear physics. Moreover,
joint developments with applied fields in academia and industry have brought about benefits to
fundamental research and may become indispensable for progress in the field.
Similar considerations apply to the field of instrumentation and computing. Synergies
with other fields of science with similar challenges and with industry are essential to meet the
needs of the next generation of experiments. The way forward has been extensively discussed
during the Open Symposium in Granada and is summarised in Chapter 11. Strengthening the
synergies in research and technology with adjacent fields is an important element of the progress
in particle physics. Global platforms, networks and national institutes have the potential to
enhance the research exchange among experts worldwide, to provide training opportunities,
and more generally stimulate the community’s potential for innovation.
Chapter 2
Theoretical overview
The role of exploration in particle physics

Exploration of the unknown is the main driver of fundamental science. The goal of particle
physics is to push the frontier of knowledge deep into the smallest fragments of spacetime
and unravel the natural phenomena that occur at the most minute distance scales. This line
of research has delivered some of the most extraordinary discoveries in science, which not
only have revealed the inner workings of particle interactions but have truly revolutionised our
understanding of the physical laws that govern the Universe. Those laws have allowed us to
decipher the properties of the Universe at the largest distance scales and reconstruct its time
evolution back to the earliest stages. This path of discoveries and knowledge has continued
with the latest generation of experimental projects in particle physics, among which the LHC is
the most prominent example. Although this broad research programme is still ongoing, particle
physics is already planning the next stage of exploration. While research that culminated with
the LHC has established the Standard Model (SM) as the successful description of particle
interactions, we are still confronted with many unresolved puzzles and open problems that
can be tackled only with a bold experimental programme and with substantial technological
advances.
Can we predict new discoveries?

When the goal is exploration of the unknown, by its very nature it is difficult (or impossible) to
foretell the discoveries that an experimental project may encounter. The value of an exploratory
project should not be measured by the number of promised new discoveries, but by the im-
portance of the questions addressed and by the amount of fundamental knowledge that can be
extracted from its results. There is a remarkable exception to the general rule concerning our
inability to predict the unknown. It follows from a peculiar property of quantum field theories
(QFT). A QFT can “predict its own destruction,”1 in the sense that from low-energy measure-
ments alone one can infer the existence of new phenomena that must necessarily occur below a
calculable high-energy scale Λ, even if the theory is unable to predict what these new phenom-
ena are. It is of course a very privileged situation for experimental searches. This was indeed
the case of the SM without the addition of the Higgs, which predicted its own destruction at
energies below a TeV, as subsequently confirmed by the LHC with the discovery of the Higgs.
1
This expression was used by Pilar Hernandez in her talk at the Open Symposium in Granada.
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Does the SM today, after the inclusion of the Higgs boson, predict its own destruction?
The answer is negative: unlike the circumstances at the start of the LHC, today particle physics
is not in the (rare and special) situation to predict new discoveries with mathematical certainty
at or under an energy scale within reach. Remarkably, the SM properties are just right to keep
all its coupling constants under control, up to meaningful high energies. The Higgs quartic
coupling evolves towards an instability, but this is reached at sufficiently high energy to ensure
that the lifetime of the electroweak vacuum is much longer than the age of the Universe. This
remarkable self-consistency of the SM is very sensitive to the values of the coupling constants
and it would not hold if the couplings were only slightly different from what we observe. In
a different realm, as soon as gravity is included the SM does predict its own destruction at an
energy scale of 1019 GeV or below. In addition, neutrino masses suggest the self-destruction of
the SM in the neutrino sector somewhere below (and possibly much below) 1015 GeV. However,
these upper bounds on the cutoff energy Λ are too weak to guarantee discoveries with absolute
certainty at foreseeable future colliders. The situation could suddenly change if the LHC, or
any other current experimental project, found evidence for new interactions with low scale Λ.
Open questions in particle physics

What drives the field towards the next generation of experiments is the awareness that we are
facing fundamental questions that can be addressed by the scientific method, and whose an-
swers will significantly enrich human knowledge. In the following we present some of the open
questions in particle physics today. Their breadth clearly requires a diversified research pro-
gramme with different experimental objectives and techniques, with bold projects pushing the
energy and precision frontiers, and with substantial theoretical involvement. The open ques-
tions are not independent, but deeply interconnected. This reflects the maturity of our global
understanding of the particle world and the strong links between all aspects of particle physics,
reaching out to neighbouring fields like cosmology and astrophysics. Any new discovery is thus
likely to affect our understanding of particle physics in multiple directions.
1 Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

With a ground-breaking result, the LHC has established the existence of the Higgs boson as the
main agent of the spontaneous breaking of electroweak symmetry. In the context of the SM, all
the parameters associated with the Higgs (scalar potential and couplings to gauge bosons and
fermions) are related to measured quantities. And yet, our understanding of the electroweak
symmetry breaking dynamics is far from being satisfactory. The Higgs sector remains a con-
ceptual mystery.
The problem is related to the nature of the Higgs boson, which is an object different from
any other particle we have encountered so far because, according to the SM, it is a fundamental
particle with no spin. Contrary to particles that carry spin, for which the massless and massive
cases are distinct as they correspond to different numbers of physical degrees of freedom, a
massless spinless particle can be turned into a massive one without adding any new physical ex-
citation. This property becomes lethal in the quantum world, since the mass of the Higgs boson
becomes wildly sensitive to quantum fluctuations. Its spinless nature leads to another distin-
guishing feature: the existence of new types of interactions that are different from the gauge
interactions that characterise the familiar four fundamental forces of nature. While the struc-
ture of gauge forces is restricted by the mathematical properties of symmetry, the new forces
introduced by the Higgs boson are less constrained, and this leads to a large number of unde-
termined parameters. The Higgs alone requires the introduction of 15 new free parameters, as
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opposed to the strong and electroweak forces which are described by only 3 parameters. When
compared with the structural simplicity of the gauge sector, the Higgs sector looks suspiciously
provisional. Essentially all problems or unsatisfactory aspects of the SM are ultimately related
to the structure of Higgs interactions. Our poor understanding of the Higgs sector at a deeper
level, and its novelty in terms of physical properties, make Higgs precision measurements one
of the most pressing issues of any future programme in particle physics.
The discovery of the Higgs boson has opened a new research programme, which is a clear
priority for the future of particle physics. Precision measurements of Higgs properties enable
us to study in depth the most puzzling sector of the SM, opening the door towards a deeper
understanding of the mechanism for electroweak symmetry breaking. Future colliders promise
an unprecedented scrutiny of the Higgs properties (see Chapter 3). They can explore extensively
the nature of the Higgs boson and the question of whether the Higgs is accompanied by other
related spinless particles or not. Moreover, if the Higgs were a composite state rather than a
fundamental particle as predicted by the SM, its size could be probed at future Higgs factories
down to distances of 10−20 metres, about five orders of magnitude below the size of the proton
(see Chapter 8).
The Higgs programme goes hand-in-hand with the programmes of electroweak precision
measurements and flavour physics, which can probe the existence of new physics in a way
complementary to direct searches (see Chapters 3 and 5). Moreover, very high-energy collisions
offer the opportunity of studying the interplay between short and long-distance effects. This is
a new environment in which one can test the infrared properties of non-Abelian gauge theories
in a regime which, unlike the case of QCD, is fully perturbative.
2 Higgs Naturalness
A related puzzle in particle physics is the question of Higgs naturalness. The problem arises
because of the quantum sensitivity of the Higgs mass to possible new physics scales, while
various experimental measurements point towards a large separation of the latter and the Higgs
mass (Λ mh ). The discovery of the Higgs boson has made the problem more concrete, and
the lack of evidence for new physics has widened the gap between Λ and mh , making the tension
more severe. In the language of Effective Field Theories (EFTs), naturalness arises by viewing
EFT parameters as functions of more fundamental ones: any specific structure in the EFT, like
the presence of a very small parameter, should be accounted for by symmetries and selection
rules rather than by accidents. When the criterion is applied to the Higgs mass, one famously
finds that Λ mh is inconsistent with the predicate of naturalness. Overall, the lack of novel
signals suggests that the purely accidental symmetries of the SM appear to be mysteriously
maintained up to the high energies tested at present, directly or indirectly.
An interesting point of view formulates the problem as arising from the clash between two
concepts: Infrared (IR) simplicity and Naturalness.2 The SM enjoys IR simplicity in the sense
that certain crucial experimental facts, not mandated by the SM gauge structure, are neverthe-
less an expected consequence of global symmetries that emerge by pure accident because of
the specific matter content found in Nature, e.g. approximate baryon and lepton number conser-
vation, lightness of neutrinos, custodial symmetry, and suppression of flavour-changing neutral
currents. The problem appears when the SM is embedded in a broader underlying framework.
When the latter is probed at energies much below its fundamental scale Λ, there is no generic
reason for it to abide by the same accidental symmetries as the SM does. This would mean that
2
This formulation of the problem is due to Riccardo Rattazzi and the discussion here follows closely his talk at
the Open Symposium in Granada.
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IR simplicity in the SM can be obtained only at the price of a loss of naturalness in the formu-
lation of the high-energy theory. Indeed, present models aiming to realise naturalness, such as
supersymmetry or composite Higgs, invariably sacrifice simplicity. Those extensions of the SM
have concrete structural difficulties in reproducing the observed simplicity in flavour, CP vio-
lating and electroweak precision observables. In order to become phenomenologically viable,
they must rely on artificial constructions mostly associated with ad-hoc symmetries, which in
the SM are either not needed or automatic. In this perspective, the tension between simplicity
and naturalness is what defines the problem.
Alternatively, the concept of naturalness may appear in a different guise when applied
to the electroweak sector. The increasing tension could well herald an exciting change of
paradigm. In fact, the LHC results have already prompted theorists to broaden their perspective
on the problem and pursue alternative solutions that may lead to unconventional experimental
signatures. While much of this research is still ongoing, it is already clear that searches for new
physics must take a broad approach.
In conclusion, Higgs naturalness remains a crucial open question. Whatever the under-
lying rationale, more experimental investigation is mandatory to delimit and clarify the issue.
Understanding its role in the SM by probing its consequences at even higher energies will give
us knowledge about the governing principles of Nature, and critical information for the future
course of research in particle physics (see Chapter 8).
3 Strong Interactions
Strong interactions play a central role in particle physics today, but the relevant questions are
not about the validity of the theory or the search for its possible extensions, because QCD gives
a successful and satisfactory explanation of strong interactions. The questions are about how to
relate QCD to long-distance phenomena (e.g. confinement), how to characterise the collective
behaviours that emerge under extreme conditions (e.g. high temperature or high density), how
to obtain reliable predictions in the non-perturbative regime (e.g. hadronic matrix elements) and
precise predictions in the perturbative regime (e.g. higher-order calculations). Particularly chal-
lenging is the question of deriving from the first principles of QCD a description of phenomena
at the interface between low and high energies. An example is understanding how fast-moving
quarks and gluons cluster into colour-singlet hadrons. As well as being conceptually challeng-
ing, these questions are relevant in practice since they lead to a real limitation in the theoretical
prediction of observables in hadronic collisions and flavour physics.
QCD is the necessary tool for describing particle interactions with applications that range
from heavy ions to proton collisions, from neutron stars to early-Universe cosmology. One of
the most striking successes of the LHC has been to show that, by combining advanced data
analysis and detector performance with refined theoretical QCD calculations, hadron colliders
can perform measurements with previously unimaginable precision. This is an important legacy
for future collider projects, which establishes proton colliders as precision machines. A number
of the challenges listed above are of crucial importance for the full exploitation of the physics
potential of present and future colliders, both in searches for new phenomena and in performing
precision measurements (see Chapter 4).
4 Strong CP
There is only one parameter, among those that specify the SM renormalisable interactions,
which has not yet been measured: the strong θ angle. This parameter characterises the vacuum
structure of the theory and contributes to the neutron EDM. Current experiments set an upper
bound |θ | < 10−9 and no accidental symmetry in the SM can justify such a small value. Finding
an experimental confirmation of the reason for the surprising smallness of θ is still an open
question.
Out of the several possible proposed solutions, the axion remains the all-time favourite
by theory. Based on a spontaneously-broken global symmetry, the axion solution turns θ into
a dynamical variable, which relaxes to zero in the presence of a potential generated by non-
perturbative QCD effects. The search for the axion is a central task in particle physics, offering
a window into new physics which may take place at very high energies (see Chapter 9). The
axion can also have important effects in stellar evolution, in early-Universe dynamics, and its
coherent oscillations could explain the dark matter we observe today.
5 Flavour Physics
The pattern of quark and lepton masses and mixings is one of the most puzzling open questions
in particle physics, directly connected with the Higgs since its couplings to fermions are at the
heart of the problem. Generations of dedicated experiments have provided us with precision
measurements of the corresponding parameters, revealing a pattern which has a highly non-
generic structure and suggests an underlying organising principle. However, the origin of this
structure and the nature of the organising principle remain mysterious.
There is another reason that makes experimental exploration of the flavour sector particu-
larly important. Because of special accidental symmetries and structural aspects (like the GIM
mechanism), the SM predicts strong suppressions of certain flavour-changing transitions. These
suppressions have been confirmed experimentally. However, the suppression mechanisms in the
SM are fragile and any small deformation of the theory can drastically change the predictions
for flavour-changing processes. This property makes the study of rare flavour processes one of
the most powerful probes of new physics, in some cases testing scales up to 105 or even 106
GeV. Experimental hints for deviations from SM predictions in flavour processes are one of our
best hopes to direct research towards the right energy scale where new physics may lurk. Dark
matter itself may have flavour-violating interactions and an understanding of its structure would
require advances in interdisciplinary explorations. Furthermore, flavour experiments are often
sensitive to new light particles, possibly related to dark matter.
To the class of flavour processes belong B, K, D meson and τ lepton decays, rare muon
transitions, anomalous magnetic moments and electric dipole moments (EDM). Future experi-
mental projects will be able to push further the exploration on all these fronts (see Chapter 5),
providing us with new fundamental knowledge about the particle world. In particular, testing
new sources of CP violation in EDM is a powerful probe of theories beyond the SM, and may
turn out to be a decisive tool to test hypothetical mechanisms for generating the observed cos-
mic baryon asymmetry. Finally, a true understanding of the flavour puzzle must encompass
both the quark and the lepton sector including neutrinos, to which we turn next.
6 Neutrino Physics
Neutrinos are unique exploratory tools in particle physics. The special nature of their mass
makes them sensitive to new physics at very short-distances. Their special propagation proper-
ties make them a penetrating probe into the far structure of the Universe and a precious instru-
ment to peek into the dark sectors of the cosmos. Many intriguing open questions in particle
physics are linked to the properties of neutrinos.
An active ongoing experimental programme aims at establishing the nature and mass or-
dering of neutrinos and at measuring, with increasing precision, their overall mass scale and
mixing parameters (see Chapter 6). An elegant explanation for the lightness of neutrinos in
terms of IR Simplicity and separation of scales is encoded in a dimension-five operator with
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a new-physics scale Λν in the range of 1015 GeV. This result gives a conclusive proof for the
existence of physics beyond the SM. The scale Λν has the dimension of mass divided by cou-
pling squared, so its value could be explained by either a large mass or a small coupling (or
a combination of the two). Since neutrino masses require the breaking of both chiral symme-
try and lepton number, they are sensitive to fundamental ingredients of the symmetries of the
particle world. Furthermore, the neutrino mixing angles show a pattern distinctively different
than that observed in the quark sector, exposing another puzzling aspect of the flavour problem.
Understanding this structure is a central question in particle physics today. Firmly establishing
CP violation in the lepton sector would be a milestone in neutrino physics. A possible con-
sequence of CP violation and neutrino physics is leptogenesis, which is the simplest and most
robust known mechanism for generating the cosmic baryon asymmetry in the early Universe.
Another interesting aspect of the neutrino experimental programme is the search for new light
particles that could hide behind the origin of neutrino masses, contributing to the great physics
potential offered by the exploration of neutrino physics.
7 Dark Matter
There is overwhelming observational evidence for the existence of Dark Matter (DM), whose
contribution to the mass density of the Universe is 5.3 times larger than for ordinary baryonic
matter. While its gravitational imprint is well established at galactic and cosmic scales, the
microscopic nature of DM is still a mysterious and outstanding open question. If DM is made
of particles or compact objects, its constituents could have masses that vary by some 90 orders
of magnitude, ranging from Fuzzy DM of 10−22 eV to primordial black holes of tens of solar
masses. During the last decades, a significant experimental effort has focused on DM masses
around 100 GeV: these are motivated by the observation that particles in this mass range pre-
dicted by supersymmetry or other weak-scale theories automatically lead to a particle density
in excellent agreement with the observed DM density. This is usually referred to as the ‘WIMP
miracle’. Recently, there has been growing interest in widening the scope of these searches. On
one side, the lack of discoveries of weak-scale particles that could act as mediators in primordial
annihilation processes has changed the emphasis, since the choice of masses around 100 GeV
was completely driven by specific model considerations, especially related to supersymmetry.
A more generic WIMP, which annihilates into gauge bosons via ordinary weak interactions,
prefers larger masses. The WIMP miracle occurs when the mass is 1.1 TeV for a weak doublet,
2.9 TeV for a triplet, and even larger masses for larger SU(2) representations.
Renewed interest has flared for DM masses well below the weak scale. These cases are
theoretically motivated by axions or axion-like particles, asymmetric DM, light mediators, or
non-thermal relics. Experimentally, the search for light DM has stimulated new remarkable
ideas using unconventional techniques (see Chapter 9).
Besides the exciting prospect of discovering a new form of matter so common in the
Universe, the search for DM is fascinating because it brings together different fields (particle
physics, cosmology, astrophysics) and different experimental techniques (accelerators, under-
ground detection, cosmic rays). Future accelerator-based projects (from high-energy colliders
to fixed-target and beam-dump experiments) can contribute to the search for DM in a distinctive
and unique way (see Chapter 8).
8 Dark Sectors and Feebly Interacting Particles

In the exploration of the unknown, the high-energy frontier remains the best motivated direction
to concentrate research efforts in particle physics. Nevertheless, the puzzling questions that
confront us require a broad approach, both in terms of experimental strategies and theoretical
hypotheses. One alternative research direction that has recently gained momentum is the search
for new families of particles which are either very light, but only rarely produced in collisions
among ordinary particles, or have very long lifetimes, thus travelling macroscopic distances.
These particles are usually referred to as Feebly Interacting Particles (FIP). The hypothetical
existence of FIPs is a valid open question in particle physics today.
Superficially FIPs may appear as very unconventional and exotic objects, but we can take
the SM for comparison. We know about the existence of very weakly-interacting and pene-
trating light particles (neutrinos), of particles with relatively long lifetimes due to tiny mass
differences (neutrons) or mass hierarchies (weakly-decaying hadrons). Thus, in the presence of
hidden sectors with a structure as rich as the SM, it is not unrealistic to expect new particles
behaving as FIPs. The existence of FIPs is also motivated by theoretical models for DM, ap-
proximate Goldstone bosons, mechanisms for neutrino masses, Higgs naturalness and various
hidden sectors. The search for FIPs (see Chapters 8 and 9) is an interesting complement to
high-energy explorations, with the additional feature of bringing together different experimen-
tal strategies ranging from particle physics (collider, beam dump, fixed target, rare decays) to
neighbouring fields (DM detection, astrophysics, multi-messenger astronomy, and even atomic
or condensed-matter physics).
9 The Cosmos
One of the greatest successes of particle physics was to show that knowledge derived from very
short distances is crucial to understand our Universe at large scales. This path of knowledge
started from nuclear physics explaining why stars shine and how chemical elements are created,
and led to the present understanding of galaxy distribution in terms of quantum fluctuations of a
primordial field active during inflation. The connection between the Universe at the smallest and
largest scales is a monumental conceptual achievement, which has not only produced some of
the most mind-boggling results in physics, but also revealed new fundamental open questions.
One question that future colliders will be able to address is the nature of the electroweak
phase transition in the early Universe. While the phase transition is a high-temperature phe-
nomenon that cannot be recreated experimentally, precision measurements of Higgs properties—
in particular of the triple-Higgs self-coupling—will give us decisive elements to reconstruct the
dynamics that occurred when the Universe changed its vacuum state. According to the SM, the
Higgs mechanism took place as a smooth crossover when the Universe cooled down to tempera-
tures below 160 GeV, but the transition could be very different in the presence of new physics. A
particularly interesting possibility is that the Universe underwent a first-order phase transition,
which would open the door to the exciting prospect of explaining the cosmic baryon asymmetry
with weak-scale physics or of observing gravitational waves produced by the abrupt transition
at that epoch. Independently of these speculations, testing the nature of the electroweak phase
transition is an important task for future colliders that will considerably expand our knowledge
about the early history of the Universe.
Inflation and dark energy are two other crucial ingredients of cosmology that require input
from particle physics. They are recurrent themes of theoretical physics studies and targets for
projects in observational cosmology. Any progress addressing these two fundamental problems
would have revolutionary impact on our understanding of the particle world and on our future
research priorities.
The Universe also provides a unique laboratory for particle physics, offering opportunities
to test new ideas in environments that cannot be reproduced on Earth. This is the case of ultra-
high-energy cosmic rays, containing particles produced at energies beyond those attainable at
human-made accelerators, and whose origin and acceleration mechanisms are still largely not
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understood. It is the case of black-hole observations in gravitational-wave detectors, of particle

production in the core of dense stellar bodies and, more in general, of multi-messenger particle
astrophysics.
10 Gravity
Gravity is the most familiar of all forces in nature and yet it hides some of the most perplexing
open questions in particle physics today. At the classical level, it is elegantly understood as a
gauge theory in which the gauge symmetry acts on spacetime coordinates, according to General
Relativity. At the quantum level, the theory “predicts its own destruction" somewhere below
the Planck mass, at the extraordinary energies of 1019 GeV. In spite of the great developments
in string theory, the ultimate theory bringing together quantum gravity and the SM has not been
identified yet.
Early cosmology and black-hole physics provide the two known training grounds where
ideas about gravity in the quantum regime can be tested. The thermodynamical properties of
black holes and the information paradox have stimulated new ideas that are revolutionising the
approach towards the quantum properties of gravity. Although this research is revealing surpris-
ing connections that range from quantum information to condensed-matter physics, this is still
a highly speculative and theoretical activity. However, the observation of black hole collisions
through gravitational waves has opened a new field that holds promise for experimental tests of
modifications of gravity (see Chapter 7).
Another open question related to gravity is the value of the cosmological constant. From
the particle-physics point of view, the amount of dark energy measured by astronomers is ridicu-
lously small. The vacuum energy typically predicted by particle theories contributes to the cos-
mological constant by some 120 orders of magnitude more than what is observed. The problem
is particularly interesting from a particle-physics perspective because it is conceptually identi-
cal to the naturalness problem encountered with the Higgs mass, suggesting that there could be
hidden connections between the two puzzles.
Advancing particle physics

Particle physics is a central node of the interconnected network of scientific disciplines that
defines human knowledge. It has been able to distill the essence out of natural phenomena and
translate it into universal laws expressed in terms of a few mathematical equations. Those laws
follow from a handful of fundamental principles and show a remarkable structural unity. Their
power lies in allowing us to make certain and precise predictions that have been empirically
verified in the domain of simplicity – the Universe at very small and very large distance scales.
The success of particle physics relies on the ability to build experiments where controlled
phenomena can be studied, leading to certain and precise measurements. The combination of
precise predictions and measurements is the hallmark of particle physics among the sciences,
which allows us to ask fundamental questions about the Universe and obtain definite answers.
The present success of the Standard Model is the very reason why we can embark on fu-
ture missions. This success gives us a reliable and solid starting point to formulate consistently
our questions and to advance cogently and systematically into the exploration of the unknown.
In particular, the pressing open questions have been formulated precisely and rigorously. Their
crucial nature is tantalising: they may herald a change of paradigm awaiting discovery. Ad-
dressing those questions requires a diversified scientific strategy. Within this broad research
programme, high-energy colliders are an indispensable and irreplaceable tool to pursue our
exploration of the fundamental laws of nature.
Chapter 3
Electroweak Physics
In this chapter the status of the electroweak physics programme and its future prospects are
discussed. Particular emphasis is given to the exploration of the Higgs boson at the future
colliders discussed in Chapter 10.
3.1 Introduction
The electroweak sector of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics is extraordinarily rich,
and its theoretical elucidation and experimental exploration over the past 80 years is among
the most outstanding scientific achievements of humankind. Components of that achievement
are the invention of quantum electrodynamics (QED) [1], the discovery of the weak interaction
[2–4], the unification of the weak and electromagnetic interactions in the late 1960s [5, 6], the
discoveries of the W and Z bosons in the 1980s [7], the precision tests of the electroweak theory
on the Z pole [8], and last but not least the discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 [9, 10]. In
the perturbative regime, QED has been tested with a precision of one part in 1012 , an amazing
achievement of both experiment and theory. For the electroweak theory, many tests have been
made at the per mille level at high-energy colliders and low-energy experiments, all confirming
the SM predictions.
Despite this huge success, the electroweak sector of the SM is puzzling. In particular, if
new physics occurs at a higher mass scale, there is generally no explanation for why the Higgs
boson mass should be at ∼ 125 GeV, rather than at the much higher scale. Indeed, quantum
corrections to the Higgs boson mass, ∆mH , due to e.g. the top quark, are much larger than the
Higgs boson mass itself. The natural expectation is that (∆mH )2 ∼ Λ2 where Λ is the energy
scale of new physics. This issue is called the naturalness problem (see also Chapter 2). The
naturalness problem can be quantified by the ratio of the experimentally measured Higgs mass
to the quantum corrections to the Higgs mass, i.e.
m2H
ε≡ , (3.1)
(∆mH )2
where ∆mH is the sum of all quantum corrections to the Higgs boson mass, and can be calculated
in any model. In the SM, where there is no new physics below the Planck scale, the value is
∆mH ∼ 1019 GeV, corresponding to an extreme fine-tuning ε ∼ 10−34 . Values of the parameter
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ε ∼ 1 correspond to no fine-tuning. Note that in the literature, it is common to express the

fine-tuning in terms of ∆ where ∆ = 1/ε.
Depending on how the new physics couples to SM particles, new physics models can be
classified as soft, super-soft and hyper-soft [11]. An example for a soft model is the Minimal
Supersymmetric Model (MSSM) with high-scale mediation of the soft terms, for super-soft
examples are Composite Higgs (CH) models and SUSY models with low-scale mediation (see
Chapter 8). For hyper-soft models Neutral Naturalness is a prime example (see Chapter 8).
Generally, the fine tuning can be related to the mass of a putative top quark partner, mT , as shown
in Table 3.1. Measurements of the Higgs boson couplings can also be related to the fine tuning
parameter ε as shown in Table 3.1. Furthermore, ε can be related to the oblique parameters [12–
16], O, which are introduced to quantify possible modifications of the electroweak precision
observables due to new physics. Here, parameters S and T are the focus; T measures the
difference between the new physics contributions of neutral and charged current processes at
low energies and S describes new physics contributions to neutral current processes at different
energy scales. S and T quantify universal loop corrections to the photon, W and Z propagators,
i.e. do not depend on the lepton and quark flavours.
Table 3.1: Constraints on the fine tuning parameter, ε, as determined via direct searches and via
precision measurements of Higgs boson couplings and oblique parameters. For direct searches
mT is the mass of the top quark partner, and yt and λh are coupling parameters which are both
assumed to be ∼ 1 in natural theories. For the direct searches and the oblique parameters,
the mass value used for interpretation as ε is mT = 1 TeV, motivated by current limits on top
partners [17–20]. CH stands for “composite Higgs” and SUSY for “supersymmetry”.
Method Dependence Current Constraint
Direct searches: soft models ∆m2H ∼ m2T ε . 1%
Direct searches: super-soft models ∆m2H ∼ 3yt2 /(4π 2 )m2T ε . 10%
Direct searches: hyper-soft models ∆m2H ∼ 3λh /(16π 2 )m2T ε . 100%
Higgs couplings m2H /∆m2H ∼ δ gh /gh ε . 10%
Oblique parameters (CH models) m2H /∆m2H ∼ δ O × 3 ε . 30%
Oblique parameters (SUSY models) m2H /∆m2H ∼ δ O × 103 n.a.
Based on these arguments, it is clear that measurements of Higgs boson couplings at the %
level or better test new physics models at or beyond the current constraints from direct searches.
The same is true when the oblique parameters are measured to better than ∼ 3 × 10−3 . Future
direct searches at the FCC-hh or a muon collider are expected to improve the sensitivity to the
top quark partner to 10 TeV, and thus be sensitive to values of 10−3 − 10−5 (see Chapter 8).
3.1.1 Higgs studies at hadron colliders

Figure 3.1 shows the cross sections for the production of Higgs bosons from LHC energies to
the energy of FCC-hh. So far at the LHC, about 8 million Higgs bosons have been produced and
the data sample will further increase by a factor of 20 at the conclusion of HL-LHC. The cou-
pling parameters themselves cannot be extracted at hadron colliders without further assumptions
which depend on the new physics model. In particular, to resolve a multiplicative ambiguity
in inferring couplings from measured cross section times decay branching ratio (σ (H) × BR)
values, it is usually assumed either that there are no new light states that the Higgs boson can
26 CHAPTER 3. ELECTROWEAK PHYSICS
Fig. 3.1: Higgs production cross sections in hadronic collisions.
decay to (i.e. the Higgs width is fully determined by the couplings to the SM particles), or that
the coupling to the gauge bosons can not be larger than the SM value. This latter assumption
is valid for the vast majority of BSM models, and is made for results and projections presented
here.
Figure 3.2 presents a selection of current Higgs coupling measurements [21, 22] and the
precision projected for HL-LHC [23], with the constraint |κV | ≤ 1. Here, κi is a parameter
which specifies by how much the coupling of the Higgs boson to a given particle i deviates
from the SM expectation, see Sec. 3.2.2 for more details. The current uncertainties are typi-
cally 10-20% for the bosons and 3rd generation fermions. For the muon coupling modifier the
uncertainty is about 100%, and the upper limits on new invisible or undetected particles are
20-30%. With the HL-LHC, the precision will be improved by about a factor of 5-10 on all
observables. Figure 3.2 also shows the composition of the expected HL-LHC uncertainties in a
κ-fit where the width is assumed to be fully determined by the couplings to the SM particles.
The only channels which are expected to be limited by data statistics are the rare decays to
muons and Zγ. In all other cases, the experimental systematic uncertainties are similar to the
statistical uncertainties, but the dominant source of uncertainty arises from theory. Here, it is
already assumed that the theory uncertainties can be reduced by a factor of two compared to the
current uncertainties which is challenging to achieve. For both hadron and lepton colliders, a
further reduction of theory uncertainties is pivotal to fully capitalise on the experimental data.
Section 3.2.3 discusses the status and prospects for theory uncertainties.
3.1.2 Higgs studies at e+ e− colliders

The Higgs production processes in unpolarised e+ e− collisions are shown in Fig. 3.3. Im-
portantly the total ZH cross section can be measured independently of the Higgs boson de-
cay, using a missing mass technique. From this measurement the coupling gZZH can be de-
Fig. 3.2: Left: Relative precision on Higgs coupling modifiers, κ, determined by ATLAS and
CMS with the LHC data at present, and as expected for HL-LHC with the constraint κV ≤ 1.
Also shown are the constraints on invisible and undetected decay branching ratios, BRinv and
BRunt . Right: Expected uncertainty on Higgs coupling parameters at HL-LHC, showing sepa-
rately the statistical, experimental and theoretical uncertainties. Here, it was assumed that the
branching ratios (BR’s) to untagged and invisible decays are zero.
rived. Consequently, at an e+ e− collider, the Higgs total width (ΓH ) can be determined from
Γ(H → ZZ ∗ )/BR(H → ZZ ∗ ) thus removing the ambiguity on the Higgs width that afflicts all
measurements at hadronic machines. Longitudinal polarisation is expected at the linear ma-
chines e+ e− machines, e.g. |P(e− )| = 0.8, |P(e+ )| = 0.3 is projected to be achievable for the
ILC. As shown in Table 3.2, with the appropriate polarisation this can enhance the Higgs boson
production cross section. In addition, because the importance of different subprocesses can be
tuned by changing the polarisation, it plays an important role in effective operator fits. Thus,
the presence of polarisation can sharpen these analyses, and help to compensate for the lower
luminosities at linear machines.
3.1.3 Electroweak Precision Observables

Loop corrections to electroweak precision observables (EWPO) provide a powerful test of the
consistency of the SM. The relation between e.g. the Fermi constant (GF ), Weinberg angle
(sin2 θW ), and the masses of the Z, W and H bosons (mZ , mW , mH ) and the top quark (mtop ) is
precisely predicted in the SM. Inconsistencies between these would indicate contributions from
new physics. In the following we concentrate on oblique observables, discussed in Section 3.1.
These contributions are currently constrained primarily by the Z pole measurements made
at the LEP experiments and SLD [25], measurements of WW production at LEP-2 [26], mea-
surements of W -boson and top quark masses at the Tevatron [27, 28] and LHC [29, 30] exper-
iments, and mH measurements at the LHC [31, 32]. The current constraints on the EWPO are
shown in Fig. 3.4. All measurements agree within the current precision.
σ(e+e- → HX) [fb]

Hνeνe
102
+ -
He e
10
ZH
ttH
1
HHνeνe
10−1 ZHH
10−2
0 1000 2000 3000
s [GeV]
Fig. 3.3: Higgs production cross sections in e+ e− collisions [24]. The cross section of different
√
production processes for single and double Higgs production are shown as function of s.
Table 3.2: The dependence of the event rates for the s-channel e+ e− → ZH process and the
pure t-channel e+ e− → Hνe νe and e+ e− → He+ e− processes for several example beam polar-
isations [24].
Polarisation Scaling factor

− +
P(e ) : P(e ) e+ e− → ZH e+ e− → Hνe ν̄e e+ e− → He+ e−
unpolarised 1.00 1.00 1.00
−80 % : 0% 1.12 1.80 1.12
−80 % : +30 % 1.40 2.34 1.17
−80 % : −30 % 0.83 1.26 1.07
+80 % : 0% 0.88 0.20 0.88
+80 % : +30 % 0.69 0.26 0.92
+80 % : −30 % 1.08 0.14 0.84
Based on the electroweak precision measurements, the 95% CL upper limits on the oblique
parameters [12] are S < 0.18 and T < 0.26 [33]. Fig. 3.4 shows T vs S and illustrates how the
various precision measurements on ΓZ , MW and asymmetries contribute.
Measurements of diboson production are also sensitive to the electroweak symmetry
breaking mechanism as they depend on the trilinear gauge couplings of the bosons to each
other. In addition, some processes, such as pp → W ±W ± + 2 jets, are also sensitive to the
quartic coupling of the W bosons and to the coupling of the Higgs boson to W bosons.
In addition, at future e+ e− colliders, a campaign of electroweak measurements at the
MW [GeV]
mt world comb. ± 1σ
68% and 95% CL contours
mt = 173.34 GeV
80.5 fit w/o MW and mt measurements σ = 0.76 GeV
fit w/o MW , mt and MH measurements σ = 0.76 ⊕ 0.50theo GeV
direct MW and mt measurements

80.45
80.4
MW world comb. ± 1σ
80.35 MW = 80.385 ± 0.015 GeV
80.3
V
V Ge V V
Ge .14 Ge Ge
0 25 00 00
80.25 =5 =1 =3 =6
MH MH MH MH
140 150 160 170 180 190

mt [GeV]
Fig. 3.4: Left: Constraints on the W -boson and top-quark mass from direct measurements and
indirect constraints [34]. Right: Constraints on the oblique parameters S and T (setting all other
oblique parameters to zero), together with the individual constraints from MW , the asymmetry
lept f
parameters sin2 θeff , Ppol
τ
and the forward-backward asymmetries AFB with f = `, c, b, and ΓZ .
The dark (light) region corresponds to 68% (95%) probability [35].
Z-pole and at the WW threshold is also foreseen.
3.1.4 The Higgs potential

A very important aspect of the electroweak physics programme is the measurement of the tri-
linear and quartic couplings of the Higgs boson to itself. These couplings are directly related to
the shape of the Higgs potential,
1 2 2 3 1 4 SM SM m2H
V (h) = mH h + λ3 vh + λ4 h , with λ3 = λ4 = 2 , (3.2)
2 4 2v
q√
where v = 1/ 2GF ≈ 246 GeV is the vacuum expectation value of the Higgs field, and
mH ≈ 125 GeV.
The shape of the Higgs potential can have important consequences for our Universe as
it determines how the early universe went through a phase transition. In the early universe,
the electroweak phase transition is determined by the scalar potential at finite temperature,
whereas collider measurements probe the potential at zero temperature. At a temperature of
about 100 GeV it went from a symmetric state into a state with a broken electroweak symmetry.
For the SM Higgs potential, this phase transition is a crossover, but alterations to the potential
could result in this phase transition having been first order. If the phase transition is strongly
first order (λ3 is modified by O(1)), and there is a new mechanism for CP violation, two of
the Sakharov conditions necessary (but not sufficient) for an explanation of matter and anti-
matter asymmetry of the Universe are fulfilled. Gravitational waves stemming from that phase
transition could be discovered by the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) [36].
The parameters λ3 and λ4 can be measured in processes where two or three Higgs bosons
are produced, and via loop-contributions in single Higgs production processes. At present, the
LHC data are not sensitive, but with HL-LHC it is expected that the trilinear Higgs self-coupling
can be determined with a precision of about 50% [23].
3.1.5 Higgs boson decays to new particles

The Higgs boson is also potentially a window of discovery for new particles, in particular of
those having a mass m < mH /2, into which the Higgs boson can decay. Thus even particles
that do not interact with any SM particles, except the Higgs boson, can be discovered using this
new channel. These might be invisible, such as e.g. dark matter candidates, and result in the
experimental signature of ETmiss , or may be in principle detectable. These can be searched for
via global coupling analyses as well as through targeted analyses, see Chapter 8. The present
constraints and the anticipated HL-LHC constraints for global analyses are presented in Fig. 3.2.
With HL-LHC (using the constraint |κV | ≤ 1) such invisible and untagged decays will be probed
at the few-% level. However, without the |κV | ≤ 1 constraint, the BR to untagged decays is
essentially unconstrained at the LHC through the inclusive coupling analysis, and only direct
searches for anomalous decays provide sensitivity, as discussed in Chapter 8.
3.2 Future prospects

3.2.1 Electroweak precision measurements
The precision of many observables related to the electroweak bosons can be improved at future
experiments. In particular, the proposed e+ e− colliders will be able to advance the precision
measurements of the W - and Z-boson properties significantly. Figure 3.5 shows the number of
Z and W bosons that will be recorded at the various lepton colliders. For the circular collid-
ers there are dedicated runs planned on the Z pole and at the WW threshold to make precise
measurements of Z boson properties and the W -boson √ mass, respectively. Since for circular
colliders the luminosity increases with decreasing s about 5 × 1012 Z bosons will be recorded
for FCC-ee within four years. For the linear colliders, ILC and CLIC, within a few years a sam-
ple of a few 109 Z bosons could be recorded [37, 38]. In addition, a significant improvement for
some of the Z boson properties can also be achieved using Z bosons during the default running
at higher energies; those numbers are also shown in Fig. 3.5 for ILC and CLIC.
Figure 3.6 shows a selection of important EWPO, comparing the current precision to the
future prospects at various future colliders. It is seen that all colliders will result in a significant
improvement with respect to the current precision. For instance, at circular colliders, where the
beams are transversely polarises, the mass and width of the Z boson will be improved by about
a factor of 20 by the FCC-ee and 4 by the CEPC. The decay rates and asymmetries (which are
important for constraining the left- and right-handed couplings of the fermions) √ are improved by
factors between 5 and 50. For the linear colliders, even with the running at s = 250 −380 GeV
a significant improvement compared to the current precision is achieved on most observables
but dedicated running can add an additional large factor, close to the precision achieved by the
circular machines, in many observables1 .
In Ref. [39] a fit of the electroweak precision data was performed to assess the impact
on the oblique parameters mentioned earlier. For this fit, only parametric uncertainties and no
intrinsic uncertainties are considered.
Values for S and T are listed in Table 3.3. It is seen that the sensitivity is O(10−2 ), making
it sensitive to fine-tuning values of 3% for composite Higgs models but not competitive with
direct searches for SUSY models (see Table 3.1). Figure 3.7 shows the correlation between the
1
The reason for this similarity is that all measurements are expected to be dominated by systematic uncertain-
ties; if the circular colliders can use the higher statistics to constrain these effectively the situation could change.
3.2. FUTURE PROSPECTS 31
Fig. 3.5: Number of Z bosons and W +W − boson pairs at past and future e+ e− colliders. The
numbers are summed over experiments (four for LEP, two for FCC-ee and CEPC √ and one for
the other colliders). For LEP the number of W pairs shown includes all energies s & 2MW .
Table 3.3: Values for 1σ sensitivity on the S and T parameters. In all cases the value shown
is after combination with HL-LHC. For ILC and CLIC the projections are shown with and
without dedicated running at the Z-pole. All other oblique parameters are set to zero. The
intrinsic theory uncertainty is also set to zero.
Current HL-LHC ILC250 CEPC FCC-ee CLIC380
(& ILC91 ) (& CLIC91 )
S 0.13 0.053 0.012 0.009 0.0068 0.0038 0.032 0.011
T 0.08 0.041 0.014 0.013 0.0072 0.0022 0.023 0.012
S and T parameters for the different colliders.

In addition to measurements that probe the electroweak sector of the SM, there are also
several approaches at low-energy which provide interesting and complementary information.
The forward-backward asymmetry AbFB for the production of b quarks measured at zero polari-
sation disagrees with the SM prediction by 2.3 σ [33]. There is also a long-standing discrepancy
of about 3 σ between the value for the weak mixing angle, sin2 θW measured at LEP/SLC, and
that measured in neutrino deep-inelastic scattering by the NuTeV experiment [40]. The dis-
crepancy may well be due to nuclear effects in the latter measurement [41]. The DUNE [42]
experiment, primarily designed to measure the neutrino oscillations, plans to measure sin2 θW
with a precision of about 1% using its near detector. This should clarify the discrepancy
√ further
and serve as a complementary probe for the Z-boson to neutrinos at low energies s MZ .
The electron-ion collider (EIC [43]), planned in the US, also plans to measure the dependence
of sin2 θW on Q2 in the range Q2 ∼ 10 − 70 GeV2 using polarised electrons scattered off unpo-
larised deuterons with a precision better than 1%.
Fig. 3.6: Uncertainty on several observables related to the properties of the electroweak bosons:
the masses of the Z and W boson and the top quark, the Z boson width, and for fermion f the
polarisation asymmetries (A f ) and ratios of decay rates relative to the total hadronic decay rate
(R f ). For the asymmetries and decay rate ratios relative uncertainties are shown. The fermions
considered are leptons and b- and c-quarks. For Ab and Ac , FCC-ee considers uncertainties due
to modelling of heavy quarks not considered by the other colliders. If these are neglected the
uncertainty is similar to that on Ae (indicated by a vertical line). The uncertainty on mtop is only
the experimental uncertainty, currently there is also a theoretical uncertainty of 40 MeV which
is not shown.
QED is the world’s most precisely tested theory. The most impressive comparison be-
tween data and theory is the anomalous magnetic moment of the electron, (ge − 2) [44, 45],
which has been measured with a precision of one part in 1012 and is found to agree with theoret-
ical calculations performed up to order α 5 ([46] and references therein). For the muon (gµ − 2),
however, there is a 3−4 σ discrepancy [47,48] between theory and experiment which could hint
at new physics breaking lepton universality. A new experiment is now running at FNAL to clar-
ify the situation [49], aiming at a precision of 1.6 × 10−10 (4× better than the current precision).
The uncertainty on the theoretical calculation is ∼ 5 × 10−10 and the largest source comes from
hadronic contributions. The MUonE experiment [50] at CERN plans to make measurements of
high-energy muons (E = 150 GeV) scattering on atomic electrons (µe → µe) to constrain the
hadronic contributions to the theoretical value for gµ .
The fine structure constant at MZ is currently determined as 1/α = 128.952 ± 0.014,
see Ref. [33]. Based on future measurements at BES III, Belle II and VHEP-2000, it should be
possible to reduce the uncertainty to ±0.006 [51]. It has been estimated that it can be reduced to
±0.004 by measuring the forward-backward asymmetries for e+ e− → µ + µ − production versus
√
s near MZ using 40 ab−1 of data [52] with FCC-ee. The current uncertainty on α = ±0.014
2-σ region
0.10 HL-LHC
HL+CLIC380
HL+ILC250
0.05 HL+CEPC
HL+FCCee
HL+CLIC380,Giga Z
0.00 HL+ILC250,Giga Z
S
-0.05
-0.10
-0.10 -0.05 0.00 0.05 0.10

T
Fig. 3.7: Expected uncertainty contour for the S and T parameters for various colliders in their
first energy stage. For ILC and CLIC the projections are shown with and without dedicated
running at the Z-pole. All other oblique parameters are set to zero.
limits the precision of the electroweak precision tests when the experimental precision on MW
is reduced to below 8 MeV, as expected possibly with HL-LHC but definitely at future e+ e−
colliders.
Tests of QED have so far been restricted mostly to the perturbative regime but already
in the first half of the 20th century it was pointed out that there is also a strong-field-limit in
QED, where QED becomes non-perturbative [53, 54]. This becomes relevant when the electri-
cal field, seen by an electron, attains a value close to the Schwinger field [55]. Several proposals
exist to probe this regime with a high energy electron beam and a high-power laser using the
AWAKE plasma wakefield accelerator at CERN [56], the European XFEL in Germany [57],
or the FACET facility at SLAC [58]. Previous experiments at SLAC and CERN did not quite
reach the critical field value [59,60]. The proposed new experiments will probe QED in the crit-
ical field regime, which is of relevance for instance for astrophysical phenomena (for instance
magnetars [61]), atoms with Z > 137 [62] and for high energy e+ e− colliders [63, 64].
3.2.2 Higgs boson physics

The Higgs boson couplings
One of the most important open points after the discovery of the 125 GeV scalar at the LHC
is how this particle couples to the known fermions and bosons, compared to the uniquely de-
termined predictions from the Standard Model. Deviations in data from theory expectations
would definitively indicate New Physics (NP), going Beyond the Standard Model (BSM), and
as argued earlier in this chapter, they are a direct measure of the fine-tuning.
Higgs boson couplings can be determined from the measurement of rates of events with
given final states, which, using the fact that the Higgs width is very small, can be expressed in
terms of production cross sections times the decay branching fractions.
A simple yet powerful method to parameterise possible deviations from SM couplings
is the so-called κ-framework [65, 66]. In this framework, the deviations of SM Higgs boson
couplings are parameterised through rescaling factors, the κi , which are defined as the ratios
of the extracted couplings of the Higgs bosons to particles i (i = W, Z, γ, b, τ, ...) to their corre-
sponding values as predicted by the Standard Model. Hence, the SM case is recovered by taking
κi = 1, for all particles i. This interpretation framework has the significant advantage of being
extremely simple in its experimental implementation as well as of not needing any additional
prediction from theory beyond those in the SM. This simplicity comes at a price; away from
κ = 1 the κ-framework violates gauge invariance. It is, therefore, a tool to indicate deviations
from the SM, but not to diagnose their cause. The κ-framework can also be extended to probe
new Higgs boson interactions, such as for instance, those of the Higgs boson with lighter BSM
states. In this case, the total Higgs boson width, ΓH increases, and hence the branching fractions
to SM final states are altered with respect to the SM predictions. As discussed in Sec. 3.1 Higgs
boson decays to BSM particles can be separated in two classes: decays into invisible particles
(with branching ratio BRinv ), and decays into all other untagged particles (with branching ratio
BRunt ).
The κ-framework, however, by construction, does not parametrise possible effects com-
ing from different Lorentz structures and/or the energy dependence in the Higgs couplings.
Such effects could generically arise from the existence of NP at higher scales and could lead
not only to changes in the predicted rates, but also in distributions. An efficient, robust and
predictive parametrisation of these effects can be obtained by extending the SM to an effective
field theory, i.e. by including higher dimensional interactions, which respect the SM symme-
tries and are suppressed by a scale Λ. A plausible class of such effective Lagrangians is the
so-called SMEFT, which can be expressed as a polynomial of gauge invariant operators organ-
ised as an expansion in inverse powers of Λ, Ld = ∑i ci Oi /Λd−4 . The Wilson coefficients
(d) (d)
(d)
ci encode the virtual effects of the heavy new physics in low-energy observables. Their pre-
cise form in terms of masses and couplings of the new particles can be obtained via matching
with an ultraviolet (UV) completion of the SM, or inferred using power-counting rules. New
physics effects start at dimension d = 6 for which a complete basis of operators is known. When
considering the EW observables, one can reasonably focus on a relatively small subset of op-
erators, involving Higgs-boson, gauge-boson and fermion fields. In the study presented here,
Neutral Diagonality (ND) is assumed for flavour, which implies no flavour-changing couplings
to the Higgs and Z boson. In addition, in the fermion sector, only the 2nd and 3rd generation
fermions are considered here, and their operators are treated independently. It is also assumed
that there are no non-SM particles the Higgs boson can decay to. These assumptions give rise
to modifications to the Higgs self-interaction, Higgs coupling to vector bosons, trilinear gauge
couplings, Yukawa couplings to fermions, and vector couplings to fermions, for a total of 30
independent parameters.
This scenario can be used to study the sensitivity at future colliders to general departures
from the SM in the global fit to EWPO, Higgs boson rates and diboson production.
Studies of the impact of future collider projects on the Higgs boson coupling precision
have been made in both κ and SMEFT frameworks by the Higgs@FutureCollider working
group [39], and are the basis of the results presented in the following.
Figure 3.8 shows the expected precision of the κi parameters for various future collid-
ers [39], all combined with the expected HL-LHC results [23]. The Higgs width, ΓH , is left free
in the fit, and for hadron colliders a constraint |κV | ≤ 1 is applied as the width is otherwise not
constrained. In all cases, experimental statistical and systematic uncertainties are included. For
Fig. 3.8: Expected relative precision of the κ parameters and 95% CL upper limits on the
branching ratios to invisible and untagged particles for the various colliders. All values are
given in %. For the hadron colliders, a constraint |κV | ≤ 1 is applied, and all future colliders are
combined with HL-LHC. For colliders with several proposed energy stages it is also assumed
that data taken in later years are combined with data taken earlier. Figure is from Ref. [39].
hadron colliders uncertainties on the Higgs production cross section are included. For decay
branching ratios only the parametric uncertainties are included while the intrinsic uncertainties
are neglected, see discussion in Ref. [39] and Sect. 3.2.3.
At the HL-LHC the Higgs boson couplings can be determined with an accuracy of O(1 −
3%) in most cases, under the assumption |κV | ≤ 1. Ratios of couplings are (mostly) model
independent, and an accuracy of O(1 − 3%) is expected in many cases [23]. Based on analyses
of final states with large ETmiss , produced in Higgs VBF and V H (V = W and Z) processes, BRinv
values of 1.9% will be probed at 95% CL. The constraint from the κ-fit on the BR to untagged
final states is 4.0% at 95% CL. The HE-LHC improves the precision typically by a factor of
two, although much of the improvement comes from the assumption of a further reduction by a
factor of two in the theoretical uncertainty, scheme S20 [23].
Lepton colliders allow a measurement of the ZH total production cross section, indepen-
dently of its decay making use of the collision energy constraint. This measurement, together
with measurements where the decay products of the Higgs boson are identified, can be inter-
preted as a nearly model-independent measurement of the total decay width. Therefore the
constraint |κV | ≤ 1, used for hadron colliders, is not needed for lepton colliders.
Future e+ e− colliders improve the accuracy on Higgs coupling determination typically
by factors between 2 and 10, except for κt , κγ , κµ and κZγ where no substantial improvement
compared to HL-LHC is seen. LHeC achieves a significant improvement for κW , κZ and κb . At
e+ e− colliders, the couplings to vector bosons will be probed with a few 0.1% accuracy. Higgs
boson couplings to b-quarks can be measured with an accuracy between 0.5% and 1.0%, a factor
of 2 − 4 better than at the HL-LHC. The coupling to the charm quark, not easily accessible at
HL-LHC, is expected to be measured with an accuracy of O(1%). The various e+ e− colliders
do not differ significantly in their initial energy stages.
4 3.5 4
3.0
δgi /gi [%]
3 2.5 3
δgi /gi [%]
δgi /gi [%]

2 2.0
2
1.5
1 1.0 1
0.5
geff
HZZ geff
HWW geff
Hγγ
12 2.5
3.5
10 2.0 3.0
8
δgi /gi [%]
δgi /gi [%]
δgi /gi [%]

1.5 2.5
6 2.0
4 1.0 1.5
0.5 1.0
2
0.5
geff
HZγ geff
Hgg geff
Htt
6
4 3.5
5 3.0
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δgi /gi [%]
δgi /gi [%]
δgi /gi [%]

3 2.0
2 1.5
2
1 1.0
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Hcc geff
Hbb geff
Hττ
6 Future colliders combined with HL-LHC

5 SMEFTND fit
4 HL-LHC HL+HELHC HL+LHeC
δgi /gi [%]
3 250 380
Higgs couplings
HL+ILC 500 HL+CLIC1500 HL+CEPC
2 1000 3000
1 ee - 240
ee - 365
HL+FCC
ee ehhh
geff
Hμμ
Fig. 3.9: 68% probability reach on Higgs couplings at the different future colliders from the
Global fit SMEFTND . For details, see Ref. [39].
The rate of rare Higgs boson decays such as H → µ + µ − that allows the study of the
second generation lepton couplings, will be best measured by HL-LHC with an accuracy of
about 4%.
It is difficult to access the couplings for the first generation. The current limit κe < 611
[67] is based on the direct√search for H → e+ e− . A study at FCC-ee [68] has assessed the
reach of a dedicated run at s = mH . In one year, an upper limit of 2.5 times the SM value can
be reached, while the SM sensitivity would be reached in a five-year run. For the light quark
couplings, please see Ref. [39] for further discussion.
When FCC-ee is combined with FCC-eh and FCC-hh a further significant improvement is
seen, particularly for couplings to top quark, muons, photons and Zγ where FCC-hh will benefit
from very large event samples. The improvement in κW comes primarily from FCC-eh. A study
of various other combination of aspects of the FCC programme is documented in Ref. [39].
The sensitivity of the Higgs branching ratio to BSM invisible final states is predicted to
be improved by a factor 3 (CLIC) to 10 (FCC-ee, ILC) with respect to HL-LHC. For FCC-hh a
sensitivity to branching ratios as small as 0.025% is expected to be achieved. Branching ratios
to untagged decays are typically probed with a precision of (1 − 2)%.
In Fig. 3.9, the results of the fit corresponding on the EFT benchmark, expressed in terms
of effective couplings, are shown. Again, it is seen that compared to the HL-LHC the e+ e−
colliders improve most parameters by about factors of 5-10. The exceptions are the coupling
parameters related to top, Zγ and µ couplings. The sensitivity of the different types of e+ e−
colliders is similar in their first stages. The improvements seen for HE-LHC and LHeC are
more modest. For the Z and W a sensitivity below 0.3% can be achieved by ILC, CLIC and
FCC. At this precision, the uncertainty is potentially limited by the intrinsic theory uncertainties
which is not considered here (see discussion in Sect. 3.2.3). For fermions, the best sensitivity is
reached for b-quarks and τ-leptons, and it is about 0.5%.
The Higgs boson self-coupling

The Higgs field is responsible for the spontaneous breaking of the electroweak symmetry, and
for the generation of all the SM particle masses. Within the SM, the associated Higgs potential is
characterised by one parameter, λ , that can be inferred from the experimental measurements of
the Fermi constant GF and of the Higgs mass mH , (see Eq. 3.2). Beyond the SM, the parameter
λ is unconstrained experimentally, and could show particularly sizeable departures from the
SM prediction. The determination of parameters related to the Higgs potential is therefore a
high priority goal of the physics programme of all future colliders.
The most direct way to assess the Higgs boson self-interaction and in particular λ3 , is
through the measurement of processes that feature two Higgs bosons in the final state. At
hadron colliders, double Higgs boson production cross section is dominated by gluon fusion,
gg → HH, while at lepton colliders it proceeds via double Higgs-strahlung, e+ e− → ZHH,
particularly relevant at low energies, or via vector boson fusion (VBF), e+ e− → HHνe ν̄e , more
important at centre-of-mass energies of 1 TeV and above.
For the HL-LHC, the cross section is predicted to be about three orders of magnitude
smaller than the single Higgs production, which makes the double Higgs boson final state a
challenging process to observe. The analysis relies on the combination of the bb̄γγ and bb̄ττ
decay channels to reach about four standard deviation evidence for double Higgs production
at HL-LHC (see Table 55 and Fig. 65 of Ref. [23]). This corresponds to an accuracy on κ3 =
λ3 /λ3SM of about 50%.
Higgs self-interactions also affect, at higher orders, the single Higgs processes [69–71]
and even the electroweak precision observables [72–74]. Therefore, single-Higgs boson pro-
duction measurements can also be used to extract the Higgs self-coupling strength.
Figure 3.10 shows the uncertainty expected on the measurement of κ3 at the various pro-
posed future colliders, in combination with the expectation from HL-LHC. The results have
been obtained by studying the determination of κ3 that can be obtained from single and dou-
ble Higgs boson production processes using the EFT framework (see above). It is found that,
when accessible, the HH channel plays a pivotal role in constraining the trilinear self-coupling,
as its addition to the fit allows to fully exploit single Higgs boson measurements to put severe
constraints on the possible deviations of the other Higgs couplings, e.g., the top-quark Yukawa.
Details of this study are presented and discussed in Ref. [39].
√ √
CLIC at s = 3 TeV and ILC at s = 1 TeV can extract κ3 with a precision√of about 10%,
and FCC-hh expect to reach 5%, respectively. With HE-LHC or a pp collider at s = 37.5 TeV
(LE-FCC) a precision of about 15% is expected [76]. The accuracy on κ3 is to about 30% for
ILC500 and CLIC1500 , while FCC-eh expects to reach about 20%. Circular e+ e− colliders have
insufficient energy to produce two Higgs bosons, and rely on the global fit of single-H analyses,
dominated by the high precision estimated for the ZH cross section measurement. In this case,
an accuracy of about 35% can be achieved by FCC-ee and ILC500 , when combined with the
HL-LHC.
At FCC-hh, a 2σ sensitivity to the quartic coupling, λ4 , is also expected.
3.2.3 Theoretical developments

The expected increase of precision in the measurements of EW observables at future colliders
will demand a substantial improvement in the accuracy of theoretical predictions, (see also
[77]). In this subsection, the needs are motivated and estimates are provided on what could
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HL-LHC HL-LHC HL-LHC
50% 50%
HE-LHC HE-LHC
[10-20]% 50%
HE-LHC FCC-ee/eh/hh FCC-ee/eh/hh
5% 25%
LE-FCC LE-FCC
15% n.a.
FCC-eh3500 FCC-eh3500
FCC-ee/eh/hh -17+24% n.a.
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FCC-ee 33%
FCC-ee240
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ILC1000 ILC1000
ILC 10% 36%
ILC500 ILC500
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under HH threshold ILC250
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CLIC CLIC1500 CLIC1500
36% 49%
CLIC380
0 10 20 30 40 50 50%
68% CL bounds on κ3 [%] All future colliders combined with HL-LHC
Fig. 3.10: Sensitivity at 68% probability on the Higgs self-coupling parameter κ3 at the various
future colliders. All the numbers reported correspond to a simplified combination of the consid-
ered collider with HL-LHC, which is approximated by a 50% constraint on κ3 . For each future
collider, the result from the single-H from a global fit, and double-H are shown
√ separately. For
FCC-ee and CEPC, double-H production is not available due to the too low s value. FCC-ee
is also shown with 4 experiments (IPs) as discussed in Ref. [75] although
√ this option is not part
of the baseline proposal. LE-FCC corresponds to a pp collider at s = 37.5 TeV.
be achieved based on the developments in the field in the last years, for both e+ e− and pp
colliders. Figure 3.2 has already shown that the dominant uncertainties in most Higgs couplings
at the HL-LHC are theoretical, even after assuming a factor of two improvement with respect to
the current state of the art. Higgs couplings will be approaching the percent level at HL-LHC.
At the e+ e− Higgs factories detailed measurements of the electroweak Higgs production cross
sections and (independently) of the decay branching ratios will be performed. Higgs couplings
will be probed at approaching the per mille level. At e+ e− colliders, a campaign of electroweak
measurements at the Z-pole and at the WW threshold is foreseen. The increase in the number of
Z and WW events with respect to LEP/SLD, as shown in Fig. 3.5, indicates that statistical errors
will decrease by as much as two orders of magnitude at the future machines. As a consequence
of this increased statistical precision, the requirements on the theoretical errors for EWPO [78]
are even more stringent than for precision Higgs physics.
To interpret these precise results significant theoretical improvements in several directions
are required. The first is the increase of the accuracy of fixed order computations of inclusive
quantities, e.g. from next-to-leading-order (NLO) to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) and
beyond. This reduces the so-called intrinsic uncertainties, i.e. those corresponding to the left-
over unknown higher order terms in the perturbative expansion. Another important element is
the accuracy in the logarithmic resummations that are needed to account for effects of multiple
gluon or photon radiation in a large class of observables. In this case, different techniques and
results are available, some numerical and some analytic, of different accuracy (from next-to-
leading log (NLL) to next-to-next-to-leading log (NNLL) and beyond) and applicability. Im-
Table 3.4: Current and projected errors on input parameters. Where a lower bound is given on
the projected uncertainties, the value is future machine dependent, see Fig. 3.6.
Error on Current value Projected value Uncertainty on quantity
parameter Ref. [80] Ref. [81] with projected value
δ MH 240 MeV > 10 MeV ΓH (WW ∗ , ZZ ∗ ), (0.1%)
δ mt (mt ) 1000 MeV 50 MeV
δ mb (mb ) 30 MeV 13 MeV ΓH (bb̄), (0.6%)
δ mc (3 GeV) 26 MeV 10 MeV ΓH (cc̄), (1%)
δ MZ 2.1 MeV > 0.1 MeV
δ MW 12 MeV > 0.7 MeV
δ αS (MZ ) 1.5 × 10−3 2 × 10−4 ΓH (gg), (0.5%)
δ α(MZ ) 10−4 > 5 × 10−5
provements in the resummed predictions as well as their matching to fixed-order calculations of

the highest accuracy will be needed also in the form of fully exclusive Monte Carlo generators
that can be directly employed by the experimental collaborations. Finally, a reduction of the
so-called parametric uncertainties, i.e. those coming from the imperfect knowledge of the input
parameters, will also call for improvements in the theoretical predictions related to their extrac-
tion from data. Current values and future projections of the parametric uncertainties are given
in Table 3.4. For example, for Higgs decay processes, the principal parametric uncertainties are
the Higgs mass and the quark masses (mt , mb , . . .) and the value of αs (MZ ) [79]. For general
electroweak processes there are parametric uncertainties associated with α(MZ ), MZ , MW . For
hadronic production, uncertainties from parton distribution functions also contribute.
2
Observables in the SM are calculable in terms of a double expansion in αW = gW /(4π) ∼
0.034 and in αS , which at high scales becomes small, for example, αS (MZ ) ∼ 0.118. Given
the relative size of the interactions, QCD corrections where applicable are more important than
the electroweak ones. Yet, QCD corrections at NNLO O(αS2 ) are expected to be of similar size
as NLO O(αW ) electroweak corrections. In addition, because of the special nature of QCD
renormalization group improved perturbation theory, the naive expectation that O(αs ) NLO
predictions should have an intrinsic uncertainty of O(αs2 ) ' 1% does not hold. In fact, to achieve
1% precision in a QCD computation, a combination of a higher fixed–order and resummed
results has to be computed. The interpretation of the electroweak production measurements
of e+ e− → ZH, e+ e− → ν ν̄H requires predictions including EW corrections starting at one
loop and QCD corrections starting at two loops. Decay branching ratios require both QCD and
electroweak corrections starting at one loop.
At hadron colliders, QCD corrections to the production mechanisms are the dominant
effect and their imperfect knowledge provides the main source of uncertainty. This is already
the case at HL-LHC where, for all decay modes which are not statistically limited, the dominant
uncertainty is theoretical as shown in Fig. 3.2. In addition, in order to be directly usable in
experimental analyses, results need to be accurate, fully differential and include matching with
parton showers, in order to be available in the form a Monte Carlo generator.
In order to judge the plausibility of success in reaching the desired theoretical improve-
ments it may be useful to look backwards and note what has been achieved in the last twenty
years in the context of pp colliders. At the end of the last millennium, systematic algorithms
existed for calculating differential NLO results, and a handful of NNLO results for QCD cor-
Table 3.5: State-of-the-art QCD corrections at fixed order for Higgs boson production in pp
collisions. NLO EW corrections are known for all processes.
Gluon fusion (effective theory) N3 LO Total cross section [88, 92]
N3 LO Rapidity distribution [93, 94]
Higgs + 1 jet (effective theory) NNLO differential [95]
Higgs + 1 jet (full theory) NLO differential [96]
Vector boson fusion NNLO (N3 LO) differential (total) [97–99] ([100])
VH NNLO differential [101, 102]
ttH production NLO differential [103–105]
tH j production NLO differential [106, 107]
rections, i.e. inclusive single boson (γ ∗ ,W, Z, H) production, and relatively small set of results
at NLO EW. The general purpose Monte Carlo programs, Herwig [82] and Pythia [83], evalu-
ated all cross sections at leading order. And fits to parton distribution functions were provided
without any attempt to quantify uncertainties.
Since then a number of achievements have been made; the complete automation of cal-
culations for multi-leg processes, the matching to parton showers up to NLO in both QCD and
in EW (see e.g. Refs. [84–87]), intensive development of systematic NNLO subtraction and
slicing algorithms allowing fully differential predictions to be made at NNLO for a number of
(2 → 2) processes, N3 LO calculations for 2 → 1 processes [88], now also including some dif-
ferential information. The calculation of DGLAP evolution kernels at N2 LO [89, 90] has been
further completed with partial results at higher loop order, and reached a large consensus on
parton distributions with accompanying errors [91].
These technical advances have allowed predictions for the different mechanisms of Higgs
boson production at pp colliders. The results for the various mechanisms, gluon-gluon fusion
(through a heavy quark loop), vector boson fusion, associated production with an electroweak
vector boson, associated production with a heavy quark pair, (top or bottom), and associated
production with a top quark have already been shown in Fig. 3.1. The accuracy achieved has
been reached as a result of the calculations, detailed in Table 3.5. Predictions for Higgs decay
widths to various possible final state are also known at rather high precision, with uncertainties
ranging from a few per mille (bb, ττ, µ µ,WW, ZZ) to a few percent level (γγ, gg, γZ).
A comprehensive list of the specific calculations which will be needed, together with the
development of new techniques, in the context of EW physics at the future colliders cannot
be presented here. However, the main challenges can be illustrated by discussing a few key
examples.
At e+ e− colliders running at the Z pole, one expects that the fully inclusive Z decay rates
EW and EW-QCD three loop computations as well as the EW 2-loop calculation for off-shell
e+ e− → f f¯ will be needed. These calculations are expected to be challenging but in line with
expected progress in the field. In addition, conceptual work towards a sound extension of the
definitions of pseudo-observables at the targeted accuracy will be necessary.
For the WW cross section scan at e+ e− colliders, the full NNLO EFT calculation for
+ −
e e → WW is foreseen together with the determination of the leading 3-loop Coulomb-
enhanced EFT corrections, achieving the targeted accuracy of (1 − 4) × 10−4 for σ (WW ) at
threshold. Finally, for Higgs production at e+ e− colliders, the full EW 2-loop calculation for
3.3. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 41
on-shell e+ e− → ZH and the leading contributions to e+ e− → ν ν̄H will be needed. Obtaining

these results is in line with the expected developments in the field of multi-scale two-loop com-
putations. In addition, Higgs decay widths into massless partons in 4-/5-loop QCD calculations
are expected.
At pp colliders a concerted effort in multiple directions will be needed for better deter-
mination of the signal as well as backgrounds. The inclusion of higher-order corrections in
QCD and mixed QCD/EW, the improvement on the accuracy of the parton shower algorithms
in line with the accuracy achievable with analytic resummations, the definition of new more
perturbatively stable observables, are being pursued. The relative importance of each of such
improvements for a given observable will depend on the specific process under consideration.
For pp colliders, the uncertainties on the parton distribution functions also play an impor-
tant role when comparing measured cross sections to theoretical predictions. For the HL-LHC
they are expected to be reduced by a factor of two compared to the current precision, and an
additional reduction by a factor of two is assumed for HE-LHC. These reductions are assumed
to be possible with precise measurements of various pp cross sections [108]. For FCC-hh the
projections are mostly based on ratios of cross sections where the uncertainties should largely
cancel. If an ep collider is available such as LHeC or FCC-eh, the uncertainties on e.g. Higgs
coupling measurements at these hadron colliders can be further improved.
3.3 Summary and conclusions

There is a very rich programme of precision measurements to be made of the properties of
the Higgs boson, and of the other particles and parameters that are relevant to the electroweak
force. Both electroweak precision observables and Higgs couplings can be related directly to
the naturalness problem, the problem of why the Higgs mass is unstable in the SM and whether
there is new physics that stabilises it at the electroweak scale.
Precise measurements of the Z boson could be made at future e+ e− colliders, in particular
at circular colliders where 1012 Z-bosons would be available. At linear colliders a significant
advance compared to the current precision is also expected, thanks in part to the polarisation
that is available. The oblique parameters will be measured with a precision of ∼ 1%, about
a factor 10 better than the current precision. Furthermore, several low-energy experiments
are expected to also contribute to the precise determination of important parameters of the
electroweak aspects of the SM.
The precision measurements of Higgs boson couplings are sensitive to BSM physics as
it can alter them from their SM values. The HL-LHC will vastly improve the precision on
the Higgs boson coupling parameters from typically 15% today to a few percent with the full
dataset, assuming that the present theory uncertainties will be reduced by a factor of two. A
further large improvement can be achieved with future e+ e− colliders, which also have the
novel and powerful ability to measure Higgs production without any assumptions on its decay.
The sensitivities in their initial stages are rather comparable. The most precise coupling mea-
surements (to Z and W bosons), are measured to 0.2-0.3% depending in part on the precision
that can be achieved for the theoretical calculations. Additionally, Higgs decays to invisible
particles (e.g. dark matter candidates) can be constrained to values much better than 1%. The
measurement of the total width to within a few percent, possible at e+ e− colliders, will provide
an important constraint on many new physics scenarios.
The Higgs self-coupling is currently unconstrained by data, and a deviation of ∼ 1 from
Fig. 3.11: Fine-tuning sensitivity as defined in Sect. 3.1 based on the Higgs coupling and
EWPO precision projections. In each case the highest precision Higgs measurement is shown
based on the EFT analysis: for HL-LHC, HE-LHC and LHeC this is the ggH coupling, and for
all others it is the VV H coupling. For the EWPO the value of S is chosen, multiplied by three
to be a measure of ε, and only the low-energy stages of the lepton colliders are shown. The
colliders are roughly ordered by the time it takes to take the data after a project start time t0 . For
projects with multiple stages, t0 is defined as start of data taking for the first stage.
the SM value has potentially dramatic consequences for cosmology, in particular the nature
of the electroweak phase transition that occurred in the early Universe. It can be measured to
∼ 50% precision at HL-LHC, and ultimately a precision of 5-10% could be reached at FCC-hh
at 100 TeV, CLIC at 3 TeV or ILC at 1 TeV.
In summary, the electroweak precision programme provides a complementary way to
search for new fundamental particles, and its constraints can be related directly to the natural-
ness problem, which has traditionally been the main motivation for why there should be BSM
physics at the weak scale. With the Higgs programme at future e+ e− colliders, fine tuning can
be probed in to a few 10−3 , about 30 times better than today. This is illustrated in Fig. 3.11
where the smallest uncertainty on the Higgs couplings (based on the EFT fit), and the S param-
eter, at the various colliders are compared. These can be interpreted as measures of fine-tuning
as discussed in the introduction. It is seen that the HL-LHC will be able to probe fine-tuning
at the 2% level. Major improvements are expected by the first generation e+ e− colliders, push-
ing it to as low as (0.3 − 0.4)%. With the higher energy colliders it can be even be pushed to
(0.15 − 0.2)%, an order of magnitude smaller than the HL-LHC. The sensitivites of the oblique
parameters to fine-tuning are generally inferior in this measure. It is also worth noting that the
mass scales probed are comparable to those probed via direct searches at the HL-LHC in many
cases, see Chapter 8.
In conclusion, the electroweak physics programme is pivotal to the understanding of our
Universe, relating to important open questions such as the naturalness of our theory, dark matter
or the electroweak phase transition in the early Universe and the matter-antimatter asymmetry.
The proposed accelerators would hugely advance this field of research.
Chapter 4
Strong Interactions
4.1 State-of-the-art
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is firmly established as the theory of strong interactions.
The dynamics of quarks and gluons is encoded in a locally SU(3) invariant Lagrangian density,
which predicts and explains a plethora of experimentally observed phenomena. The dependence
of the QCD coupling αs (Q) on the energy scale Q is predicted in QCD to evolve from a strong
coupling at low scales to a weak coupling at high scales. Quarks and gluons are confined into
hadronic bound states at low energies, while behaving asymptotically free at high energies.
The concept of asymptotic freedom enables precise quantitative predictions for QCD pro-
cesses at high-energy colliders, obtained in a systematic manner using perturbation theory. To
allow the full exploitation of precision collider data, these calculations need to attain high accu-
racy and precision, which goes along with conceptual and technical challenges in perturbative
calculations and event simulation. Alterations of QCD may still become manifest, such as
the embedding of QCD in a higher gauge theory possibly unifying electroweak and strong in-
teractions, the discovery of unbound colour or of a new level of substructure. At low scales
and/or high density, the quantitative understanding of QCD is less fully developed, with the
first-principles understanding of confinement as an outstanding open question. The evaluation
of non-perturbative contributions arising in QCD is, however, possible within numerical lattice
QCD (LQCD). Furthermore, synergies of QCD with adjacent fields are identified, e.g., with
string theory through the use of the AdS/CFT correspondence for a strongly coupled gauge the-
ory, and the strong CP problem, connected to the neutron EDM, potentially related to axion-like
cold dark matter.
The separation of low-energy and high-energy dynamics through QCD factorisation is a
cornerstone of particle physics phenomenology, enabling precision predictions for collider pro-
cesses by parametrising the strong-coupling dynamics into empirical quantities such as decay
form factors, parton distributions, and hadronisation models. These have often dual relevance,
as fundamental objects of investigation and as input to predictions, depending on the research
question under consideration. Future progress in fundamental understanding and precision phe-
nomenology of QCD will rely on a diverse research programme with close interplay between
theoretical advances and experimental measurements.
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44 CHAPTER 4. STRONG INTERACTIONS
4.1.1 The low-αs or vacuum regime

The partonic structure of hadrons is described in terms of Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs)
where QCD provides with the DGLAP equations only a prediction of the evolution of their
structure with the energy scale. Especially the experiments at the HERA facility at DESY
provided Deep Inelastic electron- and positron-proton Scattering (DIS) data to determine the
PDFs covering a significant part of the Q2 versus x plane. The use of these PDFs in certain
kinematic ranges probed in pp collisions at the LHC (and even more at the FCC or SPPC)
propagates into large systematic uncertainties for key theoretical predictions. Proposals are
submitted to address this by extending the kinematic domain with new collider and fixed-target
experiments.
Electroweak and Higgs physics at the LHC are entering the precision era, demanding a
new level of understanding QCD, including questions related to proton structure and the value
of the strong coupling (αs ), calculation of higher-order matrix elements, the understanding of
multi-scale problems through parton showers and resummations, and effects related to hadro-
nisation. Measurements performed at the HL-LHC of important electroweak parameters like
the W boson mass [109] and sin2 θW [110] can be significantly improved when more profound
(from PDFs to GPDs) and extended (to higher Q2 , and both higher and lower x) information
becomes available on the proton structure. Similarly, the full exploitation of the gg → H cross
section at N3 LO (see Sect. 4.5) envisaged at the HL-LHC requires a consistent N3 LO set of
PDFs, which could be obtained from studies at future ep colliders [111]. This underlines the
importance of measuring the strong coupling at the Z mass, αs (mZ ), to 1–2 per mille preci-
sion which is considered to be possible at future ep and e+ e− colliders [112] and challenges
LQCD to reach equivalent precision. In the search for new physics, the HL-LHC will explore
the largest possible masses requiring a new understanding of partons, gluon, sea and valence
quarks at large x in the proton. Estimates illustrate that large x PDFs obtained at the future LHeC
would extend the search range for example for new heavier vector bosons in contact interactions
at the HL-LHC by 10 TeV. Very precise PDFs obtained in ep collisions would establish as well a
new base for testing QCD factorisation and evolving QCD theory by isolating novel dynamics.
Before that, fixed-target collisions at the LHC (in particular, in the “backwards” hemisphere)
will bring a few tens of percent reduction in the high-x PDF uncertainties. HL-LHC detectors
upgrades will enable the explorations into the forward region probing the low Bjorken-x range.
Future ep, eA and pp colliders like the LHeC, FCC-ep, as well as FCC-pp and SPPS have the
potential to answer the question of where non-linear parton (especially gluon) evolution sets
in. These would fundamentally change the pattern of parton evolution and enhance the numer-
ical predictions of cross sections envisaged at the high-energy FCC-hh collider, e.g. the Higgs
production at central rapidities corresponding to x ' 10−3 . For a profound exploration at the
energy frontier of strong interaction, electroweak, Higgs and beyond the SM (BSM) physics
the QCD program made possible with future pp, ep DIS and e+ e− colliders would be highly
beneficial.
Beyond the collinear parton model extending our description of the hadron structure, and
especially the proton structure, to three dimensions is an overall objective to test QCD and
to significantly enhance the physics programme at hadron colliders. Additional experimental
efforts are required to address parton Transverse Momentum Dependent (TMD) features and
towards measurements of Generalised Parton Distributions (GPDs). Proposals are submitted to
make significant progress on this nucleon structure front [ID99, ID111, ID143].
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4.1.2 Collective properties of QCD matter

The Standard Model implies that our early Universe has undergone a series of phase transitions
of fundamental quantum fields. Specifically, for QCD, lattice calculations predict the transition
of matter to a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) in which partons are deconfined and chiral sym-
metry is restored [113]. QCD is the only phenomenologically realised non-Abelian Quantum
field theory whose high-temperature phase is experimentally accessible in the laboratory [114].
Most generally, the focus of experimentation with nuclear beams is on learning how collec-
tive phenomena and macroscopic properties, involving many degrees of freedom, emerge under
extreme conditions from the microscopic laws of Quantum Chromodynamics. This includes as-
sessing thermal properties of QCD matter, characterising the QCD non-equilibrium dynamics
that evolves nucleus-nucleus collisions towards equilibrium, quantifying the initial conditions
of the collective dynamics, e.g. in terms of nuclear parton distribution functions, and establish-
ing the system-size of collective phenomena from proton-proton (pp) via proton-nucleus (pA)
to central nucleus-nucleus (AA) collisions as well as their dependence on centre-of-mass energy.
In the soft (low-transverse momentum) sector, the occurrence of numerically large and
abundant signatures of collectivity in AA collisions is by now firmly established. In particu-
lar, measured hadronic particle distributions show large flow-like momentum correlations that
are in one-to-one correspondence with the initial spatial anisotropies in the collision system
and that are thus unambiguous telltale signs of collective evolution. Also, soft particle distri-
butions are found to approach hadrochemical equilibrium [115]. Model comparisons support
fluid-like behaviour of the system with close to minimal dissipative properties and statistical
hadronisation. Similarly, the occurrence of numerically large jet quenching signals in all hard
(high-transverse-momentum) hadronic observables is a generic feature of nucleus-nucleus col-
lisions. These data indicate that nucleus-nucleus collisions rapidly and efficiently evolve to-
wards equilibrium and that the detailed analysis of how hard out-of-equilibrium probes soften
and isotropise, i.e. quench, can provide insight into the microscopic mechanisms underlying
QCD equilibration phenomena. The discoveries of the LHC Run 2 have added now a qualita-
tively novel dimension to these findings by establishing that smaller but non-vanishing flow-like
signatures and medium-modified hadrochemical abundances persist in the smaller pp and pA
collision systems, and that these signals of collectivity increase smoothly from minimum bias
pp to central AA collisions. These qualitative phenomena cannot be accounted for in terms
of physics effects commonly invoked for multi-particle production in pp collisions, and they
thus constitute a challenge for the understanding of both pp and AA collisions. In contrast, un-
ambiguous signatures of jet quenching have not yet been established in these smaller collision
systems, though they may become accessible with refined measurements in the future.
Capitalising on these previous discoveries, the experimental collaborations at the LHC
and the world-wide theory community working on heavy ion phenomenology have identified
four major motivations for future experimentation with nuclear beams, namely [114] (see also
Sects. 4.3 and 4.4): i) Characterising the long-wavelength properties of QGP matter with un-
precedented precision, ii) probing the inner workings of the QGP, iii) developing a unified
picture of particle production across system size, and iv) exploring nuclear parton densities and
searching for a possible onset of parton saturation over a wide range of (x, Q2 ). The generic
denominator of these multiple studies is to arrive at a detailed, experimentally tested dynamical
understanding of how out-of-equilibrium evolution occurs and equilibrium properties arise in a
non-Abelian quantum field theory.
4.2 Hadronic structure

4.2.1 QCD and collider experiments (LHC, HL-LHC, HE-LHC, FCC, CEPC)
Although QCD is not the main driving force behind future colliders, QCD is crucial for many
pp, ee measurements, both as signals and backgrounds. The precision needed to fully exploit
all future ee/pp/ep/eA/AA Standard Model and BSM programs require exquisite control of
perturbative and non-perturbative QCD physics. There are unique QCD precision studies ac-
cessible at FCC-ee, ILC, CEPC, the Super Charm-Tau Factory (SCT@BINP), and at FCC-pp
and SPPC. The main themes are detailed in the following.
The QCD coupling parameter αs is the least-known coupling of the standard model. Its
value impacts all QCD cross sections and decays, it is a leading parametric uncertainty (in some
cases together with the charm and bottom masses) in calculations of key quantities in Higgs,
top quark, and electroweak physics [112], and its energy evolution affects the range of stability
of the electroweak vacuum approaching the Planck scale. Future colliders enable a per mille
precision determination of αs via hadronic Z, W , and τ-decays, and jet shapes (FCC-ee, FCC-
pp, SCT). Parton distribution functions have a wide impact on new physics at high-x, as well
as on new QCD evolution at low-x. Experimental study of partonic processes will provide key
constraints and result in high-precision PDFs (HL-LHC, HE-LHC, FCC-hh). Worth to note is
that FCC-ep is required to reach 1% uncertainty for various cross section at FCC-pp. FCC-ee
provides multiple handles to study gluon radiation and gluon-jet properties, as well as studies
on jet substructure (Nn LO+Nn LL, see Sec. 4.5) and flavour tagging through quark/gluon/heavy-
quark discrimination, also giving access to high-precision parton fragmentation functions [116].
FCC-pp enables unique studies of highly-boosted dijets and multijets, as well as, heavy flavours,
pentaquarks and other exotic hadron structures. In the field of non-perturbative QCD, FCC-ee
allows for a percent-level control of colour reconnection, while all machines give access to
high-precision measurements on hadronisation (baryon and strangeness production, final-state
correlations, bound states).
4.3 Electron-proton collisions (LHeC, EIC, FCC)

Deep inelastic lepton-nucleon scattering is a powerful and unique tool to study nucleon structure
(Fig. 4.1) and unravel QCD with high-precision data and on firm theoretical grounds. The future
of DIS is bright with two proposed independent, high-luminosity electron-hadron colliders in
Europe [ID135, ID159]. DIS collider measurements extend substantially the kinematic range of
fixed target lepton-hadron scattering experiments. Excellent precision is achieved through the
redundant reconstruction of the leptonic and hadronic final states while theoretically a next order
of perturbation theory in QCD and EW has to be controlled. Tagging of photons, electrons,
protons, and neutrons near the beam pipe will be a particular experimental challenge, as will
the tagging of heavy flavour decays in a large rapidity range.
At medium energies, below that of HERA, electron-ion colliders can study the polarised
nucleon structure, contributing to the solution of the nucleon spin puzzle and exploring the
structure of the proton in three-dimensions at the medium and high x range relevant for the
HL-LHC. These include a US-based EIC1 (20 to 140 GeV c.m. energy) [ID74] as well as one
proposed in China (16 to 34 GeV).
1
At the time of writing, DOE is moving forward to approve the Mission Need soon, and has organised a panel
to assess options for siting and consideration of best value between the two proposed concepts [117].
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106
Q2 (GeV2)
nuclear DIS - F2,A (x,Q2)
Proposed facilities:
LHeC
105
eRHIC
Fixed-target data:
104 NMC
E772
E139
103 E665 e-Pb (LHeC)
EMC (70 GeV - 2.5 TeV)
102
Q2s (Au, b=0 fm)
e-Au (eRHIC)
10
(10 GeV - 100 GeV)
perturbative
1
non-perturbative
10-1
10-6 10-5 10-4 10-3 10-2 10-1 1

x
Fig. 4.1: Kinematic (x, Q2 ) plane probed in e − p (left) and e − A processes (right): existing data
compared to proposed particle and nuclear DIS facilities [118, 119].
At the energy frontier, the CERN-based hadron-electron colliders (LHeC, FCC-eh), with
c.m. energies above that of HERA, will resolve the flavour structure of unpolarised nucleons
from x about 10−6 to near 1, measure αs (mZ ) to per mille accuracy, and discover new parton
dynamics (gluon saturation). The LHeC and FCC-eh are precision Higgs- and EW-physics fa-
cilities with a remarkable BSM discovery potential. The ep c.m. energies are 1.3 TeV for LHeC
using 7 TeV p from HL-LHC, and 3.5 (2.2) TeV for FCC-eh using 50 (20) TeV p from FCC-hh.
The high-energy electron beams are produced using novel energy recovery acceleration tech-
niques (ERL), transforming the hadron colliders into an eh and hh twin collider complex. Such
a synergy will establish physics programmes reaching much further than those of the HL-LHC
and of future hh colliders alone.
4.3.1 Electron-ion collisions (LHeC, EIC, FCC)

Several electron-ion (eA) colliders with per nucleon luminosities ∼ 1033 − 1034 cm−2 s−1 are
projected to start operating in the 2030s. Colliding electrons from an ERL with the HL-LHC
or FCC nuclear beams, the LHeC is the most powerful eA facility that one can build in the next
decades. It will clarify the partonic substructure and dynamics in nuclei in an unprecedented
kinematic range. Also, it will unequivocally probe the new non-linear partonic regime of QCD
through density effects in ep and eA, that increase both with 1/x and mass number A. The LHeC
will provide an accurate benchmark for perturbative probes, the initial conditions for collective
expansion, for the understanding of the prior dynamics and the collective behaviour in pp and
pA collisions.
The EICs in the US [43] and China [120], with c.m. energies below 100 GeV/nucleon,
are dedicated to a detailed mapping of nuclear structure and its A dependence in the medium x,
lower Q2 region, extending the kinematic (Q2 , 1/x) range as compared to existing DIS data by
up to a factor of 30. The flexible choice of lower energy but polarised beams, while limiting
access to small x, is optimal for pursuing a unique proton (and light ion) spin programme.
The development of a broad QCD programme for the 2030s based on synergies and com-
plementarities between different machines and collision systems, pp/pA/AA and ep/eA, should
be encouraged.
4.3.2 Fixed-target experiments (LHC, HL-LHC, SPS M2 beamline)

The multi-TeV LHC proton- and ion-beams allow for the most energetic fixed-target (LHC-FT)
experiments ever performed opening the way for unique studies of the nucleon and nuclear
structure at high x, of the spin content of the nucleon and of the nuclear-matter phases from a
new rapidity viewpoint at seldom explored energies [121, 122].
On the high-x frontier, the high-x gluon, antiquark and heavy-quark content (e.g. charm)
of the nucleon and nucleus is poorly known (especially the gluon PDF for x & 0.5). In the case
of nuclei, the gluon EMC effect should be measured to understand that of the quarks. Such
LHC-FT studies have strong connections to high-energy neutrino and cosmic-ray physics.
The dynamics and spin of gluons and quarks inside (un)polarised nucleons is also very
poorly known; possible missing contributions are expected to come from their orbital angular
momentum. The LHC-FT mode enables to test the QCD factorisation framework and to mea-
sure TMD distributions, such as that of the linearly polarised gluons in unpolarised protons or
the correlation between the proton spin and the gluon transverse momentum.
For heavy-ion studies, the proposed fixed-target experiments with LHCb and ALICE en-
able the exploration of new energy regimes between SPS and RHIC energies, across a wide
rapidity domain to scan azimuthal asymmetries, and the use of new physics probes (e.g. excited
quarkonia, Drell-Yan pairs) to test the factorisation of nuclear effects. In addition, double crys-
tal LHC-FT experiments give access to studies beyond QCD, such as MDM and EDM of heavy
baryons.
There are two proposed ways towards LHC-FT collisions [ID67]: a slow extraction with
a bent crystal, or internal gas target inspired by SMOG@LHCb, HERMES, H-Jet, and others.
The physics reach of the LHC complex can greatly be extended at a very limited cost with the
addition of an ambitious and long term LHC-FT research program. The efforts of the existing
LHC experiments to implement such a programme, including specific R&D actions on the
collider, deserve support.
The CERN M2 beamline [ID143] also allows for further dedicated nucleon-spin analyses
and innovative studies of the kaon structure (gluon content, spectroscopy, polarisability, etc.).
The CERN M2 beamline is key in the long-term multipurpose hadron structure facility COM-
PASS++/AMBER proposal using the beamline beyond 2021 with a large community revolving
around medium energy QCD, and for elastic muon scattering in the MUonE proposal.
4.3.3 Opportunities of HL-LHC beams after the regular HL-LHC physics programme
The proposed LHeC with a c.m. energy of 1.3 TeV will allow high-precision measurements
of the parton densities from high x down to x ∼ 10−6 . It could be in operation at the earliest
around 2030, but if not realised during the regular HL-LHC programme, there could be an
opportunity for continued use of the HL-LHC beams afterwards. If in the future (beyond 2040) a
27 TeV c.m. energy HE-LHC or an FCC-hh is realised, the corresponding LHeC or FCC-eh will
have a c.m. energy of several TeV, enhancing the kinematic reach further. Even higher energy
electron-proton collisions may be reached if in the future LHC-proton driven plasma wakefield
accelerated 3 TeV electrons can be realised and collided with LHC protons. Such a 9 TeV
collider, called VHEeP (AWAKE++), [ID58,ID103], would probe x down to an unprecedented
4.3. ELECTRON-PROTON COLLISIONS (LHEC, EIC, FCC) 49
10−8 . However, the target luminosity of 10 pb−1 over the entire lifetime is modest, so it should
not be viewed as a substitute for a high-precision machine like the LHeC. This also applies
to the SPS-driven Plasma Electron-Proton/Ion Collider (PEPIC) [ID58], that will have a c.m.
energy of 1.4 TeV, but a luminosity several orders of magnitude lower than LHeC.
The region of large x, which is relevant for searches for new massive BSM particles at the
LHC and interesting for the nuclear dependence of the gluon distribution, will not be covered
by HL-LHC or EIC, but can be covered by the LHeC and/or by fixed-target (FT) experiments,
either during the regular HL-LHC programme or afterwards. FT experiments at an HE-LHC
would have a relatively modest increase in c.m. energy from 115 GeV to 163 GeV.
4.3.4 Synergies between these programmes

There are a number of striking synergy examples among future QCD physics experiments:
– The determination of the strong coupling constant at per mille level with LHeC/FCC-eh,
FCC-ee, CEPC and lattice gauge theory will lead to a new level of understanding of QCD
and to confidence in its predictive power. Agreement at this high level of precision is
required but will not likely result from the first attempts in any of the above directions.
– Precision measurements of flavour-separated parton distributions and the correct theoret-

ical description of the partonic content of the proton is a necessity for precision physics
and searches for new physics with the LHC and subsequent higher energy hadron col-
liders. It can be provided to the required accuracy and kinematic range only by a TeV
ep collider with a factor of 100 higher luminosity than that of HERA. Independent input
on PDFs empowers e.g. precision interpretations within contact interaction and effective
field theory frameworks but also in the understanding of QCD background processes for
e.g. novel SUSY searches.
– It is essential to perform spin studies both at pp and ep machines to test pQCD predictions
with a sign change in some spin asymmetries.
– The characterisation of the quark-gluon plasma suffers from sizeable uncertainties e.g.
from our lack of knowledge of nuclear PDFs for quarkonium suppression [123] and charm
production cross section in AA collisions [115] or of the initial conditions for collective
expansion for the extraction of the QGP transport coefficients [124, 125], and of the role
of parton fragmentation and hadronisation in cold nuclear matter [126]. Therefore, it re-
quires novel input on nuclear parton structure, on nuclear multiparton correlations, on
parton fragmentation and hadronisation in-vacuum and in cold nuclear matter, which
should come from future electron-ion and electron-positron colliders. The observation
of long-range correlation effects even in pA collisions demands a detailed investigation
of the lightest systems, ep and eA.
– The development of accelerator technology (energy recovery) for a next energy fron-
tier ep collider is supported by and also invites low energy ERL facility developments.
These have fundamental low-energy physics programmes, in particle, astroparticle, and
nuclear physics. Intense ∼1 GeV electron ERL facilities have a wide range of important
applications for material-, bio-, accelerator physics, and other branches of science and
technology. The high-quality requirements for superconducting radio frequency are syn-
ergetic with developments of electron-positron colliders. The first 802 MHz cavity, for
example, has been developed jointly for LHeC and FCC-ee, by CERN and JLab.
4.4 Hot and dense QCD

The study of hot and dense QCD matter is performed over a broad range of energies, both
in fixed-target and collider experiments. The connection to theory is achieved via the LQCD
formalism, hydrodynamic description, microscopic transport models and statistical models. An
illustration is given in Fig. 4.2 of the results achieved to date concerning the phase diagram of
QCD, where the points are extracted from fits of hadron yields with a statistical hadronisation
(thermal) model, describing the chemical freeze-out—at higher energies, corresponding to µB .
300 MeV, they coincide with band showing the chiral crossover phase boundary as determined
in LQCD. Whether a critical point and a first order phase transition exist in this phase diagram
is currently a subject of intense research.
200
T (MeV)
Quark-Gluon Matter
180
160
140
Hadronic Matter
120
100
80
60
40 Points: Statistical Hadronization, T CF

Band: Lattice QCD, T c
20
Nuclei
0 3
1 10 102 10
µ (MeV)
B
Fig. 4.2: The QCD phase diagram in the temperature – baryochemical potential plane. The band
is from LQCD calculations [127], the points from statistical hadronisation model fits to hadron
yields in heavy-ion collisions over a broad range of collision energy (updated from Ref. [115]).
A multitude of observables, like photon and dilepton yields, jets, heavy quarks, correla-
tions and fluctuations, help to quantitatively describe the dynamics and the properties of the
hot and dense matter. Also of particular interest is currently the question of the formation in
high-multiplicity p(D)A (or even pp) collisions of a droplet of deconfined matter that expands
collectively, akin to the observations in AA collisions.
4.4.1 The ongoing experimental programme of relativistic heavy-ion collisions

A very successful data taking for heavy-ion collisions in Run 2 at the LHC was completed,
√
with Pb–Pb collisions at a nucleon-nucleon c.m. energy sNN = 5.02 TeV and p–Pb collisions
√
at sNN = 5.02 and 8.16 TeV, recorded by all four experiments: ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, and
4.4. HOT AND DENSE QCD 51
LHCb, with luminosities exceeding the initial goals. The first physics results in a fixed-target
mode were recently reported by the LHCb collaboration [128, 129].
At BNL data taking is ongoing with the STAR experiment at RHIC in the beam energy
√
scan (BES-II) program, spanning sNN = 7.7 – 62 GeV in Au–Au collisions [130, 131]. At
√
CERN, the SPS programme is ongoing, with data taking in various collision systems at sNN
= 7 – 17 GeV with the NA61/SHINE fixed-target experiment [132], which provides important
measurements for neutrino oscillation experiments [133]. At the SIS18 at GSI, the HADES
√
experiment continues to take data at sNN ' 2.5 GeV, while at JINR the BM@N detector is in
operation at the Nuclotron in a similar energy range, currently with light ions [134].
4.4.2 Future opportunities for experiments at high-energy colliders

The ongoing and foreseen upgrades of the four detectors at the LHC will meet the challenge
of providing the required detector performance for the data taking with ion collisions with HL-
LHC in Runs 3 and 4, a physics programme that is approved and will bring a significant advance
in the field for the next decade [114]. The focus is on rare and challenging observables of the
hot and dense phase, that could only be glimpsed with the existing data. Those include: i)
thermal radiation (photons and dileptons), to characterise the electromagnetic emissivity; ii)
heavy-flavour baryons and (hyper)nuclei, to study in detail the hadronisation, on which the
complex objects shall give unique insight; iii) quarkonium, both in the charm and beauty sector,
to pin down quantitatively the basic mechanism of colour screening in QGP and the dynam-
ics of (re)generation or quarkonia in QGP and at the QCD phase boundary; iv) fluctuations of
conserved charges, to establish experimentally signatures of the phase boundary that are pre-
dicted by solving QCD on the lattice; v) highly energetic jets, to probe extreme regimes of
parton energy loss (jet quenching) in the QGP. Together, this suite of observables will provide
new insights and a precise characterisation of the QGP (via transport coefficients) in the highest
temperature and density regime.
Beyond Run 4, a proposal for a next generation experiment at the LHC has been put
forward [135] to address hot QCD physics, where the QGP initial temperature Tin ∼ 0.5 GeV,
and soft QCD at very low pT < 10 MeV, (while the particle physics experiments could continue
data taking with heavy ions with focus on the hard regime). Advances in detector technology,
for instance the possibility to curve thin silicon wafers, will open up the possibility to build a
very light detector, enabling to reach very soft probes, both with hadrons and with dileptons, to
probe in a direct way the quantum nature of the dense QGP state. In addition, a complementary
proposal has been also presented to use in parallel the ATLAS, CMS and LHCb experiments in
unique BSM searches accessible in the high-luminosity ion-ion mode beyond Run 4 [136]. In
this time span, a complete LHC-FT program could also be realised with the ALICE and LHCb
detectors in parallel to these measurements.
Advances in detector technology will be equally relevant for the FCC, where an attractive
physics programme is envisaged [137]. The motivation for the FCC lies primarily in the unique
availability of hard probes, enabled by the significant increase as a function of energy of their
production cross section. Examples include beauty quarks, whose thermalisation in QGP can
be determined, or top quarks, whose (boosted) decay to jets will provide a unique handle on
the tomography of QGP. That goal could be realised, albeit in a less significant way, also at
the HE-LHC. Both at the FCC as in the HL(HE)-LHC a significant gain in luminosity can be
achieved with lighter ions, which consequently may be more advantageous for rare observables.
Collisions of protons with nuclei are part of the heavy-ion programme at HL(HE)-LHC and are
envisaged too for the FCC [138].

It is important to notice that, at high-energy colliders, colliding heavy ions provide a sig-
nificant photon flux, enabling unique studies of cold QCD matter in the regime of high gluon
occupancy (low Bjorken x); for instance, exclusive photoproduction of J/ψ at FCC can probe
down to x = 10−7 . In addition, photon-photon collisions, already now providing interesting
results at the LHC, have also the potential to bring sensitivity to BSM physics, providing dis-
covery potential (or exclusion limits) for magnetic monopoles or axions [136]. Ultra-strong
transient (short-lived) magnetic fields are created in heavy-ion collisions and are probed via
particle correlations which may provide insights relevant for astrophysics. The high produc-
tion rates of multi-strange hyperons at collider energies enables the study of their interaction
properties, with results of relevance for the understanding of the neutron star structure, while
abundantly-produced antimatter is of relevance for the search for antimatter in the Universe
(currently with the AMS detector).
The long-term measurements in heavy-ion collisions will benefit from a sustained support
from the theory community. The continuous improvement of existing theoretical tools and
models, as lattice QCD or hydrodynamics, as well as the development of new techniques, in
particular calculations in higher orders, will be crucial for the characterisation of QGP in its
regime of highest temperature and densities.
This expected progress, both experimental and theoretical, will impact and benefit from
the experiments in the next decade(s) at lower energies at RHIC (STAR and sPHENIX experi-
ments) and at the NICA collider under construction at JINR, which will provide beams spanning
√
sNN = 4–12 GeV, with the MPD experiment planned to start operation in stages in 2022 [139].
4.4.3 Future opportunities for fixed-target experiments

√
The RHIC fixed-target programme, planned to start in 2020, will cover sNN = 3.0 – 7.7
GeV, corresponding to µB ' 400–700 MeV. The approved FAIR accelerator will deliver high-
√
intensity beams ( sNN up to 5 GeV) starting in 2025; the CBM detector aims at a collision rate
of 10 MHz with continuous readout and online tracking and event selection. The NA61/SHINE
experiment at SPS, currently being upgraded with vertex capability (using pixel sensors devel-
oped for ALICE), will extend in the coming years its suite of observables into the charm sector.
An experiment at the SPS (NA60+) dedicated to thermal dimuon, open and hidden charm mea-
surements is curently under design and aims at collision rates of 10 MHz [140]. The possibility
of a heavy-ion programme with similar characteristics as that at FAIR is currently being consid-
ered for the J-PARC facility. The physics motivation [141] is common for all these fixed-target
experimental programs and it is shared as well by the BES programme at RHIC and by the
NICA programme [142, 143]. It is the investigation of hot and compressed baryon-rich matter,
with special focus on the discovery of the critical point and (consequently) of a first order phase
transition in the QCD phase diagram. Also prominent is the determination of the Equation of
State of compressed baryonic matter, which is of relevance for neutron stars and for neutron
star collisions. This will be achieved with correlations and fluctuations observables and with
rare probes like dileptons, multi-strange hyperons or hypernuclei, probes that will become for
the first time available (with abundant statistics) for this energy regime.
The highest-energy fixed-target programme can be realised with LHC beams [122], both
in the ALICE and LHCb experiments. The hot QCD component of such a programme has as a
special aspect the broad coverage in rapidity which is also of relevance as input for cosmic ray
physics.
4.5. PRECISION QCD 53
4.5 Precision QCD

As already introduced in Sect. 4.1, the interpretation of LHC data and the searches for new
physics require increased efforts to reach a higher level of precision and accuracy in key theo-
retical predictions. This is the case in both the electroweak and the QCD sectors of the Standard
Model [114, 144].
The QCD predictions for a scattering process, owing to the collinear factorisation theo-
rem and the universality of PDFs and FFs, are obtained by convolving perturbative scattering
amplitudes with the parton distribution functions, (PDFs). Consequently, to reach sufficiently
high accuracy in theoretical predictions of processes involving quarks and gluons good con-
trol of partonic cross sections, the value of the strong coupling constant αs , and the precise
determination of PDFs is required.
Detailed modelling of strong interactions also calls for a better understanding how the
partonic final state in hard scatterings evolves to the hadrons observed in the experiment. The
quantitative description of fragmentation and hadronisation is part of the physics programmes
at fixed target and collider experiments.
0.045
NNLO
0.04
NNLL+NNLO
0.035 N3LL+NNLO
1/σ dσ/d ptH [1/GeV]
0.03
RadISH, 13 TeV, mH = 125 GeV
0.025 µR = µF = mH, Q = mH/2
PDF4LHC15 (NNLO)
0.02 uncertainties with µR, µF, Q variations (x 3/2)
Fixed order from PRL 115 (2015) 082003
0.015
0.01
0.005
0
10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120
H
pt [GeV]
Fig. 4.3: Comparison among the matched normalised distributions at: N3 LL+NNLO,
NNLL+NNLO, and the pure NNLO of the Higgs-boson transverse-momentum spectrum at the
LHC [145].
Some non-perturbative aspects of QCD are directly accessible in first-principles calcula-

tion by formulating QCD on the lattice and solving it numerically. LQCD provides quantita-
tive input on hadron structure and spectroscopy, the properties of matter under extreme condi-
tions and hadronic contributions to the processes and matrix elements relevant for the SM and
BSM [113, 146–149].
4.5.1 Methods and tools

At parton level, QCD cross sections at high momentum scales Q are obtained through pertur-
bative series expansion in the strong coupling αs (Q). This is the most straightforward and suc-
cessful approach that is also systematically improvable in accuracy by calculating an increasing
number of coefficients in the series. The current standard of such calculations is the next-
to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) accuracy [150–155]. However, in view of high-quality data
at the LHC and the expected high-precision measurements at HL-LHC, there is a continuous
11 11
NNPDF3.1
NNPDF3.1(NNLO)
(NNLO) g/10
g/10
0.9
0.9 0.9
0.9
xf(x,µµ =10
xf(x, 22
=10GeV
GeV )) 22
xf(x,µµ22=10
xf(x, =1044GeV
GeV22))
ss
0.8
0.8 0.8
0.8
g/10
g/10
0.7
0.7 0.7
0.7
dd
0.6
0.6 0.6
0.6
uuvv
cc
0.5
0.5 0.5
0.5
uuvv
0.4
0.4 0.4
0.4 uu
ddvv
0.3
0.3 ss 0.3
0.3 bb ddvv
0.2
0.2 0.2
0.2
dd
uu
0.1
0.1 0.1
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00 00
−3−3 −3−3
10
10 10−2−2
10 10−1−1
10 11 10
10 10−2−2
10 10−1−1
10 11
xx xx
Fig. 4.4: Different PDFs as obtained at NNLO level (NNPDF3.1) from Ref. [172], evaluated at µ 2 =
10 GeV2 (left) and µ 2 = 104 GeV2 (right).
theoretical demand and efforts to go beyond NNLO and calculate QCD processes at the next-
to-next-to-next-to-leading order, N3 LO. At present, the hadron collider observables for which
N3 LO QCD corrections have been calculated are e.g. the total cross section for Higgs boson
production in gluon fusion [88, 156] and in vector boson fusion [100]. Under QCD factorisa-
tion, the resulting predictions carry a residual uncertainty and dependence on the factorisation
scheme due to the missing N3 LO (i.e., four-loop) splitting functions, recently motivating the
computation of the QCD splitting functions at four loops [157–161]. Furthermore, first steps
have been taken towards more differential observables by computing N3 LO rapidity distribu-
tion of the Higgs boson at the LHC in gluon fusion [93, 94, 162]. Moreover, fully differential
distributions of jet production in deep inelastic scattering have been also derived to N3 LO [163].
Extending the perturbative expansion of QCD to the higher order is theoretically challeng-
ing as it implies developing new methods and techniques to achieve the cancellation of infrared
divergences. At the NLO order there are well established subtraction schemes and there are
methods developed recently for NNLO calculations [98, 164–171].
In general, Nn LO perturbation theory is based on the expectation that calculating a finite
number of terms in the perturbative expansion is sufficient since higher-order terms get progres-
sively smaller and can be neglected once the desired accuracy is reached. In some processes,
however, logarithmically large contributions appear at all orders and spoil the convergence of
the perturbative expansion. In such cases, it is necessary to rearrange the perturbative expan-
sion and perform resummation of these large logarithms to all-orders in the perturbation the-
ory. Resummed calculations are typically needed in processes that depend on more than one
scale. Many of the observables that are studied at the LHC depend on more than one energy
scale, and thus, all order resummation become necessary to describe the kinematic regimes in
which the logarithms of ratios of these scales become large. There are different successful ap-
NNPDF3.1 NNLO, Q = 100 GeV NNPDF3.1 NNLO, Q = 100 GeV

1.3
1.15 NNPDF3.1 NNPDF3.1
1.2
c+ ( x, Q ) / c ( x, Q ) [ref]
d ( x, Q ) / d ( x, Q ) [ref]
1.1 NNPDF3.1 no LHC NNPDF3.1 no LHC
2
2
1.05 1.1
+
1 1
2
2
0.95 0.9
0.9
0.8
−4 −3 −2 −1 −3
10 10 10 10 10−4 10 10−2 10−1
x x
Fig. 4.5: The impact of the LHC data on the NNPDF3.1 NNLO PDFs for the down and charm
quarks [172].
proaches to calculate the resummed expressions. In the soft-collinear effective theory (SCET)
of QCD [173, 174] the resummation follows the concept of Collins, Soper and Sterman [175]
where the starting point is the derivation of a factorisation theorem for the specific cross section
and then calculations of all logarithmic terms from the renormalisation group evolution equa-
tion, resulting in analytic expressions for the resummed cross section. An alternative approach
is based on the branching formalism [176, 177] where resummation is usually performed using
a Monte Carlo algorithm. Both approaches have already been applied to obtain higher order
resummations in the hadronic collisions [145, 165, 178–192]. The improvement of theoretical
predictions with increasing accuracy of perturbative calculations Nk LO and resummation Nk LL
is observed in different relevant processes. In Fig. 4.3 we show as an example the theoreti-
cal predictions for the normalised transverse-momentum distribution of the Higgs boson from
gluon fusion at 13 TeV pp collisions, calculated to different orders in perturbative QCD [145].
In this figure, the Higgs-boson transverse-momentum spectrum at N3 LL is matched to fixed
NNLO and compared to NNLL matched to NNLO, as well as to the pure NNLO results. All
curves in Fig. 4.3 are normalised to the total N3 LO cross section.
The need of improvement of theoretical predictions with increasing order of perturbative
calculations is clearly identified in Fig. 4.3. Thus, accurate theory calculations for collider pro-
cesses are crucial to interpret the precise experimental data and to discern whether experimental
measurements differ from the SM predictions. To match the precision of the data, theory uncer-
tainties should be reduced to the one percent level for the core- and to the few percent level for
complex-processes. Furthermore, accurate theoretical predictions for BSM effects are highly
desirable for new physics searches. This requires a relentless effort to improve the understand-
ing of QCD, by computing higher-order corrections for a larger number of processes and by
refining the theoretical and numerical methods. Resummed calculations are instrumental to
reach an accurate description of many observables at the LHC and beyond. The understanding
of regions of validity of perturbation theory, non-perturbative and collective effects, as well as
description of very high-multiplicity final states which can provide insights about the dynam-
ics of multi-particle production arising from the saturated gluon fields inside the protons, is
theoretically challenging.
A further area of active research concerns general purpose Monte Carlo event generators.
These are an essential part of the collider QCD toolkit, being crucial for the vast majority
of collider measurements and studies. Over the coming years it will be important to sustain
progress on a number of fronts: (1) perturbative improvements for matching and merging (e.g.
generalisation of existing approaches for parton shower + NNLO merging); (2) understanding
Projected invariant tt mass data
dσ/dmtt [fb/GeV]
10
3 Lumi error = 1.5 %
2
10
10
1
−1
10 PDF4LHC15
PDF4LHC15+ HL-LHC mtt
10− 2
HL-LHC pseudo-data, F = 0.2
10− 3
Ratio
1.4 3
10 mtt [GeV]
1.3
1.2
1.1
1
0.9
0.8
0.7
0.6
103
mtt [GeV]
Fig. 4.6: Comparison between HL−LHC pseudodata and the theoretical predictions for the mtt¯ dis-
tribution in top quark pair production from Ref. [108]. The theory calculations are shown both before
(PDF4LHC15) and after (PDF4LHC15-HL LHC) constraining PDFs with pseudodata in the fit.
and exploiting the relation between parton-shower algorithms and resummation to obtain higher
accuracy parton showers; and (3) the further development of phenomenological models (notably
those for hadronisation and the underlying event).
4.5.2 Parton Distribution Functions

The quest for precision at the LHC requires a precise knowledge of the Parton Distribution
Functions of the proton. An incomplete knowledge of PDFs is one of the main limitations in
searches of new physics at the LHC. At present, PDFs cannot be computed from first princi-
ples, although there are already attempts to access the parton distribution functions based on
LQCD simulations [193]. The PDFs have to be extracted from the experiments, through a care-
ful comparison of theoretical predictions to experimental data. Moreover, to obtain consistent
predictions, it is crucial that the advancement in perturbative calculations goes together with
PDFs determination with equal or higher accuracy.
In recent years a new generation of PDF sets have been developed for use at the LHC
Run 2 [194, 195], and some of these [196–198] have been combined in the construction of the
PDF4LHC15 sets which broadly represent the present understanding of the proton structure.
Further update in global PDF was due to the progress in methodology and the available set of
new data with the increasingly significant role played by LHC processes which provided strin-
gent PDF constraints. The combination of high-precision LHC data of the ATLAS, CMS and
LHCb experiments with state-of-the art NNLO theory calculations for such hadronic processes
as the transverse-momentum spectrum of the Z and W bosons [150, 151], the top-quark pair
production [152, 153], and inclusive jet production [154, 155] have had an important impact on
precision PDF fits [172]. The recent PDF sets NNPDF3.1 by the NNPDF Collaboration [172]
are shown in Fig. 4.4. To illustrate the impact of the LHC Run-1 data in the fits, Fig. 4.5 com-
pares the NNPDF3.1 fit with and without LHC data at Q = 100 GeV for the down and charm
quarks [172]. The impact of the LHC data can be observed in this figure, both for central values
and for the PDF uncertainties. Thus, it is clear that the addition of data from Runs 2 and 3 and
then from the HL-LHC, for which the precision and reach will be greatly increased, should lead
to further improvements in the determination of the proton structure. In Fig. 4.6 we show the
comparison between the HL-LHC pseudodata and the theoretical predictions on the mt t¯ distri-
bution in top-quark pair production [108]. There is a clear reduction of the PDF uncertainty at
large values of the invariant mass.
Currently, PDF uncertainties account mostly for the propagated statistical and systematic
errors on the measurements used in their determination. Clearly, the missing higher-order un-
certainties from the truncation of the QCD perturbative expansion also affect predictions for
the various processes that enter the PDF determination. The PDF extraction that systematically
accounts for these effects in QCD calculations and assesses their impact on the uncertainties of
the resulting PDFs, has been recently considered [199].
The ultimate method to determine the parton structure of the proton is with high-precision,
high-energy measurements in electron-proton scattering. The LHeC and FCC-eh provide a
complete resolution of PDFs, of both protons and ions, as has been described recently in [200,
201]. The high x region, crucial for searches at pp colliders, would be clarified (the valence
quark and small but important sea and gluon contributions) thanks to the high luminosity and
large Q2 lever arm of the measurements. At medium x sub-percent precision for N3 LO PDFs
is reached due to the unique measurement techniques of electrons, neutrinos and the hadronic
final state. Flavour is completely resolved owing i) to the high energy enabling to access charged
current cross sections for many orders of magnitude in x and ii) to the direct measurements of
strange, charm and beauty densities. Finally, the long standing quest of a possible saturation of
the gluon density at small x and the existence of the non-linear parton evolution will be solved at
the LHeC. All of this maybe illustrated, in a yet simplified manner, with the ultimate accuracy
one would achieve with LHeC (and FCC-eh in an extended range) for the various parton-parton
luminosities, see Fig. 4.7.
Of principal importance is to disentangle predictions and effects from QCD/PDFs from
possible new physics. DIS and LHC would provide two independent configurations for achiev-
ing this while pp alone could run into the conceptual problem of possibly hiding new phenom-
ena behind PDF or QCD uncertainties as PDF or QCD effects. In nuclei one needs to dis-
entangle nuclear environment (shadowing) from non-linear (gluon saturation) effects. All this
requires very high precision, very high energy, large luminosity ep and eA collision data taken
while LHC is operational (and later synchronously through FCC-hh and FCC-eh operation).
Given the high precision expected at the HL-LHC, it will be crucial to include all sources
of experimental, methodological, and theoretical uncertainties associated with PDFs in order
to ensure robust predictions. In particular, the impact of theoretical uncertainties due to miss-
ing higher-order corrections in theoretical calculations, the fits with high-energy and threshold
logarithms resummed and the contribution of electroweak corrections should be analyzed and
included in the determination of global PDFs in the foreseeable future. Furthermore, as already
pointed out in in Sect. 4.1, a precision physics programme at future hadron colliders requires
a more detailed description of the partonic substructure of hadrons as encoded e.g. in GPDs
or TMDs. Theoretically challenging is also the phenomenon of saturation of partonic densities
at small enough values of the fraction of momentum x, which has developed into a complete
and coherent formalism of the Colour Glass Condensate [202–204]. Furthermore, a reliable
gg luminosity qg luminosity
0.5 0.5
Relative PDF uncertainty

0.4 0.4
PDF4LHC15 s=(100 TeV)2 PDF4LHC15 s=(100 TeV)2
0.3 FCC-eh 0.3 FCC-eh
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0.3 FCC-eh 0.3 FCC-eh
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MX [GeV] MX [GeV]
Fig. 4.7: Relative PDF uncertainties on parton-parton luminosities from the PDF4LHC15
√ and
FCC-eh PDF sets, as a function of the mass of the produced heavy object, MX , at s = 100 TeV.
Shown are the gluon-gluon (top left), quark-gluon (top right), quark-antiquark (bottom left) and
quark-quark (bottom right) luminosities. The LHeC expectation is very similar but misses one
order of magnitude towards low x.
determination of the parton distribution functions of nucleons bound within nuclei (nPDFs), is
particulary relevant for precision phenomenology and fundamental understanding of the strong
interactions in the nuclear environment [205, 206].
4.5.3 Numerical Lattice QCD

Many of the SM predictions require the knowledge of parameters and observables which en-
code nonperturbative QCD effects. They can only be calculated from first principles by using
LQCD [113, 146, 147].
Over the past years, an increased computing power, together with the development of
better algorithms and analytical frontiers techniques have enabled realistic LQCD predictions
with controlled errors. LQCD allows for a precise determination of a wide range of hadronic
observables, including the hadron masses and decay constants, form-factors and mixing pa-
rameters characterising weak-decay amplitudes, PDFs, as well as key SM parameters such as
quark masses and the QCD coupling [146]. LQCD provides the most precise determination of
αs [207, 208], and high-accuracy results for the D, Ds , B, and Bs heavy flavour meson decay
constants with sub percent precision [209]. Similar precision has been reached in the determi-
nation of the light (u, d, s) and heavy flavour (c, b) quark masses [210]. Further LQCD results on
B → π and B → K semileptonic form factors, neutral kaon mixing and neutral Bd - and Bs -meson
mixing [211] led to significant improvements in the determination of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-

Maskawa quark-mixing matrix elements and the global unitarity-triangle fit. The unprecedented
accuracy of lattice calculations and state-of-the-art techniques allowed one to extract the nucle-
ons electromagnetic and axial form factors and their electromagnetic radii and the magnetic
moments [212–214]. Inspired by the LHCb discovery of a new narrow charmonium state, the
X(3842) [215], LQCD presented calculations of charmonium states near the open-charm thresh-
old by means of the Lüscher formalism, and found the charmonium resonance with J PC = 3−−
and the mass consistent with the X(3842) [215]. The recent LQCD calculations of exotic states
in QCD, also predicted the existence of a doubly-bottom (b̄b̄ud) tetraquark bound state that is
stable under the strong and electromagnetic interactions [216].
In the ongoing search for BSM physics, LQCD provides results for the nucleon scalar and
tensor charges [146, 217], as well as demonstrates the feasibility of computing the amplitude of
the rare kaon decay K + → π + ν ν̄ [218], a process that is experimentally studied by the NA62
experiment at the CERN SPS. LQCD has also addressed the issue of CP violation in the QCD
sector. Interesting results are obtained in recent LQCD calculations for the EDM of the nucleon
induced by the QCD θ term [219]. The results indicate that the EDM of the nucleon stays finite
in a continuum and the chiral limit. This result together with the experimental bound on the
neutron EDM provide the upper limit for the value of QCD θ term. Enormous progress has
also been achieved in ab-initio lattice calculation of the strong interaction contribution ahad
µ to
the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon, g − 2 [220, 221]. LQCD provides results on the
hadronic vacuum polarisation (HVP) and hadronic light-by-light (HLbL) scattering contribu-
tions to ahad
µ . While the error of current LQCD estimates of the HVP reached the few-percent
level, the uncertainty in the determination of HLbL is at the (10 − 15)%-level. The goal for the
future LQCD calculations is the sub-percent precision of a HVP contribution which is needed
to reduce the SM uncertainties on the value of g − 2 to possibly identify new physics by com-
parison to the experimental data.
LQCD methods are also very successful in describing thermodynamic properties and
structures of the strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions of high temperature T and
density ρ [113,115,222–224]. Such a QCD matter is produced in ultra-relativistic AA collisions,
pA and possibly even in high-energy and high-multiplicity events in pp collisions [114]. LQCD
describes the phase structure of strongly interacting matter, the nature of QCD phase transition
and the equation of state. Large-scale computing has allowed one to quantify the value and the
shifts of the chiral critical temperature from the chiral limit to the physical point. The shift of
the pseudocritical temperature with finite chemical potential µB has also been recently estab-
lished up to (µ/T )4 order [127] (shown in Fig. 4.2). LQCD provides calculation of correlations,
diffusion and transport properties in a QGP and fluctuation observables [222, 225, 226] that are
directly linked to experimental data. LQCD predictions are essential inputs to hydrodynamic-
and transport-model description of experimental data in AA and pA collisions [114].
Continued efforts and support in developing new theoretical methods and better algo-
rithms are needed in LQCD to reach the anticipated progress and precision of SM predictions
and to sharpen the opportunity for new physics discovery. In high-density QCD, more detailed
studies close to the chiral limit and on large lattices are needed to reach definitive conclusions
on the role of the UA (1) symmetry breaking and the order of the chiral phase transition. To have
impact on the experiments in future, LQCD calculations of electromagnetic probes, fluctuation
observables, spectral functions and transport properties of QGP need to be carried out with high
statistics on large lattices and with physical dynamical quarks. The problem of the finite chem-
ical potential in LQCD calculations needs further attention, to develop an efficient formalism
that allows for lattice simulations with a complex action.
4.5.4 The strong coupling constant αs

The strong coupling is the least known fundamental coupling in the Standard Model. This be-
comes a hindrance for precision measurements, such as of the Higgs production cross sections
and couplings, and it impacts the uncertainty budget in predictions of electroweak vacuum sta-
bility and grand unification theories approaching the Planck scale. Currently, the LQCD results
are more precise than the values directly derived from experiment as summarised recently in
Refs. [112, 227] and shown in Table 4.1.
Table 4.1: World-average values of the strong coupling constant at the Z mass, αs (mZ ), at
NNLO accuracy for 5 active flavours [33].
Method αs (MZ2 )
LQCD 0.1188 ± 0.0011
τ-decays 0.1192 ± 0.0018
DIS 0.1156 ± 0.0021
Hadron Collider 0.1151 ± 0.0028
Electroweak Fits 0.1196 ± 0.0030
e+ e− 0.1169 ± 0.0034
New measurements of αs at the level of per mille accuracy are mandatory and could be
achieved with FCC-ee from the ratio of the hadronic-to-leptonic width at the Z-pole and with
LHeC/FCC-eh from the scaling violations of the structure functions. Both demand a new level
of theoretical support to develop theory one order of perturbation further. Both also require
extreme experimental care and additional cross checks, e.g. from the W in e+ e− and from jets
in e+ e− and DIS, respectively, to assure a maximum of confidence and enhanced precision. The
realisation of this complementary programme would be a major milestone in the development
of QCD and in the reduction of important parametric uncertainties today in key SM and BSM
theoretical calculations. It would also be a major triumph of experimental physics and its in-
timate collaboration with theory. The challenge of LQCD at this high level of accuracy will
surely lead to new insight into the details [208] of LQCD calculations as well.
4.5.5 Low-energy precision QCD

Many aspects of QCD are important for experiments at low energies and, vice versa, various
experiments at low energies yield precision QCD benchmarks [140, 228].
The strong CP problem [229, 230], i.e. the extreme smallness of the θ -term in the QCD
Lagrangian, is evident from the non-observation of permanent hadronic electric dipole moments
(EDM), in particular of the neutron and of 199 Hg. Considerable international efforts aim at im-
proving the experimental sensitivity of the permanent EDM of the neutron, of heavy nuclei and
recently also of the deuteron, the proton and heavier baryons [231–235]. The most sensitive and
straightforward to interpret is the neutron EDM. Experimental sensitivities should improve by
two orders of magnitude to a few 10−28 e·cm in the next decade. Further improvements will re-
quire R&D into new experimental concepts to overcome statistical and systematics limitations.
Similarly, the EDM of the proton can be searched for with a dedicated storage ring experiment,
not statistically limited till 10−29 e·cm. R&D, precursor experiments as, e.g. at COSY, and pro-
totyping can pave the way to understand and tackle the corresponding systematic issues [234].
Besides EDMs, several finite electromagnetic form factors of the nucleons provide bench-
marks for low-energy QCD studies:
– Magnetic moments of proton, antiproton and neutron are measurable at much higher pre-
cision [236–239] than calculated by theory. Nevertheless, they are important for metro-
logical reasons and strong tests of CPT and other fundamental symmetries. The AD and
ELENA at CERN are essential facilities as are the neutron EDM experiments, in Europe
at PSI and at ILL.
– The proton rms charge radius continues to puzzle, with discrepant results from muonic
hydrogen spectroscopy at PSI, ordinary hydrogen spectroscopy and ep scattering [240–
244]. Considerable theoretical and experimental efforts, notably also µ-p scattering with
MUSE at PSI and potentially COMPASS++ at CERN [245, 246], have emerged aiming
at resolving the puzzle. Eventually LQCD calculations will contribute to corroborating
the true value. The proton Zemach radius and the magnetic radius are targets of next
generation muonic hydrogen experiments measuring the ground state hyperfine splitting.
Experiments are planned for PSI, Riken-RAL, and J-PARC.
– The nucleon axial form factor gA at lowest momentum transfer is determined by measure-
ments of neutron decay correlations, in particular at ILL [247]. An order of magnitude
improvements can be envisaged with a new generation of experiments, in particular at a
new fundamental physics beamline at the ESS.
– The nucleon axial radius can be determined by muon capture on the proton [248] yielding
complementary information to neutrino scattering and potentially crucial input to long
baseline neutrino experiments.
QCD input is also essential in order to allow for comparisons between high-precision ex-
periments and precision SM calculations. The anomalous magnetic moment (g−2) of the muon
is an example where substantial theoretical and experimental efforts are presently underway in
order to improve the experimental sensitivity and the accuracy of the QCD corrections. The
MUonE experiment aims at determining the leading order hadronic contribution to the muon
g − 2 by measuring the hadronic part of the photon vacuum polarisation in the spacelike region.
The experimental studies of strong force and the structure and dynamics of atomic nu-
clei is a vital part of strong interaction physics. The proposal revolving around the Di-meson
Relativistic Atom Complex (DIRAC++) aims to check low-energy QCD predictions using
double-exotic ππ and πK atoms to gain a deeper insight into the quantum theory of the strong
force [249, 250]. The precision measurements of QCD are one of the research directions inten-
sively pursued at the CERN ISOLDE facility. The facility is unique worldwide using energetic
1.4 GeV protons on thick targets, in combination with the Isotope Separation On-Line method
to produce pure low-energy (50 keV) radioactive ion beams (RIB’s) of more than 1000 different
radioactive isotopes. Research is performed in more than a dozen of permanent experimental
set-ups for studies of the structure of atomic nuclei, and for a variety of other studies in the fields
of astrophysics, medical and materials research and physics beyond Standard Model. Phase 2 of
its HIE-ISOLDE upgrade has reached completion, which permits most of ISOLDE’s radioac-
tive isotopes to be re-accelerated to energies up to 9.2 MeV per nucleon. Using 3 dedicated
experimental set-ups these beams are used to study a variety of nuclear reactions with radioac-
tive isotopes, opening up new possibilities for nuclear structure and astrophysics research. The
intensity upgrade and a final energy upgrade to reach 10 MeV/u for all isotopes is foreseen for
Phase 3. A further upgrade, including the construction of two additional target stations and
a compact low-energy storage ring are proposed as part of the EPIC project. This upgrade
will allow ISOLDE to remain at the forefront of nuclear and astrophysics research for another
fewÂădecades.
4.6 QCD and other disciplines

The LHeC and FCC-eh are the highest energy, highest electron current applications of energy
recovery linac (ERL) technology. In itself, ERL entails major technology innovations, most ob-
viously on high-quality, superconducting cavities such as those required for the FCC-ee. ERL
reaches efficiencies in excess of 90% reducing the required power, as for the LHeC 60 GeV
electrons, from a GW to below 100 MW. By decelerating the beam after the interaction, the
power is taken to supply the accelerating part of the ERL while the beam energy is eventually
reduced to the injection energy. The dump of O(500MeV) is environment friendly, in contrast
to proton or electron high-energy, radioactive beam dumps. In the context of the PERLE facility
at Orsay (submission ID147), the first 802 MHz prototype was built for both LHeC and FCC-
ee. These facilities have major technical applications such as for lithography, through their laser
application, or material tomography and photofission, through the intenseÂă, mono-energetic
photon beams, generated by laser backscattering. Therefore,Âăa new facility (or facilities) may
be established that also open new avenues to photonuclear and particle physics, in complemen-
tarity with ELI-NP. This is a one of the best examples of a direct synergyÂăbetween energy
frontier particle, low-energy nuclear and applied physics.
The low radiation and zero pile-up environment of ep colliders, combined with the de-
mand for very high quality vertex tagging makes detectors at these facilities a most suited ap-
plication for an HV CMOS silicon vertex detector, of low material and high integration level.
Laser spectroscopy of light muonic atoms has been established as a game changer in the
determination of nucleon/nuclear charge radii. For these, and for the determination of Zemach
radii and other spectroscopy goals in those exotic systems, the development of high power,
pulsed lasers, stochastically triggerable with low latency is key.
The development of higher intensity, higher quality, low-momentum muon beams of both
polarities is an essential part to further improve the measurements of the muon anomalous
magnetic moment, the proton radii, and the nucleon axial radius.
4.6.1 QCD and astroparticle physics

The production, propagation, and detection of the most energetic particles produced in the Uni-
verse, in yet unravelled sources, relies heavily on our understanding of QCD at high energies.
For both charged cosmic rays (CRs) and neutrinos, cross sections linked to QCD processes in
the non-perturbative and perturbative regimes are still the largest source of theoretical uncer-
tainty. Dedicated measurements at FCC-pp, FCC-ep, and LHC-FT, in particular with heavy-
and light-ions collisions, are needed to improve the QCD-based simulations of relevance for
astroparticle physics:
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− Direct measurements of the production cross section of low-energy secondary particles,

such as anti-nuclei, are of prime importance to determine the amount of anti-matter pro-
duced in standard astrophysical sources, which is the background for possible dark-matter
signals in the cosmic-ray flux measured in satellite experiments.
− At CR energies above 1015 eV, the flux of charged cosmic rays is too low for direct
detection in satellites, and the air showers produced by their interaction with air molecules
in the Earth’s atmosphere are used instead [251]. A precise simulation of the properties of
such air showers is needed to properly determine the mass of the primary CR. The shower
development is driven mostly by hadron-nucleus interactions from the highest (1000 TeV
c.m. energy) to the lowest (10 GeV lab energy) energies whose theoretical description
relies heavily on collider and fixed-target data [252]. Key detection techniques such as
the measurement of the shower maximum position are very sensitive to the first hadronic
interactions. The current theoretical uncertainty being even higher than the experimental
one, direct particle production measurements at HL-LHC [114] (in particular with light
ion beams) and FCC-pp [253,254] would reduce significantly the uncertainties due to the
extrapolations to high energies. If muons are used to measure the air shower properties,
the data are even in contradiction with the simulations at the highest CR energies [255].
The muon production in air showers is sensitive to all hadronic interactions (all energies)
in the shower, and in particular to forward particle production, dominated by small-x
QCD phenomena that can be carefully studied at FCC-ep. In addition, final-state effects
(such as collective parton hadronisation, leading e.g. to enhanced strangeness production)
observed at the LHC in light systems may help solve the muon puzzle [256], and new
measurements are needed at higher c.m. energies.
4.6.2 QCD and neutrino physics

The understanding of the production of neutrinos in hadronic collisions at low and high energies
will highly benefit from dedicated QCD measurements at future collider facilities:
− Very high-energy neutrinos detected by IceCube, and the future KM3NeT, are a key el-
ement of the multi-messenger detection of astrophysical objects such as black holes and
neutron star mergers. A very precise knowledge of typical sources of energetic decay neu-
trinos, such as forward charm production, as well as of nuclear PDF at very small x, are
required to understand the atmospheric neutrino background and the neutrino interaction
in Earth allowing its detection.
− The new generation of low-energy neutrinos experiments such as DUNE or Hyper--
Kamiokande, built to solve the mass hierarchy and CP violation in the neutrino sector,
require very low systematic uncertainties in their theoretical production cross sections.
Dedicated high-statistics studies of hadronic interactions at accelerators and atmospheric
observatories, are needed to provide a precise understanding of neutrino sources in the
decay of primary and secondary particles.
4.7 Overview and perspectives for QCD
Precision QCD program: A globally concerted precision QCD research programme provides
a unique avenue to support the search for new physics beyond the Standard Model. A high-
luminosity e+ e− collider at the EW scale and a high-energy ep collider provide an excellent

experimental environment for high-precision QCD studies (αs , parton radiation, fragmentation
and hadronisation, higher-order perturbative and non-perturbative parton dynamics) which are
essential in support of our aspirations in particle physics.
Hadronic structure program: A hadronic structure research programme exploring the com-
plementarity of pp/ep/eA colliders and fixed-target facilities provides vital ingredients for the
high-precision exploration in searches for new physics and provides as well unique steps into
unknown territories of QCD.
Hot and dense QCD program: A high-energy AA/pA/pp research programme at the LHC,
HL-LHC, HE-LHC and FCC with newly designed detectors in the collider and fixed-target
modes is unique and provides essential science at the frontline towards a profound understand-
ing of hot and dense QCD matter. A coherent research programme of QCD matter at the SPS, is
complementary to other emerging facilities worldwide like BNL/BES, FAIR/CBM, JINR/NICA
or J-PARC, and brings valuable and unique contributions in the exploration of the QCD phase
diagram.
QCD theory community: It is essential to support coherently the QCD theory community to
succeed in the above programs and to link QCD to frontier research in particle and nuclear
physics. This also concerns strong community support of developments of general purpose
Monte Carlo event-generators and numerical LQCD.
Organization: Strengthening the synergies in research and technology with adjacent fields
has the potential to reinforce our efforts. Global platforms, networks and institutes have the
potential to enhance the research exchange among experts worldwide and to provide essential
training opportunities.
Chapter 5
Flavour Physics
This chapter discusses the present and future flavour quest, focusing first on the physics of
the spectrum lighter than ∼ GeV, and then on the heavier fermions, the heavy SM bosons, and
finally the flavour-dark sector connection. The terminology short-term, mid-term and long-term
will denote, respectively, present experiments, updates of the latter (e.g. LHCb Upgrade II)
as well as approved projects (e.g. Belle II, HL-LHC, Mu3e, etc.), and future facilities under
discussion.
5.1 Introduction/Theory of Flavour

That fundamental forces arise as gauge interactions is experimentally an extremely successful
prediction of the Standard Model (SM) of particle physics. In contrast, within the SM a deep
understanding of the rationale for the Higgs couplings and the flavour structure remains to be
achieved. There is a striking difference between the simplicity of the gauge sector, described
by just three gauge couplings, and the complicated structure of the rest of the SM with over
twenty Higgs related parameters describing the SM flavour structure. This suggests that flavour
physics is a unique portal to a more fundamental organizing principle.
Further fundamental questions emerge when attempts are made to couple the SM and
gravity. The quantization of the latter remains a crucial open question. In addition, the data
point towards a Universe that cannot be understood solely in terms of the SM and gravity.
There is strong evidence for the existence of new particles and new particle physics (NP):
– Experimental evidence which remains unexplained within the SM laws, to wit
1. Dark matter, whose nature is unknown, and the mass range of possible dark matter
candidates spanning across over eighty orders of magnitude.
2. Neutrino masses. The SM gauge group allows for Majorana neutrino masses, justi-
fying their suppressed values, but the size of the putative Majorana scale is unknown.
3. The observed matter-antimatter asymmetry of the Universe.
– Strong tensions and fine-tunings within the SM, such as
1. The electroweak (EW) hierarchy problem. “Why is the Higgs so light?” when its
mass is a priori sensitive through quantum corrections to any putative NP scale
higher than the EW one. What stabilises the Higgs vacuum expectation value?
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2. The strong CP problem, that defines the QCD vaccuum. Why is its θ parameter
experimentally constrained to be extremely small? For a priori no good reason.
3. The flavour puzzle. Why are there three generations of quarks and leptons? What
accounts for the very different masses and mixings? What fixes the size of CP-
violation, largely insufficient to explain the observed dominance of matter over anti-
matter?
The flavour puzzle, in particular, feeds into the first two tensions. For instance, within the SM
the top loop gives the main contribution to the EW hierarchy problem, while the strong CP
problem is an issue only in as much as all the quarks have non-zero masses. Furthermore,
many NP models designed to solve the EW hierarchy problem tend to worsen the strong CP
problem and generate unacceptably large contributions to electric dipole moments (EDMs), as a
consequence of the presence of CP-violation in non-chiral flavour changing couplings. All three
tensions in their core amount to the question of why certain parameters are very small. In natural
theories small numbers are explained by symmetries or dynamical assumptions, suggesting that
the SM needs to be extended in order to become a natural theory.
The underlying nature of CP violation, which is at the heart of many open questions, de-
serves special mention. On the one hand, the combination of the discrete symmetries C, P and
T is essential to the formulation of quantum field theory itself. On the other hand, CP viola-
tion is at the backbone of the SM three-family flavour puzzle and of the strong CP problem.
In addition, it is also an essential ingredient to generate the observed baryon asymmetry (as-
suming baryogenesis). From a practical perspective, it is one of the main driving forces behind
the present experimental efforts, especially in the neutrino sector. Finally, dark matter itself
may have flavour structure, and a true understanding of flavour would then require an interdis-
ciplinary exploration. As a side benefit, the present and planned flavour experiments are often,
without special requirements, sensitive to light dark matter candidates such as feebly interacting
particles.
The progress in understanding the above fundamental questions can be made through a
variety of tools: directly by increasing the energy at which the world of fundamental particles
and forces is explored, or indirectly by making precise measurements of rare or even SM forbid-
den processes, relying on quantum mechanical effects to probe shorter distances or effectively
higher energies. The expected experimental progress, especially with regards to the indirect
probes, can be neatly encoded in the model-independent tool of effective Lagrangians. As long
as the NP particles are heavier than the energy released in a given experiment, their impact can
be included via effective operators of increasing mass dimensions, constructed from the SM
fields. The resulting effective field theory (SM-EFT) has the following form:
C5 (5) Ca
Leff = LSM + O + ∑ 62 Oa(6) + · · · . (5.1)
ΛM a Λ
The dimension five (d = 5) operator O (5) breaks lepton number and, if present, induces Majo-
rana neutrino masses of order v2 /ΛM , where ΛM is assumed to be much larger than the elec-
troweak (EW) scale v. The d = 6 operators O(6) a encode the effects of NP particles of generic
a 2
mass Λ. Experiments probe the ratios C /Λ .
For a qualitative appraisal, Fig. 5.1 illustrates the scales probed by the present flavour
experiments (light colours) and mid-term prospects, assuming C6a ∼ O(1) [257]. This can be
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μN→eN
de
107 107
μ→eee
μ→eγ
106 ϵK 106
dn
AΓ
ΔmK
Scale [TeV]
105 105
ΔmB
EW precision
τ →μγ
ΔmBs
direct reach
104 104
h→μe
h→τμ
103 103
102 102
t→uγ
t→uZ
t→cZ
t→cγ
t→ch
101 101
100 100
Observable
Fig. 5.1: Reach in new physics scale of present and future facilities, from generic dimension
six operators. Colour coding of observables is: green for mesons, blue for leptons, yellow for
EDMs, red for Higgs flavoured couplings and purple for the top quark. The grey columns illus-
trate the reach of direct flavour-blind searches and EW precision measurements. The operator
coefficients are taken to be either ∼ 1 (plain coloured columns) or suppressed by MFV factors
(hatch filled surfaces). Light (dark) colours correspond to present data (mid-term prospects,
including HL-LHC, Belle II, MEG II, Mu3e, Mu2e, COMET, ACME, PIK and SNS).
compared with the reach of direct high-energy searches and EW precision tests (in grey), il-
lustrated by using flavour-blind operators that have the optimal reach [257]: the gluon-Higgs
operator and the oblique parameters for EW precision tests, respectively. The shown effective
energy reach of flavour experiments do have several caveats. First of all, in many realistic the-
ories either the coupling constants are smaller than unity and/or the symmetries suppress the
sizes of the coefficients. This effect is illustrated by including in the quark sector the present
bounds in tree level NP with Minimal Flavour Violation (MFV) pattern of couplings (hatch filled
areas) [258–261]. Furthermore, there could be cancellations among several higher-dimension
operators. In addition, for theories in which the new physics contributes as an insertion inside a
one-loop diagram mediated by SM particles, all the shown scales should be further reduced by
extra GIM-mass suppressions and/or a factor α/4π ∼ 10−3 (where α denotes the generic gauge
structure constants).
Finally and importantly, the new physics scale behind the flavour paradigm may differ
from the electroweak new physics scale. Despite these caveats, Fig. 5.1 does illustrate the
unique power of flavour physics to probe NP. The next generation of precision particle physics
experiments will probe significantly higher effective NP scales, as discussed in more detail
below.
γ
W
q̃ q̃
W
q q q q
g̃g̃, χ̃
γ
g
Fig. 5.2: On the left, one example of SM contribution to the quark EDM; on the right, one-loop
new physics contribution, exemplified by a generic supersymmetric contribution mediated by
squarks and gauginos.
5.2 Light sector: spectrum below GeV (short-, mid- and long-term)
5.2.1 Electric dipole moments (n, p, charged leptons, atoms)
Electric dipole moments are the P- and CP-odd counterparts (from CPT conservation) to mag-
netic moments. They arise from a set of O(6) a operators in Eq. (5.1) which flip the chirality of a
fermion and involve the EW field strengths and the Higgs doublet. After spontaneous symmetry
breaking they result in a coupling of the fermion spin ~σ to the electric field ~E of the form d ~σ · ~E,
where d denotes the EDM strength.
The EDMs are clean and powerful probes of new physics (NP). In the SM, the EW con-
tributions to quark EDMs arise only at 3 loop-level and are extremely suppressed due to the
chiral nature of the SM flavour changing currents: the predictions lie well below present sensi-
tivities. The same applies to leptons taking into account the known structure of neutrino masses
and mixings. In contrast, most new physics models include new mediators and new sources of
CP violation that can generate EDMs already at one-loop level, see Fig. 5.2. The bounds on
the EDMs thus severely constrain NP scenarios. For instance, in the absence of a suppression
mechanism the new contributions to the EDMs can be easily in the range of 10−23 −10−25 e·cm,
which is already in conflict with the present experimental bounds. Note that the EDMs are null
searches; any nonzero signal at present or projected sensitivities would imply new physics.
The quark (or hadron) EDM and lepton EDM searches are complementary, as they may
test different physics. The leptonic EDM is necessarily sourced by EW physics, while the
hadronic EDMs are sensitive to both the EW and the strong interactions, for instance the θ
parameter of QCD. The EDM searches are also complementary to the high-energy CP probes,
since they probe a different combination of NP parameters. The combination of quark and
lepton searches for CP violation at different frontiers is thus a formidable tool to test for NP.
The current experimental limit on the neutron EDM is dn < 3.6 × 10−26 e·cm at 95%
CL [235], and for the electron EDM de < 1.1 × 10−29 e·cm at 90% CL [262]. These bounds
already test NP at mass scales above 10 TeV and up to ∼ 106 TeV, see Fig. 5.1 (light yel-
low columns). A variety of other systems have also been explored as sensitive probes of
the EDMs: atoms, protons, deuterons, muons and different molecules. The current status of
the measurements is reported in Table 5.1. The European collaborations lead current neutron
EDM searches [233], while the best limits using molecules [262], diamagnetic atoms [263] and
5.2. LIGHT SECTOR: SPECTRUM BELOW GEV (SHORT-, MID- AND LONG-TERM) 69
Table 5.1: Current EDM limits. In the table, Qm denotes the magnetic quadrupole moment, CS
is the scalar form factor, and µN and RCs are the nuclear magneton and the nuclear radius of
133
Cs , respectively. For further details and a complete review of the experimental scenarios see
Ref. [235].
Result 95% u.l. Result 95% u.l.
Paramagnetic systems Diamagnetic systems
199
Xem dA = (0.7 ± 1.4) × 10−22 3.1 × 10−22 e cm Hg dA = (2.2 ± 3.1) × 10−30 7.4 × 10−30 e cm
129
Cs dA = (−1.8 ± 6.9) × 10−24 1.4 × 10−23 e cm Xe dA = (0.7 ± 3.3) × 10−27 6.6 × 10−27 e cm
225
de = (−1.5 ± 5.7) × 10−26 1.2 × 10−25 e cm Ra dA = (4 ± 6) × 10−24 1.4 × 10−23 e cm
CS = (2.5 ± 9.8) × 10−6 2 × 10−5 TlF d = (−1.7 ± 2.9) × 10−23 6.5 × 10−23 e cm
Qm = (3 ± 13) × 10−8 2.6 × 10−7 µN RCs n dn = (−0.21 ± 1.82) × 10−26 3.6 × 10−26 e cm
Tl dA = (−4.0 ± 4.3) × 10−25 1.1 × 10−24 e cm
de = (6.9 ± 7.4) × 10−28 1.9 × 10−27 e cm Particle systems
YbF de = (−2.4 ± 5.9) × 10−28 1.2 × 10−27 e cm
∗
ThO de = (4.3 ± 3.1(stat.)± µ dµ = (0.0 ± 0.9) × 10−19 1.8 × 10−19 e cm
±2.6(sys.)) × 10−30 1.1 × 10−29 e cm τ Re(dτ ) = (1.15 ± 1.70) × 10−17
3.9 × 10−17 e cm
*90% C.L. CS 7.1 × 10−10 Λ dΛ = (−3.0 ± 7.4) × 10−17 1.6 × 10−16 e cm
HfF+ de = (0.9 ± 7.9) × 10−29 1.6 × 10−28 e cm
Table 5.2: Summary of the neutron EDM facilities [265].
Place UCN source sensitivity δ dn start

4
ILL He (SuperSANS) at reactor 10−27 2019
PIK (Gatchina) sD2 at PIK reactor 2 × 10−28 2022
PSI sD2 at Spallation Source 10−27 2019
4
TRIUMF He at spallation source 10−27 2020
4
SNS (Oak Ridge) He at spallation source 2 × 10−28 2022
LANL sD2 at Spallation Source 1 − 3 × 10−27 2019
4
RCNP He at Spallation Source few × 10−27 under study
JPARC Spallation Source few × 10−27 under study
TUM sD2 at FRMII reactor 10−28 > 2022
ILL stack of 100 4 He source/EDM cells 10−29 > 2024
−25
ESS cold neutron beam 10 − 10−26 > 2024
muons [264] presently come from the experiments conducted in the US.
In the short- and mid-term, several neutron EDM projects are in various stages of de-
velopment, as summarised in Table 5.2. In Europe [ID123], they are grouped around reactor
facilities (ILL Grenoble, FRM-2 Munich, PNPI Gatchina) and intense proton-driven spalla-
tion neutron sources (PSI-Villigen, ESS-Lund). Worldwide, there are three important neutron
EDM projects under development: SNS (Oak Ridge), LANL (Los Alamos) and TRIUMF (a
Japanese-Canadian collaboration).
The searches for the EDMs of charged particles such as protons or deuterons can be
performed using the storage rings [266]. The short- and mid-term strategies rely on a step-wise
plan. The preparatory stages include the exploratory measurements by the JEDI collaboration
[267] (using COSY at FZJ) to demonstrate the technical feasibility. Since 2017, the CPEDM
collaboration [268] has investigated options for the design and construction of a storage ring
for EDM measurements of charged states. The construction of the high-precision electric-field
Fig. 5.3: Summary of current EDM limits (empty circles) and short/mid-term planned sensitiv-
ities (full circles) for light quarks, strange and charm quarks, electron, muon and tau [265].
storage ring could start in 2027, and achieve the proton EDM sensitivity goal of 10−29 e·cm, at
the same level as the neutron EDM sensitivity prospects. The prototype ring and the CPEDM
stages are host independent.
The ACME Collaboration [262] has recently obtained a new limit on the electron EDM,
de < 1.1 × 10−29 e·cm at 90% CL [262]. In the mid-term, substantial improvements by a factor
of 10 − 20 in sensitivity are possible with further developments of the ACME technique, al-
lowing to probe increasingly high scales of new physics. Fig. 5.1 illustrates in dark yellow the
substantial improvements expected in the mid-term for the electron and neutron EDMs.
So far, the muon EDM searches have been a byproduct of the muon g − 2 experiments,
as presently pursued at FNAL [269] and projected at J-PARC [270]. In contrast, PSI intends
to exploit their high-intensity muon source for a dedicated muon EDM measurement, using a
compact storage ring [271]. Searches for molecular and atomic EDMs are traditionally done
in smaller groups at university laboratories. In Europe this is, for instance, the case for 129 Xe
and 199 Hg atomic EDM searches at TUM (Munich), PTB (Bonn) and FZJ, or the YbF and
BaF molecular searches at Imperial College London and University of Groningen, respectively.
Some smaller projects must be hosted at radioactive beam facilities such as ISOLDE. Several
EDM experiments also rely on ideal magnetic environments which need advanced shielding
and often use facilities such as the magnetically shielded room, BMSR-2, at the PTB Berlin or
at TUM.
The current EDM upper limits for different fundamental systems and the expected sensi-
tivities at present and planned facilities are summarised in Fig. 5.3.
Extending EDM searches to heavier probes, such as tau leptons and baryons, can provide
qualitatively new BSM probes. These are especially interesting if the structure of the BSM
contributions overcomes the inherently lower experimental sensitivities.
For the tau EDM, searches could be performed in the mid- and long-term at Belle II
or, with even higher sensitivity, at the Super Charm-Tau (SCT) factories, such as SCT BINP
at Novosibirsk [272] [ID49], and STCF/HIEPA in China [273, 274], exploiting the polarised
beams and the large statistics of 1010 τ τ̄ pairs per year.
New ideas for heavy baryon electric and magnetic moment searches via spin precession
of channeled particles in bent crystals are also being considered. These would require extraction
of multi-TeV particle beams, which is being studied at the LHC [275, 276]. It could also open
the door to measurements of magnetic moments of short-lived heavy-quark baryons.
5.2.2 µ → e transitions: short-, mid- and long-term

The searches for charged lepton flavour violation (LFV) probe new physics in a manner that
is complementary to the collider, dark matter, dark energy, and neutrino physics programmes.
They already test NP flavour scales up to 104 TeV (see Fig. 5.1, light blue), while the sensitivity
is expected to substantially increase in the mid-term, as shown in Figs. 5.4 and 5.1 (dark blue).
The highest sensitivity relies on the use of high-intensity muon beams to search for the “golden”
µ → e transitions [ID25].
The short-term prospects for the different muon channels include:
The µ + → e+ γ decay: MEG II at PSI [277]. The signature consists of a back-to-back
photon–positron pair coincident in time, each with an energy of mµ /2. To fully profit from
the high intensity πE5 muon beam (∼ 108 stopped µ + /s), MEG II detector must succeed in
mitigating the dominant accidental backgrounds. For the upgraded detector the improvements
of resolutions by roughly a factor 2 should allow a factor of ten improvement in the expected
sensitivity at the end of the 2020-2023 physics run, giving the projected reach of BR(µ → eγ) <
6 × 10−14 [277].
The µ + → e+ e− e+ decay: Mu3e at PSI [278]. The experimental signature consists of
three time-coincident charged particle tracks from a common vertex, with the energy of the
final state particles ranging from below 1 MeV up to ∼ mµ /2. Excellent timing and vertex
resolutions can suppress the dominant accidental backgrounds, while a very good resolution of
the final state energy successfully controls the intrinsic backgrounds. In principle, the sensitivity
of Mu3e Phase-I is only limited by the maximal muon rate. Commissioning is scheduled for
2021, and after 3 years of operation Mu3e Phase-I aims at a sensitivity of 2 × 10−15 (90% CL)
using the existing πE5 beamline at PSI [278].
The µ − − e− conversion in Al: the neutrinoless conversion process µ − N → e− N has
a clean experimental signature: an outgoing electron with an energy near the muon mass. In
the short term, two experiments, COMET at J-PARC [279] [ID38] and Mu2e at FNAL [280],
are under construction, both based on a system of three solenoids with graded magnetic fields.
COMET Phase-I will first carry measurements of the muon yield and determine rates for var-
ious background processes. With over 109 µ − /s from the 3.2 kW proton beam, the projected
sensitivity is 7 × 10−15 (90%CL). The Mu2e experiment aims at a sensitivity of 8 × 10−17 (90%
CL) [280], with the current FNAL 8 kW proton beam giving 1010 µ − /s.
It is important to note that the programme of the LFV dedicated experiments is versatile
and can be adapted to include other searches. Examples include: searches for exotic light
particles X via µ ± → e± X at MEG II, Mu3e and COMET; dark photons A0 via µ + → e+ ν ν̄A0
(with A0 → e+ e− ) at Mu3e; lepton number violation (LNV) via µ − + N(A, Z) → e+ + N0 (A, Z −
2) and other LFV processes such as µ − e− → e− e− , both at Mu2e and COMET.
We urge the committee to strongly support the continued participation of European institu-
tions in experiments searching for charged-lepton flavour violating µ ! e transitions using
high-intensity beams at facilities in Europe, the US, and Asia, including possible upgraded
experiments
72 at next-generation facilities available the latter half of 5.
CHAPTER theFLAVOUR
next decade at PSI,
PHYSICS
Fermilab, and J-PARC.
Fig. 5.4: Planned data taking schedules for current experiments searching for LFV muon-
Figure 1: Planned data taking schedules for current experiments that search for charged-lepton flavor
electron transitions, as well as the schedules and expected sensitivities for future up-
violating µ ! e transitions. Also shown are possible schedules for future proposed upgrades to these
grades [ID25].
experiments. The current best limits for each process are shown on the left in parentheses, while
expected future sensitivities are indicated by order of magnitude along the bottom of each row.
Mid- and long-term prospects for LFV muon channels: The next generation searches
rely on the advent of very intense muon beams, which can increase the stopped muon rate by a
factor 10–100 [ID25]; these will be available at PSI, J-PARC and FNAL.
10
At PSI, the new High Intensity Muon Beamline (HiMB) project could deliver over 1010
stopped µ + /s. However, going beyond a sensitivity of 10−15 in the µ → eγ decay will require
a new experimental concept. For µ → 3e searches, the upgrade Mu3e Phase-II with larger ac-
ceptance and higher rates can improve the sensitivity below 10−16 , with the physics programme
expected to span the years 2025-2030.
Concerning µ −e conversion, COMET Phase II will reach a sensitivity for the conversion
rate (CR) of CR(µ − e, Al)∼ 2.6 × 10−18 (90% CL), by utilizing over 1011 stopped µ − /s from
the 56 kW proton beam at the J-PARC Main Ring [ID38, ID76]. COMET Phase II (whose
original design [ID38] aims at a sensitivity of 7 × 10−17 (90% CL)) is now being redesigned
to improve to O(10−18 ) for the same beam power [281]. With further upgrades to the beam
(1.3 MW) and to the detector systems, the high-intensity beam provided by PRISM will allow
for the use of heavy targets, such as Pb, Au, and thus to achieve O(10−19 ) sensitivities [ID38].
The Mu2e-II upgrade, with detector and solenoid improvements, will benefit from the increased
proton beam intensity of the PIP-II project at FNAL with 100 kW of protons and 1011 µ − /s. For
a Titanium target the Mu2e-II sensitivity can be improved by a factor ten or more [282, 283].
In the long term, the PIP-II beam at FNAL offers the possibility to study at the same
facility distinct LFV observables, µ → eγ, µ → 3e, µ − N → e∓ N 0 and µ − e− → e− e− , relying
on either pulsed or non-pulsed beams.
5.2.3 Kaons: short-, mid- and long-term

Kaon decays are powerful probes of new physics in the quark sector. The sensitivity of kaon
observables to new physics in general surpasses that of B-meson decays, because of the stronger
flavour (CKM and GIM) suppression factors of the SM contributions. Current experimental
sensitivity already probes new physics scales up to ∼ 105 TeV, as can be seen from Fig. 5.1 (in
light green).
K → π ν̄ν decays are at present the driving goal of kaon physics. Their potential is due to
the excellent theoretical precision, and to the possibility of disentangling different new physics
models. The SM predictions are BR(K + → π + ν̄ν)= (9.31 ± 0.76) × 10−11 and BR(KL →
π 0 ν̄ν)= (3.74 ± 0.72) × 10−11 [284, 285]. An experiment aiming at the 10% measurement
for the K + decay rate is underway, and a discovery experiment for the KL decay is running.
In addition, several KL -dedicated experiments aiming at the 15 − 20% sensitivity are under
proposal, and ultimate experiments aiming at the precision of a few % for both modes are being
discussed.
The charged kaon decay mode has been measured at E787/E949 [286], BR(K + →
−11
π + ν̄ν)= 17.3+11.5
−10.5 × 10 . In the short-term, NA62 is committed to deliver a measure-
ment with O(10%) precision prior to the Long Shutdown 3 (LS3) (preliminary results from
the analysis of 2017 data show two events in the signal region consistent with the SM expec-
tation [287]). A feasibility study is also underway to improve the precision of measurements
at the higher beam intensities available after LS3 [285, 288]. For the neutral decay mode,
KL → π 0 ν̄ν, the dedicated KOTO experiment at J-PARC [ID76] has recently obtained the limit
BR(KL → π 0 ν̄ν) < 3 × 10−9 (90% CL) [289]. In the mid-/long-term, both KOTO as well as
the KLEVER project at CERN [ID153] aim at significant progress. KOTO proposes to reach an
O(100) SM event sensitivity by using the increase of the J-PARC Main Ring power to 100 kW
and by upgrading the experiment [290]. KLEVER [291] [ID153], using the 400 GeV SPS pro-
ton beam, might start data taking during the LHC Run 4 (2026). The benchmark goal is to
collect around 60 SM events in five years of data taking, assuming a delivered intensity of 1019
pot/year. The joint prospects of KOTO and NA62 in the corresponding kaon decay modes, as
well as long term prospects including KLEVER and a second phase KOTO-II (under discus-
sion) [292] [ID76], are schematically depicted in Fig. 5.5. The upcoming results expected from
NA62 and the evolution of the Japanese project will guide the future European steps in this
research field.
Concerning the KS decay modes, the mid-term prospects rely on the HL-LHC. The
LHCb Upgrade II can approach the SM value BR(KS → µ µ)= 5.2 × 10−12 [293], and sig-
nificantly improve the precision of the measurements done by NA48 (e.g. KS → π µ µ, ππee).
The ultimate reach of LHCb Upgrade II could be O(10−15 ) for some KS decay modes [285].
Kaon decays further offer a good laboratory for LFV, LNV and lepton flavour univer-
sality violation (LFUV) searches, given the high statistics, clean signatures and controlable
backgrounds. The K + and KL fluxes allow “parasitic” charged LFV decay searches below the
10−12 branching ratio level [285]. For LNV decays, NA62 has already obtained the bounds
BR(K + → π − e+ e+ (µ + µ + )) < 2.2(0.42) × 10−10 at 90% CL, from the 2017 data set [294].
In the short-term, the full data collected for the latter modes will be about three times larger.
LFUV in kaon decays can be probed via the comparison of the helicity-suppressed widths,
through the ratio R`K = Γ(K ± → e± ν)/Γ(K ± → µ ± ν). In the short-term, both TREK at J-
PARC [295] and NA62 are expected to reduce the current errors, to 2.5 per mille and sub-per
mille level, respectively [285, 288].
New concepts to test discrete symmetries in kaon decays are being considered. As an
example, TREK is exploring T violation in K + → π 0 µ + ν. For the CP violation observables εK
and ε 0 /ε, no significant experimental developments are foreseen. On the theory side, however,
progress in the computation of the weak matrix elements and in the determination of the CKM
angles will play a clear role. In particular, the first SM computation of ε 0 /ε with fully controlled
uncertainties is expected in the short-term [296].
The kaon sector also has a unique role in the determination of CKM elements, including
Fig. 5.5: Educated guess for the future of the K → π ν̄ν decays (shaded vertical and horizontal
regions): mid and long-term (respectively left and right panels) [285]. Original figure from
Ref. [298]: the red region illustrates the lack of correlation for NP models with general left-
handed and right-handed couplings; in green the correlation present in some MFV models; in
blue the correlation induced by the constraint from εK if only left- or right-handed couplings
are present.
new CKM unitarity tests through the emerging kaon unitarity triangle [297] (see Sect. 5.5). The
sensitivity of related kaon observables to new physics scales is illustrated in Fig. 5.1 (present
bounds from kaons and B mesons in light green, LHCb Upgrade-II prospects in dark green).
Ultra-rare KL and K + decays are clearly the most-promising goal of the field. Existing
machines are fully adequate for the next step in kaon physics. However, ultimate discoveries
require very high hadron intensities which could be provided in the long-term by intense, high-
duty-cycle extracted proton beams, such as from the J-PARC main ring, or from the proton
drivers required for a future hadron collider, with a beam power in the MW range.
5.3 Heavy sector (short-, mid- and long-term)

Due to their larger masses, the heavy fermions might offer a privileged handle on the Higgs
couplings and on the origin of the flavour puzzle. The flavour quest in the beauty, charm and
tau sectors is discussed first, followed by that for the top and gauge bosons.
5.3.1 Charm and beauty: short-, mid- and long-term

The flavour physics results obtained at the LHC in the past decade have far exceeded expecta-
tions. A combination of measurements by LHCb and CMS resulted in the observation of the
long sought-after Bs → µ + µ − decay mode in 2014 [300]. Remarkable progress has been made
in CP violation studies in the beauty sector including measurements of the CKM angle γ by
LHCb [301], Bs mixing phase φs by ATLAS and LHCb [302, 303], and the discovery of CP
violation in the Bs system by LHCb [304]. In charm physics, a landmark result was obtained
by LHCb in 2019 with the observation of CP violation [305], opening a new field of study.
Spectroscopic studies also yielded important results, with several new hadronic states found by
the LHCb, including the observation of pentaquark states [306, 307] in 2014 and 2019. The
5.3. HEAVY SECTOR (SHORT-, MID- AND LONG-TERM) 75
s Vts t Vtb∗ b s q̃ b
Bs0 W W B̄s0 Bs0 g̃ g̃ B̄s0
b̄ Vtb∗ t̄ Vts s̄ b̄ q̃ s̄
Fig. 5.6: Examples of diagrams contributing to Bs − B̄s mixing in the SM (left) and example of
SUSY new physics contributions, with a gluino-squark exchange shown as an example (right),
adapted from [299]. B(B0 → µ+ µ-) [10-9]
SM
0.6 ATLAS 1σ
CMS 1σ
LHCb 1σ
0.4
d
0.2
0.0
2 3 4 5 6
B(B0s → µ+ µ-) [10-9]
Fig. 5.7: BR(B0s → µ + µ − ) vs. BR(B0d → µ + µ − ) in the SM (black cross), and in a particular
supersymmetric unified model (green points are consistent with other constraints). The coloured
contours show the expected 1σ HL-LHC sensitivity of ATLAS, CMS, and LHCb Upgrade II.
From Ref. [308].
spectroscopic studies of heavy quark systems are expected to continue in the future at Belle II,
LHCb, FAIR/PANDA...
An important goal of the program is to search for potential new physics effects that could
enter through virtual corrections, see Fig. 5.6 for a Bs − B̄s mixing example. It is important to
stress that there are a number of measurable quantities that are theoretically clean, and where
the knowledge will still be statistically limited after Belle II and LHCb Upgrade I. A list of such
observables, which will actively drive the field, includes the CP-violating phase γ, the lepton-
universality ratios RK (∗) , RD(∗) , etc., the mixing phases in the Bs and D systems, as well as the
ratio of branching ratios BR(Bd → µ + µ − )/BR(Bs → µ + µ − ). A notable target of the physics
programme at the HL-LHC is to probe at the 10% level the ratio BR(Bd → µ + µ − )/BR(Bs →
µ + µ − ), which, in case that new physics deviations are found, is a powerful observable to test
the MFV hypothesis. The expected 1σ sensitivities of ATLAS, CMS and LHCb in BR(B0s →
µ + µ − ) versus (B0d → µ + µ − ) are shown in Fig. 5.7.
Intriguingly, some measurements, in both charged-current and neutral-current semilep-
tonic B decays, hint at a violation of one of the key predictions of the SM: the universality
of interactions for leptons of different generations (LFUV). The statistical significance of the
anomalies is not sufficiently high to claim a discovery, but the situation is very interesting. Re-
gardless of whether or not their statistical significance increases with improved measurements,
the anomalies do demonstrate the genuine discovery potential of the flavour programme at the
LHC. More precise measurements of some of these observables, in particular the LFUV ratios
RK (∗) = Γ(B → K (∗) µ + µ − )/Γ(B → K (∗) e+ e− ) and RD(∗) = Γ(B → D(∗) τ ν̄)/Γ(B → D(∗) `ν̄),
where ` = e, µ, could establish the presence of new physics, even with modest improvements
in statistics. The current experimental situation for RK [309–313] is shown in Fig. 5.8 (upper
panel), and for RD(∗) [314–322] in Fig. 5.8 (lower panel). While the discrepancies are still not
statistically significant, it may be useful to address which type of new physics could explain
them if they do become significant. To explain the RD(∗) discrepancy, new physics needs to
enter at tree-level and be lighter than a few TeV, while for RK (∗) the tree-level new physics can
be as heavy as several tens of TeVs, such as a Z 0 with O(1) couplings. A combined explanation
of both sets of anomalies is possible using leptoquarks. Interestingly, some tensions with the
SM predictions are also seen in the B → K ∗ µ + µ − angular distributions [323–326], possibly
forming a coherent pattern with the LFUV measurements. However, compared to LFUV ratios
the SM predictions in this case do have larger uncertainties due to the presence of charm-loops,
making reliable theoretical description essential for future progress [327–331].
In the short-term, significant progress is expected in the precision of the measurements
for core flavour physics observables, whose knowledge is still largely statistically limited. There
is a concerted effort devoted to extensive studies of the b → s`+ `− , b → d`+ `− and b → c`− ν̄`
transitions, including analysis of B-hadron decay angular distributions. The two dedicated B-
physics experiments, Belle II, the e+ e− superflavour factory operating mostly at the ϒ(4S)
resonance, and the LHCb at the LHC, including its Upgrade I, are aiming at a rich programme
of measurements to be performed, with a high level of complementarity. LHCb benefits from
higher statistics in charged-track decay modes and the access to all b hadrons, while Belle II has
a unique access to fully neutral final states and rare leptonic decays with final state neutrinos.
Belle II is thus expected to notably contribute to the understanding of B-anomalies. The ATLAS
and CMS experiments will continue to contribute to flavour physics, notably in B decays to final
states containing muons.
In the mid-term the LHCb Upgrade II, combined with the enhanced B-physics capabil-
ities of ATLAS and CMS Phase II upgrades, will enable a wide range of flavour observables
to be determined at HL-LHC with unprecedented precision, complementing and extending the
reach of Belle II, and of the high-pT physics programme. Substantially improved tracking sys-
tems and the addition of timing layers in ATLAS and CMS Phase-II detectors may significantly
improve their capabilities for charged-hadron particle identification. The LHCb Upgrade II will
allow the experiment to run at instantaneous luminosities up to 2 × 1034 cm−2 s−1 with a tar-
get integrated luminosity of 300 fb−1 , and thus exploit the full HL-LHC potential in flavour
physics [308, 333]. Generically, and for fixed couplings, the new physics mass scale probed
will roughly double compared to the pre-HL-LHC era, see Fig. 5.1 (light vs. dark green for
mid-term prospects with LHCb Upgrade II).
Very recently, the suggestion that a factor of five increase in luminosity could be achieved
at SuperKEKB was raised, aiming for an integrated luminosity of 250 ab−1 . The clear comple-
mentarity of flavour physics at e+ e− and “pp” colliders makes this possibility appealing. The
major issues related to such Belle III project are the feasibility from accelerator perspective and
the detector challenges when running at 4 ×1036 cm−2 s−1 .
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squared, q2 . Lower panel: status of RD(∗) measurements; the SM predictions are in tension with
the experimental world average at the 3.08 σ level [332].
The HL-LHC, combining ATLAS, CMS and LHCb Upgrade II, has the potential to dis-
tinguish between some well-motivated new physics scenarios. The increasing precision of ob-
servables from measurements of statistically limited FCNC processes will provide significant
improvements in terms of the reach to the energy scale of new-physics. As an example, the
plot in Fig. 5.9 shows the potential sensitivity to the Wilson coefficients C9 (vector current)
and C9 = −C10 (pure left-handed current), for definitions see, e.g., [334]. These fit results take
as inputs the measurements of the branching ratio of the Bs → µ + µ − decay and the angular
observables from the decay B0 → K ∗0 µ + µ − in the low-q2 region. The reach for generic new
physics at tree-level is found to exceed 100 TeV, and in terms of the constraints on new-physics
contributions to the C9 and C10 Wilson coefficients the study shows an approximate gain of
about a factor of two compared to the constraints prior to HL-LHC.
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Fig. 5.9: Combined sensitivity of LHCb, ATLAS and CMS after the HL-LHC phase to potential
new physics in b → sµ µ processes, motivated by recent anomalies (from Ref. [308]). New
physics benchmarks with leptonic vector current (new physics only in C9 ) or pure left-handed
current (C9 = −C10 ), as well as the SM predictions are shown. The observables included are
the branching ratio of the Bs → µ + µ − decay and the angular observables of the decay B0 →
K ∗0 µ + µ − in the low-q2 region. See Ref. [308] for details.
In addition, a wide range of lepton-universality tests in b → c`ν decays can be performed,

exploiting the full range of B hadrons, to probe models of new physics. The copious yields
of semileptonic decays allow high-precision searches to be made for CP violation in B0 and Bs
mixing. In the mid-term, the LHCb Upgrade II dataset will allow the semileptonic asymmetries
for both mesons to be measured at the level of a few 10−4 , giving unprecedented new-physics
sensitivity. Precise measurements of φs and sin 2β will be performed, with strategies to monitor
and control possible pollution from penguin contributions. Advances in lattice-QCD calcula-
tions will also motivate better measurements of other critical observables, e.g., |Vub |/|Vcb |, for
details see Sect. 5.5.
In the long-term, at future colliders, the heavy-flavour physics is expected to be, as it
is now, an integral part of the physics programme. Comprehensive flavour-dedicated studies
at colliders, which are not available for all future projects, would be necessary for a thorough
comparison. According to the studies available, the new e+ e− circular colliders are foreseen
to collect ∼ 1011 and ∼ 1012 Z → bb̄ events at CEPC [ID29] and FCC-ee [75] respectively,
which will result in all species of heavy-flavoured hadrons. The boosted topologies of the decay
particles at the Z energy, in conjunction with the clean e+ e− environment, will be beneficial for
a number of measurements. In this respect, the Bs,d → τ + τ − and B → K (∗) τ + τ − decays are
natural candidates to study. For example about 1000 events with a reconstructed B̄0 → K ∗0 τ + τ −
are expected in the 5 × 1012 Z decays at FCC-ee, which would allow for the first investigation
of the tau lepton polarisation in this mode [335]. Recently, there has been renewed interest
for the Giga-Z programme at a linear collider, i.e., for runs that would collect ∼ 109 Z’s from
collisions with polarised electrons [336]. In general, Tera-Z samples of ≥ 1012 Z’s are needed
to further improve flavour-physics precision measurements and searches for rare decays after
the LHCb Upgrade II and Belle II (and possibly Belle III). In particular, three different tests of
lepton universality can be performed at a Z-factory. Charged current universality tests are best
carried out with the 1.7 × 1011 τ + τ − pairs (precision level 10−5 with Tera-Z samples). Further
tests can be also performed using rare decays of heavy-flavour hadrons from the ∼ 1012 Z → bb̄
and Z → cc̄ decays. In this case there is no benefit from the longitudinal polarisation so that
the polarised Giga-Z sample, with three orders of magnitude fewer events, is significantly more
limited. Neutral current universality can be tested first from the comparison of the partial widths
of the Z into each of the three lepton pairs; a precision better than 10−5 is expected at the Tera-Z.
Here again, the Giga-Z will suffer from 3000 times less statistics. The ratio of vector-to-axial-
vector couplings can be accessed through measurements of initial- and final-state polarisation
asymmetries, as well as forward-backward asymmetries. For such asymmetry measurements
the initial-state beam polarisation brings substantial improvements in the reach. However, these
measurements can be well performed also without longitudinal beam polarisation [75].
In the FCC-hh configuration, a dedicated experiment à la LHCb could be conceived, for
instance at the booster stage of the accelerator complex. Since a number of observables are
expected to have negligible theoretical uncertainties even when compared with the experimental
ones after LHCb Upgrade II, there could be a strong physics case for such an experiment.
The discussion so far focused on the physics with b quarks. A related, yet different probe
of new physics is offered by the charm quark decays. In the SM, the FCNC processes involv-
ing charm hadrons are suppressed compared to those involving strange or beauty hadrons, in
both the mixing and decay amplitudes. The reason is, on the one hand, that the charm quark,
unlike the b and s quarks, can decay inside its own family. The characteristic time for the
FCNC transitions is therefore much longer than the decay time, giving both ∆M/Γ 1 and
∆Γ/Γ 1. This fact is sustained, on the other hand, by the small breaking of the GIM mech-
anism controlled by the b quark mass. The charm FCNCs can then be used as sensitive probes
of new physics in the up-quark sector, to the extent that theoretical uncertainties can be brought
under control, e.g., by constructing null tests, or circumvented by using the experimental data.
In the SM, the size of CP violation in charm decays is predicted to be O(10−3 − 10−4 ),
and may be altered by virtual new physics particles. The first observation of CP violation
in the decay of charmed hadrons [305] opens new opportunities across two-body, multi-body,
direct and indirect CPV. The projected precisions of some analyses performed by LHCb are
shown in Fig. 5.10 (upper panel) and are compared with the short- and mid-term precisions
expected at Belle II and HL-LHC [333]. The available experimental measurements are also
combined to establish the sensitivity to the CP-violating parameters q/p and φ . The lower plot
in Fig. 5.10 shows the projected sensitivity with the HFLAV world average as of 2017 [333].
At an integrated luminosity of 300 fb−1 the sensitivity to |q/p| is expected to be 0.001 and that
to φ to be 0.1◦ . The LHCb Upgrade II will have the power to reach the SM estimates for φ ,
and characterise possible new-physics contributions, if these are not too suppressed. The charm
sector investigation will be exploited at BES III, LHC, Belle II (Belle III) and HL-LHC. The
programme could be complemented by some specific initiatives: TauFV at the Beam Dump at
CERN [ID102] and e+ e− SCT factories. BESIII, and possibly future charm-tau factories, will
¯
exploit the e+ e− → D0 D0 process to perform quantum-correlation measurements.
5.3.2 τ lepton: short-, mid- and long-term

In addition to probing BSM theories, taus offer a good laboratory for EW precision studies and
for many observables (including |Vus |, αs (mτ ) and low-energy QCD quantities) [337].
Lepton universality tests with taus: these are powerful probes to constrain new physics mod-
els (especially those designed to explain LFUV anomalies). The most precise tests rely on
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Fig. 5.10: Upper panel: Predicted constraints on the indirect CP violation asymmetry in charm
from the decay channels indicated in the labels at the bottom of the columns. Predictions are
shown in LS2 (2020) from LHCb, LS3 (2025) from LHCb, at the end of Belle II (2025), and
at the end of the HL-LHC LHCb Upgrade II program. Lower panel: Estimated constraints
for LHCb Upgrade II on φ , |q/p| from the combination of the analyses (red) compared to the
current world-average precision (light blue). Both panels from Ref. [333].
measurements of the tau mass, lifetime and leptonic branching ratios, respectively best mea-
sured by BES III, Belle and ALEPH with world-average uncertainties of 0.007%, 0.172% and
0.178% [33]. In the short- and mid-term, these can be improved by exploiting high lumi-
nosity e+ e− colliders like Belle II [338, 339] and the SCT factories. In the long-term, the
proposed high-energy e+ e− colliders with high-luminosity runs at the Z peak (FCC-ee [75]
[ID132], CEPC [ID29], possibly ILC [340, 341]) also offer opportunities for tests of tau lepton
universality.
Tau LFV searches: In the short-term, Belle II [ID11] has a reach of order 10−9 for τ →
µγ and 10−10 for τ → 3` [339], corresponding to a factor 10-50 improvement. This is illustrated
in Fig. 5.1 (blue), for the reach in new physics scale. Belle II can also search for the rare decay
τ → ργ with a projected sensitivity of 2 × 10−10 (at 50 ab−1 ) [339]. In the mid-term, the
two SCT projects [272] [ID49] and [274] offer favourable conditions for a competitive reach on
τ → µγ. TauFV (planned at the Beam-Dump Facility of the SPS, upstream of SHiP) [ID102] is a
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τ → 3µ, τ → `ν̄ν decays, mτ and ττ [337]. Green denotes current measurements, red points
correspond to estimates of future experimental sensitivities based on dedicated studies (relying
on extrapolation from past established performances) while orange corresponds to estimates of
experimental sensitivities including novel features (for which extrapolation from past experi-
ence is more difficult).
fixed-target experiment designed to search for LFV in tau decays, benefiting from technological
developments being pursued for the HL-LHC experiments [ID152] and future hadron colliders.
TauFV’s sensitivity to the τ → 3µ decay may improve that of Belle II. In the longer term,
runs at the Z pole of FCC-ee (CEPC) can deliver 15 × 1010 (3 × 1010 ) τ pairs [75] [ID29];
improvements of an order of magnitude with respect to Belle II may thus be possible.
Precision tau measurements: In the short-term, Belle II has the potential for im-
provements, at the price of considerable work on the limiting systematics. In the mid-term,
the programmes of the STC factories include precision measurements of low-multiplicity tau
branching ratios, and offer by far the best prospects regarding tau mass measurements [272]
[ID49] [273, 274]: ∆mτ = ±0.012 MeV, due to a reduction of systematic errors (for Belle II,
∆mτ = ±0.10 − 0.15 MeV [339]). In the long term, future e+ e− colliders operating at the Z
pole offer the best conditions for significant advances. For BR(τ → `ν̄ν), both FCC-ee and
CEPC [ID29] can reach a precision of 0.02% [75] [ID29]. For the tau lifetime, FCC-ee aims at
a precision ∆ττ ∼ 0.01% (to be compared with 0.026% at Belle II). For tau mass measurements,
FCC-ee is less performant than the other possible projects: by calibrating on mD+ , it aims at
∆mτ = 0.07 MeV.
A summary of the above sensitivity goals and prospects concerning τ → 3µ, τ → `ν̄ν
decays, mτ and ττ can be found in Fig. 5.11.
5.3.3 The Higgs, top quark, gauge bosons (short-, mid- and long-term)
In the SM the flavour structure is encoded in the Higgs couplings to the fermions.
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plings to quarks and leptons (upper panel), and on select flavour violating decays (lower panel),
adapted from Ref. [343] with further input from Refs. [344] and [345].
Fermion masses. In the SM the diagonalized Yukawa couplings, y f , are proportional to

√
the fermion masses, m f , with a common factor, y f = 2κ f m f /v, where κ SM f = 1; moreover,
there are no tree-level flavour changing couplings of the Higgs. This may change in the presence
of new physics, in which case the couplings of the Higgs to the fermions canj in general take
the form, Leff = −κ fi (m fi /v)h f¯i fi + iκ̃ fi (m fi /v)h f¯i γ5 fi − κ fi f j + iκ̃ fi f j h f¯Li fR + h.c. i6= j . Cur-

rently, only the third generation Yukawa couplings have been measured, having been found to be
in agreement with the SM predictions, while for the Higgs couplings to the first two generations,
only upper bounds exist. Experimentally, a number of SM predictions for the Higgs couplings
to fermions must be tested as precisely as possible: (i) proportionality, y f ∝ m f ; (ii) the factor
of proportionality, κ fi = 1; (iii) diagonality (no off-diagonal flavour violating couplings at tree
level, κ fi f j = κ̃ fi f j = 0); (iv) reality (no CP violation at tree level, κ̃ fi = κ̃ fi f j = 0) [342].
The summary of the expected experimental sensitivies is shown in Fig. 5.12 (upper panel)
using the κ f framework as a toy approximation to show sensitivity in each channel (a global
view of experimental constraints using SM-EFT can be found in Ref. [39]). The sensitivity
in the muon channel is now close to what is required to test the SM prediction for the muon
Yukawa. This will be the first meaningful test of the 2nd generation Yukawa couplings. A
precision measurement does require larger datasets that will be provided in the short- and mid-
term by the LHC in Run 3 and by the HL-LHC. In the mid-term, the HL-LHC will bound
the Yukawa couplings to the third generation fermions and to the muon to a few percent level.
In the long-term, the proposed large scale experiments, ILC, FCC-ee, CEPC, and CLIC can
significantly improve this precision, to below percent level. They would also measure the charm
5.4. FLAVOUR AND DARK SECTORS (SHORT-, MID- AND LONG-TERM) 83
Yukawa coupling for the first time, and probe it quite precisely, at the percent level. A slightly
more modest improvement can be expected at the HE-LHC [39]. In addition, √ at FCC-ee the
upper bound of δ ye /ye < 1.6 can be achieved after one year of running at s = mh .
Flavour violating Higgs decays: for the branching ratios of h → τ µ, τe decays, in the
mid-term HL-LHC is expected to improve the reach by an order of magnitude, to the level
of 5 × 10−4 , see Fig. 5.12 (lower panel). Figure 5.1 illustrates in light (dark) red the scale
reach of present data (HL-LHC prospects). Taking h → µ µ and h → ττ as guidance, one can
expect in the long term another one to two orders of magnitude improvements for h → τ µ at
FCC-hh [39][ID133].
The top quark is unique among the SM fermions, with its O(1) coupling to the Higgs.
Such a large Yukawa coupling for the top is also the origin of the weak scale hierarchy problem
– the quadratically divergent corrections to the Higgs mass are a problem precisely because
of it. It is thus very common for new physics models that address the hierarchy problem to
also lead to modifications of the top quark properties. Studying precisely the latter may in
addition give insight into the origin of the SM flavour puzzle, or at least as to why one and
only one Yukawa coupling is large. Experimentally, new physics is probed using FCNC top
decays, t → cγ, cZ, cg, ch. The present upper bounds on their branching ratios are in the range
10−3 − 10−4 , and will be improved by an order of magnitude or more in the mid-term at HL-
LHC, resulting in about a two-fold increase in the reach to the effective new physics scale, cf.
Fig. 5.1. Also in the mid-term, the reach for t → hc, hu decays is expected to improve by one
order of magnitude from the present 10−3 level, at HL-LHC; see Fig. 5.1 (dark red) for the
corresponding sensitivity to new physics scales. This is expected to be further improved in the
long-term at ILC500 and FCC-hh, see Fig. 5.12 (lower panel; note that for certain channels the
projections for some long-term projects are not available).
The Z boson is also a sensitive probe of new physics: for instance, the observation of
flavour violating Z → eµ, µτ, eτ decays would be a clear evidence of new physics, for instance,
the existence of sterile neutral fermions. The current limits on these decays are O(10−6 −
10−5 ), and could be improved by several orders of magnitude, down to O(10−9 ) at FCC-ee
[138][ID132].
Lepton flavour violating transitions such as e+ e− → e+ τ − would also probe contact in-
teractions. The LFV operators of the schematic form (ēe)(ēτ) could be well probed at future
high-energy e+ e− colliders, and would increase the present bound of ∼ 9 TeV (on the scale of
the contact interaction) to 35 TeV at a CLIC running at 3 TeV [344][ID145].
5.4 Flavour and dark sectors (short-, mid- and long-term)

Flavour physics could be instrumental in searches for dark matter or dark sectors. Light dark
sector particles can be produced in flavour violating rare decays, for instance in B → KXdark ,
B → DXdark , D → KXdark , K → πXdark , either through tree level or one loop mediated emissions
of dark sector particles, see, e.g., Refs. [346, 347]. Such decays are exciting and increasingly
important drivers in searches for dark sector candidates, since they are often the dominant pro-
duction channels. Particles that either carry nonzero flavour or have flavour violating couplings
may thus be produced in the flavour violating transitions at tree level, as for instance, heavy
neutral leptons [348] and the axiflavon [349–351]. Examples of particles with flavour diagonal
couplings, produced in meson decays induced at one loop via W ± exchange, include a light
singlet scalar mixing with the Higgs [352–354], ALPs (axion-like particles) [355], and some
dark matter candidates. It is interesting that even the experiments whose primary goals are in
flavour physics, such as NA62 or the Upgrade II of LHCb, have significant discovery potential
in dark sector searches.
The dark sector particles in the final state, Xdark , may decay back into visible particles and
be detected or, alternatively, result in missing energy and momentum, if they are sufficiently
long-lived or decay to neutrinos. When visible, the vertex may be prompt or displaced, depend-
ing on the lifetime of Xdark . There are a number of proposed experiments, with a clear syn-
ergy between different search strategies, such as searches for displaced vertices, monojets, etc.
In the short-term the existing and approved experiments, FASER [356][ID94], NA62 [357],
NA64 [358][ID9], SeaQuest [359], LHCb, ATLAS and CMS could explore different dark sector
models. In the mid-term the proposed experiments, such as beam-dump mode of NA62 [360],
LHCb combined with CODEX-b [361], Belle II combined with Gazelle, LDMX [362] [ID36],
MATHUSLA [363,364] [ID75], and SHiP [365] [ID12] could explore large regions of presently
unconstrained parameter space, see Fig. 5.13 for two examples, as well as the discussion in
Sects. 6.5.2 and 8.6. Also in the mid-term, Upgrade II of LHCb will have improved sensitivity
to dark photons from D∗ → Dγdark decays or from bump hunting in the µ + µ − spectra. In the
long-term FCC-ee could significantly increase the reach for dark sector masses, e.g. to a further
order of magnitude in mass.
The sensitivity of the proposed experiments to heavy neutral leptons mixing with ac-
tive neutrino flavours is discussed in Sect. 6.5.2. The reach for the case in which they mix
predominantly with the electron, with the muon or with the tau flavour, as well as the present
bounds (shaded regions), are illustrated in Fig. 8.19, Fig. 9.6, and Fig. 5.13, respectively. There
is clearly a very strong potential for a whole suite of experiments. The same holds for other
sample models, for instance for a Higgs-mixed singlet scalar S, shown in Fig. 8.17. While
smaller scale experiments such as NA62++, FASER and CODEX-b can cover substantial parts
of the parameter space for light new dark sectors, the two experiments proposed in this regime
with larger (and comparable) reach in many models are MATHUSLA and SHiP. MATHUSLA
and CODEX-b can also probe dark sector particles with masses above few GeV if they originate
from decays of heavier states, such as h → SS decays (for first estimates regarding FASER-2 see
Ref. [366]). Overall, the combination of LHCb Upgrade II and CODEX-b, and of ATLAS/CMS
and MATHUSLA would cover a very diverse and wide range of new physics options. Heavier
dark sectors can be probed in the long-term at FCC-ee and/or CEPC relying on their expected
large numbers of Z decays.
There is also sensitivity to dark sector mediators in classical flavour observables such as
meson mixings, or (g − 2) of the muon. They can contribute at tree-level, in which case the
flavour experiments can probe very high scales for O(1) couplings, or at loop-level as is the
case for some DM candidates and the accompanying Z2 -odd mediators.
An intriguing possibility is that flavour physics might be directly involved in the struc-
ture of the dark sector or in its cosmological consequences. For instance, the stability of dark
matter could be due to flavour symmetries; striking examples of cosmological consequences of
flavour structures are the option of low-scale (1 − 100 GeV) baryogenesis via heavy neutral lep-
tons [367, 368], or having CP violation solely from the SM sector through meson mixing oscil-
lations, whose signature would be seemingly baryon-violating flavour transitions with missing
energy (such as B → ΛXdark ) [369, 370]. Conversely, a better understanding of the SM flavour
puzzle could potentially come by studying the flavour structure of dark sector.
5.5. THE CKM MATRIX ELEMENTS: PROSPECTS 85
Fig. 5.13: Reach of proposed experiments for heavy neutral leptons coupling predominantly to
the tau flavour (from Ref. [360]), while for electron and muon flavours they are given in Figs.
8.19 and 9.6, respectively. For Higgs mixed scalar the reach is given in Fig. 8.17.
5.5 The CKM matrix elements: prospects

Weak charged currents mix quarks of different generations. In the SM, the strengths of the
corresponding transitions are encoded in the unitary Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa (CKM) ma-
trix [371, 372]. Unitarity, in conjunction with invariance under field redefinitions, implies that
all nine complex elements of the 3 × 3 CKM matrix are described by four physical parame-
ters. In turn, this implies relations between different CKM elements, such as the closure of the
standard CKM unitarity triangle (which may not hold in the presence of new physics). Over-
constraining the apex of the unitarity triangle from tree- and loop-level quark mixing processes
is therefore a powerful way to probe for virtual new physics effects that may arise from mass
scales above those which can be directly searched for at colliders. In many cases such indirect
probes of new physics will not be limited by either experimental or theoretical systematics at
least in the mid-term, i.e., in the HL-LHC era, and potentially even for any long-term programs
(see Table 5.3 for expected improvements in lattice QCD for a selection of observables).
Figure 5.14 shows the projected short- and mid-term improvements on constraints in
the plane of two unitarity triangle parameters, ρ̄ and η̄, using only expected improvements in
LHCb inputs and lattice-QCD calculations, while Table 5.4 gives the expected improvements
by using both LHCb and Belle-II results. The precisions quoted in this table combine statistical
(experimental and/or computational) and theory errors, which are not generally expected to be
Gaussian – hence a careful appraisal of the error budget will become key wherever theoretical
uncertainties contribute heavily. The increased sensitivity will allow for extremely precise tests
of the CKM paradigm. In particular, it will permit the tree-level observables, which provide
the SM benchmarks, to be assessed against those with loop contributions, which are more sus-
ceptible to new physics. In practice, this already very powerful ensemble of constraints will be
further strengthened by complementary measurements from Belle II, particularly in the case of
|Vub | and |Vcb |, where ∼1% precision is expected. Improvement on the determination of |Vcb |
will also greatly impact the constraints on the CKM matrix elements that follow from the mea-
surement of εK . It is worth noting that the longstanding few-σ tension between the exclusive
Table 5.3: Current estimates and projections for experimental reach for a selection of observ-
ables at Belle II and LHCb, including Upgrade II, compared to lattice QCD determinations of
hadronic inputs for the short- and mid-term, taken to be, respectively, the Phase I and II stages
defined in Ref. [308]. It is assumed that the QED corrections to lattice QCD results will be
calculated. For a more complete listing of lattice QCD projections see Table 42 of Ref. [308].
Quantity Ref. present error short-term mid-term

(∆ms /∆md )exp [33] 0.4% - -
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B → π: |Vub |theor [308] 2.9% 1% 1%
B → D: |Vcb |exp [308, 339] 2.0% 1.4% -
B → D: |Vcb |theor [308] 1.4% 0.3% 0.3%
B → D∗ : |Vcb |exp [339] 1.2% - -
B → D∗ : |Vcb |theor [308] 1.4% 0.4% 0.4%
Λb → p(Λc ): |Vub /Vcb |exp [333] 6% 1% 1%
Λb → p(Λc ): |Vub /Vcb |theor [308] 4.9% 1.2% 1.2%
Table 5.4: Relative uncertainties on the predictions of UT parameters and angles, using current
and extrapolated input values for measurements and theoretical parameters (UTfit collaboration,
from [308], with short-(mid-)term taken as Phase I(II) stages defined in [308]).
λ ρ̄ η̄ A sin 2β γ α βs
Current 0.12% 9% 3% 1.5% 4.5% 3% 2.5% 3%
short-term 0.12% 2% 0.8% 0.6% 0.9% 0.9% 0.7% 0.8%
mid-term 0.12% 1% 0.6% 0.5% 0.6% 0.8% 0.4% 0.5%
(lattice-based) and inclusive determinations of |Vub | and |Vcb | has not been resolved yet, and has
to be subject to further scrutiny. In particular, recent progress in the analysis of |Vcb | has not
yielded clear conclusions (see Ref. [373] for a recent summary).
The angle γ is currently the least well known CKM parameter (±5◦ ). In the short-term
both LHCb Upgrade I and Belle II will provide measurements at ∼ 1.5 ◦ . In the mid-term
LHCb Upgrade II will allow for a sensitivity at the sub-degree level. The best sensitivity to
γ is from B → DK decays. The anticipated largest systematic uncertainty will be due to the
external inputs on the strong phase differences in D meson decays, for which BES III and the
SCT factories are expected to provide precise measurements. Table 5.4 shows the foreseen mid-
term impact of experimental and theoretical developments on global CKM fits, as estimated by
the UTFit group [308] (comparable CKMfitter estimates can also be found in Ref. [308]).
The precision measurement of the Bs weak mixing phase, φs , will be another highlight
of the mid-term programme. The expected precision on φscc̄s at the end of HL-LHC will be
∼ 5 mrad for ATLAS and CMS, and ∼ 3 mrad for LHCb. This determination of φs from a loop
induced process susceptible to new physics, will be at the same level of precision as the current
one on the indirect determination (based on the CKM fit using tree-level measurements). This
allows for a precise probe of new physics contributions.
5.6. CONCLUSIONS 87
0.7
CKM ∆md & ∆ms
fitter
0.6 Summer18
γ
0.5 sin 2β
0.4
η
0.3
α
0.2
Vub/Vcb
0.1
γ β
0.0
-0.4 -0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0
ρ
0.45
0.7
0.40
CKM ∆md & ∆ms
fitter
0.6 Phase I
γ 0.35
0.5 sin 2β 0.30
0.4 0.25 α
0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.25
η
0.3
α
0.2
Vub/Vcb
0.1
γ β
0.0
-0.4 -0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0
ρ
0.45
0.7
0.40
CKM ∆md & ∆ms
fitter
0.6 Phase II
γ 0.35
0.5 sin 2β 0.30
0.4 0.25 α
0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.25
η
0.3
α
0.2
Vub/Vcb
0.1
γ β
0.0
-0.4 -0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0
Fig. 5.14: Evolving constraints in the ρ̄ − η̄ plane from LHCb measurements and lattice QCD calcula-
tions, alone, with current inputs (2018), and the anticipated improvements from the data accumulated by
2025 (23 fb−1 ) and 2035 (300 fb−1 ), from top to bottom, respectively. Figures and underlying assump-
tions for future projections from Ref. [333].
5.6 Conclusions
Since the last update of the European Strategy, a plethora of new experimental results has been
achieved in flavour physics. No indisputable evidence of new physics has emerged so far,
though. The rationale for the observed pattern of masses and mixings of quarks and leptons
thus still remains a fundamental open question, which calls for new physics laws. Precision
flavour physics is a fundamental tool to discover them.
The probing power of flavour physics is manifest from the comparative effective analysis
of Fig. 5.1. In the near future, the sensitivities of several observables will reach very high
NP scales, 102 − 105 TeV—scales which are beyond the reach of high-energy colliders. Note
that this analysis does not claim that physics at—or below—the scale depicted is guaranteed to
provide a measurable deviation from the SM. All we claim is that a new physics scale might
be first signalled via flavour measurements. In spite of its caveats, the figure illustrates well
the great physics reach of flavour observables versus that of direct and electroweak precision
searches. Overall, these three quests are complementary and essential.
The field of flavour has been traditionally explored through a wide spectrum of experi-
ments, ranging from low- and intermediate-energies, such as EDMs, dedicated muon, kaon, tau,
charm and beauty experiments, to the high-energy frontier (the LHC experiments), all the way
to feebly interacting particle searches. Measurements by these diverse experiments and facil-
ities lead to valuable complementary information on the different pieces required to assemble
the flavour physics mosaic.
In the short- and mid-term, the expected progress of running experiments, the sensitivity
goals of those already foreseen and the proposed upgrades of existing ones, will enable a wide
range of flavour observables to be determined with unprecedented precision (or establish new
impressive limits).
Searches for EDMs of various types of particles are currently being performed. Sub-
stantial improvements in the short and mid-term are expected: the neutron and proton EDMs
down to 10−29 e·cm, and 10−30 e·cm for the electron. Dedicated searches for charged lepton
flavour violation in the muon sector foresee nominal improvements by as much as a factor of
10 000, owing to the high-intensity muon beam programmes at PSI, FNAL and J-PARC. Fur-
thermore, current hints of lepton non-universality in both charged-current and neutral-current
semileptonic B decays are expected to be unambiguously tested.
In the quark flavour arena, kaon physics proceeds with a steady pace of improvements:
efforts towards a substantial improvement on sensitivity for the K + → π + ν ν̄ decay and a first
measurement of the KL → π 0 ν ν̄ decay are underway. The upcoming results expected from
NA62 and the evolution of the Japanese project will guide the future European steps in this
research field. Heavy quarks, and in general heavy flavour physics will continue to play an
important role also in the post-LHC era. Furthermore, the improvements in lattice-QCD cal-
culations are expected to keep pace with advances in experimental precision, motivating better
measurements of observables critical to test the CKM paradigm. A flourishing new area is also
opening in the mid-term for the exploration of NP in flavourful Higgs couplings, as well as in
top and gauge boson interactions.
The LHCb Upgrade II would allow for the full exploitation of the flavour physics potential
of HL-LHC and increase the explored NP mass scale by close to a factor two with respect to
the short-term LHCb Upgrade I. It would also provide a bridge towards larger scale collider
facilities. Analogous considerations are valid for a possible upgrade of Belle II (Belle III).
Essential to the success of the physics programme is the experiment capability of charge particle
identification and systematic uncertainty control in different environments (pp and e+ e− ).
In the long-term, the heavy-flavour physics is expected to remain an integral part of the
physics programme at future colliders. Experiments at a future high-luminosity e+ e− collider
would perform unique heavy-flavour studies in specific channels. Circular colliders operating
at the Z pole (in particular FCC-ee) can strongly contribute to develop searches for the charm
Yukawa coupling and flavour-violating Higgs and Z couplings, lepton flavour violation and
precision tau physics, and dark sector searches. At a circular high-energy pp collider, the
top Yukawa coupling, flavour-violating top-Higgs couplings, and other heavy flavour physics
program related to b and c quark decays would be best studied with a dedicated experiment,
along the lines of LHCb.
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Furthermore, from both the experimental and the theory side, a novel synergy between
the searches for flavour violating decays and that for feebly interacting and dark particles is
emerging. Searching for exotic signatures in flavour violating decays may have profound im-
plications for our understanding of the Universe, and should be part of any broad program of
searches for dark sectors. High-energy colliders will explore a large number of signatures and
cover a large fraction of the parameter space for the high-mass range (above 10 GeV). Neverthe-
less fixed-target smaller-scale experiments, LHC projects dedicated to long-lived particles and
beam-dump facilities may provide complementary information to explore a lower mass range
(1 MeV - 10 GeV) and open new interesting research lines.
The foreseen unprecedented improvements in sensitivity, together with the novel channels
to be explored, will make the next decade particularly exciting for the flavour physics arena.
In summary, the combination of quark and lepton searches for flavour and CP violation at
different frontiers is a formidable tool to discover new physics. Flavour physics must be a
crucial ingredient of the future strategy of particle physics.
Chapter 6
Neutrino Physics
6.1 Introduction
The discovery of neutrino oscillation proves that neutrinos have non-zero masses. This is one
of the few solid experimental proofs of physics beyond the Standard Model, as new interactions
or new elementary particle states are needed to introduce this mass term in the Lagrangian.
Moreover, the extremely low mass of the neutrinos, well below the eV scale, sets them
far apart from the other fermions. This extraordinary lightness might be related to new physics
at a very high scale, as proposed by the see-saw models. There is the tantalizing possibility
suggested by the leptogenesis hypothesis that the phenomena at these high scales could explain
the baryon asymmetry in the Universe. Moreover neutrinos could be a completely new kind
of particle, a Majorana fermion, identical to its antiparticle. If this is realised in nature, new
processes violating the conservation of the lepton number are possible. For all these reasons,
neutrinos are therefore widely considered as a unique window to BSM physics.
These considerations have triggered a very vibrant experimental program world-wide that
has made rapid progress in the last years. With the discovery of the third mixing angle θ13 the
three neutrino mixing framework has been established.
A new exciting phase of experiments and discoveries opens up, that will be covered in this
chapter. Moreover, as neutrinos are also a special probe of dense astrophysical systems, there is
a strong synergy at many levels with astroparticle physics that will be covered in Chapter 7.
6.1.1 The big questions related to the neutrino masses

Thanks to the recent discoveries in the sector of neutrino oscillations we have now a clear
zeroth-order picture of neutrino properties, which however, raises a number of theoretical and
phenomenological questions: Why are neutrino masses many orders of magnitude smaller than
any other fermion mass in the Standard Model? Are neutrinos their own antiparticles? What
are the actual values of neutrino masses (absolute mass scale and mass ordering)? Is the CP
symmetry violated in lepton mixing? What are the precise values of the mixing angles and why
is lepton mixing so much different than quark mixing? Are there observable deviations from the
standard three-neutrino picture (e.g., non-standard interactions or non-unitarity of the mixing
matrix)? Answering these questions is the main focus of the present and future neutrino exper-
imental program. It is of paramount importance as it offers a unique window on the physics
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6.2. PRESENT KNOWLEDGE OF NEUTRINO MIXING PARAMETERS 91
beyond the Standard Model. Furthermore, the hypothesis of leptogenesis for the generation
of the baryon asymmetry of the Universe links the origin of neutrino mass with the origin of
matter.
The mechanism behind neutrino mass is unknown. To obtain finite neutrino masses, the
Standard Model has to be extended in some way. A minimal extension is to introduce gauge-
singlet neutrinos (so-called right-handed or sterile neutrinos) which would allow to write down
a Dirac mass term for neutrinos, in the same way as for all other fermions. This could indeed
be the only source of neutrino masses, but in this case coupling constants need to be smaller
than 10−11 and lepton-number conservation has to be postulated as a fundamental symmetry.
However, the electric charge-neutrality of neutrinos offers also the possibility of a Majorana
mass term, which would imply that neutrinos are their own antiparticles and break lepton-
number by two units. Many possibilities for generating Majorana neutrino masses are known,
including the see-saw mechanism with right-handed neutrinos and/or with an extended scalar
sector, or radiative neutrino mass models. Therefore, the search for lepton-number violation, in
particular via neutrinoless double-beta decay, addresses a fundamental property of the theory of
neutrino masses.
Neutrino masses by themselves do not provide guidance towards the energy scale of new
physics responsible for generating them. There is a vast range for the scale of new physics
extending from sub-eV up to the GUT scale of 1016 GeV. In order to make progress in view of
this multitude of possibilities a wide range of complementary observables needs to be explored.
These include (i) the search for sterile neutrinos at various different mass scales including oscil-
lations at the eV scale and heavy neutral leptons at collider and beam dump experiments, (ii) lep-
ton number violation in neutrinoless double-beta decay or at high-energy colliders, (iii) charged
lepton-flavour violation, (iv) precision measurements in the neutrino sector, and (v) search for
non-standard neutrino properties such as exotic interactions or non-unitarity of the 3 × 3 mixing
matrix.
Since new states or new BSM interactions are required to explain the neutrino masses,
the experiments must be ready for unexpected phenomena, and if possible provide alternative
complementary measurements to over-constrain the three-flavour parameters. An example of
these phenomena is given by Non Standard Interactions (NSI) between neutrinos and the other
fermions. NSI are today constrained only weakly and they might modify the propagation of
neutrinos in matter.
6.2 Present knowledge of neutrino mixing parameters

The neutrino mixing is described by the Pontecorvo-Maki-Nakagawa-Sakata (PMNS) matrix,
analogous to the CKM matrix in the quark sector, connecting the neutrino mass eigenstates to
the flavour eigenstates. It is parameterized by three mixing angles, θ12 , θ13 and θ23 , and by a
complex phase δCP (two supplementary phases are present in the case of Majorana neutrinos,
but they do not affect the neutrino oscillations). The latter might produce CP violating effects
if it is different from 0 and π. The oscillation experiments are also sensitive to the difference of
the masses squared, ∆m221 = m22 − m21 and ∆m231 = m23 − m21 where m1 , m2 , and m3 are the mass
eigenvalues. The neutrino mass ordering refers to the two present possibilities: m1 < m2 < m3
(normal) or m3 < m1 < m2 (inverted), where by convention m1 < m2 has been chosen, with
∆m221 being the parameter governing the oscillation of the solar neutrinos.
We summarize here the results of a global analysis of neutrino oscillation data in the
92 CHAPTER 6. NEUTRINO PHYSICS
three-flavour framework from the NuFit group [374] comprising all available data from solar,
atmospheric, reactor and accelerator neutrino experiments. Consistent results are obtained also
by other groups [375–377].
To date the determination of the three mixing angles, the complex phase, and the two
neutrino mass-squared differences is given in Table 6.1. The best fit occurs for the normal mass
ordering (∆m231 > 0), while the inverted ordering is disfavoured with a difference of ∆χ 2 = 9.3
between the two hypotheses. The mixing angles θ12 and θ13 are well measured with relative
precision at 3 σ of 14% and 9%, respectively. The uncertainty of the third angle θ23 is relatively
large (24% at 3 σ ) and includes maximal mixing; the best fit occurs in the second octant (θ23 >
π/4), with the first octant being disfavoured with ∆χ 2 = 6. The preferred range for the complex
phase δCP is between 180◦ and 360◦ and CP conservation is allowed with ∆χ 2 = 1.8.
Table 6.1: Three-flavour oscillation parameters from the NuFit-4.0 global analysis [374]. The
numbers in the 1st (2nd ) column are obtained assuming normal (inverted) mass ordering, i.e.
relative to the respective local χ 2 minimum. The best fit point (bfp) is shown as the central
value. Note that ∆m23` ≡ ∆m231 > 0 for normal ordering and ∆m23` ≡ ∆m232 < 0 for inverted
ordering. Details on the parametrization and the used data samples can be found in Ref. [374].
Normal Ordering (best fit) Inverted Ordering (∆χ 2 = 9.3)

bfp ±1σ 3σ range bfp ±1σ 3σ range
θ12 /◦ 33.82+0.78
−0.76 31.61 → 36.27 +0.78
33.82−0.75 31.62 → 36.27
θ23 /◦ 49.7+0.9
−1.1 40.9 → 52.2 49.7+0.9
−1.0 41.2 → 52.1
θ13 /◦ 8.61+0.12
−0.13 8.22 → 8.98 +0.12
8.65−0.13 8.27 → 9.03
δCP /◦ 217+40
−28 135 → 366 280+25
−28 196 → 351
∆m221
−5 2
7.39+0.21
−0.20 6.79 → 8.01 +0.21
7.39−0.20 6.79 → 8.01
10 eV
∆m23`
−3 2
+2.525+0.033
−0.031 +2.431 → +2.622 −2.512+0.034
−0.031 −2.606 → −2.413
10 eV
6.3 Measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters

The study of neutrino oscillations is today focused on the determination of the remaining un-
knowns in the three flavour framework, namely the CP-violating phase δCP , the deviation of
the θ23 angle from π/4 (also called the octant determination), and the mass ordering. This can
be done by the long baseline experiments. Another important task is the high-precision de-
termination of all the mass and mixing parameters. For a recent review on the subject refer
to [378].
The long baseline oscillation experiments will precisely measure the neutrino oscillation
probability beyond the leading order term, for a beam of muon neutrinos.
13
0.08 δ= 0 0.08
P(νµ→νe)
δ = 1/2π
P(νµ→νe)
0.06 δ= π 0.06
6.3. MEASUREMENTS OF NEUTRINO OSCILLATION PARAMETERS
δ = -1/2π 93
0.04 0.04
The probability of electron neutrino appearance in a beam of muon neutrinos is given by:
0.02 0.02
2
sin 2θ13
P(νµ → νe ) = sin02 θ23 2
sin2 [(A − 1)∆31 ] 0
(A − 1)
0 2
1 2 0
sin 2θ
+ α 2 cos2 θ23 2
12
sin2 (A∆E31ν) (GeV)
A
sin 2θ12 sin 2θ13 sin 2θ23 cos θ13 sin δCP
− α sin ∆31 sin(A∆31 ) sin[(1 − A)∆31 ]
A(1 − A)
FIG. 16. Oscillation
sin 2θ12 sin 2θ13probabilities asδCPa function of the neutrino energy fo
sin 2θ23 cos θ13 cos
+ α cos ∆31 sin(A∆31 ) sin[(1 − A)∆31 ]
A(1 − A) 2
transitions with L=295 km and sin 2✓13 = 0.1. Black, red,(6.1) green, and b
1 √
where αand ⇡, 231respectively.
= ∆m2212/∆m , ∆ ji = ∆m2ji L/4EOther
and A =parameters
2 2GF ne E/∆m are
2 listed in Table VII. Solid
31 . The corresponding for-
mula for P(ν̄µ → ν̄e ) can be obtained by reversing the signs of the terms proportional to sin δCP
a normal
and to A. (inverted)
The different mass tohierarchy.
terms contributing P(νµ → νe ), are plotted in Fig. 6.1 together with
the total contribution from matter effects, assuming a baseline L of 295 km.
Solar
0.05 Leading (θ13) 0.01
Total
P(νµ→νe)
P(νµ→νe)
Matter
0 0
CPC
CPV
-0.05 -0.01
sin22θ13=0.1
0 1 2 0
Eν (GeV)
Fig. 6.1: Oscillation probability νµ → νe as a function of neutrino energy with L = 295 km,
sin2 (2θ13 ) = 0.1, δCP = π/2 and normal mass ordering. The contribution of each term in the
FIG. 17. Oscillation probability of ⌫µ !
oscillation probability Eq. (6.1) is shown separately. The first
⌫e as
term in
a function of the neutrin
that equation is shown by
the curve labeled "Leading",
Left: sin2 2✓13 =the0.1, second term is labeled
the oscillation of solar neutrinos),
right: sin2 2✓"Solar"
the third CP-violating13
(so called because
= 0.01.
term (CPV) proportional
θ12 governs
= 12 ⇡ to
and normal hiera
sin δCP is
labeled CPV. The fourth CP-conserving (CPC) term proportional to cos δCP is labeled CPC.
each term of the oscillation probability formula is shown separately.
The first term in Eq. (6.1) (labelled “leading” in Fig. 6.1) is the leading order term and
corresponds to the 1–3 sector oscillations driven by the squared-mass difference ∆m231 . The third
term (“CPV”) contains the CP-violating
TABLE part.VII.
It modifies the leadingother
Parameters order term
thanby as
✓13 much
and as assum
± 30 % for δCP = ∓π/2, respectively, in the case of neutrinos. Matter effects enter through
the A term proportional to the ratio E/Eres , where Eres is the energy for which the resonance
condition is attained in the medium of constant density. Since the resonance condition can be
Name Value
L 295 km
m221 7.6⇥10 5
eV
satisfied either for neutrinos or for antineutrinos, depending on the sign of ∆m231 and therefore
on the mass ordering, matter effects either enhance P(νµ → νe ) or P(ν̄µ → ν̄e ). The A term is
approximately 5% for T2K and Hyper-Kamiokande, about 20% for DUNE.
In principle the precise measurement of P(νµ → νe ) and P(ν̄µ → ν̄e ) allows by itself
to determine all the remaining unknowns among the the neutrino mixing parameters: as long
baseline experiments based on rather pure muon neutrino (or muon antineutrino) beams allow
to conduct this measurement with well-defined experimental conditions, they have received a
lot of attention and are today the central focus of the experimental effort. Today they are a
strategic scientific priority for the international community and will continue to be for the next
two decades.
While multiple ambiguities could play a role in the extraction of physics parameters from
the observables, in practice the impact of these ambiguities will be greatly mitigated by two
facts. First, reactor neutrino experiments have provided a clean and high-precision measure-
ments of θ13 . Second, present and future experiments will provide measurements at different
baselines, and therefore with different strength of the matter effects, going from the shorter
baseline of T2K and Hyper-Kamiokande (295 km) to the longer baselines of NOVA (810 km)
and DUNE (1300 km). This will help decorrelate the effect of CP violation from matter effects.
6.3.1 The present experiments T2K and NOVA

The presently running experiments T2K in Japan and NOVA in the US will continue to produce
world-leading results in the coming years. As reported above, in conjunction with other mea-
surements, the data from these experiments already today provides an indication favouring the
normal ordering at the 3 σ level, and a weak hint of CP violation in neutrino oscillation.
20 20
∆ χ2 to exclude sinδCP=0
∆ χ2 to exclude sinδCP=0
20x1021 POT w/ eff. stat. & sys. improvements 20x1021 POT w/ eff. stat. & sys. improvements
7.8x1021 POT w/ 2016 sys. errs. 7.8x1021 POT w/ 2016 sys. errs.
15 True sin2θ23=0.43 15 True sin2θ23=0.43

True sin2θ23=0.50 True sin2θ23=0.50
True sin2θ23=0.60 True sin2θ23=0.60
10 3σ C.L. 10 3σ C.L.
99% C.L. 99% C.L.
5 5
90% C.L. 90% C.L.
0 0
−200 −100 0 100 200 −200 −100 0 100 200
True δCP(°) True δCP(°)
Fig. 6.2: Sensitivity to CP violation as a function of the true δCP for three values of sin2 (2θ23 )
(0.43, 0.50, 0.60) and normal ordering, for the full T2K-II exposure of 20 × 1021 POT and a
reduction of the systematic error to 2/3 of the 2016 T2K uncertainties. On the left plot the mass
ordering is considered unknown, while on the right plot it is considered known [379].
The J-PARC main ring, presently operating at 485 kW beam power for the T2K neutrino
beam line is currently undergoing a series of upgrades allowing it to reach 1 MW around 2022
and later 1.3 MW in the Hyper-Kamiokande era [ID158]. The T2K Collaboration has submitted
a proposal for an extension of T2K running (T2K-II) accumulating 20×1021 protons-on-target
(POT), that is 6 times the present exposure. This aims at an initial observation of the δCP
parameter at the 3 σ level for a significant range of the possible values (Fig. 6.2) by 2026.
T2K has also launched an upgrade of its near detector complex [380] in order to reduce the
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systematic uncertainties to match this increase of the data sample.

NOVA [ID167] is based on the NuMI beamline operating at 700 kW, with opportunities
to increase to 900 kW by 2021. The NOVA far detector is a 14 kt liquid scintillator calorimeter
located in Ash River, at 810 km from the neutrino source. With its longer baseline NOVA
has interesting sensitivity to the mass ordering. For the currently favoured set of oscillation
parameters, NOVA has potential sensitivity to the mass ordering at 3 σ in 2020, and similar
sensitivity to CP violation by 2024.
6.3.2 Future long-baseline experiments

While the measurements with the existing facilities continue to provide a very important con-
tribution to the field, only for favourable parameters values will the statistical significance of
the measurements of the CP violation and mass ordering exceed the 3 σ level. An almost
complete and reasonably precise coverage of the parameter space will be provided by the next
generation of experiments, Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) in the US and
Hyper-Kamiokande in Japan.
The 2013 strategy recommended that “CERN should develop a neutrino programme to
pave the way for a substantial European role in future long-baseline experiments.” This rec-
ommendation took the form of the CERN Neutrino Platform (NP) that has rapidly become the
hub for neutrino physicists to develop innovative detectors for the next generation long and
short-baseline experiments in USA and Japan, and beyond. The 2013 strategy recommendation
for neutrino physics was further discussed and articulated in a series of Town Meetings jointly
organized by APPEC.
Among the most successful realizations of the CERN NP are the ProtoDUNE-SP (NP04)
and ProtoDUNE-DP (NP02) that demonstrated the feasibility of very large liquid argon TPC.
The NP is involved in the Japanese program with the Baby-MIND detector for J-PARC, the
ongoing upgrade of the T2K Near Detector ND280 (NP07) [380] and supports several other de-
tector R&D relevant for the next generation neutrino experiments. A next phase of the Neutrino
Platform has been recently approved, including most notably a second campaign of test beam
for the ProtoDUNEs until 2021.
There is a wide support of the neutrino community at large, as shown by the recent Neu-
trino Town Meeting in 2018 and its conclusions [ID45], to focus on the long baseline experi-
ments in the US and Japan. Europe should continue to provide a balanced support for DUNE
and Hyper-Kamiokande, to secure the determination of the remaining unknowns in neutrino os-
cillations, aiming at the determination of CP violation and testing the three-neutrino framework.
The DUNE experiment [ID126] is a top priority of the US High Energy Physics program.
It is based on the Fermilab LBNF wide-band beam with an initial beam power of 1.2 MW of 120
GeV protons. The DUNE far detector will consist of four similar liquid argon TPCs, each with
10 kt fiducial mass, placed in the Sanford Laboratory in South Dakota, 1300 km away from
Fermilab. This detection technique will provide “bubble-chamber-like” quality data. Large
prototypes of these detectors, using the Single Phase (SP, wire chambers in the liquid argon)
and Double Phase (DP, gas amplification in gaseous argon on top of the liquid argon) have
been built at CERN: the ProtoDUNE-SP and ProtoDUNE-DP. These projects have been carried
out in the framework of the CERN Neutrino Platform which offered crucial support to these
developments where European teams played a major role. ProtoDUNE-SP has been exposed to
a charged particle beam and has demonstrated performance exceeding the design values. The
construction of ProtoDUNE-DP has been completed and it will be tested with cosmic rays in
the second half of 2019. In Homestake the excavation of the main cavern hosting the DUNE far
detectors has started in 2017, and the next major milestones are the installation of the first Far
Detector in 2022 and the beam readiness for operation in 2026.
Thanks to the very long baseline in DUNE, the matter effects will have a strong impact
on the νµ → νe appearance probability in the far detector, providing a complete coverage of the
q
mass ordering with ∆χ 2 > 5 1 , and DUNE will provide a 5 σ measurement of CP violation
for 50% of all δCP values (see Fig. 6.3). Revised figures for the physics sensitivity will appear
in the DUNE TDR to be released in Autumn 2019.
The Hyper-Kamiokande collaboration [ID158] has been recently formally established and
the project has been selected in 2017 by the Science Council of Japan for its Master Plan. The
detector based on the well-established water Cherenkov technique will have a fiducial mass of
187 kt for one tank, located in the Gifu prefecture close to the Super-Kamiokande site (baseline
295 km). In August 2019 an important step toward the approval of the project was made: the
Japan Ministry of Science (MEXT) officially added to its fiscal year 2020 budget request a part
of the cost for constructing Hyper-Kamiokande. The target date is to complete the detector
construction by 2027. There are plans for a second similar tank, possibly located in South
Korea, at a different baseline of about 1000 km. Concerning the long baseline physics program
the experiment sensitivity allows the establishment of CP violation in neutrino oscillations at
5 σ significance for 50% of the allowed phase-space (Fig. 6.4) for an exposure of 10 years. The
neutrino mass ordering can be investigated either with the addition of a second tank at a longer
baseline or using the atmospheric neutrino sample.
The sensitivities of DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande regarding the possible discovery of
leptonic CP violation and other precision oscillation measurements are quite similar. Never-
theless, given the pivotal importance of systematic uncertainties in these measurements, the
availability of two experiments with orthogonal choices regarding beam design, detector tech-
nology and baseline will be essential for reaching authoritative conclusions [382]. The comple-
mentarity between DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande becomes even more evident for tests of new
physics scenarios: because their relative sensitivities to the standard 3-family oscillation and to
non-standard scenarios, such as e.g. a new type of neutrino matter effect [383], are different,
their combination will allow to probe and characterise new physics effects more comprehen-
sively. Finally, DUNE and HyperK are highly complementary in their physics program beyond
accelerator-based neutrinos.
DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande, as well as JUNO, that will be described below, will also
be the largest and most sophisticated neutrino detectors underground, offering sensitivity to a
range of exotic and astrophysical processes like: the search for proton decay, the study of neu-
trinos produced by core-collapse supernovae (CCSN), and new studies of solar and atmospheric
neutrinos. Proton decay is a generic prediction of Grand Unified Theories. The current best limit
at 1034 years has been established by Super-Kamiokande [384]. DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande
have the sensitivity to increase this limit by an order of magnitude.
The observation of 25 neutrinos emitted by SN1987A has marked the birth of neutrino and
multimessenger astrophysics, as detailed in Chapter 7. DUNE, Hyper-Kamiokande and JUNO
1
For the case of the mass ordering determination, the usual association of this test statistic with a χ 2 distribution
for one degree of freedom is not strictly correct and its interpretation in terms of number of σ of a Gaussian
probability density is not exact. This applies also to the other experiments sensitive to the mass ordering.
Fig. 6.3: Top: DUNE expected sensitivity [42] to

qthe mass ordering (shown as the the square
root of the mass ordering discrimination metric ∆χ 2 ) as a function of δCP for an exposure
of 7 and 10 years. The exposure for 7 (10) years in a staged scenario is equivalent to 336 (624)
kt × MW × years. Bottom: the significance with which CP violation can be determined by
DUNE for 75% and 50% of δCP values and for δCP = −π/2.
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hierarchy [381] for an exposure of 10 years. The mass ordering is assumed to be known.
will be excellent detectors of the neutrinos produced by the next CCSN in our galaxy, providing
complementary samples of several 104 events and allowing to follow the time development of
neutrino emission during the collapse and rebound phases to better understand the still largely
unknown physics of these spectacular stellar collapses. Hyper-Kamiokande will provide the
largest sample due to its large mass, with event-by-event determination of the energy down
to 3 MeV. It will mainly detect anti-electron neutrinos using the inverse beta decay reaction.
In addition it can provide a 1◦ pointing accuracy for a supernova at 10 kpc, enabling multi-
messenger studies. On the other hand DUNE will detect electron neutrinos via νe + 40 Ar →
e− + 40 K∗ . This is particularly interesting because supernova neutrino emission begins with the
neutronization burst, an initial sharp, bright flash of νe from p + e → n + νe .
The European Spallation Source in Lund (Sweden) will provide a 5 MW proton beam.
It has been proposed to use this facility to provide a neutrino beam for long baseline studies
in Europe [ID98] with a far detector located at the second oscillation maximum, where CP
violation effects are stronger. At the moment this project is in its design phase. In the best
case this facility would start several years after the DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande experiments
and would not provide a significantly superior sensitivity to measure the PMNS phase δCP .
However, ESS could be an important test-bed for R&D on new intense neutrino beams along
the road towards a Neutrino Factory. Indeed if, for instance, δCP is close to ±π/2 or if sin δCP
is close to 0, improved precision with respect to DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande should be
considered. A Neutrino Factory [385], where the neutrinos are produced in the decay of muons
in a storage ring, would be the natural next-to-next step for long-baseline experiments beyond
DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande. It would be a unique facility to reach a precision of 6◦ on the
measurement of δCP .
6.3.3 Future experiments with reactor and atmospheric ν to determine mass ordering
The study of the neutrino mass ordering has spurred many new ideas since the discovery of
the last mixing angle θ13 . As θ13 is relatively large, several non-leading effects are within
experimental reach and could allow the mass ordering to be established with new methods.
The Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) [ID10] collaboration is build-
ing underground a large liquid scintillator detector, with a mass of 20 kt. It is located in
China, at a distance of 53 km from two clusters of nuclear reactors. One of the main goals
of JUNO is the detection of antineutrinos from these reactors. At these distances the electron
neutrino survival probability will be modulated by ∆m221 , with slow oscillations, on which a
term governed by ∆m231 will superimpose much faster oscillations with a much smaller am-
plitude. The latter
√ carry information about the mass ordering. In order to do this, an un-
precedented 3%/ E energy resolution has to be reached, which is an experimental challenge.
The measurement of the antineutrino spectrum with excellent energy resolution will also lead
to the precise determination of the neutrino oscillation parameters sin2 θ12 , ∆m212 , and |∆m2ee |
(∆m2ee = cos2 θ12 ∆m231 + sin2 θ12 ∆m232 ) to an accuracy of better than 1%. JUNO will start taking
data in 2021.
Another approach for the study of neutrino oscillations is to use atmospheric neutrinos.
These are produced by the decay of pions created in high-energy cosmic ray interaction in the at-
mosphere. The advantage of this neutrino source is its range in energy (typically from sub-GeV
to hundreds of GeV) and in oscillation length, reaching 12,000 km. The disadvantage is that
this source contains both neutrinos and anti-neutrinos, νµ and νe . Since the large Cherenkov de-
tectors used to detect these neutrinos cannot differentiate between neutrinos and antineutrinos,
matter effects are convoluted with flux and cross-section effects. Moreover, the critical energy
region to carry out this measurement is in the few GeV range, which is difficult to attain with a
sparse detector array. Nevertheless, the IceCube experiment has shown a good sensitivity to the
νµ disappearance. The ORCA experiment [ID84] is part of the KM3NeT project and foresees
to deploy an array of instrumented lines in the Mediterrenean, close to Toulon (France), with a
distance between PMT of about 10 m. Sensitivity studies show that this detector might provide
a 3 σ measurement of the mass ordering after 3 years of data-taking. The detector construction
has started and the target date for its completion is 2024. A new neutrino beam from Protvino
(Moscow) to ORCA has been proposed [ID124] with a baseline of 2595 km. The detector
configuration, performance and physics case need to be established and studied in more detail.
6.3.4 Precision flux and cross-section measurements

A crucial point for the overall neutrino program is the precision knowledge of neutrino fluxes
and cross sections. Indeed, as the modulation of the νµ → νe appearance probability induced
by the PMNS δCP phase is about 30% on the first oscillation maximum, the precision extraction
of oscillation parameters requires good control of the interaction rates, at the percent level, to
be compared to the current level of 5-7% reached for instance by T2K.
This impressive reduction of the systematic uncertainties requires a fully-fledged pro-
gramme to develop new techniques and detectors, innovative measurements and phenomeno-
logical models. Europe, and CERN in particular, could play a crucial role in implementing this
program on the basis of the present expertise, and of existing or new facilities. In the following
we will briefly sketch some important developments along this road.
The neutrino beams used in long baseline experiments rely on the production of hadrons
by impinging a primary proton beam on a target. The precise knowledge of the hadroproduction
cross section is a crucial ingredient to improve the precision on the neutrino fluxes. Europe has
a unique facility with the CERN NA61/SHINE experiment [ID13] at the SPS, capable of large
acceptance and high resolution, that has already produced several crucial measurements for
T2K. It plans to upgrade its detector and to continue its program of measurements with replica
targets for the DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande experiments.
The ENUBET (NP06) [ID57] collaboration proposes a dedicated facility to precisely

measure the νµ and νe cross section improving by an order of magnitude over the present
knowledge. They propose to do so with a combination of narrow-band neutrino beams and
monitored beams, instrumenting the decay tunnel with a segmented calorimeter.
The νSTORM [ID154] collaboration proposes a new facility capable of delivering a pre-
cisely (1%) known neutrino beam. It relies on a new concept, where the neutrinos are produced
in a storage ring by the decay of muons. Besides precise neutrino-nucleus cross sections use-
ful for DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande, the νSTORM facility can also be used for searches for
sterile neutrinos beyond the capabilities of the Fermilab short baseline experiments and can
also serve as the test facility for the development of a neutrino factory and muon accelerators
towards a multi-TeV lepton-antilepton collider. The operation of ENUBET and/or νSTORM by
2027 would maximize the impact of these measurements for the world neutrino program. Both
νSTORM and ENUBET are to a large extent site-independent concepts, studies and R&D;
however both consider a possible implementation at CERN. For νSTORM, under the auspices
of the PBC program, an initial study of implementation at CERN was carried out, and no show-
stoppers have been identified. For ENUBET the option of using SPS as the proton driver has
been considered in greater detail with a possible site in the North Area and the ProtoDUNEs as
neutrino detectors. A dedicated study should be set-up to evaluate the possible implementation,
performance and impact of a percent-level electron and muon neutrino cross-section measure-
ment facility (based on e.g. ENUBET or νSTORM) with conclusion in a few years time.
Together with these developments aimed at precisely known neutrino fluxes and cross sec-
tions, a corresponding development plan is unfolding for high precision near-detectors [ID106,
ID131] [380] and for the development of precise and reliable neutrino interactions models [386].
The latter point will require a close collaboration and much increased effort between neutrino
physicists, nuclear physicists and phenomenologists, where Europe is today playing a leading
role and can continue to do so in the future provided the community receives the much needed
support.
6.4 Determination of neutrino mass and nature

The absolute values of neutrino masses and the neutrino nature (Dirac versus Majorana) are
among the most fundamental open questions in physics today. The determination of these
neutrino properties will be an essential ingredient to understand the origin of neutrino mass, and
the role of neutrinos in the Universe. Due to their abundance and their being initially relativistic,
neutrinos play a crucial role in large-scale structure formation of the Universe. Their potential
Majorana nature would be a key to solve the puzzle of the matter-antimatter asymmetry of the
Universe.
6.4.1 Cosmology
Cosmological observations themselves provide powerful probes of the neutrinos mass. They
are mainly based on the fact that neutrinos, due to their relativistic velocities and large free-
streaming lengths, prevent the formation of small-scale structures in early epochs of the uni-
verse. Current limits based on the Planck satellite set limits of mν = ∑i mνi < 230 − 540 meV
(95% CL) [388]. Future surveys, such as the imaging and spectroscopic space telescope EU-
CLID [389] (to be launched in 2022 for a six year mission), aim for the first time at an actual
measurement of the neutrino mass with a precision of σ (mν ) = 10 meV. It is important to
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sus the mass of the lightest eigenstate [387]. The limits from the current and future experiments
are shown.
note that, despite their sensitivity, these results will depend on the underlying cosmological
model, and could be affected by degeneracies with other cosmological parameters [390, 391].
This stresses the importance of performing the measurement of the absolute neutrino masses
both via cosmological observables and with the even more challenging direct methods. A good
agreement between these two approaches would be a crowning confirmation of the cosmologi-
cal model.
6.4.2 Neutrinoless double beta decay

The neutrinoless double β -decay (0νβ β ) is a unique probe of the nature of neutrinos. Dis-
covering this process would indeed prove that neutrinos are Majorana particles and hence that
lepton number is violated in Nature. This discovery would in addition provide insight into the
absolute neutrino mass scale.
The half-life for this process T1/2 is inversely proportional to the square of the Majo-
rana neutrino mass mβ β = | ∑i Uei2 mi |. The predictions for mβ β depend on the neutrino mass
spectrum. For the inverted ordering there is a lower bound of 15 meV, while for the normal
ordering mβ β can go from the current bounds to zero, for specific values of the neutrino masses.
Apart from light Majorana neutrinos, other lepton number violating mechanisms can mediate
this process.
The current best neutrino mass limit of mβ β = 50 − 160 meV is provided by the KamLand
Zen experiment [392] in Japan. The best half-life sensitivity of T1/2 > 11×1025 years (90% CL)
was achieved by the G ERDA experiment [393] (LNGS, Italy). Thanks to their scalability, future
0νβ β experiments plan to reach sensitivities down to mβ β ≈ 10 meV, covering the allowed
parameter space for inverted neutrino mass ordering (Fig. 6.5).
The European roadmap for this experimental program is presently being developed un-
der the aegis of APPEC. The next-generation LEGEND experiment [394], successor of the
G ERDA [395] and M AJORANA [396, 397] experiments, targets to operate 1000 kg of Ge-
semiconductor detectors (enriched in 76 Ge) to reach a 3σ discovery sensitivity of > 1028 years,
corresponding to a mass limit of mβ β < 10 − 17 meV. The nEXO experiment [398], successor
of EXO [399], plans to instrument a 5-tonne liquid xenon (enriched in 136 Xe) time projection
chamber to reach a 3 σ discovery sensitivity of 5.6 × 1027 years, corresponding to a mass limit
of mβ β < 5.7 − 17.7 meV. NEXT [400] explores an alternative approach based on gaseous
xenon TPC, which has advantageous features both with respect to energy resolution and back-
ground suppression. It is interesting to note that also future xenon-based dark matter experi-
ments, such as DARWIN [401], may have competitive sensitivity to 0νβ β . The next-generation
CUPID experiment [402], the successor of CUORE [403], plans to employ cryogenic detectors,
which allow for both heat and light signal readout. Promising results have been obtained with
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2 MoO4 [406] crystals.
6.4.3 Direct neutrino mass experiments

The least model-dependent technique to determine the absolute neutrino mass scale is based
on the kinematics of single-β -decay [407]. Here, the impact of the so-called effective electron
(anti-)neutrino mass m2νe = ∑i |Uei |2 m2νi is a reduction of the kinematic endpoint energy E0 and
a distortion of the beta-decay spectrum close to this endpoint.
Single-β -decay experiments are also ideally suited to perform searches for eV- to keV-
scale sterile neutrino searches. These hypothetical neutrinos would manifest themselves as
spectral distortion at an energy E = E0 − ms , where ms is the mass of the sterile neutrino. These
searches are highly complementary to oscillation-based searches [408, 409].
The Karlsruhe Tritium Neutrino (KATRIN) experiment, a large-scale tritium beta decay
experiment [410], started data taking in 2019. KATRIN combines an ultra-luminous gaseous
tritium source (1011 decays per second) with a high-resolution magnetic-adiabatic collimation
and electrostatic filter [411–413]. The design sensitivity of 200 meV (90% CL) will be reached
after 5 calender years of data taking.
A complementary approach is pursued by the ECHo [414] and Holmes [415] experiments,
which exploit the electron-capture decay of 163 Ho. New ideas based on cyclotron emission
spectroscopy (CRES) and the usage of atomic tritium are being explored by Project-8 [416] to
push the sensitivity beyond the degenerate mass regime to about 40 meV (90% CL).
6.5 Search for new neutrino states

An important question in neutrino physics is whether the 3-neutrino paradigm is complete or
whether new neutrino states exist in Nature. Their masses can range from the sub-eV scale
up to the GUT scale. In the context of oscillation experiments eV to keV mass neutrinos are
conventionally called sterile neutrinos, while heavier neutrino states with masses above MeV
are often called Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNL).
6.5.1 Searches for sterile neutrinos

The hypothesis of sterile neutrinos is in part motivated by the LSND, MiniBooNE, Reactor,
and Gallium anomalies: these are results from short baseline accelerator-, reactor-, and source-
based experiments that cannot be interpreted in terms of three neutrino mixing. However there
is strong tension between electron neutrino appearance and muon neutrino disappearance results
and even with several new neutrino states, sterile neutrino oscillations are unable to explain all
the experimental data. Each of these anomalies is at the 2–4 σ level: they motivated a program
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of new experiments to understand the nature of the anomalies.

A host of reactor-based experiments are now underway at both power and research re-
actors to look for anti-electron neutrino disappearance. The experiments NEOS (South Ko-
rea), DANSS (Russia), Neutrino-4 (Russia), SoLiD (Belgium), STEREO (France), and Prospect
(US), have presented first results which provide hints and limits, and continue collecting data
for more definitive results. Some of these experiments, for example the Prospect experiment,
are also performing measurements which will inform and constrain the prediction for the un-
oscillated reactor flux.
A series of accelerator-based experiments [ID137] at Fermilab in the US are addressing
the accelerator based anomalies. The MicroBooNE experiment uses the same neutrino beam
as MiniBooNE, but a different detector technology, liquid argon Time Projection Chambers,
to address the low-energy excess observed by MiniBooNE. While MicroBooNE is running
and first results are anticipated soon, the SBND and ICARUS experiments, representing the
second phase of this programme, are under construction and installation. SBND serves as a
near detector to measure the un-oscillated flux and ICARUS as a large mass far detector to fully
address the LSND anomaly. ICARUS has benefited from CERN support (WA104, NP01) to
move the existing detector from LNGS to CERN, overhaul it, and move it to Fermilab.
In addition to these dedicated experiments, there are a number of other experiments which
can help understand the anomalies. These include the MINOS+ experiment at Fermilab, Ice-
Cube (South Pole), the KATRIN (Germany) and 163 Ho neutrino mass experiments, and results
from cosmology. The BEST source experiment is in the planning stage and the JSNS2 exper-
iment, a direct test of LSND, is about to start running in J-PARC (Japan). Results from these
experiments in the upcoming years should help to clarify the situation, be it in terms of new
physics or of other explanations.
6.5.2 Searches for Heavy Neutral Leptons

Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNLs) are the simplest extension envisaged to the SM: there are sev-
eral specific models that predict the existence of HNLs, such as the νMSM [368], Left-Right
symmetric model [417–419], some SUSY scenarios [420] and several others (see for instance
[367, 421]). Particularly interesting are models predicting the existence of these particles below
the electroweak breaking scale where they can be searched for experimentally. If the mass of
HNLs is in the GeV region they can be produced in meson decays, such as D+ +
s → µ N. HNLs
2
decay by mixing with active neutrinos, where U` gives the mixing probability with an active
neutrino of a specific flavour. Notice that the full process might violate lepton flavour and lepton
number conservation. HNLs have been searched for at colliders (see [422–424]). In addition,
sensitivity studies have been performed for the FCC [425–427] The FCC has the possibility to
set strong constraints on HNLs for masses above a few tens of GeV and below the Z mass. In
the region below 10 GeV the lifetime of HNLs becomes in general very long such that exper-
iments with large fiducial volume, like those designed for searches for hidden sector particles,
are optimal. Proposals for the LHC-based experiments FASER [356], MATHUSLA [428] and
CODEX-b [361], include sensitivity studies for HNLs. Their experimental signature consists
of isolated displaced vertices. The critical parameters in these experiments are the size of their
fiducial volume and the distance from the interaction point. These parameters have to be bal-
anced with the level of background, and the possibility to measure momentum and identify the
decay channels. While MATHUSLA has the best sensitivity among such experiments because
of the large decay volume, it does not allow measuring of decay channels, therefore HNL-
signatures are indistinguishable from other hidden sector particles. On the other hand FASER,
which allows measuring final states and masses, has a small fiducial volume and therefore a
limited sensitivity.
Proton beam-dump experiments allow both issues to be addressed simultaneously, i.e.
they have a relatively large acceptance while allow measuring mass and final states of the signal.
The NA62 experiment at the SPS of CERN [429] is collecting data and its primary goal is
to measure rare decays of K-mesons. In addition, NA62 plans to run in beam-dump mode
(NA62++ ), collecting roughly 1018 protons on target (POT) during the LHC Run 3 (2021-2023).
This would allow to set limits in a presently unconstrained region.
SHiP [430] is a beam-dump experiment designed and optimised to search for Hidden Par-
ticles. It will take advantage of the high-intensity proton beam of the Beam-Dump Facility [431]
(BDF) under study in the context of the Physics Beyond Collider activity, that would allow start-
ing data taking in the LHC Run 4 of the CERN accelerator schedule. SHiP will accumulate the
full statistics of NA62++ every few days, thanks to the larger acceptance and beam intensity
(2 × 1020 POT in 5 years). Figures 8.19, 9.6 and 5.13 in chapters 8, 9 and 5, respectively, show
the sensitivity as a function of the mass of HNLs and the mixing angle with active electron,
muon and tau neutrinos, for various planned and proposed experiments. Note that thanks to the
high proton intensity of the primary beam, neutrino experiments are competitive in searching
for HNLs in the near detectors, as demonstrated in [432–434].
6.6 Conclusions
The study of the neutrino nature and properties, motivated by the unique window that this
particle offers on BSM physics, is entering a new phase with a rich array of experiments using
neutrinos from accelerators but also from other sources (atmospheric, solar, reactor, cosmic).
The first priority is today on the completion of the program of measurements of the oscil-
lation parameters, most notably the CP-violating phase of the mixing matrix and the neutrino
mass ordering. Two strong and complementary experimental programmes are in preparation
towards this goal in the US and Japan with the DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande experiments.
Following the recommendations of the 2013 European Strategy, there is a strong participation
of European physicists in both programmes, benefiting of CERN support, most notably through
the CERN Neutrino Platform. This approach receives today the support of the neutrino commu-
nity at large as shown by the recent Neutrino Town Meeting in 2018 and its conclusions [ID45].
A balanced support to this world-wide effort from Europe will allow to secure the determina-
tion of the oscillation parameters, aim at the discovery of CP violation and test for possible
deviations from the three-neutrino framework.
To extract the most physics out of DUNE and Hyper-Kamiokande, a complementary pro-
gram of precision supporting measurements is needed. NA61 and its upgrade are an important
component of this programme for the determination of the neutrino fluxes. A study should be
set up to evaluate the possible implementation and impact of a facility (based on the ENUBET
or νSTORM concepts) to measure the neutrino cross sections at the percent level.
Other important complementary experiments are in preparation in China (JUNO) and in
Europe with the KM3NeT/ORCA programme, using reactor and atmospheric neutrinos respec-
tively. They have the potential to discover the mass ordering and to do other precision oscillation
measurements. The study of the neutrino absolute mass and nature (Dirac or Majorana) is the
other priority in the field, covered by both laboratory and cosmology measurements.
Chapter 7
Cosmic Messengers
From the early observation of a supernova by Tycho Brahe in 1572 to the recent observation in
2017 of a neutron star merger with both gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves ranging
from γ rays to infrared, the cosmos has always been a rich source of unexpected phenomena
and wide-ranging discoveries. Some of these had a deep impact on our understanding of the
physical world and its fundamental laws.
This is also true in the realm of particle physics, where many new particles were discov-
ered with cosmic rays. Neutrino oscillations are a case in point, as their study was motivated
for a long time by the puzzles posed by solar and atmospheric neutrinos. Cosmic rays are accel-
erated to energies far beyond the reach of present and future accelerators by processes that are
still largely unknown. They offer therefore the possibility to test particle physics in an otherwise
inaccessible domain, both in terms of energies and of cosmological propagation distances.
Numerous observatories have inaugurated a new way of observing the Universe through
various messengers that appear tightly related one to the other: cosmic rays (Pierre Auger),
gamma-rays (Fermi from space and the ground based MAGIC, H.E.S.S. and VERITAS) and
cosmic neutrinos (IceCube and ANTARES), recently discovered by IceCube.
With the discovery of gravitational waves, LIGO and Virgo proved them to be power-
ful messengers as well, and additionally probes for fundamental properties of nature and for
cosmology. On 17 August 2017 Adv. LIGO and Adv. Virgo observed the gravitational wave
event GW170817 from a binary neutron star in-spiral at a distance of ∼ 40 Mpc. Fermi-GBM
(Gamma-ray Burst Monitor) detected a short gamma-ray burst GRB 170817A 1.7 s after the
GW merger with a location compatible to the region of provenance established by LIGO/Virgo.
This confirmed the model that short gamma-ray bursts are caused by neutron star mergers.
Additionally, this event improved fundamental physics limits on the speed of gravity,
equivalence principles, Lorentz invariance, alternatives to General Relativity, the Hubble con-
stant and r-process nucleosynthesis. Given the exciting science behind these observations,
the ground-based observatories with large European components are upgrading their detec-
tors (Pierre Auger, IceCube, GVD, Adv. Virgo), others are starting construction (KM3NeT and
CTA) and new infrastructures are being proposed (ET). The simultaneous observation of cosmic
events with multiple messengers provides new insights in the astrophysical properties of com-
pact objects and also stringent tests of physical laws and particle properties, and additionally
contributes to the search for dark matter with the potential of probing its particle or non-particle
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Fig. 7.1: Distance horizon at which the Universe becomes optically thick to electromagnetic ra-
diation. The Universe is transparent to gravitational waves and neutrinos, making them suitable
probes of the high-energy sky.
nature and its location in the Universe.

In this chapter the various fields and the observatories most relevant for this Strategy
update are briefly reviewd, before concluding with some considerations on the synergy with
particle physics. The European roadmap for this field has been discussed and prepared by
APPEC [ID84].
7.1 Ultra-High Energy charged particles

Cosmic accelerators deliver the highest energy atomic nuclei, single protons, photons, and neu-
trinos for probing new physics. The physics scope of the research field “Ultra-High Energy
Cosmic Rays” (UHECR) is focused on the detection of cosmic rays of energies above PeV
and the related physics questions. The detection is performed with large-scale experimental
infrastructures via the observation of extensive air showers generated by the impinging primary
particles. Approximately 98% of the flux corresponds to hadronic particles, and less than 1%
to antimatter, photons or neutrinos.
The main goals of the research are the characterization of the particles reaching the Earth’s
atmosphere and the unveiling of their sources, the understanding of the acceleration and prop-
agation physics of these particles, the search for extreme high-energy neutrinos and photons,
as well as the study of particle physics at energies and in phase-space regions not accessible at
man-made accelerators, i.e. interaction physics and cross section measurements with energies
typically above 100 TeV. Furthermore, the observatories of UHECR are important instruments
for the multimessenger observations of the Universe due to their capabilities in extending the
energy range on photon and neutrino diffuse fluxes compared to dedicated gamma-ray and neu-
trino facilities as well as the study of possible ultra-high energy neutrino and photon signals in
correlation with gravitational wave events. In addition, this allows also an extension of the mass
range in indirect searches of dark matter.
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The interpretation of air shower data heavily relies on our knowledge of particle interac-
tion, production, and decay over a very wide range of energies and phase-space regions. Particle
physics theory and measurements made at accelerators provide indispensable and complemen-
tary input for understanding extensive air showers. Here the role of fixed-target and collider ex-
periments for providing important data is recognized and a coherent measurement programme
included in the plans for accelerator-based experiments would significantly improve the accu-
racy of the UHECR measurements. In particular, the research field supports plans of an LHC run
with light ions, like proton-oxygen (and further O-O, N-N and Si-Si collisions), which would fill
a very important gap in data needed for air shower physics. Similarly, fixed-target and collider
measurements with very good forward coverage for hadron production will be very valuable.
Such an experimental programme and corresponding joint theoretical studies of questions in
the overlap region between particle and astroparticle physics is of fundamental importance for
making scientific progress. One example is the development and tuning of hadronic event gen-
erators needed in high-energy physics and air shower simulations (like EPOS). To mention just
one aspect, both theoretical and experimental work is needed to address the well-established
muon discrepancy in air showers. While the measured muon excess relative to predictions is
probably related to shortcomings in the simulated hadronic interactions it could also indicate
new particle physics at energies beyond the reach of LHC.
At the same time, studying UHECR generated air showers provides a window to energies
far beyond those accessible at existing accelerators and also emphasises phase-space regions
of particle production that cannot be covered in collider experiments. Important here are the
measurements of proton-air cross sections above 20 TeV c.m. energy. Moreover, cosmic-ray
generated air showers provide a very good possibility for searching for physics beyond the
Standard Model for various classes of models, including production of micro-black holes, mag-
netic monopoles, other heavy states and violation of Lorentz invariance. The combination of
UHECR data with astrophysical information, in addition, gives physics reach to fundamen-
tal phenomena, like providing important constraints on theories of quantum gravity involving
Lorentz invariance violation.
7.2 High-Energy gamma rays

The physics with high-energy gamma rays was not covered in the Open Symposium at Granada
due to lack of time but a short section is included here due its relevance for particle physics. The
physics questions answered by these observatories include the study of the sites and mechanisms
of high-energy particle acceleration in the Universe, the physical processes at work close to
neutron stars and Black Holes, the nature of dark matter, and the search for axion-like particles
and for quantum gravitation effects on photon propagation [435].
This messenger is studied both by satellites like Fermi in the lower energy range (100 MeV
to 100 GeV) and by ground-based telescopes like MAGIC, VERITAS and H.E.S.S. (10 GeV to
100 TeV). The latter detect Cherenkov radiation generated by the cascade of relativistic charged
particles produced when a high-energy gamma ray strikes the atmosphere. The present sensi-
tivity will be greatly extended by the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory, both in
energy (up to 300 TeV), flux and angular resolution. CTA is today under construction and will
be based in two sites, one in the Northern Hemisphere and one in the Southern Hemisphere.
Among the most significant results are the limits on dark matter by searching for cosmic
radiation emitted from annihilations of pairs of WIMPs in surrounding regions of the Universe
with a high dark matter density. These results are discussed in Chapter 9. Another interesting
result is the discovery in 2016 by H.E.S.S. of a PeVatron accelerator close to the Galactic Center.
As discussed below, gamma rays are an important component of multimessenger studies.
Apart from the obvious impact of these results on particle physics, similarly to the physics
of cosmic rays, the detailed quantitative understanding of hadron interactions at high energy
provided by the LHC experiments is of great relevance to these experiments, as it feeds into the
discrimination methods between gammas and charged hadrons.
7.3 Ultra High Energy neutrinos

Cosmic accelerators also deliver the highest energy neutrinos for probing new physics. The op-
eration of a generation of detectors such as ANTARES in the Mediterranean, GVD in Lake
Baikal and IceCube at the South Pole has already yielded new results relevant to particle
physics, as was once the case in the pioneering days of cosmic ray physics. Neutrino physics
beyond the Standard Model tops their list of the big questions to be explored. In the next few
years, two deep-sea sites will be deployed for KM3NeT-ORCA and KM3NeT-ARCA. Together
with the IceCube Upgrade, IceCube-Gen2, HyperK and the future GRAND proposal, these am-
bitious projects will lead the assault exploiting the atmospheric neutrino flux and cosmic events,
as SuperK, ANTARES and IceCube are doing today.
Specifically, these experiments have a unique capability to improve the precision of atmo-
spheric tau-neutrino appearance measurements. These are complementary to the accelerator-
based programme because tau neutrinos are scarce in the existing neutrino beams. Already,
IceCube is performing competitive measurements of the oscillation parameters with neutrinos
in the energy range of 5 to 55 GeV, an order of magnitude above the energy of all present ex-
periments, with the primary goal of detecting variations in the oscillation parameters, signaling
new physics. KM3NeT-ORCA will be densely configured to determine fundamental properties
of atmospheric neutrino oscillations. It has a window of opportunity to be the first experiment
to determine the neutrino mass ordering, as discussed in Chapter 6.
More than fifty years after pioneering experiments in deep underground mines in India and
South Africa revealed atmospheric neutrinos, the IceCube neutrino telescope discovered a new
flux for neutrino physics of extragalactic origin reaching energies over five orders of magnitude
higher in energy than those of the highest energy neutrinos produced in the laboratory and ten
million times those that reached us from Supernova 1987A [436]. The observations led to the
first identification of a cosmic ray source [437], a rotating supermassive Black Hole at a distance
of 4 billion lightyears. IceCube performed the first oscillation measurements over cosmic dis-
tances and found evidence for the appearance of tau neutrinos, including one event where a tau
travels 17 metres through the ice before decaying. These measurements (Fig. 7.2) represent a
powerful tool to reveal BSM neutrino physics that can be performed independently of the prop-
erties of this UHE neutrino source. IceCube identified a first Glashow-resonance event where
an intermediate boson is produced in the interaction of a 6300-TeV antielectron neutrino with
an atomic electron. KM3NeT-ARCA will consist of two building blocks, sparsely configured to
make a very large volume detector for neutrinos of TeV to PeV energy of astrophysical origin.
KM3NeT-ARCA will provide superior pointing resolution, which will enable the discovery of
the neutrino sources, and a field of view including the Galactic plane.
These facilities provide unique opportunities including precision tests of fundamental
symmetries, most prominently Lorentz invariance, and the search for new physics covering
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Fig. 7.2: Present and future sensitivity of IceCube to the flavour composition of cosmic neu-
trinos. Each point in the triangle corresponds to a ratio νe : νµ : ντ as measured on Earth,
the individual contributions are read off the three sides of the triangle. The red dashed con-
tour shows the current IceCube measurement, the blue contour (label “IC 12 yr”) shows the
result expected with 12 years of the denser array DeepCore data, and the green contour (labeled
“Phase I verified”) shows the result with one year of data after the deployment of 7 new strings
inside DeepCore in 2022. The square, round and triangular markers show three possible results
depending on the properties of the cosmic neutrino source. Any measurement outside the line
connecting these three points would signal new physics in the neutrino propagation. A more
precise measurement might therefore reveal the nature of the cosmic accelerator producing these
neutrinos as well as non standard propagation of these particles.
proton decay, dark matter trapped in the Sun, sterile neutrinos, magnetic monopoles and, in
general, any hints of deviations from Standard Model physics using a neutrino beam in a new
energy regime. The operating experiments have clearly demonstrated the potential of using neu-
trino “telescopes” for exploring the physics of neutrinos themselves. Finally, the next Galactic
supernova explosion will not only be the astronomical event of the century, it will also provide
an extraordinary opportunity to do neutrino physics, as was the case with 1987A.
7.4 Gravitational waves

The past four years have seen a new revolution in astronomy with the Nobel prize-winning
detection of gravitational waves from binary Black Holes and neutron stars by the US LIGO
and the European Virgo interferometers. The future generation of GW ground-based detectors,
which in Europe is the Einstein Telescope project, has the unique potential to strengthen the
synergy between cosmology, particle, nuclear, astroparticle physics and astrophysics science
domains since: 1) It tests the nature of gravity, through extremely precise measurements of GW
speed of propagation, behaviour at extreme curvatures and matter concentration (Black Holes
and pulsars) and through the testing of the Black Hole hypotheses (no-hair theorem, horizon
structure, echoes, etc.); 2) It explores the nature of dark matter in a complementary way to
colliders and underground direct search experiments, since the existence or not of primordial
Black Holes has a large impact on WIMP cosmological density. It will furthermore explore
other dark-matter candidates and/or new particles currently searched for at CERN and else-
where, e.g. axions or ultra-light bosons; 3) It provides an independent measure of the Hubble
constant either solving the current tension between its far and near determinations or alterna-
tively opening a portal to new physics (e.g. sterile neutrinos, new particles etc.). It furthermore
provides an alternative way to measure the equation of state of Dark Energy. 4) It reveals phase
transition from nucleons to free quarks giving insight into the QCD phase diagram, explores the
state of ultra-dense nucleons and the origin of heavy elements and has the potential, through the
studies of gravitational waves from supernova, to determine the physics of core-collapse super-
nova associated to neutrino and electromagnetic radiation emission. 5) It studies the primordial
Universe, through primordial stochastic backgrounds, early-Universe phase transitions, cosmic
strings, etc.; 6) It probes the nature of space-time at the interface with quantum mechanics,
through the study of alternative gravity and quantum gravity theories.
ET aims to reach a sensitivity for signals emitted by astrophysical and cosmological
sources about a factor of ten better than the design sensitivity of the advanced detectors cur-
rently in operation. To reduce the effects of the residual seismic motion, ET will be located
underground at a depth of about 100 m to 200 m and, in the complete configuration, it will con-
sist of three nested detectors, each in turn composed of two interferometers. The topology of
each interferometer will be the dual-recycled Michelson layout with Fabry-Perot arm cavities,
with an arm-length of 10 km. The configuration of each detector devotes one interferometer to
the detection of the low-frequency (LF) components of the signal (2 − 40 Hz) while the other
one is dedicated to the high-frequency (HF) components. In the former (ET-LF), operating
at cryogenic temperature, the thermal, seismic, gravity gradient and radiation pressure noise
sources will be particularly suppressed; in the latter (ET-HF) the sensitivity at high frequencies
will be improved by high laser light power circulating in the Fabry-Perot cavities, and by the
use of frequency-dependent squeezed light technologies.
ET science not only reflects CERN’s own pursuit of fundamental physics, but strong
synergies exist concerning the precision engineering that was required to build and operate the
LHC. The core areas where CERN expertise could benefit ET are:
1. The vacuum and cryogenics R&D is an enabling factor for the new generation infrastruc-
tures both in accelerators and GW interferometers;
2. Extreme photonics solutions are necessary both in particle physics and GW interferome-
ters for stray light control and mitigation;
3. The civil infrastructure cost is a large part of the next generation projects (particle physics
including neutrino and GW interferometer arms on ground or underground), and there-
fore, smart and resilient solutions have to be found for their realisations;
4. Innovative solutions will have to be found for the computing and data-analysis infrastruc-
ture, including the distribution of low latency alerts among continents as well as new data
harvesting methods (big data analytics, machine learning, etc.);
5. Last but not least the consortia building GW large infrastructures would profit enormously
from the previous experience of the particle physics community of building and sustaining
large communities and infrastructures.
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7.5 Multimessenger astroparticle physics

The spectacular observations of Supernova SN1987A in both MeV neutrinos as well as electro-
magnetic radiation provided an early taste of the enormous scientific potential of multimessen-
ger astronomy, not just for astronomy but also for fundamental physics. It then took 30 years to
conquer the extra-Galactic distance scale with the result that today we can observe events such
as neutron star mergers in both gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation, or coinci-
dent high-energy cosmic neutrinos from active galaxies that are flaring in high-energy gamma
rays. New generations of observatories with significantly improved sensitivity are either in con-
struction or being planned, further accelerating the discovery rates and exploiting the scientific
opportunities provided by the combination of the messengers.
Gamma-ray observatories, as well as neutrino or cosmic ray detectors such as AMS
II, allow for sensitive searches of dark matter via indirect signatures. In fact, the European
Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), which just entered the construction phase, will have sensi-
tivity to probe the natural WIMP annihilation cross sections in the TeV mass range.
The observations of high-energy neutrinos in temporal coincidence with a flaring Blazar
[437] has not only launched a new era in the study of the origins of high-energy cosmic rays,
but also made possible a breakthrough in the exploration of Lorentz symmetry using neutrinos.
A new generation of neutrino detectors, such as GVD, IceCube Gen2, KM3NeT or GRAND
aim at increasing the available event statistics, as well as the energy range, and will significantly
improve the sensitivity to new physics.
7.6 Synergies with HEP

The field of astroparticle physics, and in particular the exciting field of multimessenger astro-
physics, has deep connections at many levels with the field of particle physics, spanning from
acceleration mechanisms of particles, neutrino physics, dark matter and cosmology.
The physics cases for gravitational waves, neutrinos and gamma-rays are particularly re-
vealing. They offer a complementary approach to the search for indirect signatures of dark mat-
ter (see Chapter 9), and in addition explore its location in the cosmos. Moreover, the cosmos
provides bright sources of neutrinos with various energies and baselines and different matter
densities, spanning from the Sun to supernovae and atmospheric neutrinos. This deep comple-
mentarity will contribute to the future determination of the neutrino mass ordering, the study
of sterile neutrinos and maybe other surprises with UHE neutrinos and exotic interactions. Ad-
ditionally, synergies with the particle physics communities and beam-dump experiments are
extremely relevant for astroparticle physics to improve particle interaction models (for instance
for neutrino and cosmic rays).
These many fields of synergy between particle and astroparticle communities require a
strong theoretical support, which will be fostered by the European Center for AstroParticle
Theory (EuCAPT) with its first hub at CERN.
The future generation of Gravitational Wave ground-based detectors, which in Europe
is the Einstein Telescope, has the unique potential to explore the dark matter, its location in
the cosmos and to understand the fraction of it that is not of particle origin. With its capacity
of testing gravity at extreme curvatures and matter in extreme conditions, such as in Black
Holes or pulsars, it explores new frontiers in cosmology and particle physics and specifically
the unification of all forces, including gravity. ET can explore heavy element formation and
exotic forms of matter, and has also the potential to strengthen synergy between the nuclear,
particle physics and cosmology communities.

Multimessenger astrophysics has a striking potential for cosmic exploration, reaching out
to the inspiration of every citizen. Such exploration concerns also technology and computing
challenges, and open-access policies, which need to be developed in cooperation with CERN.
There are multiple synergies between particle and astroparticle physics at the level of infrastruc-
tures (large underground excavations, vacuum, engineering and management of large projects),
detectors (including photosensor and other detection techniques, electronics, computing), etc.
All of these synergies might clearly benefit from a closer collaboration between CERN and
the astroparticle community, to be developed through focused discussion between CERN and
APPEC.
Chapter 8
Beyond the Standard Model
8.1 Introduction
The search for physics Beyond the SM (BSM) is the main driver of the exploration programme
in particle physics. The initial results from the LHC are already starting to mould the strategies
and priorities of these searches and, as a result, the scope of the experimental programme is
broadening. Growing emphasis is given to alternative scenarios and more unconventional ex-
perimental signatures where new physics could hide, having escaped traditional searches. This
broader approach towards BSM physics also influences the projections for discoveries at future
colliders. Rather than focusing only on a restricted number of theoretically motivated models,
future prospects are studied with a signal-oriented strategy. In this chapter an attempt to reflect
both viewpoints and to present a variety of possible searches is made. Since it is impossible
(and probably not very useful) to give a comprehensive classification of all existing models for
new physics, the choice is made to consider some representative cases which satisfy the fol-
lowing criteria: (i) they have valid theoretical motivations, (ii) their experimental signatures are
characteristic of large classes of models, (iii) they allow for informative comparisons between
the reach of different proposed experimental projects.
In considering the physics reach of any experimental programme, there are two key ques-
tions: what new physics can be discovered and, in the absence of discoveries, what information
can be extracted from the measurements. For many of the current models, any discovery will
require several observations in different channels in order to characterise the nature of the phe-
nomenon. As an example, the well-known missing energy signature arises in numerous models
and, while any large excess of such events would signify a departure from the SM, a real under-
standing of the underlying physics will be possible only with multiple experimental studies. For
this reason, the results presented in this chapter do not attempt to characterise the potential for
‘discovery’; instead, all results are expressed in terms of the extent to which one can be sensi-
tive to new physics. This is quantified by the exclusion reach on some key physical parameters,
such as the distance down to which the Higgs boson still behaves like a point-like particle, or of
the masses of new hypothetical particles. Unless otherwise stated, all limits correspond to 95%
Confidence Level (CL) limits. The results presented in the current summary originate from a
large number of physics studies of varying degrees of sophistication, which vary from detailed
simulations, to fast simulations, simple detector parametrisations, or direct extrapolations of
results from data. In some cases, simple rescalings from similar results are used. We caution
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the reader to bear in mind this large variation in the precision of the estimates.
This chapter is organised as follows. In Sect. 8.2 various signatures related to the dynam-
ics of electroweak symmetry breaking, i.e. composite Higgs, vector resonances, contact inter-
actions, are considered. The search for supersymmetry is the theme of Sect. 8.3. Extensions of
the Higgs sector with new scalar particles, neutral naturalness and high-energy dynamics asso-
ciated with the flavour problem are presented in Sect. 8.4. In Sect. 8.5 the prospect for exploring
dark matter at colliders is presented. Section 8.6 is dedicated to a study of how different exper-
imental facilities compare in the search for feebly-interacting or long-lived particles. Finally, in
Sect. 8.7 the results are summarised and put in a broader perspective.
8.2 Electroweak symmetry breaking and new resonances

8.2.1 Contact interactions
Higher-dimensional operators in an EFT are the most robust and model-independent way of
describing BSM virtual effects whenever there is a large separation between the EW and new-
physics mass scales. The only drawback of this approach is that, without any theoretical bias
on the underlying BSM model, one is confronted with a large number of independent operators,
all compatible with SM symmetries. Here, representative sets of operators, which are typically
generated in BSM extensions of the EW symmetry breaking (EWSB) sector and which allow
for an informative comparison between different collider facilities, are considered.
As a first example, consider the operators O2W and O2B (defined in Ref. [438]), which
correspond to the oblique parameters W and Y [16] and describe the leading higher-derivative
corrections to the SM gauge boson propagators. Using the equations of motion, these operators
lead to charged and neutral current four-fermion contact interactions of universal type. The
95% CL exclusion reach of different colliders on the effective scales of the operators O2W and
O2B is shown in Fig. 8.1. The precise definition of each collider option is given in Ref. [39].
In some cases (ILC, CLIC, FCC) different phases or running modes of the same collider pro-
gram are shown. All collider sensitivities shown in Fig. 8.1 are derived after combination with
the results expected from the HL-LHC, which will precede all future colliders. The projected
limits come from a variety of di-fermion final states. Lepton colliders with suitable luminosity
are particularly powerful in testing the neutral-current case thanks to the clean signatures, the
small theoretical uncertainties, and the capability to perform detailed differential analyses for a
large set of di-fermion final states. Linear colliders can also benefit from different longitudinal
polarisations of the two beams. Hadron colliders have the additional advantage of excellent
sensitivity via Drell-Yan (DY) production for both neutral and charged currents, because of the
¯ As a matter of fact, the reach of hadron colliders
accessible charged initial states (e.g. ud).
for charged and neutral currents is expected to be about the same. The apparent exception for
the HE-LHC collider is simply due to the absence of dedicated charged Drell-Yan studies in
the present inputs.√As expected for contact interactions, the experimental sensitivity increases
significantly with s in all cases. The results from ep colliders are not shown because they are
not competitive: LHeC does not improve the reach of HL-LHC, and FCC-eh does not affect the
global fit of FCC-ee/hh.
As a second example, consider the operators OW and OB (defined in Ref. [438]), which are
of special phenomenological relevance for BSM theories of EWSB because they describe new-
physics effects in the interaction between the gauge and Higgs sectors. Using the equations of
motion, they can be turned into two-fermion/two-boson contact interactions. The reach on the
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95% CL scale limits on 4-fermion contact interactions

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operators O2W and O2B . The blue bars give the reach on the effective scale Λ/(g22 c2W ) and
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the orange bars on Λ/(g21 c2B ), where c2W,2B are the Wilson coefficients of the corresponding
operators and the gauge couplings come from the use of the equations of motion.
effective scales of the operators OW and OB is shown in Fig. 8.2. The projected limits come from
new-physics contributions that can interfere with SM di-boson production processes. For CLIC,
the leading sensitivity on OW comes from a detailed differential analysis of e+ e− → ZH [439],
whereas the power of FCC-hh comes through an analysis of the pT √ distribution of the Z in
pp → W Z [440]. The √ largest sensitivity of lepton colliders at lower s and even on the OB
operator alone at large s comes from EW precision measurements of the oblique parameter S,
which constrains directly the combination OW + OB [438].
8.2.2 New vector bosons: the Y -Universal Z 0

New vector bosons are common in many BSM theories, ranging from new models of EWSB
to extensions of the SM gauge group. As a representative example of these classes of theories,
the “Y -Universal Z 0 ” (see e.g. [441]) is considered. The model consists of a new neutral gauge
boson Z 0 with mass M and charges to SM particles equal to hypercharge, although the coupling
constant gZ 0 is taken to be a free parameter, in general different from the one of the SM U(1)Y .
The perturbative limit is taken to correspond to gZ 0 < 1.5 since for larger values the width of the
Z 0 exceeds 0.3 M.
The Y -Universal Z 0 is selected instead of one of the standard benchmarks (such as the
Sequential or B − L models) for several reasons. It has comparable couplings to quarks and
leptons, allowing for a fair comparison between hadron and lepton colliders. Its couplings are
flavour-diagonal, making the model safely compatible with flavour constraints. When integrated
out at tree-level, it generates only the universal operator O2B in the SM EFT, with coefficient
c2B /Λ2 = g2Z 0 /(g41 M 2 ). Since the sensitivity to O2B is available for all colliders [39], a straight-
forward and rigorous assessment of the indirect reach is possible for the Y -Universal Z 0 model,
while additional input would be needed for the standard benchmarks.
95% CL scale limits on 2-fermion 2-boson contact interactions

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actions from the operator OW and OB . The blue bars give the reach on the effective scale
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Figure 8.3 displays the 95% CL exclusion reach on gZ 0 and M, at various colliders. For
hadron machines, the reach of direct searches (round curves at small gZ 0 ) is obtained from
recasting the results in Refs. [442, 443], overlaid with the indirect sensitivity (diagonal straight
lines at large gZ 0 ) discussed previously. It is seen that the direct mass reach is inferior to the
indirect one for high gZ 0 , in agreement with the generic expectation that strongly-coupled new
physics is better probed indirectly. Moreover, the indirect reach benefits greatly from higher
collider energies. These two observations explain both the competitiveness of lepton colliders
in indirect searches and the good indirect performances of the FCC-hh and HE-LHC colliders.
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8.2.3 The Composite Higgs scenario

Decades of theoretical investigation (for a review, see [444]) provided us with a rather clear
picture of how a viable Composite Higgs model should look like, and with effective parametri-
sations of the relevant phenomenology that can be employed in the present context. The central
idea is that the Higgs emerges as a bound state of a new strongly-interacting confining Compos-
ite Sector, analogue to QCD but with a much higher confinement scale. The Higgs, similarly
to the pions in QCD, emerges as a Goldstone boson associated with a spontaneously-broken
global symmetry of the Composite Sector. This explains why it is lighter than other bound
states (collectively called ‘resonances’) that will unavoidably emerge from the Composite Sec-
tor dynamics. In analogy with the pion in QCD, the spin-one resonances will be called ρ.
The phenomenology is mainly controlled by two parameters: the mass scale m∗ and the
coupling g∗ . The mass m∗ is the Composite Sector confinement scale, analogue to ΛQCD . It
controls the mass of the resonances and sets the scale of the EFT operators that describe at
low energy the indirect effects of Higgs compositeness. Its inverse can be interpreted as the
geometric size of the Higgs, `H = 1/m∗ . The sensitivity of future colliders to `H is the most
important parameter to answer the question whether the Higgs is elementary (`H = 0) or com-
posite (`H 6= 0). The coupling parameter g∗ represents the interaction strength among particles
originating from the Composite Sector. It controls the strength of the Higgs couplings to the
ρ resonance and it sets the scale of couplings that appear in the EFT Lagrangian. The internal
coherence of the construction requires g∗ to be larger than the EW coupling (g∗ & 1) but smaller
than the perturbative unitarity limit (g∗ . 4π).
Among the operators in the Composite Higgs EFT, Oφ (defined as in [39]), OW and O2W
are the most representative and offer the best sensitivity at all colliders. Parametrically, their
Wilson coefficients are
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These relations are merely estimates of the expected magnitude of the Wilson coefficients,
which hold up to model-dependent order-one factors. In the current analysis, these relations
are taken as exact equalities, so the results should not be interpreted as strictly quantitative, but
only as a fair assessment of the sensitivity.
Figure 8.4 shows the exclusion reach on m∗ and g∗ from the highly complementary probes
on the operators Oφ , OW and O2W with different experimental strategies in different colliders.
For the FCC project, Oφ is most effective at large g∗ , and it is well probed by Higgs couplings
measurements at FCC-ee. However FCC-hh and FCC-eh further improve the reach on cφ as
shown in the figure. The reach on cφ for all collider options is extracted from the summary
Table 8 of Ref. [39], with the exception of HL-LHC for which a more conservative value of
cφ |1σ = 0.42/TeV2 (also reported in Ref. [39]) is employed. The operator O2W is instead
effective at low g∗ , and it is probed by high-energy charged DY measurements at FCC-hh [445].
The mass-reach from OW is instead independent of g∗ . The reach of direct resonance searches
is also shown in Fig. 8.4, for the FCC-hh and the HL-LHC. It represents the sensitivity to an
EW triplet ρ vector resonance, generically present in Composite Higgs models. The reach
is extracted from ref. [446–448], and it emerges from a combination of dilepton and diboson
final state studies. Direct searches are more effective at low g∗ , which may seem surprising.
The reason is that g∗ is the ρ coupling to the Higgs boson, while the coupling of the ρ to
quarks, which drives the production, scales like g22 /g∗ and therefore increases for small g∗ .
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weakest bound valid for any value of the coupling constant g∗ .
Unfortunately, no direct reach projection is currently available for the HE-LHC.

The information in Fig. 8.4 can be projected into a single number, as displayed in Fig. 8.5.
The orange bars show the maximum m∗ (or, equivalently, the minimum Higgs size `H ) a given
collider is sensitive to, independently of the value of g∗ . The blue bars show the tuning param-
eter 1/ε (which is equal to the conventional tuning parameter ∆), obtained as follows. Higgs
compositeness can address the naturalness problem, provided it emerges at a relatively low
scale, but the parameter m∗ is not the most appropriate measure of the degree of fine-tuning re-
quired to engineer the correct Higgs mass and EWSB scale. A better measure is (see e.g., [449])
1/ε > (mT /500 GeV)2 > m2∗ /g2∗ v2 , where v = 246 GeV and mT is the top-partner mass. The
second inequality provides the estimate of the reach on ε reported in Fig. 8.5. The equation
also displays the impact of fermionic top-partner searches on ε. The discovery reach of these
particles at HL-LHC, HE-LHC and FCC-hh are of 1.5, 2 and 4.7 TeV, respectively. These
correspond to a reach on 1/ε of 10, 16 and 88.
8.3 Supersymmetry
Supersymmetry (SUSY) remains the only known dynamical solution to the Higgs naturalness
problem that can be extrapolated up to very high energies, in a consistent and calculable way.
8.3. SUPERSYMMETRY 119
It gives a successful framework for gauge coupling unification; it automatically predicts a po-
tential candidate for DM; it turns the Higgs mass into a calculable parameter; it gives a con-
ceptual justification for EWSB; it offers a hint for a final reconciliation between gravity and
gauge forces. In spite of this impressive list of attractive features, there is no firm experimental
evidence that speaks in favour of SUSY. The results from the LHC have already constrained
significantly a variety of models that implement SUSY at the EW scale and have contributed to
shift the focus of the continuing experimental scrutiny. The questions that need to be answered
are whether SUSY can still be the key to understand Higgs naturalness but its implementation at
the EW scale is less simple than originally assumed, or whether SUSY is the key to understand-
ing EWSB but its implementation comes at the price of some amount of tuning. Both these
questions can only be answered by further experimental investigation. The most important tar-
gets to gather information about these questions are the SUSY particles that directly affect the
Higgs mass and thus contribute more sizeably to the degree of tuning. These are the top squarks
(stops) and the Higgsinos. Moreover, because of an accidentally large two-loop contribution to
the stop mass, the gluino also plays a central role in the degree of naturalness of SUSY models.
Nonetheless, the interest in understanding the full structure of the theory strongly motivates also
the search for the other SUSY particles (squarks, sleptons, and EW gauginos), especially since
the limits from the LHC on sleptons and EW gauginos are still rather weak in comparison to
those on strongly interacting particles.
SUSY may be realised in nature in a variety of different models, leading to distinct collider
signals coming from production of superpartners. Coloured SUSY particles such as squarks and
gluinos are produced via the strong interaction and have the highest cross sections at hadron col-
liders. EW gauginos and Higgsinos mix into neutralino and chargino mass states, which will
be collectively referred to as electroweakinos (EWkinos). Their production cross sections de-
pend on mixing parameters and are typically much smaller than those of coloured superpartners
at hadron colliders. For this reason, the EW sector remains more difficult to test at hadron
machines and searches at e+ e− colliders would complement the SUSY parameter space cover-
age. The null results from searches at the LHC motivate scrutiny of less conventional as well
as more experimentally difficult processes where SUSY may lurk. These include the cases of
nearly-degenerate mass spectra, non-prompt decays and exotic signatures.
8.3.1 Gluinos and squarks

The expected reach of gluino (g̃) searches at hadron colliders is shown in Fig. 8.6, for R-parity
conserving scenarios and under simplifying assumptions on the g̃ prompt decay mode. In all
cases, the lightest neutralino (χ̃10 ) is assumed to be the lightest supersymmetric particle (LSP).
Exclusion limits at 95% CL are presented; the corresponding definitive observation with a sig-
nificance of 5 σ is 5–10% lower for each process. The most stringent gluino bounds are found
for massless LSP. If the gluino is close in mass to the LSP, the topology is referred to as ‘com-
pressed’ and the amount of missing transverse momentum (pmiss T ) in the event decreases. The
miss
typical multijet + pT SUSY searches are less effective and must be replaced with monojet-like
analyses, where the gluinos recoil against an initial state radiation (ISR) jet. Lepton colliders
are ineffective in the search for gluinos, which are neutral with respect to the EW interaction.
While there are no recent projections on searches for first- and second-generation squarks
at HL-LHC [450] and HE-LHC, the 95% CL exclusion reach for models where squarks decay
directly into a quark and a neutralino can be extrapolated from the recent ATLAS and CMS
results using Run 2 data (36 fb−1 , see for example Refs. [451] and [452]). Two scenarios and
Hadron Colliders: gluino projections

(R-parity conserving SUSY, prompt searches)
! √
Model L dt[ab−1 ] s [TeV] Mass limit (95% CL exclusion) Conditions
0 0
g̃g̃, g̃→qq̄χ̃1 3 14 3.2 TeV m(χ̃1 )=0
HL-LHC
0 0
g̃g̃, g̃→qq̄χ̃1 3 14 1.5 TeV m(g̃) ∼ m(χ̃1 )+10 GeV
0 0
g̃g̃, g̃→tt¯χ̃1 3 14 2.5 TeV m(χ̃1 )=0
0 0
g̃g̃, g̃→tc̄χ̃1 3 14 2.6 TeV m(χ̃1 )=500 GeV
0 0
g̃g̃, g̃→qq̄χ̃1 15 27 5.7 TeV m(χ̃1 )=0
HE-LHC
0 0
g̃g̃, g̃→qq̄χ̃1 15 27 2.6 TeV m(g̃) ∼ m(χ̃1 )+10 GeV
0
NUHM2, g̃→tt˜ 15 27 5.9 TeV m(χ̃1 )=0
0 0
g̃g̃, g̃→qq̄χ̃1 30 100 17.0 TeV m(χ̃1 )=0
FCC-hh
0 0
g̃g̃, g̃→qq̄χ̃1 30 100 7.5 TeV m(g̃) ∼ m(χ̃1 )+10 GeV (*)
0 0
g̃g̃, g̃→tt¯χ̃1 30 100 11.0 TeV m(χ̃1 )=0
0 0
g̃g̃, g̃→qq̄χ̃1 15 37.5 7.4 TeV m(χ̃1 )=0 (**)
LE-FCC
0 0
g̃g̃, g̃→qq̄χ̃1 15 37.5 3.6 TeV m(g̃) ∼ m(χ̃1 )+10 GeV (**)
0 0
g̃g̃, g̃→tt¯χ̃1 15 37.5 7.6 TeV m(χ̃1 )=0 (*)
(*): extrapolated from HL- or HE-LHC studies 10 Mass scale [TeV]
(**): extrapolated from FCC-hh prospects
2 8.6: Gluino exclusion reach of different hadron colliders: HL- and HE-LHC [442], and
Fig.
FCC-hh [138, 447]. Results for low-energy FCC-hh are obtained with a simple extrapolation.
analysis approaches are considered: massless neutralino (from jets+pmiss T searches) and mass
splitting of 5 GeV between the squark and neutralino (inferred from monojet searches). The
results are shown in Fig. 8.7. Extrapolated prospects for the LE-FCC are also reported, as well
as the reach for CLIC3000 [453] and results of dedicated studies at the FCC-hh [447].
All Colliders: squark projections

! √
0 0
q̃q̃, q̃→qχ̃1 3 14 3.1 TeV m(χ̃1 )=0 (*)
HL-LHC
0 0
q̃q̃, q̃→qχ̃1 3 14 1.85 TeV m(q̃) ∼ m(χ̃1 )+5 GeV (*)
0 0
q̃q̃, q̃→qχ̃1 15 27 6.2 TeV m(χ̃1 )=0 (*)
HE-LHC
0 0
q̃q̃, q̃→qχ̃1 15 27 3.7 TeV m(q̃) ∼ m(χ̃1 )+5 GeV (*)
0 0
q̃q̃, q̃→qχ̃1 15 37.5 8.0 TeV m(χ̃1 )=0 (*)
LE-FCC
0 0
q̃q̃, q̃→qχ̃1 15 37.5 4.1 TeV m(q̃) ∼ m(χ̃1 )+5 GeV (*)
0 0
q̃q̃, q̃→qχ̃1 30 100 10.0 TeV m(χ̃1 )=0
FCC-hh
0 0
q̃q̃, q̃→qχ̃1 30 100 4.2 TeV m(q̃) ∼ m(χ̃1 )+10 GeV (**)
0 0
q̃q̃, q̃→qχ̃1 5 3.0 1.45 TeV m(χ̃1 )=0
CLIC3000
0 0
q̃q̃, q̃→qχ̃1 5 3.0 1.1 TeV m(q̃) ∼ m(χ̃1 )+50 GeV
10
(*): extrapolated from Run 2, 36/fb studies Mass scale [TeV]
(**): monojet results not included
Fig. 8.7: Exclusion reach of different hadron and lepton colliders for first- and second-
generation squarks.
Most studies of top squark (t˜1 ) pair-production at hadron colliders assume t˜1 → t χ̃10 and
fully hadronic or semi-leptonic final states with large pmiss
T . The best experimental sensitiv-
ity is achieved for m(χ̃10 ) ≈ 0 (i.e. ∆m(t˜, χ̃10 ) mt ), while the reach in mt˜ degrades for larger
χ̃10 masses. For this reason, high-energy lepton colliders, e.g. CLIC3000 , might√become com-
petitive with HL-LHC in these topologies, as their stop mass reach is close to s/2 even for
low ∆m(t˜, χ̃10 ). Lower centre-of-mass energy lepton facilities do not have sufficient kinematic
reach. The exclusion limits are summarised in Fig. 8.8; the discovery potential in all channels
is about 5% lower. If the t˜−χ̃10 mass splitting is such that final states include very off-shell W
and b-jets, t˜ masses up to about 1 TeV can be excluded at the HL-LHC [442]. A two-fold and
five-fold increase in reach is expected for the HE-LHC [442] and FCC-hh [138] respectively,
with potential of improvements, especially in very compressed scenarios, via optimisation of
monojet searches [454].
All Colliders: Top squark projections

! √
0 0
t˜1 t˜1 , t˜1 →tχ̃1 3 14 1.7 TeV m(χ̃1 )=0
HL-LHC
0 0
t˜1 t˜1 , t˜1 →tχ̃1 /3 body 3 14 0.85 TeV ∆m(t˜1 , χ̃1 )∼ m(t)
0 0
t˜1 t˜1 , t˜1 →cχ̃1 /4 body 3 14 0.95 TeV ∆m(t˜1 , χ̃1 )∼ 5 GeV, monojet (*)
± 0 0 0
t˜1 t˜1 , t˜1 →bχ̃ /tχ̃1 , χ̃2 15 27 3.65 TeV m(χ̃1 )=0
HE-LHC
0 0
t˜1 t˜1 , t˜1 →tχ̃1 /3-body 15 27 1.8 TeV ∆m(t˜1 , χ̃1 )∼ m(t) (*)
0 0
t˜1 t˜1 , t˜1 →cχ̃1 /4-body 15 27 2.0 TeV ∆m(t˜1 , χ̃1 )∼ 5 GeV, monojet (*)
0 0
t˜1 t˜1 , t˜1 →tχ̃1 15 37.5 4.6 TeV m(χ̃1 )=0 (**)
LE-FCC
0 0
t˜1 t˜1 , t˜1 →tχ̃1 /3-body 15 37.5 4.1 TeV m(χ̃1 ) up to 3.5 TeV (**)
0 0
t˜1 t˜1 , t˜1 →cχ̃1 /4-body 15 37.5 2.2 TeV ∆m(t˜1 , χ̃1 )∼ 5 GeV, monojet (**)
± 0 0
t˜1 t˜1 , t˜1 →bχ̃ /tχ̃1 2.5 1.5 0.75 TeV m(χ̃1 )=0
CLIC1500
± 0 0
t˜1 t˜1 , t˜1 →bχ̃ /tχ̃1 2.5 1.5 0.75 TeV ∆m(t˜1 , χ̃1 )∼ m(t)
± 0 0
t˜1 t˜1 , t˜1 →bχ̃ /tχ̃1 2.5 1.5 (0.75 - ϵ ) TeV ∆m(t˜1 , χ̃1 )∼ 50 GeV
± 0 0
t˜1 t˜1 , t˜1 →bχ̃ /tχ̃1 5 3.0 1.5 TeV m(χ̃1 )∼350 GeV
CLIC3000
± 0 0
t˜1 t˜1 , t˜1 →bχ̃ /tχ̃1 5 3.0 1.5 TeV ∆m(t˜1 , χ̃1 )∼ m(t)
± 0 0
t˜1 t˜1 , t˜1 →bχ̃ /tχ̃1 5 3.0 (1.5 - ϵ ) TeV ∆m(t˜1 , χ̃1 )∼ 50 GeV
0 0
t˜1 t˜1 , t˜1 →tχ̃1 30 100 10.8 TeV m(χ̃1 )=0
FCC-hh
0 0
t˜1 t˜1 , t˜1 →tχ̃1 /3-body 30 100 10.0 TeV m(χ̃1 ) up to 4 TeV
0 0
t˜1 t˜1 , t˜1 →cχ̃1 /4-body 30 100 5.0 TeV ∆m(t˜1 , χ̃1 )∼ 5 GeV, monojet (*)
10−1 1 Mass scale [TeV]
(*) indicates projection of existing experimental searches
√
(**) extrapolated from FCC-hh prospects ILC 500: discovery in all scenarios up to kinematic limit s/2
ϵ indicates a possible non-evaluated loss in sensitivity
Fig. 8.8: Top squark exclusion reach of different hadron and lepton colliders. All references
are reported in the text. Results for CLIC have been communicated privately by the authors.
Results for LE-FCC are extrapolated from HL- and HE-LHC studies.
Future collider searches of gluinos and stops will be powerful probes on the role of natu-
ralness in the Higgs sector, as shown in Table 8.1. For a SUSY-breaking mediation mechanism
near the unification scale, gluino searches at FCC-hh will probe naturalness at the level of 10−5
and, even in the case of low-scale mediation, naturalness can be tested at the level of 10−3 from
the leading stop contribution. Independently of any naturalness consideration, the measured
value of the Higgs mass can be used as an indicator of the scale of SUSY particle masses.
Indeed, in the minimal SUSY model, the prediction of the Higgs mass agrees with the experi-
mental value only for stops in the multi-TeV range or larger. The most relevant range of stop
Table 8.1: Estimates of the degree of fine tuning in SUSY theories that can be probed
with measurements of stop and gluino masses. The fine-tuning parameter is defined as
1/ε ≡ ∆m2h /m2h [455], where ∆m2h is the contribution to the physical Higgs mass mh , which
for stops (at one-loop) and gluino (at two-loops) is given by 1/εt˜ = (3yt2 mt2˜ /2π 2 m2h ) ln(Λ/mt˜)
and 1/εg̃ = (4yt2 αs m2g̃ /π 3 m2h ) ln2 (Λ/mg̃ ) in leading-log approximation. For high-scale SUSY-
breaking mediation ln(Λ/mt˜,g̃ ) ≈ 30 is taken, while for low-scale mediation ln(Λ/mt˜,g̃ ) ≈ 1 is
used.
ε High-scale mediation Low-scale mediation

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stop 5 × 10−5 10mTeV
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masses can therefore be probed only at future hadron colliders.
8.3.2 Charginos, neutralinos and sleptons

In the context of R-parity conserving scenarios, the largest production rates for EWkinos in
clean channels at hadron machines are obtained when the LSP is Bino-like and the lightest
chargino (χ̃1± ) and next-to-lightest neutralino (χ̃20 ) are Wino-like, forming an approximately
mass degenerate SU(2) triplet. Large χ̃20 χ̃1± and χ̃1± χ̃1∓ production rates and large mass split-
tings between the LSP and next-to-lightest SUSY states (NSLP) allow for the exploitation of
multi-lepton final states at all facilities. Figure 8.9 shows the exclusion reach for hadron and
lepton colliders on the plane spanned by the relevant EWkino masses. For lepton colliders,
the dominant processes are e+ e− → χ̃1± χ̃1∓ , χ̃20 χ̃10 ; for hadron colliders only χ̃20 χ̃1± production
is considered here. NLSP masses well above 1(2) TeV could be reached by HL(HE)-LHC
searches for a low-mass LSP [442]; masses up to 3.3 TeV can be excluded at FCC-hh [447],
with potential for improvements using optimised selection criteria. Compressed SUSY spectra
can be targeted at hadron colliders exploiting low-momentum leptons recoiling against an ISR
jet. Lepton
√ colliders analyses are competitive in this case: sensitivity up to EWkino masses
± 0
equal to s/2 are possible even for ∆m(χ̃1 , χ1 ) as low as 1 GeV, with no loss in acceptance
(ILC [427], CLIC [344]).
0
If the Higgsino mass is much smaller than the gaugino masses, χ̃1,2 and χ̃1± form an ap-
proximately mass degenerate Dirac SU(2) doublet, and the EWkino spectrum is compressed.
The EWkino production rates are smaller than in the previous case, making dedicated searches
more challenging. Analyses exploiting ISR jets show good prospects at HL-LHC and hadron
colliders in general (see Fig. 8.10): χ̃1± , χ̃20 masses up to 350 GeV can be probed at HL-LHC
for mass splittings ∆m ≡ ∆m(χ̃20 , χ̃10 ) ≈ ∆m(χ̃1± , χ̃10 ) between 1.6 and 50 GeV1 , with a factor
1.5 increase expected at the HE-LHC [442]. FCC-hh projections computed with simple extrap-
olations show that the 1 TeV boundary might be reached, with expected 95% CL limits up to
1.3 TeV depending on ∆m. On the other hand, the sensitivity of lepton colliders depend only
weakly on the nature of the LSP: ILC500 and ILC1000 [427] can cover the full mass range up
1
The “soft-lepton A” analysis [456], the expectation from which is also presented as a function of m(χ̃20 ),
applies to the case m(χ̃1± ) < m(χ̃20 ) and χ̃10 is the NLSP. In this scenario, m(χ̃1± ) down to 0.8 GeV can be probed.
∼
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HL-LHC 3/ab, 14 TeV (3L search)
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HE-LHC 15/ab (projection)
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m(∼
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(χ̃20 ) from hadron and lepton colliders.
√
to s/2 for ∆m as low as 0.5 GeV, while CLIC1500 and CLIC3000 allow a reach up to 650 GeV
and 1.3 TeV, respectively [453]. Monojet searches at hadron colliders can again complement
the reach for scenarios with small ∆m [442]. The soft decay products of the NLSP are not re-
constructed and the sensitivity solely depends on the production rate of EWkinos in association
with an ISR jet. The reach of different colliders are illustrated by the hatched areas of Fig. 8.10
for an indicative ∆m < 1 GeV. The sensitivity deteriorates at larger ∆m, due to the requirements
on additional leptons or jets. No attempt is made to evaluate this loss here, which is expected
to become relevant for ∆m ≈ 5 GeV and above. Prospects for ep colliders (LHeC and FCC-eh)
performed using monojet-like signatures [138] are also shown in Fig. 8.10.
A special case arises when the lightest neutralino is either pure Higgsino or Wino. The
chargino-neutralino mass splitting is around 340 MeV and 160 MeV respectively, and the
chargino has a correspondingly long lifetime, which can be as large as several picoseconds.
The value of pmiss
T is small unless the pair-produced EWkinos recoil against an ISR jet. Taking
advantage of the long lifetime of the charginos, which can result in decays in the active volume
of the tracker detector, searches for disappearing charged tracks can be performed at hadron
colliders [442]. As an example, at the HL-LHC, studies using simplified models of χ̃1± produc-
tion lead to exclusions of chargino masses up to mχ̃ ± = 750 GeV (1100 GeV) for lifetimes of
1
1 ns for the Higgsino (Wino) hypothesis. When considering the lifetimes corresponding to the
chargino-neutralino mass splittings given above (leading to thermal relic dark matter candidates
and referred to as pure Higgsino and pure Wino, respectively), masses up to 300 (830) GeV can
be excluded. The reach for all facilities is illustrated in Sect. 8.5. Analyses exploiting displaced
decays of the charged SUSY state have been studied also for lepton colliders, e.g. CLIC3000
(using charge stub tracks [344]), and for ep colliders (using disappearing tracks [457]).
Higgsino-like EWK processes
Δ m(NLSP, LSP) [GeV]

HL-LHC 3/ab, 14 TeV (soft-lepton A) HL-LHC monojet
HL-LHC 3/ab, 14 TeV (soft-lepton B)
HE-LHC 15/ab, 27 TeV (soft-lepton B) LHeC monojet-like (proj)
FCC-hh (HE-LHC approx. rescaling)
ILC500, 0.5/ab HE-LHC monojet
ILC1000 , 1/ab
CLIC380 / FCC-ee380 FCC-eh monojet-like
102 CLIC1500 , 2.5/ab
FCC-hh monojet
CLIC3000 , 5/ab
10
CLIC: extrapolated below 5 GeV
Monojet reach in Δ m(NLSP,LSP) not displayed

1
200 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400
m(NLSP)
Fig. 8.10: Exclusion reach for Higgsino-like charginos and next-to-lightest neutralinos with
equal mass m (NLSP), as a function of the mass difference ∆m between NLSP and LSP. Exclu-
sion reaches using monojet searches at pp and ep colliders are also superimposed (see text for
details).
Collider experiments have significant sensitivity also to sleptons. Searches for staus, su-
perpartners of τ leptons, might be particularly challenging at pp facilities due to the complex-
ity of identifying hadronically-decaying taus and reject misidentified candidates. Analysis of
events characterised by the presence of at least one hadronically-decaying τ and pmiss T show
that the HL-LHC will be sensitive to currently unconstrained pair-produced τ̃ with discov-
ery (exclusion) potential for mτ̃ up to around 550 (800) GeV [442]. The reach depends on
whether one considers τ̃ partners of the left-handed or the right-handed tau lepton (τ̃R or
τ̃L , respectively), with substantial reduction of the sensitivity in case of τ̃R . The HE-LHC
would provide sensitivity up to 1.1 TeV [442], and an additional three-fold increase is ex-
pected for the FCC-hh (extrapolation). Lepton colliders could again provide complementary
sensitivity especially in compressed scenarios: ILC500 [427] would allow discovery of τ̃ up to
230 GeV even with small datasets, whilst CLIC3000 would allow reach up to mτ̃ = 1.25 TeV
and ∆m(τ̃, χ10 ) = 50 GeV [453].
8.3.3 Non-prompt SUSY particles decays

There are numerous examples of SUSY models where new particles can be long-lived and may
travel macroscopic distances before decaying. Long lifetimes may be due to small mass split-
tings, as in the case of pure Higgsino/Wino scenarios, or due to small couplings, as in R-parity
violating SUSY models, or due to heavy mediators, as in Split SUSY. For HL-LHC [442], stud-
ies are available on long-lived gluinos and sleptons. Exclusion limits on gluinos with lifetimes
τ > 0.1 ns can reach about 3.5 TeV, using reconstructed massive displaced vertices. Muons dis-
8.4. EXTENDED HIGGS SECTORS AND HIGH-ENERGY FLAVOUR DYNAMICS 125
placed from the interaction point, such as found in SUSY models with µ̃ lifetimes of cτ > 25
cm, can be excluded at 95% CL at the HL-LHC. New fast timing detectors will also be sensitive
to displaced photon signatures arising from long-lived particles in the 0.1 < cτ < 300 cm range.
Complementarities in long-lived particle searches and enhancements in sensitivity might
be achieved if new proposals for detectors and experiments such as MATHUSLA200, FASER,
CODEX-b, MilliQan and LHeC are realised in parallel to the HL-LHC. As an example, with
a zero-background hypothesis, MATHUSLA200 [428] would offer a coverage complementary
to HL-LHC in terms of new particles with cτ in the range 100 m–20 km, targeting R-parity
violating decays of gluinos, top squarks as well as sleptons and Higgsinos.
8.4 Extended Higgs sectors and high-energy flavour dynamics

This section presents the physics reach of future collider facilities in the areas of extended Higgs
sectors, neutral naturalness, and high-energy flavour dynamics. Substantial improvements with
respect to HL-LHC are possible for all included physics topics, and both direct and indirect
searches typically provide complementary information. In several cases the combined interpre-
tation of measurements in hadron and lepton collisions, at different stages of energy, enhance
the physics potential even further.
8.4.1 Extended Higgs sectors

The scalar sector of the SM consists of one isospin doublet of scalar fields H which contains the
minimal set of required degrees of freedom: longitudinal polarisations of the W and Z bosons
and the Higgs particle. However, many new-physics scenarios predict extended Higgs sectors,
with one particle closely resembling the SM Higgs boson, and additional scalars.
A simple possibility is the extension of the SM scalar potential by a singlet massive scalar
field S with interactions V = λS S4 /4 + λHS |H|2 S2 . This scenario is of particular interest, not
just for its minimality, but also because it can change the nature of the EW phase transition (see
Chapter 3). In the SM, the phase transition is a smooth crossover, whereas a strong first-order
phase transition could open up new exciting possibilities, such as observable gravitational waves
in future facilities or a framework for a mechanism generating the cosmic baryon asymmetry.
From the point of view of collider searches, there are two distinct singlet scenarios, de-
pending on whether or not the singlet mixes with the Higgs. In the case where a heavy singlet
mixes with the SM Higgs boson, direct limits on the mixing parameter sin γ for high-energy lep-
ton [458] and hadron colliders [442,459] are compared in Fig. 8.11 (left). The overall
√ scaling of
the Higgs boson couplings [39] provides an indirect probe even at colliders with s below the
mass of the heavy singlet. At HL-LHC, HE-LHC and CLIC direct and indirect searches pro-
vide complementary information, whereas the direct reach at FCC-hh exceeds the sensitivity
from Higgs-coupling measurements for masses up to 12 TeV. Precision EW observables are not
competitive with Higgs measurements and the corresponding reach is not shown in the figure.
In the no-mixing case, in which S does not acquire a vacuum expectation value and the
Z2 symmetry remains unbroken, the new scalar is stable and escapes undetected. Figure 8.11
(right) shows the indirect sensitivity on the coupling λHS from the overall scaling of the Higgs
couplings. The figure also shows the reach using the VBF process pp → SS j j at [460] and
FCC-hh [461], which provides the best direct sensitivity in hadron collisions.
It is interesting to note that a large fraction of the region compatible with a first-order
phase transition could be probed by the full CLIC or FCC programmes. For illustration pur-
95% C.L. limit on lHS

Higgs couplings:
95% C.L. limit on sin2g
Direct:
Direct: 2.5
HL-LHC
-1 CLIC1500
10 HL-LHC
CLIC3000
HE-LHC
HE-LHC LHeC
FCC-hh µµ, 6 TeV, 5 ab-1 ILC500
µµ, 14 TeV, 20 ab-1 FCC-ee or CEPC
2
ILC1000
FCC-ee/eh/hh
CLIC3000
-2
10 1.5
1
Higgs couplings:
-3 HL-LHC
10 HE-LHC
LHeC
ILC500 0.5
FCC-ee or CEPC
ILC1000 Direct:
FCC-ee/eh/hh HL-LHC
CLIC3000 FCC-hh Two-step phase transition
10-4 0
2 4 6 8 10 12 50 100 150 200 250 300 350
mS [TeV] mS [GeV]
Fig. 8.11: Direct and indirect sensitivity at 95% CL to a heavy scalar singlet mixing with the SM
Higgs boson (left) and in the no-mixing limit (right). The hatched region shows the parameters
compatible with a strong first-order EW phase transition.
poses, Fig. 8.11 shows an example of the region compatible with a two-step phase transition,
where the singlet supports the Higgs in delivering a strong first-order phase transition [462].
Strongly first-order phase transitions are particularly interesting as they could also lead to size-
able gravitational wave signals at future experiments like LISA, linking discoveries at Earth-
based colliders with space interferometry (see Chapter 7). The case of a light singlet scalar,
with mass lower than 125 GeV, is discussed extensively in the section on feebly interacting
particles 8.6.
tan(β)
10 hbb / hττ coupling:

HL-LHC
HE-LHC
LHeC
CEPC
FCC-ee
ILC500
FCC-ee/eh/hh
ILC1000
CLIC3000
Direct:
HL-LHC, A → τ+τ-
FCC-hh
1 3
10 104
95% C.L. limit on mA [GeV]
Fig. 8.12: Direct and indirect sensitivity at 95% CL to heavy neutral scalars in minimal SUSY.
Another common extension of the SM Higgs sector is the addition of a second SU(2)
doublet, which naturally appears in supersymmetric extensions of the Higgs sector or in models
with a non-minimal pattern of symmetry breaking. In this case, the scalar sector contains two
±
CP-even scalars h and H, one CP-odd scalar A and a charged √ scalar H . The direct mass reach
of lepton colliders for these scalars is generally close to s/2 independent of tan β , mainly
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using e+ e− → H + H − and e+ e− → AH. The cross sections √ for these processes are almost
independent of the heavy Higgs boson masses for a given s. As expected, the highest mass
reach is obtained at hadron colliders.
A well-studied example of a Type-II Two-Higgs Doublet Model is the minimal SUSY ex-
tension of the SM. The HL-LHC is sensitive to heavy neutral scalars up to 2.5 TeV for tan β > 50
using A/H → τ + τ − decays [461] while the region of low tan β can be probed with decays to
top-quark pairs [463]. At FCC-hh, the expected 95% CL exclusion limits for the H/A states are
generally better than 5 TeV and extend up to 20 TeV for low tan β [464]. These projections are
compared in Fig. 8.12 to the indirect sensitivity on mA from Higgs couplings to third-generation
fermions [465, 466]. While for a given lepton collider ghbb is the most precise option, hadron
colliders provide better accuracy on ghττ [39]. Hence the more precise of the two couplings was
chosen to calculate the limit for each collider scenario. A global analysis of all Higgs observ-
ables would improve the indirect sensitivity further. The corresponding FCC-hh sensitivity for
the charged H ± particles are in the range from 10 to 15 TeV [467].
Doubly-charged Higgs bosons exist in Type-II see-saw models, where a new scalar triplet
could couple to the SM leptons to produce the light neutrino masses. For low values of the
vacuum expectation value of the triplet (v∆ ) the doubly-charged Higgs bosons would decay
leptonically. Polarisation measurements in decays to τ leptons can help discriminate between
different heavy scalar mediated neutrino mass models. An interesting case is the region where
v∆ is relatively large and the doubly-charged Higgs would decay into two same-sign
√ W bosons.
Lepton colliders could reach masses almost up to the kinematic limit of s/2 using e+ e− →
H ++ H −− events [468]. The FCC-hh would be sensitive to H ++ H −− → W +W +W −W − for
doubly-charged Higgs masses up to 1.7 TeV and v∆ > 10−4 GeV [469].
8.4.2 Neutral naturalness

Neutral naturalness (NN) describes the class of theories in which the top-quark partner, needed
to regulate the leading SM quantum corrections to the Higgs mass, is colour neutral. This makes
NN theories particularly elusive to LHC direct searches. The prototype model of NN is the Twin
Higgs [470], which introduces a mirror copy of the SM with twin particles and a twin gauge
group. The SM and its mirror copy are related by a discrete symmetry that ensures equal cou-
pling constants between the two sectors. As a result of the doubling of states, the scalar potential
has an enlarged accidental global symmetry which, after spontaneous symmetry breaking, leads
to a Goldstone boson with the right quantum numbers to be identified with the SM Higgs. Since
the accidental symmetry is not exact in the full theory, the Higgs acquires a mass at the loop
level, but its value is smaller than the cutoff thanks to an approximate cancellation between the
contributions from SM and twin-sector particles. In the Twin Higgs, the top-quark partner is a
new EW-neutral fermion, but NN variations can turn the top-partner into an EW-charged scalar
(Folded SUSY [471]), an EW-charged fermion (Quirky Little Higgs [472]), or an EW-neutral
scalar (Hyperbolic Higgs [473, 474]).
The NN top-partners are expected to have masses around mT ≈ 1/ε 500 GeV, where
p
ε is the degree of fine tuning. If they carry EW charge, the NN top-partners can be produced
at colliders via DY-like processes. However, because of their unavoidable couplings with the
Higgs, a more robust way of detecting their presence is through Higgs precision measurements.
Since the parametric scaling of Higgs coupling modifications in NN is identical to the case of
Composite Higgs, the reach of future colliders on the degree of tuning ε of NN theories can be
read from Fig. 8.5 (blue bars, right axis).
Table 8.2: Limits on FCNC top-quark decays at 95% CL for various future colliders [138, 308,
345, 475, 476]. Results are also given for flavour-inclusive final states with q = u, c. Empty
entries correspond to cases in which studies are not available at the time of writing.
BR × 105 HL-LHC HE-LHC ILC500 CLIC380 LHeC FCC-ee FCC-hh FCC-eh
t → Hc ≈3 15 1.6
t → Hu 150 22
t → Hq 10 2.8
t → Zq 2.4 - 5.8 4 2.4 ≈ 0.1 0.6
t → γc 7.4 ≈1 2.6 0.024
t → γu 0.86 0.018
t → γq 1 1.7 0.085
t → gc 3.2 0.19
t → gu 0.38 0.056
NN theories can address the naturalness problem without coloured particles at the weak
scale, but require a completion at a nearby mass scale mNN , where new colouredpstates are
expected. This mass scale is model dependent, but it is generally in the range mNN ≈ 0.1/ε 3–
5 TeV. This shows that, for moderate tuning, the NN coloured particles are beyond the reach of
the LHC but are perfect targets for high-energy future colliders. The states in the twin sector that
communicate with the SM only through the Higgs can lead to unusual signatures. An interesting
case are the twin glueballs, which are expected to be light and typically long-lived. They can
be produced in Higgs decays and then decay back into SM states, leading to distinguishing
vertex displacements that can be hunted for in main detectors or, depending on the lifetime,
with dedicated detectors far from the interaction point such as MATHUSLA200. Searches for
invisible Higgs decays also contribute to the exploration of the parameter space.
8.4.3 High-energy flavour dynamics

Heavy new physics can induce, through the exchange of virtual particles, processes that are
extremely rare in the SM, such as FCNC effects in the top-quark sector (see also Chapter 5).
Experimental projections on searches for rare FCNC top-quark decays are available for many
of the proposed projects. Complementary sets of measurements using various top-quark pro-
duction processes and decays are accessible in e+ e− , ep and pp collisions. The projections are
summarised in Table 8.2. While not all possibilities have been explored yet, generally improve-
ments of 1–2 orders of magnitude are possible compared to HL-LHC.
At lepton colliders, the process e+ e− → t j is much more powerful compared to tests on
top-quark decays, which are limited by statistics. In particular, operation at the highest possible
energies improves the sensitivity to four-fermion operators. The full CLIC programme would
be sensitive to operator scales in the region of 50–100 TeV [344].
Renewed interest in leptoquarks was triggered by recent results in rare B decays, which
show discrepancies with respect to the SM predictions. For example, the b → cτν results are
presently compatible with a rather light leptoquark coupled predominantly to the third gener-
ation. The mass reach from QCD pair-production of the scalar leptoquark S3 or vector lepto-
quark U1 at HL-LHC is 1.5–2.0 TeV [442], independently of the coupling to the lepton-quark
current. Complementary information would be provided in the large-coupling region by the
process pp → τ + τ − . A modest improvement in sensitivity for the S3 would be provided by
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U
g
3
2.5
2
Fit (1903.11517):
1-s region
1.5 2-s region
Projections:
1 CLIC3000
HL-LHC, pp ® UU*
HL-LHC, pp ® t+t-
HE-LHC, pp ® UU*
0.5
1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5 5.5 6
MU [TeV]
Fig. 8.13: Direct and indirect sensitivity at 95% CL for the vector leptoquark U1 in the mass
versus coupling plane.
CLIC [344]. The highest mass reach is available at hadron colliders. For example, HE-LHC
would improve the direct mass reach by more than a factor two compared to HL-LHC. Projec-
tions for the different colliders in the U1 case are shown and compared to a recent global flavour
fit [477] in Fig. 8.13.
8.5 Dark Matter

For an introduction to dark matter (DM) and a general study of its experimental consequences,
see Chapter 9. This section presents the ways in which the nature of DM and its interactions can
be probed at future colliders, complementing experiments and observations from astroparticle
physics.
The thermal freeze-out mechanism provides a cosmological clue for the generation of
the observed DM density, suggesting that DM particles have masses in the range from multi-
keV to about 100 TeV, and couplings to SM particles of comparable or weaker strength than
EW interactions. High-energy colliders could produce DM particles within this mass range
in controlled conditions. The main signature at colliders is the missing transverse momentum
carried by the DM particle, which remains invisible to detectors due to the presumed weak
strength of its interaction with SM particles. If the DM particle is lighter than mh /2 and it is
coupled to the Higgs, an interesting exploration channel is the invisible Higgs decay width (see
Chapters 3 and 9). An alternative signature is the detection of the mediator particles whose
exchange may be responsible for the annihilation processes that determine the DM particle
abundance. Mediators can lead to a variety of collider signatures in visible channels, although
their discovery would not provide evidence for DM until invisible channels are identified as
well.
There are many possible thermal freeze-out scenarios, each with their own unique exper-
imental signals. Here we present only some interesting examples of heavy DM particles and
discuss the prospects for their searches at future colliders. The case of light DM particles is
addressed in Sect. 8.6 and non-collider searches for DM are discussed in Chapter 9.
8.5.1 Higgsinos and Winos

The most straightforward example of a DM thermal relic is a massive particle with EW gauge
interactions only. Of special interest are the cases of spin-1/2 particles transforming as doublets
or triplets under SU(2) symmetry, which are usually referred to as Higgsino and Wino respec-
tively. Although this terminology is borrowed from SUSY, these examples should be regarded
as standalone DM models.
A summary of the reach of future colliders for Higgsinos and Winos is presented in
Fig. 8.14 (for a more detailed discussion of the relevant collider signatures, see Sect. 8.3.2).
A study of the preferred mass range from thermal freeze-out can be found in [478]. Current
direct detection limits are not shown as, for a pure Higgsino with a small inelastic splitting,
the spin-independent cross section is well below the irreducible neutrino background. For the
Wino the cross section is above the neutrino background, but only by less than an order of mag-
nitude [479]. DARWIN, a future direct detection experiment, is expected to probe the Wino
scenario up to masses of 2+3−1 TeV, where the large error reflects the theoretical uncertainties on
the Wino-proton cross section [479]. This projection is shown in Fig. 8.14. Current indirect
detection limits were taken from [478], which compiled both FERMI and H.E.S.S. telescope
constraints. In summary, Higgsino DM with a thermal mass is likely within the coverage of
CTA, while it is not constrained by H.E.S.S., and thermal Wino DM is strongly constrained by
H.E.S.S. [480]. We note that the indirect detection constraints are subject to large systematic
uncertainties from halo-shape modelling. These uncertainties are not reflected in the bars shown
in Fig. 8.14 and should be kept in mind when comparing with collider searches.
The reach for disappearing track searches at HL-LHC, HE-LHC and FCC-hh is taken
from [442], while the result for low-energy FCC-hh is obtained with a simple extrapolation.
The reach for Higgsinos at FCC-eh is taken from Vol. 1 of the FCC CDR [138], while the
FCC-eh reach for Winos was provided in a private communication by the collaboration. Due
to the cleanliness of the interactions, direct searches at lepton colliders typically come close to
the kinematical limit (shown in blue in Fig. 8.14), but do not surpass it. On the other hand,
the sensitivity to the EW parameters W and Y allows for a reach that can extend beyond the
kinematic limit, albeit in an indirect manner. These constraints, shown in grey, are calculated
using the formulae of [481] updated with the sensitivity reported in the ECFA Higgs report [39].
It is important to remark that FCC-hh can conclusively test the hypothesis of thermal DM for
both the Higgsino and Wino scenarios, while CLIC can cover the Higgsino case. These re-
sults were obtained assuming the EW one-loop neutral-charged mass splitting (see Sect. 8.3.2).
FCC-hh searches could become ineffective under the special circumstances of heavy-particle
contributions that accidentally cancel the loop-induced mass splitting.
8.5.2 Simplified Models: axial vector and scalar mediators

Simplified DM Models are a schematic way to parametrise classes of theories without com-
mitting to specific dynamical constructions or introducing too many unknown parameters. The
Simplified Models considered here introduce one DM particle and one mediator, and their free
parameters are the masses of these two particles and the coupling constants of the interactions
mediator/DM and mediator/SM particles. The mediator can be either a SM particle itself (e.g.
the Higgs or the Z boson) or a new BSM particle. Depending on the nature of the DM par-
ticle and the mediator, one can construct a large variety of Simplified Models and here two
8.5. DARK MATTER 131
Indirect Detection Pure Higgsino 90% CL Direct Detection Projection Pure Wino
FCC-hh Indirect Detection
LE-FCC FCC-hh
LE-FCC
FCC-eh
FCC-eh
HE-LHC
HE-LHC
HL-LHC 2σ, Disappearing Tracks
HL-LHC 2σ, Disappearing Tracks
CLIC3000 Kinematic Limit: s /2
CLIC3000 Kinematic Limit: s /2
CLIC1500 2σ, Indirect Reach
CLIC1500 2σ, Indirect Reach
ILC
ILC
CLIC380
CLIC380
FCC-ee FCC-ee
CEPC Thermal CEPC Thermal
��
� χ [��] � χ [��]
Fig. 8.14: Summary of 2σ sensitivity reach to pure Higgsinos and Winos at future colliders.
Current indirect DM detection constraints (which suffer from unknown halo-modelling uncer-
tainties) and projections for future direct DM detection (which suffer from uncertainties on the
Wino-nucleon cross section) are also indicated. The vertical line shows the mass corresponding
to DM thermal relic.
representative examples [482] are chosen.

In both cases, the DM particle is a massive Dirac fermion (χ). In the first example,
the mediator is a spin-1 particle (Z 0 ) coupled to an axial-vector current in the Lagrangian as
−Zµ0 (gDM χ̄γ µ γ5 χ + g f ∑ f f¯γ µ γ5 f ), where f are SM fermions. This model is particularly inter-
esting for collider searches because the reach of direct DM searches is limited, as the interaction
in the non-relativistic limit is purely spin-dependent. In the second √ example, the mediator is a
¯
spin-0 particle (φ ) with interactions φ (gDM χ̄ χ − g f ∑ f y f f f / 2). This model can serve as a
prototype for various extensions of the SM involving enlarged Higgs sectors.
In Fig. 8.15 a compilation of future collider sensitivities to the two Simplified Models
under consideration, with a choice of couplings of (gf = 0.25, gDM = 1.0) for the axial-vector
model and (gf = 1.0, gDM = 1.0) for the scalar model, are shown. The reach of collider experi-
ments to this kind of models is strongly dependent on the choice of couplings. As an example,
the sensitivity of dijet and monojet searches decreases significantly with decreased quark cou-
plings: with 36 fb−1 of LHC data [483] and assuming a DM mass of 300 GeV and gDM = 1.0,
the limits from dijet searches on the axial-vector mediator mass decrease from 2.6 TeV for a
quark coupling of gq = 0.25 to 900 GeV for gq = 0.1, while the monojet limits decrease from
1.6 TeV (gq = 0.25) to 1 TeV (gq = 0.1).
The mono-photon constraints at lepton colliders result from the mediator coupling to
leptons, whereas at hadron colliders only the quark couplings are relevant. As a result, the
two cases cannot be compared like-for-like, although the results illustrate the relevant strengths
for exploring the dark sector in a broad sense. Furthermore, mono-photon constraints apply in
a general EFT context, hence additional complementary coupling-dependent constraints, such
as on four-electron interactions, may be relevant.
Constraints for HL-LHC and HE-LHC are taken from [442, 484]. The FCC-hh monojet
constraints for the axial-vector model are estimated using the collider reach tool, with results
consistent with the analysis performed in [138]. Estimates for FCC-hh, in the case of the scalar
model, are taken from [485]. Estimates for low-energy FCC-hh (LE-FCC) are generated from
the collider reach tool alone. Complementary dijet-resonance constraints for the axial-vector
FCC-hh (Dijet) gDM =1, gQ =1

HE-LHC
HL-LHC (Dijet) Dijet HL-LHC tt+MET

gQ =1/4
FCC-hh FCC-hh
gDM =1, gQ =1
LE-FCC LE-FCC
HE-LHC Monojet HE-LHC

Monojet
HL-LHC gDM =1, gQ =1/4 HL-LHC
CLIC3000 gDM ×gE =1/4 CLIC3000 gDM ×gE =1

CLIC380 CLIC380
ILC Monophoton ILC

Monophoton
FCC-ee FCC-ee
CEPC Preliminary Axial-Vector CEPC Scalar

��
�� [��] �� [��]
Fig. 8.15: Summary of 2 σ sensitivity to axial-vector and scalar simplified models at future
colliders for a DM mass of MDM = 1 GeV and for the couplings shown in the figure. References
and details on the estimates included in these plots can be found in the text.
model are taken from [447,485]. For the lepton colliders, the CLIC monophoton estimates were
provided privately by the CLICdp collaboration and all other lepton collider estimates are taken
from [486]. For CEPC estimates, without considering systematic uncertainties, see [487]. It is
clear from these estimates that future colliders can provide sensitive probes of DM, potentially
revealing evidence for invisible particle production, even for very massive mediators.
Searches at high-energy hadron colliders have the best reach for the visible decays of
multi-TeV mediator particles. Going beyond the HL-LHC reach for those same resonances
in the mass region between 10 GeV and 1 TeV is still possible with an increased dataset at
hadron colliders (see Sect. 8.6 and e.g. Ref. [488]), but it is inherently more challenging than
for lepton colliders. It is often the case that signatures of sub-TeV resonances at hadron col-
liders are indistinguishable from those of their high-rate backgrounds, especially considering
the impact of simultaneous pp interactions on searches for hadronically decaying resonances at
high-luminosity hadron colliders. Since it is generally not possible to record all events in their
entirety for further analysis, as doing so would saturate the experiment data-acquisition and
trigger systems, maintaining the sensitivity for sub-TeV resonances at hadron colliders requires
the employment of specific data-taking and analysis techniques [489] (see also Chapter 11).
The discovery of invisible particles at a collider experiment does not imply that those
invisible particles constitute the cosmological dark matter; for that, it would be necessary to
compare collider results to direct and indirect detection experiment, as well as to astrophysical
observations (e.g. the dark matter relic density). The comparison of the sensitivity of experi-
ments at future colliders and direct/indirect detection experiments searching for dark matter for
the models in this section can be found in Chapter 9.
8.6 Feebly-interacting particles

Unknown particles or interactions are needed to explain a number of observed phenomena and
outstanding questions in particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. While there is a vast
landscape of theoretical models that try to address these puzzles, on the experimental side most
of the efforts have so far concentrated on the search for new particles with sizeable couplings
to SM particles and masses above the EW scale. An alternative possibility, largely unexplored,
is that particles responsible for the still unexplained phenomena are below the EW scale and
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have not been detected because they interact too feebly with SM particles. These particles
would belong to an entirely new sector, the so-called hidden or dark sector. While masses and
interactions of particles in the dark sector are largely unknown, the mass range between the
MeV and tens of GeV appears particularly interesting, both theoretically and experimentally,
and is the subject of this section.
An important motivation for new physics in this mass range is DM (see Chapter 9), which
could be made of light particles, with either a thermal or non-thermal cosmological origin. Ther-
mal DM in the MeV–GeV range with SM interactions is overproduced in the early Universe
and therefore viable scenarios require additional SM neutral mediators to deplete the overabun-
dance [490–495]. These mediators, which must be singlets under the SM gauge symmetry, can
lead to couplings of feebly-interacting particles to the SM through portal operators.
8.6.1 The formalism of portals

Portals are the lowest canonical-dimension operators that mix new dark-sector states with gauge-
invariant (but not necessarily Lorentz-invariant) combinations of SM fields. Following closely
the scheme used in the Physics Beyond Colliders study [360], four types of portal are consid-
ered:
Portal Coupling
0
Vector (Dark Photon, Aµ ) − 2 cosε θ Fµν Bµν
W
Scalar (Dark Higgs, S) (µS + λHS S2 )H † H
Fermion (Sterile Neutrino, N) yN LHN
a µν a µν ∂µ a µ 5
Pseudo-scalar (Axion, a) fa Fµν F̃ , fa Gi,µν G̃i , fa ψγ γ ψ
0
Here Fµν is the field strength for the dark photon, which mixes with the hypercharge field
strength B ; S is the dark Higgs, a new scalar singlet that couples to the SM Higgs doublet H;
µν
and N is a heavy neutral lepton (HNL) that couples to the SM left-handed leptons. These three
cases are the only possible renormalisable portal interactions. While many new operators can
be written at the non-renormalisable level, a particularly important example is provided by the
axion (or axion-like) particle a that couples to gauge and fermion fields at dimension five.
8.6.2 Experimental sensitivities

The portal framework is used to define some benchmark cases, for which sensitivities of dif-
ferent experimental proposals are evaluated and compared with each other. Unless otherwise
stated, all limits presented in this section correspond to 90% CL, since the majority of the liter-
ature has been using this standard.
Vector portal
New light vector particles mixed with the photon are not uncommon in BSM models containing
hidden sectors, possibly related to the DM problem. The parameters describing this class of
models are ε, αD , mA0 and mχ , where ε is the mixing parameter between the dark and ordinary
photon; αD = g2D /4π is the coupling strength of the dark photon with DM; and mA0 and mχ
are the dark photon and DM particle mass, respectively. The study of experimental sensitivities
at future colliders is performed in the plane of ε versus mA0 , assuming αD to be negligible
with respect to ε. It is important to note that only minimal Dark Photon models have been
Fig. 8.16: Sensitivity for Dark Photons in the plane mixing parameter ε versus Dark Photon
mass. HL-LHC, CEPC, FCC-ee and FCC-hh curves correspond to 95% CL exclusion limits,
LHeC and FCC-eh curves correspond to the observation of 10 signal events, and all other curves
are expressed as 90% CL exclusion limits. The sensitivity of future colliders, mostly covers the
large-mass, large-coupling range, and is fully complementary to the the low-mass, very low-
coupling regime where beam-dump and fixed-target experiments are most sensitive.
considered in this study. Non-minimal models used by, e.g. the HL-LHC experiments [442]
and other future facilities, are not addressed here. The results are shown in Fig. 8.16.
Visible decays of vector mediators are mostly constrained from searches for di-electron or
di-muon resonances and from the re-interpretation of data from fixed target or neutrino experi-
ments in the low (< 1 GeV) mass region. NA48/2 [496], A1 [497] and BaBar [498] experiments
put the strongest bounds for ε > 10−3 in the 0.01 − 10 GeV mass range. These results are com-
plemented by those from beam dump experiments, such as E141 [499] and E137 [500, 501] at
SLAC, E774 at Fermilab [502], CHARM [503] and NuCal [504].
The low-mass range (0.01–1 GeV, see Chapter 9) is best covered by beam-dump exper-
iments (SHiP [430], NA62 in dump mode [505]), and by FASER at the ATLAS interaction
point [506] in the very low-coupling regime (ε < 10−4 ). These are complemented by the LHCb
Upgrade [507] and Belle-II [339]. Future collider experiments (HL-LHC [488], CEPC [508],
FCC-ee [509], FCC-eh [510], FCC-hh [488], ILC500 ) have unique coverage in the high-mass
range (> 10 GeV) down to ε ∼ 10−4 . FCC-eh could fill the gap left by LHCb in the low-mass
region. There is an interesting complementarity between future collider experiments, which
cover the high-mass large-coupling regime, and beam-dump experiments, which cover the low-
mass, very low-coupling regime.
Scalar portal
In the scalar or Higgs portal, the dark sector is coupled to the Higgs boson via the bilinear
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H † H operator of the SM. The minimal scalar portal model operates with one extra singlet field
S and two types of couplings, µ (or sin θ ) and λHS [352]. The coupling constant λHS leads to
pair-production of S but cannot induce its decay, which requires a non-vanishing sin θ . This
portal has several theoretical motivations. The new scalar can generate the baryon asymmetry
of the Universe [511] and play the role of mediator between SM particles and light DM in
case of secluded annihilations (χ χ → φ φ , where χ is the light DM particle and φ the light
scalar mediator) [512]. It can also address the Higgs fine-tuning problem (via the relaxion
mechanism [513]), which generically leads to relaxion-Higgs mixing [514] and provides an
alternative baryogenesis mechanism [515] and a DM candidate [516, 517].
The experimental sensitivities are shown in Fig. 8.17. Shaded grey areas are already ex-
cluded, as detailed in Ref. [360]. The low-mass (< 10 GeV, see Chapter 9), low-coupling range
is optimally covered by SHiP at the Beam Dump Facility and MATHUSLA200. FASER2, with
3 ab−1 will explore the region above few GeV compatible with that of CODEX-b. MATH-
USLA200 has a unique reach in the high-mass and very low-coupling regime. Vertical lines
correspond to the bounds on the Higgs/dark-Higgs quartic coupling λHS and on m2S /v2 from the
projections for the untagged-Higgs at future colliders [39] (see discussion in [518]). The mass
range above a few GeV can be explored also by CLIC and LHeC/FCC-eh using the displaced-
vertex technique. The large-coupling regime is covered by e+ e− colliders using the recoil
technique (e+ e− → ZS) or running at the Z-pole, via the process e+ e− → Z → S`+ `− .
Fig. 8.17: Exclusion limits for a Dark Scalar mixing with the Higgs boson. LHeC, FCC-eh,
CLIC (all stages) curves and the vertical lines correspond to 95% CL exclusion limits, while all
others to 90% CL exclusion limits. See text for details.
In the limit of small mixing angle, one can bound the Higgs/dark-Higgs quartic coupling λHS
via the Higgs invisible width, which is naturally expected to satisfy the relation λHS . m2S /v2 .
In Table 8.3 projections for the constraints on λHS and the scalar mass for various future collider
options are provided.
Table 8.3: Bounds on the Higgs/dark-Higgs quartic coupling λHS , and on the scalar mass mS . The
projection for the Higgs invisible width are taken from [39].
Collider HL-LHC HL-LHC HL-LHC ILC500 CLIC3000 CEPC FCC FCC

+ LHeC + HE-LHC ee ee/eh/hh
λHS /10−3 2.0 1.5 1.8 0.69 1.2 0.77 0.64 0.23
mS [GeV] 11 9.7 10 6.5 8.4 6.8 6.2 3.7
Pseudo-Scalar portal
QCD axions are a central idea in particle physics to solve the strong CP problem (see Chap-
ter 9). Current QCD axion models are restricted to the sub-eV mass range. Less constrained are
generalisations to axion-like particles (ALPs) [355], which can act as mediators between light
DM and SM particles. Figure 8.18 shows the sensitivity of future collider experiments to ALPs
interacting with photons.
The typical production mechanisms are: the Primakoff effect and π 0 /η decays (see Chap-
ter 9) in beam-dump experiments; DY production followed by Z → aγ for hadron colliders;
e+ e− → (Z) → aγ with a → γγ for lepton colliders. Three mass regions can be clearly identi-
fied. The region ma < 1 GeV is dominated by beam-dump experiments in the very low-coupling
regime and by FASER2 [506]. In this mass regime, ALPs have a lifetime long enough to es-
cape direct detection in experiments at future colliders, and can be identified only via missing
energy. The intermediate mass region (1 GeV < ma < 90 GeV) can be optimally explored
by e+ e− colliders (CEPC [508], CLIC [39], ILC, FCC-ee [519]) running at the Z-pole and by
hadron colliders (FCC-hh [519]) via Z decays. In most of this mass range, the two photons from
a decays are not resolved and, hence, the ALP mass cannot be determined. Finally the high-
mass region (from tens of GeV to a few TeV) can be optimally explored by e+ e− linear colliders
(ILC and CLIC) and ep colliders (LHeC and FCC-eh [520]). Future collider experiments can
also search for ALPs with fermion and gluon couplings but the corresponding sensitivity curves
have been evaluated only in a few cases and are not considered in this study.
Fermion portal
The physics case for Heavy Neutral Leptons (HNL) is discussed in Chapter 6 and here only a
summary of projections on the experimental reach is presented.
Figure 8.19 shows the sensitivity of experiments at current and future accelerators to the
mixing parameter between the electron neutrino and HNL in the mass range 0.1–100 GeV. The
low-mass range (< 5 GeV) is dominated by SHiP at the Beam Dump Facility, followed by
experiments at the LHC interaction points, MATHUSLA200, FASER, CODEX-b [360]. The
mass region between 5 and about 90 GeV can be explored by ILC [427], CEPC [508] and
FCC-ee [68], being dominated by the FCC-ee running at the Z-pole [68]. HNL with masses
above 90 GeV can be directly searched for using displaced-vertex techniques at FCC-hh [521].
FCC-eh can also explore HNLs in the same mass range [521] but sensitivity plots have been
produced only for couplings to the second neutrino generation and are not included in Fig. 8.19.
Among indirect techniques, EW precision measurements allow the sensitivity to HNL to be
extended up to very high masses, well beyond what shown in Fig. 8.19. Finally, SHiP and
FCC-ee running at the Z-pole have the potential to exclude the region of masses and couplings
Fig. 8.18: Exclusion limits for ALPs coupled to photons. All curves correspond to 90% CL
exclusion limits, except for LHeC/FCC-eh (95% CL exclusion limits), FCC-ee (observation of
four signal events) and FCC-hh (observation of 100 signal events). See text for details.
compatible with leptogenesis [522] almost down to the see-saw limit. The sensitivity to Heavy
Neutral Leptons coupled predominantly to the second and third generation is shown in Figs. 9.6
and 5.13, respectively.
8.7 Summary and conclusions

In recent years, the scene of BSM research has been evolving rapidly, thanks to a wealth of new
experimental data in particle and astroparticle physics. On the theoretical front, less emphasis
has been given to unified frameworks able to deal simultaneously with many key questions in
particle physics, and more attention has been given to models that address individual shortcom-
ings of the SM or simply single unexplained facts. This has created a more fragmented land-
scape of research activity, where there is no single dominating trend, but multiple approaches
pursuing different directions. The need to look for new theoretical paradigms is making today’s
research in particle physics very exciting, rich with opportunities for alternative and revolu-
tionary ideas. In this situation, more than ever, an intense and diversified programme of new
experimental projects is needed to unravel the many mysteries left unresolved by the SM and to
provide clues for progress in theoretical speculations.
The current report reflects broadly the present state of the field. Instead of giving a com-
prehensive account of all BSM model variations and their phenomenological signatures, the
analysis has focused on a representative set of cases that allow for an informative comparison
of the reach of future experimental projects. At the beginning of the ESPP physics activities,
four fundamental questions that would serve as a leitmotif for the BSM studies were identified
and presented to the physics community at the Open Symposium in Granada. This chapter is
concluded with a presentation, in the form of a summary, of those questions and the answers
Fig. 8.19: 90% CL exclusion limits for a Heavy Neutral Lepton mixed with the electron neu-
trino. See text for details.
that have emerged from the study.

1. To what extent can we tell whether the Higgs boson is fundamental or composite?
Undoubtedly the Higgs boson is the centrepiece of today’s BSM physics. Its discovery has led to
an unprecedented situation in physics, since no fundamental scalar particles and no fundamental
forces different from gauge forces had ever been observed prior to the Higgs. These facts
are not mere curiosities, but are at the core of the main puzzles confronting particle physics
today. Progress with these issues requires an experimental programme targeted at precision
measurements of Higgs interactions and EW observables. This programme is a clear priority
for the future of particle physics. Higgs precision measurements are especially efficient in
testing strongly-interacting EW breaking sectors (such as in composite Higgs models), theories
for EW breaking in which there are no weak-scale coloured particles associated with the Higgs
(such as Neutral Naturalness), and theories in which the Higgs is mixed with other scalar states.
A central question for the precision programme is the nature of the Higgs boson, i.e.
whether it is a fundamental or composite particle. Theories like SUSY suggest that the Higgs
boson is as fundamental as any other SM particle, while models based on approximate Gold-
stone symmetries suggest that the Higgs has a composite structure, much like the pion in QCD.
As shown in Sect. 8.2, this question can be quantitatively addressed by future colliders, which
can test the ‘size’ of the Higgs up to inverse distances 1/`H ∼ 10 − 20 TeV, more than four
orders of magnitude below the size of a proton. To put this result in perspective, we define the
degree of compositeness δ of a particle with mass m as the ratio between its effective size and
its Compton wavelength λC = 2π h̄/mc (which is a measure of the particle’s quantum nature).
For a proton, which is a fully composite object, one finds δ p ≈ m p /(2πΛQCD ) ≈ 1. For a pion,
which is a composite particle but emerges as a Goldstone boson below the QCD scale, one finds
δπ ≈ mπ /(2πmρ ) = 0.03. Future colliders will be able to probe the Higgs degree of compos-
iteness at the level of 10−3 . Knowledge about the fundamental nature of the Higgs will give us
decisive indications on the directions to pursue in future BSM research.
2. Are there new interactions or new particles around or above the electroweak scale?
All dynamical frameworks that address the open problems of EW symmetry breaking predict
that the Higgs boson must be accompanied by new particles or new phenomena. This conclu-
sion is quite generic. In SUSY, the Higgs is elevated to a supermultiplet and, furthermore, the
scalar structure is doubled. Composite Higgs, Little Higgs, neutral naturalness predict accom-
panying particles as well. Any dynamical explanation of Higgs naturalness requires partners
to the top quark and gauge bosons with appropriate properties. Therefore, the hunt for new
high-energy phenomena is an essential route towards progress in our understanding of particle
physics. Future colliders are superb explorers of this route, as discussed in Sects. 8.2, 8.3 and
8.4. Searches at the highest energies are especially efficient in testing theories for EW breaking
with new coloured particles (such as SUSY) and a great variety of new phenomena not necessar-
ily associated with the Higgs (such as additional gauge bosons and scalars, heavy resonances,
or exotic particles such as leptoquarks). The power of the high-energy frontier lies in its versa-
tility for exploring the unknown, but also extends to the programme of precision measurements
(especially for energy-growing effects) and to searches for rare processes that benefit from high
luminosity.
The collider exploration of short distances can proceed through direct or indirect searches.
Proposed future colliders can explore new physics extensively, up to scales of tens of TeV
through direct searches. The direct exploration with colliders operating at higher energies is the
only way to have hands-on access to new phenomena and to inspect their microscopic nature.
As shown in this chapter, a variety of new-physics scenarios can be effectively tested in this way.
For example (see Sect. 8.3), direct searches translate into a probe of the degree of naturalness of
SUSY theories down to a level of 10−5 , testing deeply one of the guiding principles of particle
physics.
An alternative experimental strategy is based on indirect searches. A particularly interest-
ing class of indirect probes are tests of accidental symmetries or cancellation mechanisms in the
SM, especially in the flavour sector (see Chapter 5). A second class of indirect probes are Higgs
precision measurements (see Chapter 3). Quite generically, modifications of Higgs couplings
are proportional to the degree of fine-tuning of the theory, with a fully natural theory predicting
O(1) effects in Higgs couplings. This link provides the basis for a comparison between the
relative effectiveness of direct versus indirect searches. The third class of indirect probes are
EW precision measurements (see Chapter 3). The expected intensity and accuracy of future
lepton colliders at the Z and WW thresholds will allow for improvements of indirect sensitivity
of several orders of magnitude. The distinction between EW and Higgs precision tests is purely
historical, as they are really two aspects of the same question.
The fourth class of indirect probes is the study of deviations in SM scattering processes
(examples are the contact interactions studied in Sect. 8.2). The important difference of these
observables, with respect to the other three classes of indirect tests, is that their effects grow
with powers of s/Λ2 and therefore these measurements benefit not only from the statistics of
high luminosity, but also from gains in the collider energy. For this reason, indirect tests are
not only the domain of lepton colliders. Hadron colliders with very high luminosities are also
effective and complementary in this respect, in particular when looking for processes that grow
with energy or for rare processes, for which the large production rates at hadron colliders are
essential.
The complementarity between direct and indirect searches can be illustrated with the ex-
ample of a new resonance with mass M and couplings gZ 0 to SM particles √ (see Fig. 8.3). With
direct searches, high-energy colliders can explore larger M by increasing s, and smaller gZ 0
by increasing the luminosity. Virtual effects of the resonance can be detected indirectly by
measuring deviations from SM predictions in the high-energy tails of distributions. These mea-
surements can probe masses beyond the collider kinematic limit, but are sensitive only to the
ratio gZ 0 /M. Higher energies allow for more effective probes of the ratio gZ 0 /M. This example
shows the complementarity between the two experimental strategies, with direct searches being
in general more effective in the weakly-coupled regime (i.e. small gZ 0 ) and indirect searches
in the strongly-coupled regime (i.e. large gZ 0 ). Although this distinction provides a good gen-
eral guideline, a precise comparison between the two strategies can only be performed on a
model-by-model basis.
Indirect searches have the advantage of probing particle masses well beyond the collider
kinematical limit, but cannot identify the specific source of new physics. Only discoveries
in direct searches can give first-hand access to the microscopic structure of new phenomena.
However, any new discovery, irrespective of whether it stems from direct or indirect searches,
will certainly motivate a scientific programme of dedicated precision measurements. This was
the case for the LEP programme which followed the discovery of the W and Z bosons, and it is
today the case for a Higgs factory which is proposed to follow after the discovery of the Higgs
boson.
In this report, strong emphasis has been placed on the interplay between direct and indi-
rect searches at colliders in the exploration of the high-energy frontier. This interplay allowed
us to make quantitative comparisons between the exploratory power of different experimen-
tal projects and to show the great complementarity of the two methods in the search for new
physics. Nevertheless, addressing the mysteries of particle physics at the EW scale requires
a bold step in the exploration of Nature at the smallest possible distances. In general, hadron
colliders offer a higher mass reach, but lepton colliders can guarantee an almost full coverage
of the kinematic region accessible to them. And while Higgs and EW precision measurements
at an e+ e− collider provide an imperative and well-motivated physics programme with guaran-
teed deliverables, only colliders that break new ground in the high-energy domain offer direct
exploration of the unknown and firsthand observations of Nature’s behaviour at distance scales
that have never been probed before. Of the two currently-proposed colliders at the energy fron-
tier, CLIC3000 offers a general exploration of any new particle with EW interactions up to the
kinematic limit, which corresponds to masses of 1.5 TeV for pair-production processes, while
FCC-hh can explore some cases up to much larger masses, e.g. gluinos up to 17 TeV, top squarks
up to 10 TeV, and new Higgs bosons from a second EW doublet up to 5–20 TeV, depending on
the value of tan β .
Bold and pioneering exploration of the unknown has always characterised the history and
successes of particle physics. Once again, the quest to understand the fundamental physical
laws is driving particle physics toward ever smaller distance scales. The exploration of the
high-energy frontier remains the most promising option as well as the most pressing priority
for the future of particle physics. High-energy colliders are the unique and irreplaceable tool to
explore directly phenomena at very short distances and to confront the open questions related
to the EW scale.
3. What cases of thermal-relic particles are still unprobed and can be fully covered by
future collider searches?
Dark Matter provides a fascinating link between large-scale astronomy and short-distance par-
ticle physics (see Chapter 9). While the realm of possibilities for DM is still enormous, there
are well-defined windows where particle physics can contribute in a unique way. An interesting
prototype for DM is a heavy weakly-interacting particle. In Sect. 8.5 it has been shown how
future colliders can test this hypothesis, demonstrating that the early-Universe thermal origin of
DM in the form of an EW doublet can be conclusively proven or ruled out at both CLIC3000 and
FCC-hh, and the corresponding EW triplet can be probed conclusively at the FCC-hh. Other
benchmark models for DM can also be effectively tested at future colliders and examples have
been provided.
Other forms of DM, constituted of much lighter particles, can also be explored by particle-
physics experiments (see Chapter 9). With a variety of collider-based, beam-dump and fixed-
target experiments, it is possible to probe the existence of new light particles (such as axions,
ALPs, sterile neutrinos, etc.) which, in some cases, may be related to the DM problem, besides
being motivated by other particle-physics or astrophysics considerations (see Sect. 8.6).
4. To what extent can current or future accelerators probe feebly-interacting sectors?
The absence, so far, of unambiguous signals of new physics from direct searches at the LHC,
indirect searches in flavour physics and direct DM detection experiments invigorates the need
for broadening the experimental effort in the quest for new physics and in exploring ranges
of interaction strengths and masses different from those already covered by existing or planned
projects. While exploration of the high-mass frontier remains an essential target, other research
directions have valid theoretical motivations and deserve equal attention. Feebly-interacting
particles (see Sect. 8.6) represent an alternative paradigm with respect to the traditional BSM
physics explored at the LHC. The full investigation of this paradigm over a large range of
couplings and masses requires a great variety of experimental facilities. In this context, the
physics reach of experiments at future colliders is complemented by beam-dump facilities which
typically cover the range of low masses and extremely feeble couplings.
Chapter 9
Dark Matter and Dark Sectors
This chapter is based on material submitted by the particle physics community to the ESPP
update process that is relevant for dark matter and dark sectors exploration. Section 9.1 provides
an introduction to the topic. Section 9.2 briefly highlights current results and potential of dark
matter astrophysical probes. Dark Matter (DM) and Dark Sector (DS) searches at colliders
are discussed in Chapter 8, and are briefly touched upon in Sect. 9.3 of this chapter through
their complementarity with dark matter direct and indirect detection experiments. Section 9.4
concentrates on accelerator based DM/DS searches at fixed target and beam dump experiments.
Section 9.5 discusses axions and Axion-Like Particle (ALP) searches. Section 9.6 concludes on
the main findings of the preparatory group exercise for this chapter. More detailed information
can be found in a supporting note [523].
9.1 Introduction
There is compelling evidence from galactic and cosmological observations that DM exists, and
detecting DM in the laboratory is one of the greatest challenges of particle physics [524]. Since
DM - if made of particles or compact objects - is the dominant form of matter in the universe,
it is highly plausible that there is also a richer Hidden Sector (HS). The constituents of such
HS could include multiple species of massive particles, one or more which might mix with
Standard Model (SM) particles such as the Higgs boson, the photon or neutrinos, via so called
HS-SM portal operators (see [525] for a review). A hidden sector that contains dark matter is
more generically called a DS, and includes at least a mediator connecting HS particles and SM
particles. The SM operator interacting/mixing with the mediator is often referred to as a portal
(e.g. Higgs portal). In the most simplified DS realization, with just DM as its only component,
a new, beyond the Standard Model (BSM) particle may act as the mediator. Such a mediator
can also be the force carrier of a new gauge group under which the SM particles are charged,
e.g. U(1)B−L [526, 527].
While the observational evidence for dark matter is exceptionally convincing, our current
level of ignorance of the basic properties of dark matter is remarkable [528]. The mass of dark
matter particles could be anything from as light as 10−22 eV [529] to as heavy as primordial
black holes of tens of solar masses [530]. The lower mass limit comes from the requirement that
dark matter particles can have a sufficiently short de Broglie wavelength to form dwarf galaxies
and galactic sub-halos, while the upper limit is set by observational limits on massive compact
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halo objects (MACHOs) and CMB anisotropies [531–533]. Within this very large mass range
it is useful to define some distinct families of possibilities.
Considering the DM production mechanism in the early Universe provides a useful clas-
sification. We shall concentrate here on two prominent examples. Assuming the DM is pro-
duced thermally, through interactions with the SM in the early Universe, narrows the viable
DM masses significantly, to the few keV to 100 TeV range (e.g. WIMPS and hidden sector
particles). In the case of standard cosmology, theoretical models become highly predictive;
however, in nonstandard cosmology a wide range of models can produce the observed dark
matter abundance. Alternatively, ultralight particles in the sub-eV range must be produced non-
thermally (e.g. QCD axion and axion-like particles), also allowing for different cosmological
histories.
We are equally ignorant of dark matter interactions. As part of a dark sector, dark matter
may interact only gravitationally with SM matter or it may interact via DS mediators (neutral
under the SM gauge group) interacting/mixing through a SM portal, as well as through new
particles charged under the SM gauge group that couple to the dark matter directly. Alterna-
tively, dark matter may carry SM charges itself as part of an extended BSM sector with many
new states carrying SM quantum numbers. In such case a preserved symmetry distinguishing
between the SM and BSM particles renders the DM particle stable (e.g. as in supersymmetry).
In this latter approach, inspired by BSM theories built to solve additional mysteries of particle
physics, we refer to the dark matter as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs).
The history of dark matter direct detection experiments has been dominated by WIMP
searches, motivated by the so-called “WIMP miracle”: the qualitative observation that particles
with roughly weak scale O(100) GeV masses, and weak scale interactions with SM particles,
will end up with roughly the observed thermal relic density after freeze out in standard Big Bang
cosmology (see [534] for a review). WIMP scenarios, of O(100) GeV mass dark matter particles
interacting with detectors via Z boson exchange, have already been strongly constrained by the
impressive current limits of multiple overlapping direct WIMP searches. Current and proposed
WIMP direct detection experiments will push the sensitivity down to the so-called “neutrino
floor”, where background from known astrophysical neutrino sources will swamp the expected
signal of nuclear recoils from interactions with WIMPs from the galactic halo [535]. New
strategies are being developed to conquer the neutrino floor and enable exploration beyond it.
Collider searches for WIMP candidates, such as those provided by models of supersymmetry,
are a main focus of interest at the HL-LHC and provide a strong case for a future high-energy
hadron collider.
WIMP dark matter is not the only example of plausible dark matter particles that can be
explained as thermal relics from early Universe cosmology. Hidden sector dark matter can pro-
vide such thermal relics in the mass range between about a few keV [536] and about 100 TeV,
with unitarity constraints yielding the upper bound [537]. In principle, such relic dark matter
could interact with laboratory detectors via new exotic, feeble interactions. Laboratory detec-
tion of keV–GeV thermal dark matter, often referred to as light dark matter (LDM), requires
deploying novel detector technologies and/or new detection strategies, since existing strategies
typically fail below the GeV scale. Interestingly enough, the phenomenology of low-mass re-
gion (keV–GeV) thermal dark matter is quite different from the standard WIMP. In particular,
in order to deplete the DM density at freeze out to agree with the currently observed values,
it typically demands the existence of light mediator(s) that also give rise to novel laboratory
searches independently of their connection to DM. New accelerator-based searches, in which a
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high-intensity, relativistic beam of particles (electrons, protons, muons) impact on a dense tar-
get, offer a compelling path to probe LDM and DS portals. These accelerator-based fixed target
experiments can exploit beam-dump and missing energy/momentum techniques and will have
unprecedented sensitivity to DS realizations at the CERN SPS and/or the SLAC LCLS-II facil-
ities. They are complementary to electron recoil signals at dedicated low-mass direct detection
experiments.
In the case of ultralight, non thermal DM with mass less than about an eV, the measured
galactic DM density implies that the occupation numbers of these ultralight dark states are very
high. Therefore such ultralight DM (lighter that about 0.7 keV) must be bosonic [538], and
the effects of halo DM in terrestrial experiments are best described as wavelike disturbances.
A particularly compelling candidate for ultralight DM is the QCD axion, whose mass can be
in the range 10−12 to 10−3 eV (see [539] for a review). If QCD axions are a major component
of DM, they could be detected as coherent waves from the halo. Quite generally, axions can
also be produced as higher energy particles by our Sun and detected by terrestrial experiments.
Many BSM scenarios contain axion-like particles and other sub-eV dark sector particles that
might eventually also be produced at the laboratory without relying on cosmological and as-
trophysical assumptions. Ultralight DM searches motivate a broad variety of non-accelerator
experiments, which however profit crucially from technologies developed in accelerator-based
research [525].
9.2 Astrophysical Probes of Dark Matter

The understanding of the dark matter properties will demand signals from multiple experiments,
together with compatibility with indirect measurements from DM annihilation or decay prod-
ucts. This section briefly reports on the status and prospects for DM Direct Detection (DD) and
Indirect Detection (ID) searches, with emphasis on masses greater that about 1 GeV. For lower
mass regimes see Sects. 9.4.5 and 9.5.3.
9.2.1 Direct detection

At present, direct detection searches have excluded spin-independent dark matter-nucleon cross
sections as low as 10−46 cm2 [540, 541], shown as solid curves in Fig. 9.1, and spin-dependent
cross sections as low as 10−41 cm2 [542]. For interactions with heavy mediators, collider
searches may have comparable sensitivity for the subset of models and parameters chosen in
Chapter 8; specific examples are shown in Sect. 9.3.2. In Fig. 9.1, the leading results in the 5
GeV range and below come from the DarkSide-50 LAr TPC low-mass search and from cryo-
genic solid-state detectors, while at higher masses from cryogenic noble liquids, led for the
past decade by the pioneering XENON programme at LNGS. There have also been several
experiments that are consistent with a dark matter signal, both from direct [543–546] and indi-
rect [547, 548] searches. These results demonstrate that confirmation by multiple experiments,
with independent detection strategies and targets, is essential for a convincing discovery.
Projected sensitivities of near-future direct detection dark matter searches are shown in
Fig. 9.1 as dashed curves. Three mid-term searches using Xe TPCs—LZ [558], PANDA, and
XENON-nT [559] —all aim to reach 10−48 cm2 scale sensitivity at 30 GeV dark matter mass.
Searches at colliders for scalar dark matter expect to reach relevant sensitivities for the low-mass
range below 10 GeV, discussed further in Sec. 9.3.2. The DarkSide-20k experiment expects to
reach the 10−47 cm2 scale at 1 TeV. Long-term future searches using Xe (DARWIN) and Ar
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(ARGO) project reaching beyond 10−48 cm2 in the next decade. For spin-dependent interac-
tions, near-term future experiments using Xe and CF3 targets project to reach sensitivity to
10−42 cm2 WIMP-neutron [559] and WIMP-proton cross sections, at ∼ 50 GeV. [560]. At low
mass (around 1 to 10 GeV), solid state experiments, e.g. SuperCDMS, expect to achieve 10−42
cm2 cross section reach on a 5 year time scale.
Major challenges to future direct detection experiments come from: (a) ν −e and coherent
elastic scattering backgrounds from solar and atmospheric neutrinos, which is known as the
“neutrino floor” and shown in the grey hatched region in Fig. 9.1; (b) neutrino flux uncertainties
on these backgrounds; and, (c) technology scaling to increase in mass over current searches by
factors of 10 or more whilst improving background rejection and lowering radioactivity.
In consideration of the strong synergy between direct dark matter detection and the pro-
gramme for its production and discovery in high-energy collisions at accelerators as well as
in accelerator-based fixed target experiments, discussions at the Open Symposium in Granada
highlighted that CERN’s support for selected direct dark matter search programmes that can
take critical advantage of technology developed at CERN can deliver a decisive boost of their
sensitivity.
9.2.2 Indirect detection

Indirect astrophysical searches for the annihilation products of dark matter (namely gamma-
rays, neutrinos, antimatter) provide important and complementary constraints on DM models
that are searched for at particle colliders and fixed-target/beam-dump experiments, as well as
on models with axion-like particles. Annihilation searches are sensitive to the thermal cross-
section for DM masses close to 100 GeV (depending on the channel), with prospects to reach
10 TeV within less than ten years. No conclusive signals have been found so far.
The arguably cleanest constraints on DM annihilation in the GeV–TeV mass range come
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Fig. 9.2: Current constraints on the DM self-annihilation cross section into b̄b from Fermi LAT
(dSph) [561] and H.E.S.S. Galactic Centre (GC) [562], and expected future reach with the CTA
and additional dwarfs found by LSST [563]. Also shown as red (blue) lines the annihilation
cross sections for pure Higgsino (Wino) DM in the vecinity of DM masses yielding the correct
relic density (the thick regions indicating the correct relic density, from [564]), as well as the
parameter range preferred by the Fermi GeV excess [561,565]. The H.E.S.S. constraints weaken
significantly if the DM profile at the Galactic centre is cored, leaving pure Wino DM consistent
with H.E.S.S. and Fermi observations (see text for details).
from gamma-ray observations of dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxies. Recent analyses (based on
a few dozen dSphs) exclude s-wave annihilating WIMPs into b̄b with masses between about
5 and 80 GeV [561] (Fig. 9.2). Arguably the best example for a DM annihilation signal can-
didate is the so-called ‘Fermi GeV excess’ [565], an excess emission of GeV photons in the
inner Galaxy. It is marginally consistent with dSph and antiproton constraints. Astrophysical
interpretations of the excess will be probed with upcoming radio observations (millisecond pul-
sar searches [566]), while collider experiments can test the dark matter origin. For instance, if
interpreted in terms of 60 GeV dark matter in supersymmetric models (consistent with dSphs,
see Fig. 9.2), the decays of heavy CP-odd and CP-even scalars into τ-pair provides a possible
target for the HL-LHC [567]. In a simple model with a scalar mediator and fermionic Dirac
DM with b̄b annihilation channel, effects on the Higgs signal strength and exotic Higgs decay
can be probed with prospective future colliders such as ILC and FCC-hh [568]. Furthermore,
DM annihilation into b̄b or other hadronic final states contributes significantly to the cosmic-ray
antinuclei flux observed at Earth [569]. Future probes of DM annihilation into hadronic final
states (sensitive to the Fermi GeV excess), will come from anti-deuteron measurements with
the balloon experiment GAPS (around 2021 [570]) and AMS-02.
The future LSST has the potential to discover hundreds of additional dSphs [563], which
together with Fermi LAT data can improve limits from dSph galaxies by a factor of around five.
The upcoming Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is expected to strengthen current H.E.S.S.
constraints by a factor of about ten [571, 572], see Fig. 9.2. Furthermore, neutrino observations
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of the Sun with IceCube/ANTARES [573, 574] provide in many cases the most stringent con-
straints on the spin-dependent WIMP-proton cross section. The ORCA detector of KM3NeT
and the IceCube Upgrade are expected to further probe spin-dependent cross sections down to
3 × 10−5 pb, for DM masses below ∼ 100 GeV. These ranges will also be probed by upcoming
direct detection experiments [560].
9.3 Dark matter and Dark sectors at Colliders

9.3.1 Overview
Present and prospective future colliders offer a unique opportunity to create DM in the labo-
ratory. DM can be searched for at colliders when produced directly in beam-beam collisions
in association with other SM particle(s), or in the decays of SM particles or yet undiscovered
BSM states. In all cases the DM signal will consist of significant missing transverse energy
(in addition to that accounted for by standard neutrinos) plus highly energetic SM objects (for
example jet(s), a Z-boson, a Higgs boson or a photon), or more complex SM final states in case
of cascade decays. A discussion of the discovery potential for a few benchmark models used for
DM searches at high-energy colliders, as well as the visible decays of the DM mediators, can
be found in Chapter 8. Moreover, thermally produced light DM particles typically call for dif-
ferent types of light DS mediators that couple to the SM through portals. Summary plots of the
complementarity among many different accelarator-based experiments are shown in Sect. 8.6.
9.3.2 Complementarity of high-energy collider results with Direct and Indirect Detection
The discovery of DM at direct and indirect detection experiments is necessary to ascertain the
cosmological connection of a collider discovery, which in turn could provide information on the
nature of the DM–SM interaction. Collider results make no assumptions on the thermal history
of the DM candidate that is produced via the mediator particle considered as benchmark. In
some regions of the parameter space covered by collider searches, a non-standard cosmology is
needed to achieve the observed relic density.
The comparison of sensitivities across DD, ID and collider experiments is possible within
a given theoretical framework, and strongly depends on the choices of model and parameters.
These comparisons nevertheless give an idea of the potential parameter space for a DM discov-
ery if DM is realised in one of those example models.
Firstly, this section discusses the complementarity between the collider sensitivity to Wino
and Higgsino, as shown in Chapter 8, and the ID projection for the same scenarios. The com-
parison of DD and collider sensitivity for a Higgs portal model [575, 576] is then shown, con-
sidering the results of the Higgs decays into invisible particles from Chapter 3. Finally, the
scalar benchmark model that has been discussed in Chapter 8 is considered for comparison of
colliders and direct detection experiments, and a version of the same model with pseudoscalar
couplings is used for comparison of colliders and ID experiments.
Wino and Higgsino

The complementarity of collider and indirect detection searches within the Wino and Hig-
gsino dark matter models is most evident at relatively high mass (see Fig. 9.2). Above a DM
mass of ∼ 0.5–1 TeV, ID provides strong constraints on DM annihilation, almost reaching the
typical s-channel thermal cross section [562], via observations of the inner Galaxy with the
H.E.S.S. Cherenkov Telescope. Pure Wino DM with a mass around 2.9 TeV [577], which
would account for all of dark matter, is constrained by these searches, as well as searches
for γγ final states, if the dark matter distribution at our Galactic centre has a cusp-like pro-
file [480, 578–580]. However, if the distribution is more cored, the constraints become weaker
(for details see supplemental note [523]). As shown in Chapter 8, Wino DM can also be
probed with the FCC-hh [442] and LE-FCC, while slightly lighter Wino-like dark matter would
be already accessible for HE-LHC [442] and CLIC3000 [344]. The future Cherenkov Tele-
scope Array (CTA) will improve on current H.E.S.S. constraints by another order of magni-
tude [571, 572, 581]. In the case of a discovery, the combination of CTA and collider results
would allow to determine the dark matter distribution at the Galactic centre, with important im-
plications for the formation history and evolution of galaxies. CTA will be furthermore sensitive
to Higgsino DM with a mass about 1.1 TeV [478, 480, 579], which is also a target of the FCC-
hh [442] and CLIC3000 [344] as shown in Chapter 8. Interestingly, the cross section of many of
these models would be lower than the neutrino background for direct searches, emphasizing the
need for different experimental approaches.
Higgs portal, scalar and pseudoscalar mediator models
Direct detection reach and future hadron collider reach for searches for invisible decays of the
Higgs are shown in Fig. 9.3, within the context of a Higgs portal model [575, 576]. Collider
results from Chapter 3 are translated to the nucleon-DM scattering plane using the procedure
and factors in [582, 583]. The DM candidates considered as an example in these Higgs portal
benchmarks are either a scalar, or a Majorana fermion.
The comparison of the reach of DD, ID and future hadron colliders for the benchmark
models of a scalar or pseudoscalar mediator decaying into Dirac DM use the procedure in [586],
with the coupling choices made in Chapter 8. The results are shown in Fig. 9.4. For the ID plot,
the procedure in [586] maps a velocity-averaged annihilation cross section to multiple values
of LHC mediator mass–DM mass pairs. Fig. 9.4 considers that if a mapped velocity-averaged
annihilation cross section value is obtained from a mediator mass – DM mass pair reachable by
the LHC, that cross section value is considered within LHC reach. Such a procedure highlights
the potential of a situation where a hint for invisible particles at colliders can guide ID searches
and vice versa. The bounds from indirect detection experiment shown in Fig. 9.4 only consider
annihilation into b-quarks, while collider plots consider all channels. A full treatment would
involve the calculation described in [587].
From Figs. 9.3 and 9.4 (top), one can observe that above ∼10 GeV DM mass, next-
decade DD experiments are more sensitive than future colliders to DM signals. Future collider
experiments, instead, are well suited to explore models with mediators decaying to lighter DM
candidates as well as possibly reaching DM masses up to a TeV from the decays of multi-TeV-
mass mediators. From Fig. 9.4 (bottom), it follows that collider searches have better sensitivity
for DM masses below the top mass, while ID searches are more powerful for higher DM masses.
Notably, it is in the intermediate DM mass range (roughly between 10 GeV and 1 TeV
for the scalar/pseudoscalar cases, and between 10 GeV and half the Higgs mass for the Higgs
portal models considered) that the combination of future high-energy colliders, direct detection
and indirect detection programmes will complement each other and shed light on the nature of
a DM candidate at reach in the next decades.
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on the spin-independent WIMP–nucleon scattering cross section for a simplified model with
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the interaction between SM fermions and Dirac fermionic DM. Collider limits are shown at
95% CL and direct detection limits at 90% CL. Bottom: comparison of a selection of projected
limits from future colliders with constraints from current and future indirect detection experi-
ments in the context of a simplified model where a pseudoscalar particle with unit couplings
mediates the interaction between SM fermions and Dirac fermionic DM. All limits are shown
at 95% CL. In both figures, collider searches and DD experiments exclude the areas above the
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9.4 DM and DS at beam-dump and fixed-target experiments

In this section we summarize the physics case for ∼ few keV–GeV scale DM and other HS
particles and identify key targets of opportunity for future experimental efforts.
9.4.1 Theoretical Motivation

The lighter half of the thermal DM mass range, few keV–GeV, is currently underexplored and
typically inaccessible using traditional WIMP detection strategies [525]; new techniques are
necessary to comprehensively probe the predictive models in this window. There are several
key differences between traditional WIMPs and sub-GeV LDM candidates. Unlike WIMPs,
which can carry electroweak charge, LDM must be neutral under all SM gauge interactions—
otherwise it would have been discovered at LEP.1 Furthermore, under the assumption of stan-
dard cosmology, in order to achieve the observed relic density for LDM particles, such models
require couplings to the SM sector that are much larger than GF [490]. This implies the exis-
tence of a light mediator between the SM and a new dark sector. If the mediators are produced
on-shell in the laboratory, they can decay either to LDM or to SM particles through the portal
couplings (see Sect. 8.6 for a summary). Improving experimental sensitivity to both LDM and
SM decay channels has important implications for different theoretical scenarios.
No single experiment or approach is sufficient to cover the vast parameter space that
dark sectors can occupy [525, 590]. A comprehensive dark sector programme therefore relies
on a complementary set of experiments and techniques that span the multitude of dark sector
signatures and collectively cover the broad mass and coupling range:
Mediators decaying to LDM: The most predictive class of thermal LDM models involves me-
diators that are heavier than (twice) the LDM candidate and, therefore, decay to LDM pairs
when produced on shell. Because the mediator is heavier than the LDM, the only kinematically
accessible annihilation2 channel for early-Universe freeze-out is the s-channel DM DM → SM
SM reaction which depends on the mediator’s coupling to both dark and visible matter. Thus, the
SM-mediator coupling occuring through a portal must have a minimum value to realise a ther-
mal annihilation cross section, so mediators that decay to LDM feature predictive experimental-
sensitivity targets; improving coverage to such mediators by 2–3 orders of magnitude in cross
section can convincingly discover or falsify a broad class of thermal DM candidates whose relic
density arise from annihilation directly into SM particles in the early Universe [525, 590].
Mediators decaying to SM particles: If the mediator is lighter than the thermal LDM candi-
date, freeze-out occurs through DM DM → mediator mediator annihilation reactions, which are
independent of the SM-mediator coupling. In this regime, the mediator decays to SM particles
and motivates searches for new forces. However, in the event of a discovery, there is no neces-
sary connection to thermal LDM; new particles with SM decays can exist independently of any
DM assumptions. Indeed, beyond the thermal DM motivation, such particles arise in various
new physics scenarios related to leptogenesis, electroweak baryogenesis, the electroweak hier-
archy problem, neutrino mass generation, and non-thermal DM scenarios which do not feature
predictive experimental sensitivity targets, but are nonetheless well-motivated theoretically. In
1
If < GeV DM were electrically millicharged, the size of the coupling necessary to avoid cosmological over-
production is excluded by a variety of experiments [588,589]; additional forces are still necessary even if light DM
is also millicharged.
2
When DM and mediator masses are nearly degenerate, “forbidden” dark matter [591] serves as a notable
counter-example to this claim.
many of these other scenarios, the SM coupling is required to be very small, so if the mediator
is a long-lived particle (LLP), it can decay at a macroscopic distance away from its production
point, in an accelerator-based experiment (see Chapter 8).
9.4.2 Experimental techniques

As the mediators of the dark sector couple weakly to the SM, facilities with high energy and
intensity beams impinging on dense targets are essential in order to maximize the experimental
sensitivity to such models. Facilities at CERN’s SPS or SLAC’s LCLS-II, will have unprece-
dented sensitivity to a wide range of dark sector models and offer unique opportunities to ex-
plore large portions of the relevant parameter space. The two main experimental techniques are
beam-dump and fixed-target missing-energy/momentum searches.
Beam dump: A high-intensity beam of relativistic particles (electrons, protons or muons) im-
pinges on a thick, passive target. The detector, consisting of spectrometers and calorimeter
systems are installed 10s–100s of metres downstream of the target. Shielding is placed between
the target and detector to absorb SM particles. Signal candidates are reconstructed through
electromagnetic energy depositions in the detector in time-coincidence with beam bunches. If
DS mediators are produced in the target (e.g. via meson decays, Drell-Yan or bremsstrahlung),
a beam-dump signal can arise in two main ways:
1. If the mediator decays to LDM particles, the LDM can pass through the shielding ma-
terial, enter the detector, and scatter off detector atoms, whose relativistic recoils are
detectable [592, 593]. This search strategy is akin to direct detection with two important
differences a) the DM is produced directly at the target (not from the halo) and b) the DM
is relativistic, so even light particle masses (GeV) can induce highly energetic target-
particle recoils well above detection thresholds. Since mediator production and the LDM
scattering both scale as the SM-mediator coupling squared, the signal is proportional to
the fourth power of this coupling.
2. If, instead, the mediator decays to SM particles, beam-dump signals arise from the decay
products of a Long-Lived mediator Particle (LLP) that decays in between the shielding
and the downstream spectrometer. In this scenario, the signal rate depends on both media-
tor production (which scales as the SM-mediator coupling squared) and on its decay prob-
ability in the region of interest (which is also proportional to the SM-mediator coupling
squared), so in total, this signal is proportional to the fourth power of the mediator-SM
coupling.
The SHiP experiment [365, 430] is an example of a beam-dump experiment with a dual
spectrometer to search for scenarios 1) and 2) simultaneously.
Missing-energy/momentum: In this setup, a relativistic beam of particles (electrons or muons)
also strikes a fixed-target, but the energy of each beam particle is measured both before and after
it passes through the target. If the beam particle scatters inside the target and produces a new
mediator which decays to LDM, the beam particle typically emerges with a much lower energy
and there is no other SM particle production detected [358, 594–596]. Both ECAL and HCAL
systems are installed downstream of the target to veto on any other energy deposition aside
from the recoiling beam particle. Since this process depends only on the production of the
mediator and does not require the LDM to interact with a detector, the signal rate scales as the
SM-mediator coupling squared. A mature, dedicated missing energy/momentum search with

∼ 1016 particles on target (e.g. LDMX [362, 597] or NA64++ [360], the upgraded version of
NA64 [358]) offers a unique path towards achieving experimental sensitivity to vast spectra of
predictive LDM thermal targets. Although this technique is optimized to search for mediators
that decay to LDM, it can also offer some sensitivity to mediator decays into SM particles, but
this reach is typically subdominant to that of beam-dump experiments.
The ability to categorically determine that a potential signal is not an instrumental effect
or an unaccounted background is paramount in searches for rare signatures. Beam-dump and
fixed-target experiments are unique in that they enable the design of detectors with veto sys-
tems, spectrometer tracking, calorimetry and veto systems, while maximizing the geometrical
acceptance of HS signatures. Therefore, experiments like LDMX and SHiP will be equipped
with redundant systems for suppressing backgrounds and will be able to define control regions
in order to check the level of agreement with expected background rates. Furthermore, these
experiments can provide independent confirmation of a potential signal originated from the tar-
get, by reconstructing the momenta of the decay products of the mediator (in the case of an LLP
at a beam dump experiment) or of the beam particle itself (if the mediator decays to DM at a
missing energy experiment), which can further validate the presence of an HS signature.
9.4.3 Recent/current experiments

Beam-dump and missing-energy experiments are already underway at various facilities through-
out the world. In 2018 the MiniBooNE experiment at Fermilab reported new limits on LDM
produced in a dedicated beam dump mode with 1020 protons on target [598], which improved
existing limits on such models; future improvements exploiting the Fermilab Booster neutrino
beam are possible but are not expected to cover thermal sensitivity targets. The NA64 exper-
iment at CERN recently set limits on mediators decaying to LDM with the missing-energy
technique with 1010 electrons on target [599], improving coverage and superseding limits set
by the NA62 collaboration that looked at LDM decays of dark photons from π 0 decays, but
does not yet cover thermal sensitivity milestones [600]. The NA62 experiment using the SPS
beam recently placed limits on neutrino-portal mediators produced in kaon decays improving
on existing limits for HNL masses below the kaon mass. The NA62 experiment will further
increase its sensitivity to DS by operating in beam-dump mode during parts of Run 3 of the
LHC and beyond (NA62++ ).
However, a dedicated beam-dump facility and fixed-target experiments are required in or-
der to maximise the sensivity to couplings in the MeV–GeV mass range, and to broadly explore
a vast range of HS portals.
9.4.4 Future directions

Extensive studies have been performed for a new general-purpose beam-dump facility (BDF)
at the CERN SPS accelerator aimed at exploring the domain of DS models and performing
measurements involving τ neutrinos and Lepton Flavour Violating decays of τ leptons. The high
intensity of the SPS 400 GeV beam is essential to probe a wide variety of models containing
long-lived exotic particles with masses below O(10) GeV. A new beamline, target complex
and experimental hall at the North Area of CERN is foreseen to deliver 4 × 1013 protons on
target during 1 second spills using slow extraction of the beam [601]. The Search for Hidden
Particles (SHiP) experiment [ID12] is a major use-case of the BDF. The SHiP collaboration’s
Technical Proposal [430] underwent successful scientific review by the SPSC in 2016. Since
then, the CERN BDF team and the SHiP collaboration recently completed a first Comprehensive
Design Study demonstrating good control over the slow extraction and the design of the target
complex [601], and good control of the expected physics performance based on the active muon
shield and SHiP sub-detectors [602]. A Conceptual Design Report is foreseen by the end of
2019 at which point the project will be mature enough for an implementation decision to be
made. The first physics run could take place during Run 4 of the LHC, starting in 2026.
The SLAC LCLS-II beamline is currently being built to run at 4 GeV with first light by
2020 and with a future upgrade for an 8 GeV running. In early 2019, the LDMX collaboration
submitted an experimental proposal to the US Department of Energy Office of Science for
detector R&D, and SLAC management has also expressed support for a dedicated extraction of
the LCLS-II beam for dark sector experiments. If LDMX is realised at SLAC, an initial phase
of running will deliver 1014 electrons on target at 4 GeV and future improvements could yield
1016 electrons on target running at 8 GeV beam energy.
The NA64 experiment [ID9] has performed a search for dark photons decaying to LDM
with sample of 3 × 1011 electrons on target (EOT) and a beam energy of 100 GeV delivered by
the H4 beamline at the SPS. The detector is planned to be upgraded (NA64++ ) in order to cope
with a high-intensity beam. This involves replacing the ECAL electronics, the addition of a
zero-degree HCAL, and the upgrade of the data acquisition system. Using this setup, NA64++
aims at collecting 3 × 1012 EOT within a 6 to 8 month period. There is also a proposal to make
use of the muon beam that currently serves the COMPASS experiment. This run could start as
early as 2022 aiming at collecting 5 × 1013 muons on target. This would complement searches
for DS models that predominantly couple to the second generation.
It has been proposed to use the SPS to accelerate and deliver 16 GeV electrons (eSPS)
for the LDMX [ID36] experiment using slow extraction at a rate of 1016 electrons per year.
This can be achieved by leveraging CLIC technology to accelerate electrons to 3.5 GeV before
injecting into the eSPS. Initial studies demonstrate that such an operation is feasible, and would
require reserving 30% of the SPS duty cycle towards this project [603].
REDTOP [ID28] is a fixed target experiment to study rare η (0) meson decays. As part
of its research programme, it will search for dark photons and ALPs covering a selective but
unique parameter space in couplings and masses. The REDTOP experiment was originally
proposed to be hosted at FNAL. Preliminary studies show that it could also be hosted at CERN,
though the impact on the rest of the CERN physics programme could be significant.
AWAKE++ is an R&D programme for electron acceleration using plasma cells excited
by proton bunches. This is one of the most promising next generation accelerator technologies.
Since higher gradient of the electric field can be obtained, electrons can be accelerated in a
shorter distance. It has been proposed to use the electron beam in an electron beam-dump
experiment to search for dark photons through their decays to electrons and muons.
Figure 9.5 shows the current limits and expected sensitivities of a comprehensive list of
experiments for dark photon mediators decaying to LDM and SM particles as a function of
ε (the mixing between the photon mediator and the SM photon that defines the SM-mediator
coupling) and the dark matter or mediator mass, respectively. In the case of decay into LDM
the figure shows results for a fixed value of the mediator-DM coupling, αD , and a fixed ratio of
the mediator-DM masses, mA0 /mχ .
Figure 9.6 shows the expected sensitivities of a comprehensive list of experiments for
Figure 19: PBC projects on ≥ 5 year timescale: upper limits at 90 % CL for Dark Photon
in visible decays in the plane mixing strength ‘ versus mass mAÕ . The vertical red line
shows the allowed range of e ≠ X couplings of a new gauge boson X coupled to electrons
that could explain the 8 Be anomaly [70, 71].
competing with SeaQuest, LHCb, HPS, and others as shown in Figure 18. MATHUSLA200
in this scenario is instead not competitive, mostly due to the fact that the Dark Photon is
produced forward.
Figure 24: Dark Photon decaying to DM Elastic Scalar (top) or Pseudo-Dirac fermion
(bottom) particle. Prospects for PBC projects on a timescale of 5 years (NA64++ , green
line) and 10-15 years (LDMX, red line and SHiP, blue line) are compared to the curren
bounds (solid areas) and future experimental landscape (other solid and dashed lines). In
the limit computation we assume a dark coupling constant value –D = 0.1 and a ratio
between the dark photon AÕ and LDM ‰ masses mAÕ /m‰ = 3.
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different plausible DS mediators decaying–into89 SM – particles through a portal. This includes
2
a scalar particle with a Higgs-mixing sin θ (Higgs portal) and zero quartic self coupling (top
figure), a heavy neutral lepton (HNL) mixing with active neutrinos (lepton portal, middle figure)
and an ALP pseudsoscalar that couples exclusively to photons (bottom figure). All figures are
depicted as a function of the mediator’s mass and the relevant parameter defining the mediator-
SM portal mixing. In all portals, where the mediator mass lies in the MeV to GeV range,
experiments exploiting the SPS and a future Beam Dump Facility have the largest reach. A
comprehensive comparison for all portals and– 82a –discussion on the various assumptions can be
found in the supplemental note [523], as well as the PBC report [360]. Figure 9.6 highlights
the reach for the mass region below about 10 GeV; in Chapter 8 similar figures highlight the
reach of complementary accelerator-based experiments for larger values of the DS mediator
(FIP) masses.
9.4.5 Complementarity with direct and indirect detection

In addition to the accelerator programme outlined here, there has been considerable progress de-
veloping new techniques for low-threshold direct detection searches, typically involving novel
targets including electrons [604], semiconductors [605], graphene [606], superconductors [607],
and several others. These techniques are very promising if DM scatters in a velocity-independent,
elastic manner. Currently running experiments, including SENSEI [608], DAMIC [609], and
CRESST [610] will reach the scalar LDM thermal sensitivity target for masses below ∼ 100 MeV,
as shown in the supporting document [523]. However, if DM scatters inelastically or with ve-
locity dependence in the non-relativistic limit, these experiments typically do not improve upon
existing limits for these models and accelerator searches are essential for reaching important
experimental milestones.
Beam-dump experiments will furthermore probe dark matter models with light ∼MeV
mediators, which, e.g., can induce gamma-ray emission from the Sun, observable with Fermi
LAT and water Cherenkov detectors like HAWC [611]. More generally, operators responsible
for the annihilation/decay of sub-GeV dark matter particles, which can be explored with pro-
posed future MeV missions like AMEGO [612], can potentially lead to observable signatures
at beam-dump experiments [613]. Upcoming beam-dump experiments like SHiP or NA62++
can probe the two heavier right-handed neutrinos predicted by the νMSM models [360], which
can explain the observed 3.5 keV feature in X-ray data in terms of sterile neutrino dark mat-
ter [614, 615].
9.5 Axions and ALPs

Very weakly coupled sub-eV mass particles have become an increasingly attractive option for
new physics and a candidate for DM. Experimentally there is a productive mix of new ideas
combined with more mature proposals for medium scale experiments that have significant sen-
sitivity to promising regions in parameter space and that could bring discovery in the next 10 to
20 years. This section is based on community input documents [ID27, ID31, ID42, ID60, ID69,
ID112, ID113, ID161] and on the detailed reports [228, 360, 616]. It summarizes the physics
case for axions, axion-like particles, dark photons and other very light (sub-eV) particles and
discusses the current experimental developments, highlighting aspects where strategic support
is needed.
9.5.1 Theoretical discussion

Theoretical model building as well as phenomenology (e.g. non-thermal dark matter candidates)
provides motivation for a variety of different particle types in the sub-eV range. The main focus
will be on the best motivated candidate, the axion as well as its closest relatives, axion-like
particles (ALPs). However, most of the experiments discussed below are also sensitive to other
light particles such as dark scalars and dark photons.
Pseudo-Goldstone bosons are a natural realization of physics that is at the same time very
weakly coupled, but also exhibits very low-mass particles. The most compelling example is the
axion appearing as a consequence of the Peccei-Quinn solution to the strong CP problem. It is
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Fig. 9.6: Current limits and expected sensitivities of proposed accelerator-based experiments for
a scalar particle with a Higgs portal (top figure), a heavy neutral lepton (HLN) with a neutrino
portal (middle figure) and an ALP pseudsoscalar that couples exclusively to photons (bottom
figure). All figures are shown as a function of the mediator’s mass and the relevant parameter
defining the mediator-SM portal mixing. Here the scalar is assumed to decay to SM particles
though its mixing with the Higgs. The neutrino portal example shows the mixing matrix ele-
ment |Uµ |2 plotted against the HLN mass and assumes the latter HLN mixes only with muon
flavoured neutrinos. All plots in this figure are taken from the PBC report [360].
the pseudo-Goldstone boson of the Peccei-Quinn U(1) symmetry, that is spontaneously broken
by a vacuum expectation value at a scale fa . As befits the underlying symmetry, all interactions
are suppressed by 1/ fa , where the decay constant fa is a free parameter directly linked to an
underlying scale of fundamental physics. Determining fa could therefore give us a clear signal
of the scale where a more fundamental completion of the Standard Model takes place. The mass
of the standard QCD axion is tied to its decay constant via mA = 57.0(7) meV (108 GeV/ fa ), and
therefore, up to O(1) factors, also to its couplings to Standard Model particles. For the example
of the two-photon coupling gaγγ ∼ α/(4π fa ) this is shown in Fig. 9.7 by the light blue band,
where its thickness is related to the details of the underlying models. Terrestrial experiments and
astrophysical observations currently restrict gaγγ . 10−10 GeV−1 for the standard QCD axion.
Some models, e.g. [617, 618] would allow for the existence of heavier QCD axions with
smaller decay constants. More general axion-like particles with a more flexible mass/coupling
ratio are also possible. A very interesting region lies at the MeV–GeV mass scale and can be
explored at fixed-target facilities as well as collider experiments, as discussed in more detail in
the relevant sections.
In the sub-eV region the axion and ALPs are stable on cosmological time scales for
gaγγ . 10−10 GeV−1 , and are natural dark matter candidates. Sufficient production of QCD
axions in the early Universe to account for the full dark matter content is naturally ensured by
the misalignment mechanism for 10−16 GeV−1 . gaγγ . 10−13 GeV−1 . But the formation and
decay of cosmological defects, as well as other mechanisms could also give rise to a sufficient
amount of cold dark matter for smaller decay constants, populating essentially the entire region
of photon axion-couplings not already excluded by astrophysical observations. More general
ALPs can populate even larger regions in parameter space.
Additional motivation for ALPs comes from the possible embedding into fundamental
extensions of the Standard Model, e.g. based on string theory. Generically, this allows for the
existence of axions or axion-like particles, where the axion scale can be within reach of near
future experiments. Moreover, axions and ALPs whose coupling to photon is in the gaγγ ∼
10−11 GeV−1 region, have been proposed to explain a number of astrophysical anomalies such
as several stellar cooling anomalies and an anomalous transparency of the Universe for γ-rays.
Altogether, the theoretical and phenomenological considerations presented above select
two particularly well motivated target regions. First, the QCD axion as the dark matter, in the
mass range 0.1 µeV − 0.1 eV corresponding to couplings 10−16 GeV−1 . gaγγ . 10−13 GeV−1 .
Second, axions and ALPs with couplings in the region gaγγ ∼ (10−12 − 10−10 ) GeV−1 , sug-
gested by astrophysical anomalies. As can be seen in Fig. 9.7 the planned experimental searches
are very well aligned to this.
9.5.2 Experiments
Depending on the source of the ALPs there are currently three main search strategies:
(i) Direct detection with haloscopes [620], searching for ALPs being the dark matter;
(ii) Detection with helioscopes of ALPs being produced inside the Sun [620];
(iii) Experiments that produce and detect ALPs in the laboratory and are therefore independent
of astrophysical and cosmological assumptions.
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(see, e.g., [355,619] for details) with experimental prospects. Astrophysical limits are shown in
green, pure laboratory experiments are indicated in blue, helioscopes in red and haloscopes in
black. The turquoise shaded region indicates the typical coupling range expected for QCD axion
models. Couplings to other particles than photons are discussed in the supporting note [523].
Current bounds on axions and ALPs and the reach of future experiments are shown in Fig. 9.7.
Many of these experiments have overlap in technological requirements. The overlap in tech-
nologies, details of the below mentioned experiments and their synergies are reviewed in [616].
(i) Haloscopes: Amongst the axion haloscopes the US-led ADMX [621] and HAYSTAC [622]
experiments are at the forefront. ADMX is based on a resonant cavity approach, where axions
are converted into photons via a magnetic field inside a radio-frequency cavity. It has started to
scan the lower mass part of the parameter space for the QCD axion. To go beyond the range ex-
plored by ADMX new geometries and technologies are being explored. In particular in Europe
there are important developments with QUAX-aγ [623], RADES [624], CAST-CAPP [625],
KLASH [626], BRASS and CNRS/LNCMI-Grenoble [616].
At higher masses/frequencies, suggested in particular also by the post-inflationary axion
scenario, a novel technique based on semi-resonant dielectric mirrors seems promising. The
effort is named MadMax [627] and is currently led by a collaboration between the MPI for
Physics in Munich and DESY in Hamburg. The full scale version, that could reach axion
sensitivity for a large fraction of the higher mass region, is in preparation.
(ii) Helioscopes: Axion helioscopes aim to detect axions produced in the Sun via photon-axion
conversion. The signal is X-ray photons resulting from a re-conversion of axions into photons
inside a strong magnet pointed at the Sun. Importantly this signal is independent of axions
being the dark matter. Building on the experience of the CAST experiment at CERN, that cur-
rently provides the best limits on the axion-photon coupling for sub-meV masses, IAXO aims
at improving the sensitivity towards smaller couplings by about two orders of magnitude. This
will provide a significant sensitivity to meV QCD axions as well as to ALPs that are plausible
explanations of several astrophysical anomalies. Moreover, IAXO can also yield additional in-
formation beyond the photon coupling. It could deliver crucial information on axion-electron
couplings as well as their mass. The IAXO physics potential has recently been summarized
in [628]. IAXO received crucial support from CERN in the area of magnet design. A possible
siting at DESY has been discussed. A smaller-sized version dubbed BabyIAXO is ready to be
built and could deliver physics results within less than 5 years.
(iii) Pure Laboratory Experiments: Currently ALPS-II [629] is exploiting the light-shining-
through-walls (LSW) technique where laser photons are converted to axions and back to pho-
tons inside strong magnetic fields. For masses below about 0.1 meV it aims to exceed the CAST
sensitivity by about one order of magnitude in the coming years. It could thereby provide a ro-
bust test of the suggested astrophysical anomalies. Using magnets planned for a future collider,
a large scale LSW experiment (JURA) could exceed the sensitivity of IAXO in the low-mass
region by a factor of 3 or more in the future. A THz photon source is proposed to be used in
STAX (under R&D now), instead of laser light, profiting from a large photon number.
A different approach using Vacuum Magnetic Birefringence experiments has been pro-
posed. Their sensitivity for ALPs is, however, typically much smaller than LSW. Running
experiments based on this method are PVLAS and BMV, while in addition VMB@CERN has
been proposed as new experiment. See e.g. [616] for a detailed discussion.
9.5.3 Complementarity with direct and indirect detection searches

Radio searches for the conversion of axion/ALP dark matter into photons inside the magneto-
sphere of neutron stars can have sensitivity [630–632] for ALP masses in the range ∼ 0.2–
40 µeV, and potentially above. The signature is the emission of a narrow radio line from in-
dividual neutron stars, with a frequency that corresponds to the mass of the ALP. Several of
such searches are now underway, with expected sensitivities to the photon-ALP coupling down
to gaγγ ∼ 10−12 GeV−1 . The future SKA may have the ability to probe significant parts of the
QCD axion parameter space [633].
Direct detection searches have sensitivity to ALP dark matter in the 1–100 keV mass
region, via searches for an absorption triggered by the ALP-electron coupling. The currently
best sensitivity is obtained by Xe detectors, which constrain the coupling of new pseudoscalars
gAe < 4 × 10−13 in the 40–120 keV range [634]. Mid-term future experiments project a factor
of ∼ 20 improvement [401].
9.6 Conclusions
Gravitational and cosmological observations provide overwhelming evidence of the existence
of DM and, if made of particles or compact objects, of its predominance over other types of
matter in the Universe. They also provide a compelling proof of physics beyond the SM. Given
our high current level of ignorance about the basic properties of dark matter, a comprehensive
suite of experiments and techniques are required in order to cover the many possibilities. In this
chapter we have discussed experiments that can explore a broad range of dark matter masses,
from ultralight DM (below eV) to thermal DM, either light (a few keV to GeV) or heavy/WIMP-
like (GeV to 100 TeV). Many of such experiments can also explore a DS with dark mediators
and other feebly interacting particles than may be present within DM scenarios.
Accelerator-based, beam-dump and fixed-target experiments such as SHiP, LDMX, NA62++
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and NA64++ can perform sensitive and comprehensive searches of sub-GeV DM and associated
DS mediators. They will broadly test models of thermal LDM that are as yet underexplored.
CERN has the opportunity to play a leading role in these searches by fully exploiting the op-
portunities offered by the SPS and the foreseen Beam Dump Facility.
Prospective future colliders (ILC/CLIC, FCC-ee/hh/eh and HL/HE-LHC) have excellent
potential to explore models of thermal DM in the GeV–10 TeV mass range, notably including
WIMPs as well as models with different types of DM mediators. Feebly interacting particles,
plausibly produced at colliders, can also be searched for at prospective new detectors (e.g.
FASER, CODEXb, MATHUSLA) further away from the beam interaction points. These new
search strategies are complementary to accelerator-based, fixed target (beam dumps and missing
energy/momentum) experiments as well as to standard collider searches depending on the mass
region and the coupling strength between the SM and the DM/DS.
The search for ultralight DM particles like the axion has gained significant momentum.
IAXO provides a compelling opportunity to extend the search for axions. In addition, halo-
scopes such as MadMax could directly detect axion dark matter, whereas ALPS-II and other
prospective light-shining-through-wall experiments can provide competitive pure laboratory
tests.
Complementary to the compelling experimental programme described above, astrophys-
ical probes of DM through DD and ID searches cover a vast range of DM candidate masses
through mature as well as rapidly developing, new technologies, and provide an essential han-
dle for a convincing discovery.
Outlook on synergies: Focusing on the quest for DM in the coming decades, at the Granada
Symposium there was consensus in further developing synergies between the efforts of the
high energy physics and astrophysics communities. The discussion highlighted the need for
enhanced communication between accelerator/collider-based, direct detection and indirect de-
tection dark sector searches, as well as the potential benefits of common technology platforms
(see Chapter 11).
Consensus on common search targets is important for a joint interpretation of results from
different searches, and will be of fundamental importance to validate a putative DM discovery
in different experiments and channels. This can be facilitated by the existing LHC Dark Matter
and Physics Beyond Collider working groups, and the newly established EuCAPT Astroparticle
Theory Center as a joint venture of ECFA and APPEC, as well as by further discussions among
the many experts in the field.
Vacuum over large volumes, cryogenics, photosensors, liquid argon detectors, design
and operation of complex experiments—including software and data processing—are common
themes within and beyond the communities engaged in DM and DS searches. Technological
challenges related to these topics can benefit from new and existing platforms for joint discus-
sion and collaboration. The expertise present at CERN as the hub for the current largest collider
programme worldwide, together with the expertise of other large European National labs and
the complementary expertise of innovative small-scale experiments, can stimulate knowledge
transfer and add guidance and coherence to the overall DM programme.
Chapter 10
Accelerator Science and Technology
This chapter presents a summary of accelerator science and technology related submissions.
Both state-of-the-art and challenges for the main technologies are highlighted. A summary
of the expected performance of the future colliders considered in this document is given in
Table 10.1. The parameters and comparisons of the projects are based on the inputs submitted
to the European Strategy Update, unless stated otherwise. Common assumptions have been
made [635] for the annual operating schedule of colliders proposed at CERN, but note that
different assumptions have been made for other colliders.
10.1 Present state of accelerator technology for HEP

Both circular electron-positron and hadron colliders have operated or are operating at peak
luminosities above 1–2×1034 cm−2 s−1 . PEP-II [638], KEKB [639, 640] and LHC [641, 642]
have all exceeded their design specifications in terms of peak performance.
Today’s colliders all operate with bunched beams. Assuming the collision of beams with
identical parameters, and bunches colliding at an average frequency fcoll , with Nb particles per
bunch, a basic expression for the luminosity is
Nb2 Nb2
L = fcoll = fcoll q (10.1)
4πσx∗ σy∗ 4π εx βx∗ εy βy∗
where σx∗ and σy∗ designate the rms transverse beam sizes in the horizontal (bend) and vertical
directions at the interaction point (IP), which can also be expressed in terms of the geomet-
ric emittances and IP beta functions. In the above form, it is assumed that the bunches are
identical in transverse profile, that the profiles are Gaussian and independent of position along
the bunch, and the particle distributions are not altered during the bunch collision. Nonzero
beam crossing angles θc in the horizontal plane and long bunches (rms bunch length σz ) will
reduce the luminosity from the above value, e.g. by a factor 1/(1 + φ 2 )1/2 , where the parameter
φ ≡ θc σz /(2σx∗ ) is known as the Piwinski angle, but a large Piwinski angle angle may also
allow for smaller beta function and higher bunch population. The disruption or pinch effects
and the dynamic changes of beta functions and emittance (due to the collision) also modify the
luminosity in linear and circular colliders, respectively. Various phenomena may limit the lumi-
nosity, such as beamstrahlung, disruption, beam-beam tune shift, achievable beam power etc.
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Table 10.1: Summary of the future colliders considered in this report. The number of detectors
given is the number of detectors running concurrently, and only counting those relevant to the
entire Higgs physics programme. The instantaneous luminosity per detector and the integrated
luminosity provided are those used in the individual reports. For e+ e− colliders the integrated
luminosity corresponds to the sum of those recorded by all the detectors. For HL-LHC this is
also
√ the case, while for HE-LHC and FCC-hh it corresponds to 75% of that. The values for
s are approximate, e.g. when a scan is proposed as part of the programme this is included
in the closest value (most relevant for the Z, W and t programme). For the polarisation, the
values given correspond to the electron and positron beam, respectively. For HL-LHC, HE-
LHC, FCC, CLIC and LHeC the instantaneous and integrated luminosity values are taken from
Ref. [635]. For these colliders, the operation time per year, listed in the penultimate column,
is assumed to be 1.2 × 107 s, based on CERN experience [635] (this is reduced by a margin of
10–18% in the projections presented for physics results from FCC-ee). CEPC (ILC) assumes
1.3 × 107 (1.6 × 107 ) s for the annual integrated luminosity calculation. When two values for
the instantaneous luminosity are given these are before and after a luminosity upgrade planned.
Abbreviations are used in this report for the various stages of the programmes, by adding the
energy (in GeV) as a subscript, e.g. CLIC380 ; when the entire programme is discussed, the
highest energy value label is used, e.g. CLIC3000 ; this is always inclusive, i.e. includes the
results of the lower-energy versions of that collider. Also given are the shutdowns (SDs) needed
between energy stages of the machine; SDs planned during a run at a given energy are included
in the respective energy line.
√
Collider Type s P [%] NDet Linst /Det. L Time Ref.
[e− /e+ ] 34
[10 cm s ]−2 −1
[ab−1 ] [years]
HL-LHC pp 14 TeV – 2 5 6.0 12 [23]
HE-LHC pp 27 TeV – 2 16 15.0 20 [23]
FCC-hh pp 100 TeV – 2 30 30.0 25 [636]
FCC-ee ee MZ 0/0 2 100/200 150 4 [636]
2MW 0/0 2 25 10 1-2
240 GeV 0/0 2 7 5 3
2mtop 0/0 2 0.8/1.4 1.5 5
(1y SD before 2mtop run) (+1)
ILC ee 250 GeV ±80/±30 1 1.35/2.7 2.0 11.5 [341]
350 GeV ±80/±30 1 1.6 0.2 1 [345]
500 GeV ±80/±30 1 1.8/3.6 4.0 8.5
(1y SD after 250 GeV run) (+1)
CEPC ee MZ 0/0 2 17/32 16 2 [508]
2MW 0/0 2 10 2.6 1
240 GeV 0/0 2 3 5.6 7
CLIC ee 380 GeV ±80/0 1 1.5 1.0 8 [637]
1.5 TeV ±80/0 1 3.7 2.5 7
3.0 TeV ±80/0 1 6.0 5.0 8
(2y SDs between energy stages) (+4)
LHeC ep 1.3 TeV – 1 0.8 1.0 15 [635]
HE-LHeC ep 1.8 TeV – 1 1.5 2.0 20 [636]
FCC-eh ep 3.5 TeV – 1 1.5 2.0 25 [636]
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The above formulae can be recast in different forms according to the most relevant constraints.
For example, in the case of modern hadron colliders, like the HL-LHC, the luminosity is
often limited by the maximum acceptable detector pile-up, and the luminosity then needs to be
levelled at this value.
In the case of circular e+ e− colliders the luminosity may be limited by the total syn-
chrotron radiation power P (determining the total beam current Ib ) and the maximum beam-
beam tune shift ξy , in which case the luminosity formula can be rewritten as
ξy PSR
L∝ (circular e+ e− colliders) , (10.2)
βy∗ Eb3
where Eb denotes the beam energy. The maximum beam-beam tune shift ξy increases with
beam energy, and also depends on the collision scheme.
In the case of linear e+ e− colliders it is convenient to rewrite the luminosity expression
as
N 1
L ∝ HD b∗ q Ib (linear e+ e− colliders) , (10.3)
σx β ∗ ε
y y
where HD denotes the luminosity enhancement factor, which includes the geometry of the col-
lision and the beam-beam effects, and is of the order of one. The factor Nb /σx∗ is proportional
to the number of beamstrahlung photons emitted per beam particle; it determines the purity of
the luminosity energy spectrum, which is constrained by experimental requirements. The last
term Ib is the average beam current Ib = fcoll Nb e (with e the electron charge), and the collision
rate fcoll equals the product of linac pulse rate and the number of bunches per pulse.
pp colliders: Between 2015 and 2018 (‘Run 2’) the LHC has accumulated 190 fb−1 in
proton-proton collisions per detector in ATLAS and CMS. The goal for HL-LHC is to deliver
about 0.25 ab−1 per year with the aim of integrating a total luminosity in the range of 3 to
4.5 ab−1 by the late 2030s. The beam current is above 0.55 A and the beta functions at the
collision point are as low as 25 cm. Dipole magnets of 11 T and quadrupole magnets with a
peak pole field of nearly 12 T, based on Nb3 Sn superconductor, are under development for HL-
LHC. As part of the US DOE magnet development programme, a short model dipole magnet
exceeded a field of 14 T at FNAL in late spring 2019. In parallel superconducting wires are
being developed worldwide. In 2018-19, two independent US teams developed advanced Nb3 Sn
cables with artificial pinning centres; these offer a 50% higher critical current density than the
HL-LHC cable and fulfil the target requirements for FCC. New suppliers in Japan, Korea and
Russia have produced Nb3 Sn cables that meet the HL-LHC requirements, widening the base of
potential manufacturers.
e+ e− colliders: Between 1999 and 2008, the circular colliders (CC) PEP-II and KEKB
accumulated a total of almost 1.6 ab−1 , with beam currents at PEP-II as high as 2.1 A (e− ) and
3.2 A (e+ ) and a vertical IP beta function at KEKB as low as 6 mm; their integrated luminosity
was greatly increased by the introduction of top-up injection. SuperKEKB is presently being
commissioned with a peak luminosity design goal of 8 × 1035 cm−2 s−1 . The crab-waist (CW)
collision scheme was demonstrated at DAΦNE around 2008, where it substantially increased
the peak luminosity, and is incorporated into all future circular e+ e− proposals. SLC at SLAC
(1988–1998) is the first and only linear collider (LC) implemented to date. Since then sig-
nificant R&D has been performed on high-gradient/high-frequency NC RF for CLIC and on
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SC RF for the ILC (see below). Based on these technologies several high-energy linacs have
been built to serve as X-ray FELs (SwissFEL, EU-XFEL, LCLS) and significant experience
has been gained in beam tuning/focusing at test facilities (FACET, ATF/ATF2), demonstrating
‘nanobeam’ feasibility for a future LC. ATF2 has achieved the scaled ILC vertical spot size of
∼ 40 nm, albeit with a relaxed optics and at roughly 1/10 of the design bunch charge; the charge
was reduced to mitigate wakefield effects.
The world record for positron production rates is still held by the SLC positron source.
LCs require much higher positron production rates than SLC (CLIC about 20 times more,
ILC baseline about 40 times, ILC upgrade about 160 times). The CLIC design incorporates
a conventional positron source while the ILC baseline (for polarised positrons) passes the high-
energy electron beam through a ∼200 m long undulator, generating photons that hit a rapidly
rotating target to produce e+ e− pairs.
10.2 Technologies for electroweak sector

+ −
e e Higgs factories
The Higgs production process in e+ e− colliders peaks at different energies according to the
different channels, as shown in the chapter on Electroweak Physics (see Fig. 3.3). We call here
Higgs factories the e+ e− colliders with c.m. energies optimized for the maximum corresponding
physics reach.
One can be confident that the energy goal can be reached for all the considered config-
urations. Any remaining design issues can be mitigated during the project preparation phase.
LEP operated at centre-of-mass collision energies above 200 GeV, and similar technologies, at
larger scale, are the basis of FCC-ee [ID132] [643] or CEPC [ID51] [644]. RF technology for
both LC projects is considered mature, thanks to the intensive R&D of last decades carried out
by both HEP and photon source communities. The novel drive-beam scheme for generating the
RF power for the CLIC main linacs has been demonstrated at CTF3, where the critical technical
systems that are required have also been tested.
Fig. 10.1: Time-lines of various collider projects, in years from start-time T0 [39].
All proposals (Figure 10.1) have ambitious luminosity targets, based on a combination
of extrapolations from previous facilities (LEP, B-factories, DAΦNE, SLC, light sources and
FELs), test-facility results, and theoretical predictions. The design luminosities naturally have
larger uncertainties than the target energies since they rely on the integrated performance of
each facility.
Figure 10.2 shows design luminosity as a function of energy for the e+ e− Higgs factories.
The CC performances are influenced by the synchrotron radiation power which can be handled.
Since this power is proportional to Ib Eb4 , the beam current Ib must be reduced as the beam energy
Eb is increased; higher luminosities are hence obtained at lower energies, with the luminosity
roughly proportional to Eb−3.5 . The LCs provide higher luminosities at higher energies; the
luminosity per unit beam current is roughly proportional to E. The luminosity-performance
crossover is in the region of 250 to 400 GeV. While one can be confident that the luminosity
targets of the proposed colliders can be reached in principle, important feasibility work remains
during the project preparation phase.
Fig. 10.2: Luminosity versus c.m. energy for e+ e− Higgs Factories. Two IPs are assumed for
the circular colliders FCC-ee and CEPC.
In order to achieve the design luminosity, all proposed e+ e− colliders rely on small beam
sizes at collision (FCC-ee 30–70 nm, ILC 3–8 nm, CLIC 1–3 nm), below those achieved at exist-
ing facilities. This requires very small beam emittances and ambitious focusing. Nanobeams are
addressed via design and specifications, benchmarked simulations, low-emittance ring progress
and studies, extensive prototyping and method developments (for alignment, stabilization, in-
strumentation and feedback systems, and algorithms), and in system and facility tests (FACET,
light-sources, FEL linacs, ATF2).
In FCC-ee and CEPC the required emittance is achieved in the collider ring itself. FCC-ee
and CEPC are based on a combination of concepts that have been proven and used in previous
and present colliders. Some theoretical and experimental studies have been performed of crit-
ical effects, such as beam lifetime, beam-beam, impedances and electron cloud. Also, effects
that have not been present in previous colliders have been studied, in particular the impact of
beamstrahlung on the beam lifetime and instabilities. During the technical design phase, more
complete studies, such as simulations of strong beam-beam effects with lattice imperfections,
will be required to confirm this.
In ILC and CLIC the beam is produced in an injector and then cooled to small emittance
in damping rings. The emittance targets for the damping rings have been achieved (and ex-
ceeded) with electron beams at modern light sources. A combination of technologies such as
high-accuracy alignment, active magnet stabilization and beam-based alignment is designed to
ensure that the emittance remains within budget during the beam transport to the collision point.
Prototype tests at SLAC and KEK confirm the performance of the required beam-based align-
ment and tuning techniques, beam orbit and collision feedback systems, and beam focusing
systems.
In LCs 80% polarisation of the electron beam is planned based on demonstrated per-
formance in the SLC. ILC considers two alternative positron sources: a novel design based
on undulators aimed at producing ∼30% positron polarisation, and a conventional design for
unpolarised positrons. In CCs no polarisation of the colliding bunches is foreseen; however,
self-polarisation at the Z and W operation points is exploited for extremely precise energy cali-
bration at the 10−6 level via resonant depolarisation.
Figure10.1 shows possible schedules for the different facilities, including the option LHeC
[ID159]. The LHeC proposal considers collisions of 7 TeV protons circulating in the LHC with
60 GeV electrons from a multi-turn high-current energy recovery linac (ERL). A corresponding
ERL test facility (PERLE) [ID147] is planned at LAL/Orsay. A similar ep collider, based on
the FCC-hh, is part of the FCC design (FCC-eh). In parallel, R&D is presently proceeding for
an electron-ion collider in the US [ID74]. A possible variant or upgrade of FCC-ee using an
ERL scheme has recently been proposed [645], promising higher luminosity at higher energy,
but this is still at a very preliminary stage.
The main challenges for both LCs and CCs are the RF (energy) and nanobeam (lumi-
nosity) performances, but here there are strong synergies with modern synchrotron and FEL
light-source requirements. The importance of these connections among electron accelerators
with their broader science applications, and impact of collaborations among key European (and
overseas) partner national institutes cannot be overstated.
Linear colliders
The LC initial stage provides a cost-effective and fast access to e+ e− collisions by 2035 for
Higgs, top-quark and both SM and BSM studies. Such a machine leaves the door open for study
of higher energy machines (LC extensions, and circular proton/muon colliders), for possible
implementation on the 2040–50 timescale. The interplay between an evolving LC facility and
a circular hadron, or possibly muon, collider—optimized in terms of technology, cost, size and
first and foremost physics capability—would provide the global particle physics community
with powerful tools for the foreseeable future. This approach also establishes a number of
key accelerator R&D goals for the next 1–2 decades. The main design parameters of the two
LC options are given in Table 10.2 and Fig. 10.3 shows the corresponding foreseen integrated
luminosities.
The proposals for CLIC [ID146] and ILC [ID77] are mature and complete, covering de-
sign of the accelerators, including their upgrades to higher energies, technical developments for
critical systems, performance verification studies and detailed project implementation plans.
There are strong communities supporting both project studies and proposals, as well as com-
Table 10.2: Parameters for ILC and CLIC stages (x = horizontal, y = vertical).
ILC CLIC
initial L upgr. 500 GeV stage 1 stage 2 stage 3
c.m. energy [GeV] 250 250 500 380 1500 3000
rep. rate [Hz] 5 5/10 5 50 50 50
no. bunches / pulse 1312 2625 1312/ 352 312 312
2625
bunch population [109 ] 20 20 20 5.2 3.7 3.7
av. beam current Ib [µA] 21 21/42 21/42 15 9 9
IP beta function βx∗ [mm] 13 13 11 8 8 6
IP beta function βy∗ [mm] 0.41 0.41 0.48 0.1 0.1 0.07
IP geometric emittance εx [pm] 20 20 20 3 0.4 0.2
IP geometric emittance εy [fm] 140 140 70 80 14 7
rms IP beam size x [nm] 516 516 474 149 ∼60 ∼40
rms IP beam size y [nm] 7.7 7.7 5.9 2,9 ∼1.5 ∼1
luminosity enhancement HD 2.55 2.55 2.26
total luminosity L [1034 /cm2 s1 ] 1.35 2.7/5.4 1.8/3.6 1.5 3.7 5.9
luminosity in top 1% L0.01 /L 73% 73% 58.3% 60% 38% 34%
electrical site power [MW] 115 135/185 163 168 364 589
helium inventory [t] 43 43/85 85 – – –
site length [km] 20.5 20.5/31 31 11.4 29.0 50.1
integrated luminosity [fb−1 /yr] 100 300 600 180 444 708
Fig. 10.3: Foreseen integrated luminosities of ILC [ID77], CLIC [ID146] and FCC-ee [ID132,
ID135] versus year.
prehensive detector and physics studies. Key features of these proposals include: the initial
stages have costs and power budgets on a similar scale as LHC, making them well suited for
rapid implementation; they can be readily expanded both in terms of energy—with existing,
improved or novel RF technologies—and luminosity; polarised beams are foreseen; they can
also be operated at lower energies (for example at the Z-pole, albeit with much lower luminosity
than the CCs) and gamma-gamma collisions are possible. The physics performance is covered
elsewhere in this document. Following discussions at the Granada symposium CLIC and ILC
have submitted updated information about their Z-pole performances and luminosity upgrade
options [646, 647].

CLIC is proposed to be implemented as a CERN-hosted international project (following
the LHC and HL-LHC models) in three energy stages, 380, 1500 and 3000 GeV in the centre of
mass (Table 10.2) with design luminosities between 1.5 and 5.9×1034 cm−2 s−1 . A recent study
for the initial stage [646] shows that increasing the bunch train frequency by a factor 2 could
double the luminosity, with only modest increases in the power (∼ 50 MW) and cost (∼ 5%).
The CLIC timeline includes a preparation phase 2020–2025, followed by a 7-year construction
and commissioning period, in order to be ready for data-taking before 2035. The CLIC380 cost
is estimated at 5.9 BCHF, with upgrade costs of +5 and +7 BCHF for the two further stages.
The AC power of the initial (final) stage is estimated at about 170 MW (580 MW). Only the
CLIC380 power estimate has so far been optimized.
Dual-beam acceleration has been demonstrated at CTF3 [648]. Gradients of up to
200 MV/m have been achieved with normal-conducting RF Cu technology; numerous CLIC
X-band cavities have been operated at the design gradient of 100 MV/m and X-band RF tech-
nology is now well established and industrially available. There is also underpinning experience
with C-band for large-scale systems, e.g. SwissFEL, including the production processes for the
accelerator structures with demonstrated design performance.
ILC is proposed to be built for initial operation at 250 GeV, with a direct upgrade path to
500 GeV, and a possible further upgrade to 1000 GeV (Table 10.2). The luminosities foreseen
are 1.35–5.4×1034 cm−2 s−1 ; increasing the bunch train frequency by a factor 2 for the initial
stage could double the luminosity while increasing the power by only 20–30 MW and the cost
by ∼8% [649]. The timeline includes a preparation phase of 4 years, followed by a 9–10
year construction and commissioning period, in order to be ready before 2035. The ILC250
cost is estimated to be 4.8–5.3 BILCU (ILCU = 2012 USD), while ILC500 would be around 8
BILCU. The AC power is estimated at about 115 MW (300 MW) for 250 GeV (1000 GeV). The
ILC is foreseen to be constructed as a Japan-hosted international project. Relevant European
capabilities and the scope of possible participation have been presented [ID66].
Over the last decades excellent progress has been has made with superconducting RF
technology, driven primarily by and for TESLA, ILC and then successfully implemented at
EU-XFEL [650] at DESY. The EU-XFEL represents a large-scale deployment of SC cavities
made by industry; most cavities exceed the design gradient of ∼23 MV/m, and some reach over
40 MV/m, which exceeds the ILC design gradient of 35 MV/m. EU-XFEL, together with the
on-going construction of LCLS-II at SLAC provide a development and testing ground for key
elements (e.g. magnets, instrumentation, controls, and vacuum systems), with parameters close
to those needed for ILC. Further technology optimization is ongoing, linked to evolving SCRF
R&D for improved cavity gradient and Q values.
Circular Colliders
Circular e+ e− collider proposals build upon 50 years of experience. The designs of FCC-ee
[ID132] and CEPC [ID51] exploit the historical knowledge from LEP (high energy), KEKB
(high current, high luminosity, strong e+ source), PEP-II (high current), DAΦNE (crab waist),
and SuperKEKB (extremely low βy∗ , large Piwinski angle), and SLC (damping rings, powerful
e+ source). CCs can accommodate several interaction points (IPs); two IPs are assumed in
the FCC-ee and CEPC baselines and an alternative design with 4 IPs is under development for
FCC-ee.
Parameters for the stages of FCC-ee and CEPC are summarized in Table 10.3. FCC-ee
foresees starting on the Z pole and then upgrading the RF systems in steps with optimized
machine configuration for Z, WW , ZH, and tt working points. CEPC plans initially to install
the full RF system for Higgs production, and later to operate on the Z pole and then at the
WW threshold. CCs have the potential for an extremely high production rate of Z bosons
(Tera-Z factory) and exquisite precision energy calibration at the Z pole (100 keV) and at the
WW threshold using resonant depolarization. The total FCC-ee construction cost (for Z, W
and H working points) is estimated to be 10.5 BCHF [ID132]; operation at the t t¯ working
point will require later installation of additional RF cavities and associated cryogenic cooling
infrastructure for an additional cost of 1.1 BCHF. The precision of the overall cost estimate is
at the 30% level. The annual energy consumption is similar to that of HL-LHC, and varies
between 1 and 2 TWh. The total cost of CEPC was reported as 5 billion USD [644, 651]. It
should be noted that in each case both civil engineering and technical infrastructures can largely
be reused for a subsequent hadron collider (FCC-hh [ID133, ID135] or SppC).
Each of the CC main concepts and parameters has been demonstrated in a previous col-
lider (see earlier). Therefore, the CC designs are mature and R&D is focussed on engineering
optimization towards easing operability, machine efficiency, and maintainability aiming at effi-
cient and cost-effective exploitation. R&D includes highly efficient SC RF systems, high-power
RF couplers and high-efficiency RF power production all of which profit from past investments
in a range of RF user communities. For FCC-ee a hybrid-technology solution has been found
using Nb-sputtered Cu cavities for lower energies (as those first developed for LEP) operated
at 4.5 K, combined with bulk Nb cavities for higher energies (profiting from ILC R&D), oper-
ated at 1.8 K. Other CC R&D includes novel ultra-thin NEG coatings for the vacuum system,
radiation shielding of accelerator components (coils, bellows, flanges), a feasible design of the
machine-detector interface (MDI) and an energy efficient, cost effective magnet system for the
collider arcs.
A performance upgrade of FCC-ee (luminosity increase by about 80%) could be imple-
mented via doubling the number of IPs from 2 to 4, without any effect on the circulating beam
current and minimal impact on power consumption [652–654]. CEPC [ID51] considers a lu-
minosity upgrade through increasing the SR power per beam from 30 to 50 MW (i.e. to the
FCC-ee design value). A potential upgrade option with much higher gains both in luminosity
(up to a factor 100) and energy (beyond 500 GeV) through conversion to an ERL-based collider
was proposed recently [645]; its feasibility and cost must be studied in greater detail.
Complementary circular colliders

SuperKEKB [655, 656], the KEKB upgrade, is presently under commissioning. Its design
is based on the nanobeam collision scheme in a large Piwinski angle regime. It aims at L =
80 × 1034 cm−2 s−1 , increasing beam currents up to 3.6 and 2.6 A (e− and e+ respectively),
∗
decreasing βx,y to the level of 30 and 0.3 mm (H and V respectively) and decreasing the emit-
tance to about 4 nm. SuperKEKB will test, and go beyond, many of the parameters of FCC-ee
[ID132] and CEPC [ID51], such as the vertical design beta function, the Touschek positron
beam lifetime (3 minutes, to be compared with an expected beam lifetime of 20–60 min in
FCC-ee due to radiative Bhabha scattering), the higher beam currents and the higher production
rate of positrons.
The design of the Super Charm-Tau Factory (SCT) [ID49] [657] at BINP, Novosibirsk,
is a collider with luminosity of 1035 cm−2 s−1 at centre-of-mass energy between 2 and 6 GeV
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Table 10.3: Parameters for FCC-ee [ID132] and CEPC [ID51] stages.
FCC-ee CEPC
stage 1 2 3 4 1 2 3
c.m. energy [GeV] 91 160 240 350 / 365 240 91 160
beam current [mA] 1390 147 29 6.4 / 5.4 17.4 461 87.9
emittance εx [nm] 0.27 0.84 0.63 1.34 / 1.46 1.21 0.18 0.54
IP beta fn. βy∗ [mm] 0.8 1.0 1.0 1.6 1.5 1.0 1.5
RF voltage [GV] 0.1 0.75 2.0 4.0+5.4/6.9 2.17 0.10 0.47
RF frequency [MHz] 400 400 400 400 + 800 650
RF cavities 1-cell 4-cell 4-cell 4-cell + 5-cell 2-cell
RF cavity material Nb/Cu Nb/Cu Nb/Cu Nb/Cu + bulk Nb bulk Nb
RF cavity temp. [K] 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 + 1.9 1.9
peak lumi. (for 2 IPs) 460 56 17 3.6 / 3.1 6 64 20
[1034 cm−2 s−1 ]
SR power/beam [MW] 50 50 50 50 30 30 30
electrical power [MW] 259 277 282 ∼350 270 149 223
helium inventory [t] 8 8 18 32 6 6 6
run time [years] 4 1–2 3 1/4 7 2 1
total int. lumi. [ab−1 ] 150 10 5 0.2 / 1.5 5.6 16 2.6
with the possibility to exploit longitudinally polarised electrons at the interaction point, for
production of charmonium and tau leptons. It is based, as the FCC-ee, on the Crab Waist
collision scheme.
10.3 Path towards highest energies

For the foreseeable future, proton-proton collisions appear to offer the greatest collision-energy
reach, up to roughly 100 TeV. Table 10.4 summarizes the major parameters and technical chal-
lenges for possible future proton colliders. All the proposed facilities would also support a
corresponding (heavy) ion collision programme [644, 658, 659], at significantly higher energy
than the LHC. The realization of future hadron colliders depends both on high-field supercon-
ducting magnets, for which major R&D is required, and on the provision of a large circular
tunnel. A preliminary implementation study of a 100 km tunnel is included in the FCC CDR.
Such a tunnel could, in a first phase, house a high-luminosity circular e+ e− collider with a fully
complementary physics programme, as proposed both in the FCC integrated programme and
in the CEPC-SppC approach, or a lower-energy proton collider based on e.g. 6 T single-layer
Nb-Ti magnets at 1.9 K. The cost complement for constructing the FCC-hh based on the FCC-
ee infrastructure is estimated at 17 BCHF. A high-energy linear e+ e− collider, i.e. ILC1000 or
CLIC3000 , described above, can also push the physics reach in lepton collisions towards and
beyond that of the LHC (see Chapters 3 and 8). Electron-hadron colliders, i.e. LHeC or FCC-
eh, could incorporate one ring of the proton collider and a new electron linac based on e.g.
LC linac technology or an ERL. Muon colliders need substantial R&D (see Section 10.4); if
realizable, they have the potential to reach collision energies up to a few tens of TeV. Plasma-
based wakefield acceleration also offers long-term possibilities for reaching high energies (see
Sect. 10.5).
Table 10.4: Parameters of proposed future high-energy hadron colliders HE-LHC [ID136]
[659], FCC-hh [ID133] [658] and SppC [ID51] [644].
HE-LHC FCC-hh SppC

beam energy [TeV] 13.5 50 37.5
circumference [km] 26.7 97.75
interaction regions 2 (+2) 2+2 2
−1
int. lumi. per main experiment [ab /yr] 0.5 0.2–1.0 0.4
34 2
peak luminosity [10 /cm /s] 16 5–30 10
electrical site power [MW] 162 (with scSPS) 580 (550 opt.) 700
helium inventory [t] 163 880 not available
time between collisions [ns] 25 25 25
−3
energy spread [rms, 10 ] 0.1 0.1 0.2
bunch length [rms, mm] 80 80 75.5
rms IP beam size [µm] 6.6 6.8 (initial) 6.8 (initial)
injection energy [TeV] 1.3 3.3 2.1
rms transverse geom. emittance [nm] 0.17 (init.) 0.04 (init.) 0.06 (init.)
β ∗ at IP [cm] 45 110–30 75
−3
beam-beam parameter/IP [10 ] 12 5–15 7.5
RF frequency [MHz] 400 400 400/200
10
particles per bunch [10 ] 22 10 150
bunches per beam 2808 10600 10080
average beam current [mA] 1120 500 730
length of standard arc cell [m] 107 or 137 213 148
peak magnetic field [T] 16 16 12
SR power loss/beam [MW] 0.1 2.4 1.1
The most critical requirement for a high-energy collider is energy reach and the proposed
ILC1000 and CLIC3000 , or HE-LHC [ID136], FCC-hh [ID133] and SppC [ID51], offer the high-
est energies in electron and proton collisions, respectively. Relevant criteria for feasibility of
implementation are cost, AC power, and the required R&D effort. The construction costs and
AC power estimates are all within a factor 2–3 of each another. Nominally the lowest cost is
for HE-LHC, followed by ILC1000 , CLIC3000 and FCC-hh. The AC site power consumption is
the lowest for HE-LHC, followed by ILC1000 , FCC-hh and CLIC3000 . In terms of the required
duration/scale of the R&D effort to reach a TDR level of readiness, CLIC3000 and a version of
HE-LHC based on HL-LHC 12 T magnet technology are ahead of other proposals, even if still
require R&D/design optimization.
The hardest challenge for the proton colliders is the development of a representative mag-
net currently aiming towards 16 T field. There are fundamental challenges in obtaining the
required current density in superconductors and in dealing with the ultimate magnetic pressures
and mechanical stresses in the superconductor and associated components. One can estimate
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the timescale needed to innovate new approaches/technology and overcome these limits through
continual R&D efforts (see also Fig. 10.4), as follows:
1. Nb3 Sn, 14–16 T (25-28 TeV @ LHC, 90-100 TeV @ FCC-hh): 10–15 years for short-
model R&D (already on-going in the HL-LHC framework), and the following 10 to 15
years for prototype/pre-series with industry, resulting in 20-30 years needed before a
construction start.
2. Nb3 Sn, 12–14 T (21-25 TeV @ LHC, 75-90 TeV @ FCC-hh): 7–10 years for short-model
R&D, and an additional 7–10 years for prototype/pre-series with industry, resulting in 15
to 20 years before a construction start. The technical feasibility to reach 14 T has been
demonstrated recently via the short-model FRESCA-2 project in Europe and the MDP
programme in the US, yielding an accelerator-type cos-theta short dipole model with 4-
layer coil geometry (as for the FCC 16 T design).
3. Nb3 Sn, 9–12 T (16-21 TeV @ LHC, 55-75 TeV @ FCC-hh): based on experience with
the HL-LHC 11 T dipole and IR quadrupole magnets, a few years for short-model R&D,
and an additonal few years for prototype/pre-series with industry, resulting in construction
feasibility in 5–10 years.
4. NbTi, 6–8 T (35-50 TeV @ FCC-hh): NbTi 8 T dipole magnets are very similar to the
current LHC main dipole with two-layer coils, and 6 T magnets may be the cheapest
option by using a single-layer cos-theta coil winding. After reasonable prototyping work,
including optimization based on the existing proven technology, both options could be
available for construction within 5–7 years.
Because of its much higher current density capability, High Temperature Superconductor
(HTS) technology will inevitably be required to reach fields beyond 16 T. A critical limitation
of HTS today is its much higher cost, even compared with Nb3 Sn, however Nb3 Sn is already
available as an industrial product, and HTS technology will presumably mature in the future.
The stored beam energy and the corresponding beam power at future hadron colliders is
significantly higher than for the LHC, setting challenging requirements for machine protection,
collimation, and beam abort system.
Helium inventories for all colliders using superconducting technologies (magnets or RF)
are listed in Tables 10.2, 10.3 and 10.4. The present LHC helium inventory of 135 t corresponds
to less than a % of the annual production worldwide. The FCC-hh inventory will represent a
few % of the annual production. If 10% of the FCC-hh helium inventory is lost per year, about
90 t would need to be purchased every year; the associated cost (on the order of 5 MCHF per
year at the present supply price) should be foreseen in the operation budget. Helium inventory
numbers for SppC are not available yet; they will depend on the superconductor finally chosen
for the magnets.
10.4 Muon Colliders

A muon collider [ID120] has the potential to reach attractive luminosities in very high-energy
lepton collisions. It would be a powerful discovery machine, since, in contrast to a proton
collider, the full collision energy is available in the centre of mass rather than shared among
Fig. 10.4: A relative time-line expected for realizing future lepton and hadron colliders (from
A. Yamamoto, presented at the Open Symposium in Granada, and updated based on the discus-
sion that followed).
constituent partons. The higher muon mass (than that of the electron) reduces synchrotron ra-
diation emission and allows for the acceleration and collision of the beams in a circular facility,
permitting a much lower integrated RF voltage per turn and efficient use of the beams for lu-
minosity production. A muon collider promises a linear increase of the luminosity per unit
beam power with increasing collision energy, in contrast to an LC where it is independent of
the collision energy. A circular collider also allows the possibility of multiple collision points,
thereby mitigating the large AC power consumption at very high energies. In addition, the lumi-
nosity spectrum could be substantially better than for an e+ e− LC due to the strongly reduced
beamstrahlung and initial-state radiation.
Two main muon collider concepts have been proposed: in one the muons are generated
using protons (MAP) [660, 661] in the other using positrons (LEMMA) [662, 663]. The proton-
driven scheme was the object of a well-supported study, mainly in the US, but the effort was
suspended about five years ago. The recently proposed positron-driven scheme is being studied
with a limited effort mainly at INFN. Since no organised collaboration exists for muon col-
liders, a review group has been charged to assess their perspectives and status. This review is
based on the material made available by the MAP and LEMMA studies and on some additional
calculations. Figure 10.7 shows the dependence of the luminosity per unit beam power for the
proton-based muon collider in comparison with e+ e− colliders.
The proton-driven scheme is based on classical muon production via pion decay. The
study has addressed the global collider parameters and several key technical issues, such as
cooling of the muon beams at different stages, fast-ramping magnets and RF cavities in a high
magnetic field. Although it has not reached the level of a CDR, it is sufficiently complete to
give confidence in the collider parameters. In the positron-driven scheme, 45 GeV positrons
impinging on electrons at rest in a target produce muon pairs close to the reaction threshold,
hence with a very low emittance. Two issues in the original LEMMA study have recently been
identified that potentially reduce the luminosity by orders of magnitude. The LEMMA team is
performing a redesign of the collider concept but it is too early to assess the results.
The decays of the accelerated muons drive critical issues:
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– At the collision points, the decay electrons induce a large background of electrons and
photons. A first simulation study with realistic conditions indicates that this background
can be mitigated by suitable shielding, detector design, and analysis, such that it would
not damage the physics capability.
– The neutrinos from muon decays along the ring produce showers in the Earth. This
leads to some radiation at the location where the plane of the collider ring intercepts
the Earth’s surface. At very high energies beyond 6 TeV, this could ultimately limit the
achievable luminosity for the proton-based scheme. The positron-driven scheme would
be particularly attractive in this respect since its smaller emittance requires much smaller
beam current and thus reduces the neutrino dose, enhancing further the possible energy
reach.
Other options of muon production can also be explored. For example, a possible direct
source of low-emittance muon or intense positron beams could be the “Gamma Factory”, where
partially stripped heavy ions stored in the LHC (or in the FCC-hh) are collided with a laser pulse
to generate intense bursts of X-rays [ID6].
A conceptual R&D programme is illustrated in Figure 10.5. In the first stage, the baseline
collider concept would be developed in parallel with the specification of a major R&D project
that could address the key technical issues, possibly including some physics goals using high-
intensity muon or neutrino beams. This phase would require relatively modest resources. A
consortium of interested institutes, including CERN, is starting to form. Due to the challenging
design issues the project provides an excellent opportunity to nurture new ideas and skills for
the future. Depending on the results of this stage one could launch the second stage in which
one or more test facilities could be built and operated. The collider design could be further
optimised and a CDR developed, including costing, and used as the basis for a decision on
whether to proceed to the next TDR stage, at which point a decision on construction could be
taken. On this basis it is possible to imagine operation of a muon collider on the time scale of
30 years from now. The formation of a global collaboration will be essential to carry out the
work coherently and efficiently.
Although a muon collider offers the potential to push the energy frontier beyond the ca-
pabilities of any other conventional approach currently considered, the concept is not mature
enough to be considered for construction today. A strong R&D programme would be needed to
develop it as a possible candidate for a high-energy physics project. This would be synergistic
with R&D on topics such as high-field superconducting magnets, fast-ramping magnets, effi-
cient superconducting RF, and normal-conducting high-field RF; other topics, such as crystal
collimation, might also be important. Most critical issues like the cooling of the muon beams
should be demonstrated at dedicated test facilities.
10.5 Plasma acceleration

Accelerating gradient is one of the key elements in determining the energy reach and the size
of any accelerator. RF cavities accelerating gradients range from few MeV/m up to the value
demonstrated in CLIC test facilities of over 100 MeV/m. Plasma-based particle accelerators
[ID95, ID109], where accelerating fields are created by the collective motion of plasma elec-
trons driven by lasers or particle beams, have shown capability of reaching an order of mag-
nitude higher gradients. A myriad of applications of such technology would benefit from the
compactness of the devices, HEP of course being one of the interested fields.
Fig. 10.5: Potential technically-limited time-line for a muon collider.
Present status of the field

In the past decade significant progress has been made on both laser- and particle-beam-driven
plasma accelerators. Although the achieved beam quality parameters have come closer to the
design requirements, not all of them were demonstrated simultaneously. The European com-
munity of laboratories and universities active in plasma acceleration development has recently
joined forces for the design study of EuPRAXIA (European Plasma Research Accelerator with
Excellence in Applications)[ID109], aiming at designing a high-energy plasma based acceler-
ator with high quality beam for multiple applications. Both laser-driven and particle-driven
configurations are being considered, and the project is complemented by several test facilities.
This study is of high interest also for possible future HEP applications.
Laser-driven: With the emergence of PW class lasers, electrons up to 8 GeV have been gen-
erated from 20 cm long plasma structures [664] and staging of two independently powered
modules has been demonstrated at the 100 MeV energy level [665]. Methods for reduction of
electron-beam energy spread from initially few percent to a few tenths of a percent have been
developed [666, 667], and emittances of 0.2 µm have been measured. Strong plasma-based fo-
cusing elements have been developed and optimized which provide symmetric high gradients
at the few kT/m level [668–670] that are emittance preserving [671]. Sophisticated diagnostics
that are able to probe plasma profiles, accelerating and focusing fields as well as the properties
of the emerging femtosecond electron beams, with high temporal resolution [672] are being
developed. Continuous operation of laser plasma accelerators operating at the 1 Hz repetition
rate with energy stability at the few percent level has been demonstrated over extended times
(>24 hrs), and an understanding of the origin of fluctuations has been obtained, permitting a
path to feedback stabilization when increasing the repetition rate to kHz and beyond [673].
Electron-driven: Electron-driven plasma acceleration has shown energy doubling of a fraction
of a beam from 42 GeV to 85 GeV in an 85 cm-long plasma column [674]. Single-stage
acceleration of a full electron beam by 9 GeV has been achieved [675], and sub-percent energy
10.5. PLASMA ACCELERATION 177
spread and 30% energy transfer efficiency from the drive to the accelerated beam has been
demonstrated [676]. The acceleration of positron bunches was realised in a quasi-linear wake-
field [677] and energy gain of 5 GeV with an energy spread at the percent level was reached
[678].
Proton-driven: The possibility of using relativistic proton beams as a driver was demonstrated
at the CERN AWAKE experiment [679]: although the proton beams have much longer bunch
length, it was shown [680, 681] that they self-modulate in plasma to micro-bunches which can
resonantly drive wakefields. The acceleration of electrons to multi-GeV energies in a 10 m-long
plasma was demonstrated [679].
For colliders, the “hosing” mechanism, equivalent to beam break-up, has been analyzed
in depth and mitigation strategies have been developed to ensure suppression of this impor-
tant instability [682, 683]. Tolerance studies on alignment of beams and structures are being
conducted to understand the operational parameter regimes and challenges that need to be over-
come [684]. Advances have been made in speeding up the computational tools, with the aim
of reducing the computation time from multiple days to minutes. This has been achieved via
the development of advanced computational methods, reduced models that capture the essential
physics, and through the emergence of higher-speed computers.
The latest generation of beam-driven plasma accelerators is utilizing superconducting ac-
celerator technology and deploying feedback systems and advanced controls for the synthesis
of finely tuneable and stable drive beams. They are now entering the era of precision measure-
ments with sub-percent beam energy stability and fine beam-loading control for energy-spread
minimization. These activities are accompanied by the exploration of repetition rate limits for
plasma wake-field processes facilitated by accelerator technology for multi-MHz and high av-
erage power operation.
Challenges
The next ten years of advanced accelerator development will focus on addressing challenges
identified by the community:
1. Demonstration of reliable 24/7 operation of GeV-class plasma-based accelerators produc-

ing high quality electron beams with low energy spread (< 0.5%), low emittance (< 1 µm)
and high charge per bunch (> 30 pC) in femtosecond bunches.
2. Higher energy staging of electron acceleration with independent drive beams, equal en-
ergy, and charge-preserving beam capture; optimization of external injection methods.
3. Understanding mechanisms for emittance growth and developing methods for achieving
emittances that are compatible with colliders.
4. Energy efficiency studies and optimization.
5. Demonstration of high average power operation for both beam- and laser-driven plasma
accelerators;
6. Completion of a single electron acceleration stage at higher energy (10 GeV).
7. Demonstration and understanding of methods to accelerate a positron bunch with good

quality.
8. Demonstration of scalable electron acceleration to 10s of GeV, with emittance control,

via proton-driven plasma wake-field acceleration, leading to first high-energy physics
applications.
9. Construction of dedicated advanced and novel accelerator facilities in order to deliver

reliably high-quality, multi-GeV electron beams from a small number of stages.
10. Energize the advanced accelerator community, including the HEP community, towards
an advanced collider.
11. Continual development of a comprehensive and realistic operational parameter set for a
multi-TeV collider.
12. For the laser-driven scheme, the development of a MW-level (average power) laser sys-
tem, which is 4–5 orders of magnitude higher than what is available today.
13. Further studies of beamstrahlung effects for c.m. energies up to 10 TeV.
Advanced Accelerator Concept roadmap

The primary long-term goal of a multi-TeV collider sets a timescale for the Advanced Acceler-
ator Concepts (AAC) roadmap for completion of a TDR in the 2035–2040 interval [685].
Near-term goals: completion of a TDR for a potential early application in the 2025–2030 in-
terval. During the innovation and discovery phase, the focus will be on generating and pre-
serving high-quality electron bunches, methods for producing and efficient capture of positron
beams, long-distance acceleration and scalability of plasmas for particle beam driven wake-
fields, studies on energy efficiency, suppression of instabilities, and many other topics. Early
applications include compact and possibly transportable Thomson scattering based gamma-ray
sources, compact FELs, medical radiation delivering devices, and radiation-based inspection
accelerators. In addition, laser plasma accelerators could be considered as injectors for next
generation diffraction limited light sources.
Mid-term goal: the AWAKE technology could provide particle physics applications: AWAKE
Phase 2 could be used for fixed-target experiments for dark photon searches as well as to deliver
future electron-proton or electron-ion collisions with low luminosity.
Long-term goal: design of a high-energy electron/positron/gamma linear collider based on
laser- and/or beam-driven plasma wake-field acceleration.
10.6 Accelerators Beyond Colliders

Accelerator-based Neutrino Beams
High-energy and high-beam-power accelerators are extensively used for neutrino physics re-
search. The cost of leading facilities is second only to colliders. (For reference, total project
cost (TPC) of J-PARC [ID76] is about 1.7 B$, the cost estimate of the proposed ESSνSB [ID98]
is 1.3 B Euro.)
At present, the leading operational facilities are the Fermilab Main Injector complex that
delivers over 0.75 MW of 120 GeV protons on the neutrino target, and the J-PARC facility in
Japan which recently approached 0.5 MW of the 30 GeV proton beam power.
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Both facilities have multi-MW upgrade plans: Fermilab—through construction of a new

0.8 GeV PIP-II linac (to achieve over 1.2 MW by 2026) and then PIP-III (either an 8-12 GeV
RCS or an SRF linac to achieve >2.4 MW in mid-2030’s) [ID167, ID150]; J-PARC—through
new faster magnet power supplies to reduce the cycle from 2.48s to 1.32s and RF upgrade to e.g.
1.3 MW by 2028 [ID76, ID158]. Far future plans of the J-PARC team include the construction
of a new 8 GeV Booster in addition to their existing 3 GeV RCS to attain 3.2 MW out of the
Main Ring (MR), and even, still later, a new 9 MW 9 GeV proton driver consisting of three SRF
linacs (1.2 GeV, 3.3 GeV and 6.2 GeV) in the straight sections of the KEKB tunnel which will
be available after the conclusion of the SuperKEKB operation. It is of note that the proton driver
for the energy frontier muon colliders, like the proposed 14 TeV c.m. energy muon collider in
the LHC tunnel, will need to operate at 2 to 4 MW average power level.
Two issues are currently not resolved so that one cannot yet claim feasibility of these
upgrades or any other multi-MW facilities: a) target; b) beam losses. The long list of issues
associated with high-power targets is further compounded by the fact that the required beam
impacts are very short—1 to 10 µs. As a result, the countermeasures against radiation damage
(DPAs) and thermal shock-waves at the existing neutrino targets and horns work only up to ∼0.8
MW of beam power. MW and multi-MW targets are under active development and prototyping.
Ongoing R&D programmes include studies of material properties, new forms (foams, fibers),
new target designs (e.g., rotating or liquid targets). This R&D activity has common elements
with target R&D for other HEP frontier projects (dark sector searches, linear collider, positron-
based muon collider/LEMMA) and requires coordinated support.
The other most stringent limits on the beam power are set by the need to lower the frac-
tional beam losses while increasing the beam power. The tolerable uncontrolled beam loss in
accelerator enclosures is typically about 1 W/m, so the fractional beam loss must be kept under
∆N/N ∼ C(ircumference) × 1(W /m)/P(ower). Such demands are in gross contradiction with
the commonly observed increase of the ∆N/N with intensity, caused, e.g. by space-charge ef-
fects. These issues are very serious, are being addressed [686], and require long-term support
of dedicated accelerators, machine studies, theory and modeling efforts.
There are four new proposals submitted to the EPPSU which show significant scientific
promise and should be further studied—Protvino/ORCA [ID124], ENUBET [ID57], νSTORM
[ID154] and ESSνSB [ID98]. The first two call for moderate expansion of existing facilities
and operation at sub-MW power levels. νSTORM (cost estimate 160 M Euros if built at CERN)
would produce beams of electron and muon antineutrinos from the decay of muons confined
within a 580 m racetrack-shape storage ring. It requires only 156 kW of 100 GeV protons and
the major challenges of the proposal are the necessity of large aperture (0.5 m) magnets to
accept most of the secondary muons and a sophisticated focusing lattice which should assure
survival of about 60% of muons with 10% rms momentum spread over 100 turns. νSTORM
represents a very promising approach with great potential to boost R&D toward energy frontier
muon colliders.
ESSνSB is a technically very challenging proposal with a total cost of some 1.3 B Euros.
It calls for an increase of the ESS beam power from the world record design value of 5 MW to 10
MW by increasing the accelerator duty cycle from 4% to 8%; the additional 5 MW are used to
generate a uniquely intense neutrino Super Beam for the measurement of leptonic CP violation.
Beside the upgrade of the SRF linac repetition rate from 14 Hz to 28 Hz, ESS should switch
from operation with protons to operation with H− particles. An accumulator ring with 400 m
circumference will need to be built to compress to the beam pulse to one microsecond. Due to
very short beam pulse, the required 5 MW neutrino target station will be much more challenging
than the 5 MW ESS neutron spallation target. One should also expect—and address—very
strong space charge effects both in the linac and in the accumulator ring. High-power H−
stripping would also be a challenge.
BSM Searches with Accelerators

Many of the BSM experiments could be based on existing accelerator facilities, like SPS, LHC,
PSI, FNAL, etc. A few others would require new dedicated accelerators, such as an EDM
ring. The use of ESS [ID164] for search for baryon number violation (NNBAR [ID156])
is also proposed. As per the conclusions of the Physics Beyond Colliders (PBC)/BSM re-
ports [arXiv:1902.00260, ID20, ID42, ID60], and illustrated in Figure 10.6, the BSM proposals
broadly break down along the lines of:
Sub-eV Axion/ALP searches [ID112]: Here the main thrusts are well-established:
– Helioscopes (BabyIAXO/IAXO);
– Haloscopes (ADMX, MADMAX);
– Light-shining-through-wall experiments (JURA, STAX);
– Oscillating EDMs in protons or deuterons in an electrostatic ring (an idea rather than a
proposal at the moment, cf. CPEDM measurement proposal below) [ID18].
MeV-GeV mass range:
– Direct detection WIMP searches;

– Proton beam dump: new proposals (SHiP [ID12, ID129]), re-purposed existing experi-
ments (NA62, MiniBooNE, SeaQuest);
– Electron beam dump: NA64 [ID9], LDMX [ID36], BDX, etc.
– Long-lived particles at the LHC (FASER, MATHUSLA, CODEX-b, MilliQan).
> TeV mass range:
– Ultra-rare or forbidden decays (KLEVER [ID153], TauFV [ID102], Mu3e, MEG, RED-
TOP [ID28], etc.);
– Search for a permanent EDM in protons/deuterons (CPEDM) or in strange/charmed baryons
(LHC-FT).
Proposed BSM/PBC experiments at CERN and elsewhere, e.g. COMET at J-PARC [ID38],
are compiled in Tables 10.5 and 10.6, respectively. The competitiveness of all CERN PBC op-
tions are explored in depth in the BSM paper [228], which includes wide-ranging evaluation
covering 11 benchmark cases. Also see the PBC summary report for the European Strategy
Update [ID20].
Concerning the compatibility of experiments with beam from the CERN SPS, an SPS op-
eration model has been fully developed for the North Area (NA). In general, the SPS could only
support one major user in addition to standard NA operation. The operation of BDF/SHiP/TauFV
[ID12, ID129, ID102] is compatible with standard NA operation (and LHC, AWAKE, HiRad-
Mat, MD). The operation of BDF/SHiP/TauFV is compatible with standard NA/KLEVER op-
eration with some compromise. Similar conclusions hold for NA/KLEVER with eSPS/LDMX.
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Fig. 10.6: BSM parameter space—PBC options shown, general breakdown maps onto world-
wide options.
The eSPS/LDMX is not compatible with full BDF/SHiP operation. And either νSTORM or
ENUBET would not be compatible with BDF—a temporal separation will be necessary.
As for the possible time line of SPS-based experiments, the conventional SPS beam pro-
gramme is foreseen for execution over LHC Run 3/Run 4. KLEVER and COMPASS++ with
RF separated beams would both require significant investment and development. Data taking
would be in Run 4 at the earliest. If approved, BDF/SHiP would target construction starting
circa 2025. Ideally, BDF would make use of the injectors’ LS3 (2025) to perform key civil en-
gineering work during the associated NA stop. Realistically the earliest SHiP could start taking
data is mid-Run 4. If approved, eSPS would ideally target construction in the next 5 years. eSPS
could potentially execute its programme before SHiP data taking, but this would require strong
commitment by CERN within the next 2 years or so, followed by prompt technical design,
approval, and execution. νSTORM and ENUBET, given their present limited implementation
studies, and CERN’s other commitments, cannot be envisaged to start construction until after
2030.
10.7 Energy management

All proposed HEP projects will consume large amounts of energy, O(TWh) per year. On the
other hand, an increasing fraction of sustainable energy sources like wind and photovoltaics
in the future energy mix will result in strong variations of the supply of electrical energy. It
is the HEP community’s responsibility to develop sustainable models and optimized technolo-
gies in terms of energy consumption, aiming also at exporting improved technologies for other
applications in the society.
One way to mitigate the impact of HEP facilities is to actively manage their energy con-
sumption. The aim should be to avoid high loads on the grid during low supply conditions,
Table 10.5: Projects considered in the PBC-BSM working group categorised in terms of their
sensitivity to a set of benchmark models in a given mass range. The characteristics of the
required beam lines, whenever applicable, are also displayed. Taken from the BSM report.
Proposal Main Physics Cases Beam Line Beam Type Beam Yield
sub-eV mass range:
IAXO Axions/ALPs (photon coupling) axions from sun –
JURA Axions/ALPs (photon coupling) laboratory eV photons –
CPEDM p, d EDMs EDM ring p, d –
Axions/ALPs (gluon coupling) p, d –
LHC-FT charmed hadrons EDMs LHCb IP 7 TeV p –
MeV-GeV mass range:
SHiP ALPs, Dark Photons, Dark Scalars BDF, SPS 400 GeV p 2 × 1020 /5 yr
LDM, HNLs, lepto-phobic DM, ...
NA62++ ALPs, Dark Photons, K12, SPS 400 GeV p up to 3 × 1018 /yr
Dark Scalars, HNLs
NA64++ ALPs, Dark Photons, H4, SPS 100 GeV e- 5 × 1012 eot/yr
Dark Scalars, LDM
+ Lµ – Lτ M2, SPS 160 GeV µ 1012 –1013 mot/yr
+ CP, CPT, leptophobic DM H2–H8, T9 40 GeV π, K, p 5 × 1012 /yr
LDMX Dark Photon, LDM, ALPs,... SLAC/eSPS 8/16 GeV e- 10 –1018 eot/yr
16
AWAKE++ Dark Photon AWAKE 30-50 GeV e- 1016 eot/yr

RedTop Dark Photon, Dark scalar, ALPs CERN PS 1.8/3.5 GeV p 1017 pot
MATHUSLA weak-scale LLPs, Dark Scalar, ATLAS or 14 TeV p 3000 fb-1
Dark Photon, ALPs, HNLs CMS IP
FASER Dark Photon, Dark Scalar, ALPs, ATLAS IP 14 TeV p 3000 fb-1
HNLs, B–L gauge bosons
MilliQan milli charge CMS IP 14 TeV p 300-3000 fb-1
CODEX-b Dark Scalar, HNLs, ALPs, LHCb IP 14 TeV p 300 fb-1
LDM, Higgs decays
> TeV mass range:
KLEVER KL → π 0 ν ν̄ P42/K12 400 GeV p 5 × 1019 pot/5 yr
TauFV LFV τ decays BDF 400 GeV p O(2%) of BDF p
CPEDM p, d oEDMs EDM ring p, d -
Axions/ALPs (gluon coupling) p, d -
LHC-FT charmed hadrons MDMs, EDMs LHCb IP 7 TeV p
and instead using preferentially “excess energy”. The possibilities of energy management using
dynamic operation of facilities and energy storage systems should be studied in more detail.
It is necessary to invest R&D effort into improving the energy efficiency of HEP facili-
ties through critical technologies. In certain areas, such R&D will have an immediate impact
on research and other facilities operated today, and the savings in energy consumption may be
used to co-finance the investments. Certain improved technologies may also serve society di-
rectly. These relevant fields of R&D include (but are not limited to) optimized magnet design,
high-efficiency RF power generation, improved cryogenics, lower loss or higher operating tem-
perature SRF cavity technology, beam energy recovery, district heating using recovered heat,
and energy storage.
Proposals for future lepton colliders include linear colliders using normal-conducting or
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Table 10.6: Selection of projects complementary to those considered by PBC-BSM working

group. Note that the experiments are in different phases: proposals; construction; upgrades.
(BD – beam dump; SX – slow extraction; DD – direct detection)
Proposal Main Physics Cases Beam Line Beam Type Beam Yield
sub-eV mass range:
MADMAX Axions Lab: dielectric/ cosmos –
B field
STAX ALPs LSW sub-THz cosmos –
photons
MAGIS100→1K Dark sector Atom interferom. cosmos –
(FNAL)
MeV-GeV mass range:
DARKSIDE-20k WIMP DD LAr LNGS cosmos 200 t.yr
→Argo → 3000 t.yr
DARWIN WIMP DD LXe possibly LNGS cosmos 200 t.yr
LUX-ZEPLIN WIMP DD LXe SURF cosmos 15 t.yr
XENONnT WIMP DD LXe LNGS cosmos 20 t.yr
CRESST-III Ph. 2 WIMP DD, A0 LNGS cosmos –
CaWO4
SuperCDMS WIMP DD Ge SNOLAB cosmos –
SEAQUEST BD LDM FNAL MI 120 GeV p SX 1.44 × 1018 pot/2 yr
MiniBooNE-DM LDM FNAL Booster 8 GeV p 1.9 × 1020 pot
BDX LDM, A0 JLAB 11 GeV e 1022 eot
DarkLight A0 JLAB 100 MeV e on p 5 mA
SENSEI LDM CCDs (FNAL/ cosmos –
SNOLAB)
MAGIX A0 MESA 150 MeV e ∼ 1035 cm-2 s-1
MMAPS e- e+ → γA0 Cornell synch. 5.3 GeV e+ SX Lav = 1034 cm-2 s-1
√
BELLE-II ALPS, A0 SuperKEKB e- e+ s = 10.58 GeV 50 ab-1
> TeV mass range:
Mu3e I/II CLFV µ + → e+ e+ e− PSI HiMB µ 2 × 109 stopped µ/s
MEG II CLFV µ + → e+ γ PSI µ O(1010 µ/s) to exp.
KOTO(+) KL → π 0 ν ν̄ J-PARC MR SX 30 GeV p ∼ 108 K/spill
50→100 kW at 50 kW
Mu2e/Mu2e-II CLFV µ − N → e− N FNAL 8/<4 GeV p → µ 7.7 kW pot (Ph. I)
6.7 × 1017 µ
COMET I/II CLFV µ − N → e− N J-PARC MR 8 GeV p → µ 1.5 × 1016 –1.8 × 1018
stopped µ
Accelerator-driven ν experiments
DUNE ν FNAL MR (PIP-II) 60-120 GeV p 1.1→1.9×1021 pot/yr
T2HK ν J-PARC MR 30 GeV p ∼ 1021 pot/yr
superconducting technology (CLIC and ILC), a large diameter synchrotron (FCC-ee) and muon
colliders (MAP-MC). Defining the energy efficiency as integrated luminosity per supplied pri-
mary energy, these proposals have different dependencies on the targeted centre-of-mass energy.
Figure 10.7 shows the trends for these proposals, based on the numbers from the proposals sub-
mitted to the European Strategy Update. The absolute numbers presented should however be
taken with caution, since the level of confidence and the degree of refinement for those pro-
posals differ substantially. The overall trend however is based on fundamental principles and
gives some indication. It shows the steep decrease of efficiency for the synchrotron radiation
dominated FCC, and almost flat energy dependence for the linear colliders.
Fig. 10.7: One possible figure of merit for future colliders: luminosity per supplied primary
energy (from E. Jensen and M. Seidel’s presentation in Granada [687]).
It should equally be taken into consideration that a highly optimized machine running
at its performance limit may have more significant downtime than a robust machine running
very stably. In other words, energy efficiency of individual components is nothing without high
system availability. The optimization should be on the overall performance, considering also
the trade-offs between different subsystems and the effective Mean Time Between Failures.
10.8 The role of National Laboratories in the European Strategy

In the global vision of the network of European Research Infrastructures (RIs), national lab-
oratories have achieved in the last decade a relevant role as centres providing facilities and
specific competences which complement and support large scale projects for accelerators and
experiments in particle, nuclear and astro-particle physics.
This collaboration scheme has been successfully exploited in several recent scientific Eu-
ropean endeavors, such as at the LHC, EU-XFEL, ESS, and ITER. Present collaborations span
over a large variety of activities: high intensity sources, new superconducting or HTS high-field
magnets for future colliders, innovating technologies for accelerators, RF or plasma-based, only
to mention few examples.
The grid of resources, in facilities and competences, available throughout Europe’s RIs
represents a formidable asset. Not only, do they contribute to innovation with a rich variety of
technological know-out, potentially transferable to high-tech European industry; they also pro-
vide a wide spectrum of activities in fundamental physics. This is of particular relevance when
RIs in Europe are confronted with their capabilities to access Horizon Europe funds. Open
Access laboratories collaborating with European industry boost the potential of applied physics
research. Moreover, ingenuity of researchers fosters the development of local small-scale exper-
iments, which span over a very large spectrum of questions in fundamental physics, providing
the multi-faceted approach which makes vivid and competitive the research communities.
A strong collaboration between technological facilities at European laboratories and in-
dustry can be seminal for the realization of the several scientific projects on-going in Europe
and elsewhere. As an example, the AMICI Horizon 2020 Design Study is charged to strengthen
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the capabilities of European companies to compete as qualified suppliers of components for

accelerators, large superconductor magnets, and in the development of innovative applications
in sectors such as healthcare, security, cultural heritage and space.
National laboratories play a vital role in particle physics research and innovation, and
recent years have seen a strong growth in the number of RIs that are contributing to large Euro-
pean research projects. They must be recognized as long-term strategic investments at all levels,
deeply rooted in the particle physics community, providing a model for their sustainability, and
indispensable both for enabling and developing excellence in the European Strategy.
They also have an impact on skills and education agendas, increasing the competences of
researchers, and students through their outreach activities. They steadily improve the perception
and understanding of science and technology in society at large.
National laboratories enrich the region where they are located and as such, they are im-
portant as contributors to technology transfer and to competitiveness. The health of particle
physics in Europe also depends on the vitality of these laboratories in the Member States: Sys-
tematic collaborations should be reinforced or established, making optimal use of the available
infrastructures and human resources.
10.9 Complementarities and synergies with other fields

Accelerator technology development has always been driven by HEP needs. A diversity of other
applications benefit from and synergistically contribute to the advances in the field. Some of
the most significant examples are mentioned here.
Fusion energy: IFMIF and DONES accelerators, as complementary facilities to ITER
project, are based on high-power and high-reliability proton linacs. They share with HEP
project the challenges on high-intensity high-reliability proton and deuteron beam injectors;
superconducting RF cavity technology in a high-power high-reliability context; high-intensity
beam dynamics and beam halo understanding; high-power non-interceptive beam instrumenta-
tion; reliability modelling of particle accelerators. Their development has impact on industries
building the systems, which reverts in capacity and provider availability.
HTS [688] technology has a wide variety of applications in medicine, science and power
systems engineering on top of the high field magnets, these last being also used in fusion power
plants. As an example, HTS can apply in the field of electric power systems in cables, motors,
generators, and transformers where superconductors replace resistive conductors, plus super-
conducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) and fault-current limiters (FCLs).
Medical applications of accelerators in isotope production, radio and hadron-therapy
[689] are profiting of developments being carried out in HEP laboratories, and examples are the
latest designs of SC gantries [690, 691], or of medical detectors [692, 693].
Photonics and neutronics share with HEP technologies and challenges. Common to
all these fields are the high reliability needs and the data analytics evolution which exponen-
tially grow in parallel to the high-rep. and detector capabilities. In photonics the examples are:
the diffraction-limited storage rings with very low emittance (nanobeam, stability, magnet and
vacuum technology, etc.), the FELs (Linac technology, highly brilliant beam production and
preservation, stability, etc.), the development of compact sources, where the CLIC technology
has given birth to the CompactFEL concept [694]. While in neutronics SNS, ESS or the China
Spallation Neutron Source (CSNS) [695] share with HEP all challenges of high-power linacs
and targets.
Plasma acceleration, as mentioned above, promises developments for compact facilities

with a wide variety of applications, in medicine, photonics, etc., compatible with university
capacities and small and medium sized laboratories.
An important aspect of this Strategy update is to recognize the potential impact of the
development of accelerator and associated technology on the progress in other branches of sci-
ence, such as astroparticle physics, cosmology and nuclear physics. Moreover, joint develop-
ments with applied fields in academia and industry have brought about benefits to fundamental
research and may become indispensable for the progress in our field.
Chapter 11
Instrumentation and Computing
Developments in the area of instrumentation and computing enable tool-driven revolutions that
can open the door to future discoveries. This is only made possible if appropriate support for
innovation exists. The type of support required includes not only financial support but also
access to shared infrastructures, the existence of effective organizational networks, appropri-
ate support and recognition of the workforce engaged in instrumentation and computing R&D
activities, and structures through which the community can build a relationship with industry.
Furthermore, while university-based research teams do engage in R&D activities [ID68], strong
support from national labs and larger institutions has been shown to be essential.
The success of the LHC programme and the ongoing development activities in prepara-
tion for HL-LHC upgrades demonstrate the ability of the particle physics community to take
on large and long term projects. The challenges of future experiments, however, often scale
with the complexity of the physics goals. Therefore, it is as important as ever that the particle
physics community maintains and further strengthens a research and development ecosystem
that stimulates and supports innovation in both instrumentation and computing.
11.1 Particle physics instrumentation

The use of a new detector technology in an experiment is the result of a development cy-
cle that includes different types of activities, from generic R&D activities, R&D activities
guided by the needs of future projects, focused R&D activities for an approved experiment,
production/industrialization and installation/commissioning of the technology. As illustrated in
Fig. 11.1, the work leading up to the HL-LHC detector upgrades indicates that the development
cycle of a new technology is typically a decade or more. It is therefore important for the com-
munity to plan ahead and ensure that appropriate support exists for all stages of a technology
development cycle. In 2018, an ECFA Detector Panel survey [ID68] of the particle physics
community found that 87% of respondents reported engagement in R&D activities, and that
75% of these activities were carried out within the context of present/future experiments (e.g.
ATLAS, CMS, FAIR, etc.), 18% within a consortium (e.g. AIDA, RDx, etc.), and 7% of the
activities were identified as generic R&D. Looking ahead, the key to enabling new discoveries
will be the community’s ability to maintain an appropriately diversified portfolio of different
types of R&D activities that can evolve over time to adapt to the needs of the community. For
example, as HL-LHC upgrade activities move into construction and commissioning, it is imper-
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Fig. 11.1: Illustration of the typical timescale involved in the technology development cycle of
particle physics experiments leading up to HL-LHC [696].
ative that the community maintains momentum in R&D activities with a focus on solving the
known technological challenges of the next generation of experiments.
11.1.1 Challenges and technologies for next generation experiments

Next generation experiments include those at colliders, fixed-target and beam-dump facilities,
as well as dedicated projects for the search of elusive particles. Some of the proposed pro-
grammes exploit synergies between particle physics and other fields, in particular astroparticle
physics and cosmology. While the landscape of these proposed next-generation experiments
is broad in terms of both physics goals and detector technologies, the technological challenges
are well-defined [697]. These include, depending on the physics goals and experimental con-
ditions, micron scale spatial resolution and low mass, picosecond hit time resolution, high-
performance photodetectors (also operating at cryogenic temperature and low dark current),
radiation tolerance, large number of channels, high readout speed, and large sensitive area at
low cost. Moreover, the need for combined features (4D tracking, 5D imaging) becomes more
and more urgent. The time scales spanned by these future programmes, ranging from few years
to decades, constitutes a challenge in itself, in addition to the complexity and diversity of the
required technologies.
Recent R&D efforts have already highlighted promising technologies, some of which
can apply to different detectors through specific engineering developments [698]. Table 11.1
provides a summary of some of these promising technologies and their possible specific appli-
cations to address future experimental challenges.
Hybrid and monolithic pixel sensors for vertex and tracking detectors achieve high resolu-
tion through high granularity, low material, radiation resistance and high data rate [699]. In par-
ticular, Monolithic Active Pixel Sensors (MAPS), developed starting from the CMOS imaging
sensor technology, have been initially deployed in test-beam infrastructures and then adapted
to the needs of high-energy physics experiments, finding applications in HL-LHC detector up-
grades (ALICE [ID110, ID46]) and are subject to process optimization for most next generation
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Table 11.1: Summary of promising technologies and their possible specific detector applications
to address experimental challenges of approved and future projects.
Technologies
Solid state Gas Scintillator Noble liquid Cherenkov
Vertex / Challenges: high spatial resolution, high rate/occupancy, fast/precise timing,

Tracker radiation hardness, low mass, 4D tracking.
Planar, 3D,
(D)MAPS 1 ,
2 TPC 4 , SciFi 6 +
LGAD ,
DC 5 SiPM 7
(HV-HR)
CMOS 3
Challenges: high granularity, radiation hardness, large volume, excellent
Calorimeter
hit timing, PFA/dual-readout capability, 5D imaging.
Tile/fibers +
RPC 8 or SiPM sampl., Quartz fibers
Si sensors LAr
sampling MPGD 9 homogeneous sampling sampling in
sampling crystals dual-readout
(e.g. LYSO)
Muon
Challenges: large area, low cost, spatial resolution, high rate.
detector
MPGD, Scint+
RPC, DT 9 WLS fibers
MWPC 10 + SiPM
PID / Challenges: high photon detection efficiency, large area photodetectors,

TOF thinner radiator, timing resolution ≤ 10 ps, radiation hardness.
TPC, DC, RICH 12 ,
LGAD 11
TOF 13 ,
(timing) MRPC TOP 14 ,
(timing)
DIRC 15
Neutrino / Challenges: high photon detection efficiency, very large volume,radio
Dark Matter purity, cryogenic temperature, large area photodetectors.
liquid scint.,
single/dual- water/ice +
Si, Ge TPC scint. tiles /
phase TPC mPMT 16
bars
1. (Depleted) Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor 9. Drift Tube

2. Low Gain Avalanche Detector 10. Multi-Wire Proportional Chamber
3. (High Voltage - High Resistivity) CMOS 11. Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chamber
4. Time Projection Chamber 12. Ring-Imaging Cherenkov detector
5. Drift Chamber 13. Time-Of-Flight detector
6. Scintillating Fiber tracker 14. Time-Of-Propagation counter
7. Silicon Photomultiplier 15. Detection of Internally Reflected Cherenkov
8. Resistive Plate Chamber 16. multi-anode Photo-Multiplier Tube
9. MicroPattern Gaseous Detector
experiments (see e.g. CLIC [ID146] [700]). This technology is promising for its intrinsic pos-
sibility of reducing the thickness of sensors while maintaining high performance and is suited
for large area assembly at low production cost. A new avalanche silicon detector concept with a
low gain, known as a Low Gain Avalanche Detector (LGAD), seems to be a favourable option
to achieve, with a given pitch, the time resolution of 30 ps [701]. However, further effort is
necessary to be able to achieve the combination of required performance. The trend towards
monolithic technologies also tends to blur the boundaries with ancillary components, such as
read-out circuitry, and special care must be taken in optimizing them in combination with the
sensitive components.
Present and future challenges in calorimetry include excellent photon detection, high
granularity, radiation hardness, large volume, and ultimately the possibility of exploiting ei-
ther the high granularity and particle flow technique [702, 703] or the dual read out calorimetry
approach [704]. Research and development in the field has resulted in the use of many different
technologies, depending on the application [702]: crystals, scintillator-based sampling, silicon-
based sampling, and liquid noble gas calorimeters [ID16]. Homogeneous, shashlik-type [705]
and spaghetti-type [706] calorimeters are considered for the LHCb electromagnetic calorimeter
upgrade, while a technology similar to the ATLAS tile calorimeter is under investigation for
the hadronic barrel calorimeter of an FCC-hh detector. The baseline choice for an electromag-
netic calorimeter for an FCC-hh detector is instead based on liquid-argon technology, which
was also recently considered for a detector for FCC-ee. Another option being investigated for
FCC-ee is the dual readout fibre calorimeter. A silicon-tungsten calorimeter is proposed for
CLIC, the CLD [707] detector for FCC-ee, and is a promising option for a FCC-hh calorimeter
in areas with a radiation level compatible with the technology. Research and development for
the silicon and tile calorimeter technology will profit from the experience of the CMS High
Granularity Calorimeter (HGC) [708] for HL-LHC.
Particle identification is crucial for flavour physics, with the biggest challenge for the
proposed future detectors being an extreme timing resolution. The Belle II experiment at Su-
perKEKB [ID11] features a RICH with quartz radiator (Time-Of-Propagation or TOP) in the
barrel region, which targets a single photon timing resolution of 80 ps [338]. The Cherenkov
technology is also considered for the LHCb detector upgrade, which features a RICH detector
with a time resolution down to 10 ps and a TORCH (Time Of interally Reflected CHerenkov
light) detector with a time resolution close to 70 ps per photon resulting in an effective time
resolution of 15 ps per track [709].
In the realm of gaseous detectors, Micro Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGDs [ID87]) have
proven successful in many LHC experiments (e.g. GEMs, Micromegas) and are foreseen for
HL-LHC detector upgrades. They remain a valid asset for addressing future experimental chal-
lenges such as high granularity and precise timing. Several new MPGD designs are being devel-
oped to facilitate production and evolve the technology to pixel devices with integrated readout
electronics. Another example of gaseous detector is the glass RPC with semi-digital readout
that has been designed to be used as part of a hadronic calorimeter for ILD [710][ID107].
Experimental challenges of very large mass detectors, such as those used for neutrino
physics and dark matter searches, include in many cases extremely high radiopurity, large
volume cryogenic systems and high photon detection efficiency over very large area. Here,
SiPMs will likely be one of the key enabling technologies for LAr (e.g. DarkSide-20k [ID62],
DarkSide-LM [ID62], Argo [ID62], DUNE [ID126]) and LXe-based detectors (e.g. DAR-
WIN [ID97], nEXO), achieving higher photo-detection efficiency, much better single-photon
resolution, and operating at lower bias voltage than traditional PMTs. Silicon photo-multipliers
also feature better radiopurity and can be efficiently integrated into tiles that cover large ar-
eas. Neutrino physics experiments (e.g. Hyper-K [ID158]) could significantly benefit from the
development of novel multi-anode PMTs (mPMT) providing large sensitive area coverage per
module with directional information. The Global Argon Dark Matter Collaboration (GADMC)
programme [ID62] will require the use of large volumes of low-radioactivity argon depleted in
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Ar, necessitating the development of an underground argon extraction and purification plant
as well as a dedicated cryogenic distillation column.
For all types of particle detectors, the integration of advanced electronics and data trans-
mission functionalities plays an increasingly important role and is a significant challenge in
itself. Advances in enabling microelectronics and optoelectronics technologies are driven by
industry. Technologies used in particle physics often lag behind industry by many years, at the
risk of becoming obsolete. The use of new microelectronic technologies for particle physics ap-
plications has a high development cost and long learning and qualification time. In this context
it is important for the community to focus on the development of a limited number of tech-
nology nodes (e.g. 28 nm, and 17 nm or lower) expected to be available for a long time. It is
equally important to put in place a critical mass of expert personnel in support for the commu-
nity. Finally, development activities must be coordinated to share prototyping and production
costs. This includes, for example, community support for design tools and foundry submissions
through international coordination programmes. Rapid development in FPGA processor power
and I/O bandwidths are also enabling complex online feature extraction and increased readout
flexibility; however, this comes at a cost of increased firmware development complexity which
requires high-level expertise.
Future experimental projects also face a large number of diverse engineering challenges,
for example, in the areas of system integration, power distribution, cooling, mechanical sup-
port structures and production techniques. Concerning mechanics and cooling infrastructures,
depending on hadronic or leptonic colliders, the general requirements span from high radiation
hardness to low mass and large dimension. Gas and microchannel cooling is considered, when
possible, for tracking systems. Carbon fibre cryostats and ultrathin superconducting magnets
are also being investigated.
With such a plethora of options for technological development, it is mandatory to keep
in mind some of the lessons learned from past R&D [696]. First, it must be recognized that
efforts in R&D activities are never a loss, i.e. even if a technological innovation is not retained
for a specific experimental programme, it is nevertheless available for other projects. As such,
it is important to note that a close interplay between future project studies, the R&D collabo-
rations, and European Commission projects is needed to ensure an efficient strategic alignment
whilst preserving accessibility of results and know-how to the wider community. In the con-
text of R&D activities guided by the needs of future projects, technological specifications must
be well-defined and documented, and need to consider all aspects of the final applications:
compatibility with other systems and their global performance, operating conditions including
their uncertainties and required margins, production capabilities and costs. For common com-
ponents developed to address the needs of several detectors and experiments, anticipating the
implementation of different configurations is particularly important. Thorough definition and
documentation of test protocols, including test conditions as close as possible to final operation,
and earliest possible start of radiation tolerance tests are fundamental to minimize risks. Fi-
nally, given that components may be discontinued by vendors or become prohibited due to new
legislation, the market behaviour must be constantly monitored and some degree of diversity of
solutions must be maintained.
11.1.2 Generic detector R&D

Generic detector R&D refers to research activities that seek to push back the limits of technol-
ogy, and is not uniquely driven by the needs to fulfill specific experimental requirements. Since
generic detector R&D has the potential to bring about tool-driven revolutions, it is essential that
the community maintains the ability to carry out these types of research activities, even through
the design, planning and execution of large experimental projects. An example of this is the out-
come of continued improvements made in solid-state sensors which has led to the possibility
to add timing detectors to LHC experiments upgrades; an improvement that was not originally
foreseen and that is now opening up the ability to achieve better pile-up rejection.
Generic technology innovation often emerges from synergies within the field of particle
physics, with other fields of science, or with industry, and in most cases, is an incremental,
continuous and long-term process. Furthermore, generic R&D, by itself, can typically be costly
and often requires access to various specialized infrastructures (see Sect. 11.1.3). As a result,
programmes such as AIDA2020 [711] and ATTRACT [712] play an important role in enabling
and supporting generic R&D activities. It is therefore important to ensure that these types of
programme be appropriately supported and have also the ability to expand, as needed, in order
to preserve and stimulate the community’s potential for innovation.
11.1.3 Test facilities, infrastructures and tools

The development of novel particle physics instruments requires specialized infrastructures, tools
and access to test facilities that all come at a substantial cost. National labs and large institutions
play a central and important role in supporting the community by providing access to, and user
support for, these facilities, infrastructures and tools.
Test-beam and irradiation facilities

Test-beam facilities are vital for the characterization, calibration and commissioning of new
instruments. A list of test-beam facilities1 in the world currently available to the particle physics
community is presented in Table 11.2. These facilities offer different particle species, energies
and beam structures that are complementary to each other. In the past few years, the demand for
access to the largest test-beam facilities such as those at CERN, DESY, Fermilab and SLAC has
remained high. The CERN test-beam facilities, for example, are at present used at full capacity.
It is expected that the development of instrumentation for approved and future projects will
maintain, even possibly increase, the need of the community to have access to these types of
facilities. Yet, the future medium- to long-term availability of some of the test-beam facilities
currently used by the community is at present uncertain. Furthermore, parts of these facilities,
for example at CERN, are also ageing and will require adequate maintenance and/or upgrade in
the coming years to continue to support the community.
Irradiation facilities are used to characterize the radiation hardness, ageing effects and
performance of detectors, electronics components, systems and materials, under high particle
flux and fluence such as those expected at accelerators and in accelerator-based experiments.
Table 11.3 summarizes information about a representative sample of irradiation facilities in
1
An AIDA2020-supported database of available test-beam facilities world wide is under development [713].
Table 11.2: List of test-beam facilities in the world, as of May 2019. Only beam lines with
beams of energies higher than 100 MeV are included [Courtesy of C. Rembser and H. Wilkens].
Number of
Laboratory Particles Energy Availability
beam lines
CERN/PS
2 e, h, µ(sec.) 0.5 - 10 GeV 9 months/year
(CH)
continuous
p (prim.) 400 GeV
except winter
e, h,µ (sec.) 10-400 GeV
shutdown, typical
e, h (tert.) 10-200 GeV
CERN/SPS duty cycle
4 Pb ions (prim.)
(CH) PS∼ 1-3%
other ion species 20-400 GeV
SPS 20-40%
(out of fragmented proton equiv.
primary Pb ions) (z=1)
25-750 MeV
DAFNE BTF
e+ /e− both prim. Rep. rate 50 Hz typically 25-35
Frascati 2
and sec. 1-40 ns weeks/year
(IT)
1 − 1010 part./pulse
DESY 1-6 GeV 11 months/year,
3 e+ , e− (sec.)
(D) max 100 kHz duty cycle ∼ 50%
γ (tagged) 0.7-1.2 GeV
ELPH (Sendai) e+ , e− (conv.) 0.1-1.0 GeV
2 2 months/year
(JP) rate < 500 kHz
(typ. 2 kHz)
p (prim.) 120 GeV
FERMILAB FTBF 24 hrs/day, duty
2 e, h,µ (sec.) 1-66 GeV
(US) cycle 6%
h (tert.) 200-500 MeV
3 months/yr, duty
e (prim.) 1.1-2.5 GeV
IHEP (Beijing) cycle depends on
2 e (sec.) 100-300 MeV
(CH) BEPCII operation
p,π (sec.) 0.4-1.2 GeV
mode
p (prim.) 70 GeV 2 months/yr,
IHEP (Protvino)
5 p, K, π, µ, e (sec.) 1-45 GeV duty cycle(U-70
(RU)
C-12 (prim) 6-300 GeV machine) 15-30%
50-450 MeV
PSI/SBL
2-4 π ± , µ ± , e± , p rate < 109 Hz 6-8 months/yr
(CH)
20 ns structure
PSI/PIF 5 - 230 MeV 11 months/year,
1 p
(CH) Imax = 2-5 nA typ. weekends
9 months/yr,
SLAC e (prim.) 2.5-15 GeV
0 duty cycle 50%
(US) e (sec.) 1-14 GeV
[No beam in 2019]
SPRING-8
γ (tagged) 1.5-3.0 GeV
Compton Facility 1 >60 days/yr
e± (conv.) 0.4-3.0 GeV
(JP)
University of Bonn 1.2-3.2 GeV
upon request,
ELSA 1 e− rate∼ 500 Hz-
typ. ∼ 30 days/yr
(D) 1 GHz
Univ. of Mainz
Ee− ,γ < 1.6 GeV upon request,
MAMI 3 e−
Ie− < 100 µA typ. ∼ 30 days/yr
(D) γ
the world used by the particle physics community for the testing and qualification of detector
and accelerator components. In addition, many other facilities are available to the community
and information about these facilities can be found in the AIDA2020-supported world-wide
database of irradiation facilities [714]. Current irradiation facilities fulfill, and have been op-
timized in some cases for, the HL-LHC radiation environment. The particle fluence expected
at some of the future accelerator projects will however be more than a factor of 10 larger (e.g.
fluence of 1017 particles/cm2 at FCC-hh for 30 ab−1 ). In the future, the testing of materials, de-
vices, systems and electronics under this type of extreme radiation environment will be critical
and require access to irradiation facilities with increased particle fluxes, larger radiation areas
for simultaneous tests of many components, and longer testing campaigns 2 .
The recent and ongoing testing campaign of novel instruments in preparation for HL-LHC
has shown that the time availability to testbeam and irradiation facilities can in some cases be a
limiting factor. While access to many facilities are available to the community through transna-
tional access programmes such as that provided by AIDA2020, others are user-paying facilities.
The ability to make extensive use of these facilities also importantly depends on the quality of
user and technical support, as well as the availability of high-quality beam instrumentation, test
set-ups, and related facility management software infrastructure (e.g. see [718]). For example,
the beam telescopes and associated DAQ infrastructure developed under the EUDET [719] and
AIDA [720] frameworks have proved invaluable to the community, providing common tools
for test-beam operation, which significantly lower the cost and complexity of performing these
tests. Continued and coordinated support of a European network of test-beam and specialized
irradiation facilities, including user support and the development of common tools, is of the
utmost importance for the community.
Established in 2014, the CERN neutrino platform provides the neutrino community with
support for detector R&D, tests, construction, as well as access to a charged particle test beam
infrastructure. This initiative, along with the creation of a neutrino group within the CERN
EP department, is an important complementary contribution to the US and Japanese neutrino
programmes and is providing coherence to the European neutrino community. As such, this
type of initiative could be considered for other complementary research programmes.
Infrastructures
Typical infrastructures required for instrumentation development include, but are not limited
to, clean rooms, probe stations, bonding/packaging tools, radioactive/laser sources, spectro-
photometer and spectro-fluorometers, specialized electronics and data acquisition equipment,
equipment for impurity/dopant, content and profiles in solid-state devices, etc. While some of
this type of infrastructure can be available at some institutions, the cost can be prohibitive to
many and often can be single-use for a particular project. National labs and large institutions
play a critical role in providing access to various specialized infrastructures required for de-
tector R&D. The sharing of such infrastructures is important for the community. Furthermore,
efficient usage of existing infrastructures requires the existence of platform(s) disseminating the
information, and potentially coordinating the infrastructure usage. One crucial element in the
use of such specialized infrastructures is the ability to support the technical personnel required
to run them. This is a particularly difficult problem to address given that a significant portion
2
For example, the recently formed CERN Radiation Test Facilities Steering Group (RTF-SG) is charged with
facilitating the information exchange at CERN concerning the operation and possible future extension of the radi-
ation test facilities at CERN [715].
Table 11.3: Representative list of some of the different types of irradiation facilities in the world
commonly used by the particle physics community for the testing and qualification of detector
and accelerator components [716, 717]. This is not an exhaustive list since irradiation services
can be sometimes supplied by some member institutions of an R&D project, the community
makes use of industrial services or of medical accelerators for reasons of convenience, avail-
ability, etc., and in other cases, irradiation must be performed with specific particles/energies.
Several other facilities are available to the community and can be found in the AIDA2020-
supported world-wide database of irradiation facilities [714].
Access provider
Particles Energy, flux, etc. Availability
and infrastructure
CERN/IRRAD 23 GeV May-November
p
(CH) flux: 1 − 3 × 1010 p/cm2 /s [Closed during LS2]
Link to more info
25.3 MeV
p
KIT/KAZ current 2 µA
Link to more info
(D) flux∼ 2.5 × 1013 p/cm2 /s
X-ray
dose rate up to 18 kGy/h
UoB/MC40 up to 40 MeV, typ. 27 MeV
cyclotron p current < 2 µA, typ. 0.1-0.5 µA Link to more info
(UK) flux ∼ 1013 p/cm2 /s
1.17 MeV, 1.33 MeV
CERN/CC60 All year
γ (10 TBq 60 Co source)
(CH) Link to more info
∼ 3 Gy/h at 1 m
0.662 MeV
All year
(14 TBq 137 Cs source)
γ
CERN/GIF++ (+ 6-8 weeks/yr
dose-rate ∼0.5 Gy/h at 1 m
(CH) of SPS operation)
selectable flux
(+µ) Link to more info
typ. 100 GeV, ∼ 104 part./spill
n: thermal - HE
mixed-field HEH: > 100 MeV May-November
CERN/CHARM (23 GeV p Lateral: 107 − 1010 HEH/cm2 /h [Closed during LS2]
(CH) on Cu/Al
Long.:108 − 1012 HEH/cm2 /h Link to more info
target)
homogeneous field over ∼ 1 m2
UCL/CRC heavy high LET or high penetration cocktail
Link to more info
(BE) ions flux ∼ few - 104 part/cm2 /s
fast & thermal,
JSI/TRIGA
flux 1 − 4 × 1012 n/cm2 /s
reactor n Link to more info
thermal, regenerated fast,
(SI)
flux < 5 × 108 n/cm2 /s
800 MeV,
p
Los Alamos/ 5 × 101 1 part./pulse at 1 Hz
Sandia 0.1 MeV to > 600 MeV, Link to more info
n
(US) 106 n/cm2 /s above 1 MeV per pulse
γ dose rate 10−8 - 10 Gy/s
of research budget is moving into project-based funding that only lasts for the duration of the
project and must be finalized at its end. To make the use of existing infrastructures effective,
laboratories and universities need to invest in people who can run and maintain them. Also, the
economic model for accessing the infrastructures needs to be adapted to the changing scenarios.
Specialized tools
In the development of novel technologies, the use of specialized tools is essential to minimize,
for example, the number of prototype iterations. These specialized tools include modelling
tools, advanced detector simulation tools, tools to estimate radiation doses, and design and
validation of electronics system and mechanical components. While some of these tools are
free, others have costly licenses. National labs and larger organizations can play an important
role in providing the community with access to, and expertise in the use of, some of these
specialized tools. Here again, the challenge of supporting the technical personnel required to
efficiently exploit complex tools exists and must be addressed. It is also important to note that
the particle physics community has also a role to play in the development of some of these tools
(e.g. GEANT4 [721–723]), ensuring that the tools meet the needs of the community. A strong
synergy exists between access to test-beam facilities providing well-defined conditions and the
ability to improve simulation models of particle interactions with materials that are important
for the design of novel technologies.
11.1.4 R&D coordination

Results of the 2018 ECFA Detector Panel survey [ID68] of the particle physics community
clearly demonstrate that expertise in instrumentation R&D is distributed over many institutions
(universities, national and international laboratories). As such, international coordination of
R&D activities is critical to maximize the scientific outcomes of these activities and make the
most efficient use of resources. More specifically, the coordination of activities provides
– the ability to efficiently share and streamline work thereby limiting duplication of effort;
– opportunities for the development of, and access to, common tools, infrastructures and
services;
– access to a large network of information and world-wide expertise in different areas;
– wide dissemination of knowledge and results;
– unique environment for the training of the next generation of experts;
– a visible framework for institutions.
The community has a strong track record of successful implementation of different col-
laborative structures used to coordinate R&D activities. These include, for example,
– CERN R&D programmes such as the DRDC and White Paper Theme 3 R&D programmes
which laid the foundations for the construction and subsequent upgrades of the LHC de-
tectors;
– European Commission funded projects such as EUDET, AIDA, AIDA2020 and ATTRACT
which provide precious support to the particle physics community to develop new de-
vices, common ancillary electronics, beam test and irradiation facilities, and also play an
important community-building role in establishing coherence at the European level;
– other R&D collaborations (e.g. CALICE, ProtoDUNE) that, in some cases, have the flex-
ibility to evolve in scope.
In addition, while strictly speaking not a coordinating body, it is important to note the
existence of the ECFA Detector Panel [724] that has a mandate to take on a reviewing role and
provide advice on detector development efforts for projects at accelerator and non-accelerator
experiments in particle and astroparticle physics. It is primarily concerned with large detector
R&D projects involving many laboratories and requiring significant resources.
Looking ahead, there is a clear need to strengthen existing R&D collaborative structures,
and create new ones, to address future experimental challenges of the field post HL-LHC. Con-
sistent with this view, CERN has proposed an R&D programme [ID16] that concentrates on
advancing key technologies rather than on developing specialized detector applications. Many
of the developments are proposed to be be carried out jointly with external groups, also exploit-
ing existing collaborative structures like the RD50 and RD51 collaborations, and with industrial
partners. In addition, it is generally acknowledged that the community must continue to vigor-
ously pursue the development of future EC-funded projects, which have played a central role in
enabling past R&D activities. These projects all have strong leverage on matching funds.
Some of the challenges in maintaining the community’s ability to carry out detector R&D
research through collaborative structures include:
– Evaluation of, and ability to secure, the appropriate level of funding. For example, there is
a feeling among some stakeholders that more funding for innovation could have enabled
devices with improved performance and/or lower cost for HL-LHC (e.g. more radiation
tolerant Crystals, SiPMs, CMOS sensors with fast readout, etc.). In general, R&D has
high added value compared to the overall cost of the scientific programmes.
– Resources management. While collaborative structures can build on several smaller-scale

national and local initiatives with various funding sources, this implies that (at least some)
resources are in the hands of contributing institutions. As a result, estimating efforts
needed/invested is not easy and unforeseen withdrawals of efforts can impact schedules.
More formal agreements throughout different R&D phases could help address this chal-
lenge.
– Maintaining effectiveness. Experience has shown that an international independent R&D

review process of consortia and programmes is important for maintaining their effective-
ness and securing funding.
– Integration of R&D not targeted at CERN-hosted projects.
– Engagement with the world-wide (non-European) community.
To help address some of these challenges, it would be advantageous for the community
to define a global R&D roadmap that could be used to support proposals at the European and
national levels. This community roadmap could, for example, identify grand challenges to
guide the R&D process on the medium- and long-term timescales, as well as define technology
nodes, broad enough to be used as a basis for creating R&D platforms. The preparation of this
document is an important step in this direction, on the European level and even beyond.
11.1.5 Synergies and opportunities

Instrumentation development for particle physics is both a driver for, and a beneficiary of,
progress made in other areas, within the field of particle physics, in other fields of science,
and industry.
Within the field of particle physics, technologies developed under generic R&D pro-
grammes or with the aim to address common experimental challenges often provide a boost
in innovation that suits the needs of detector upgrades and/or novel designs. Examples of this
include the development of liquid noble-gas Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) for dark mat-
ter and neutrino experiments (DarkSide [ID62], DARWIN [ID97], DUNE [ID126, ID131]),
liquid scintillator with photomultipliers (JUNO [ID19]), and pure water Cherenkov with pho-
tomultipliers (SuperKamiokande). A highly-granular electromagnetic calorimeter, addressing
similar needs as the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter upgrade (HGC), is foreseen for the Light
Dark Matter eXperiment (LDMX) at eSPS [ID42, ID36]. A fast radiation-hard electromagnetic
calorimeter using GAGG crystals, similar to the electromagnetic calorimeter for LHCb Upgrade
II, is designed for the fixed-target experiment TauFV [ID42, ID102]. The two experiments also
share the design of the TORCH particle-identification detector mentioned in Sect. 11.1.1.
Across other fields of science, in particular with the astrophysics and cosmology com-
munities, strong synergies for detector R&D as well as large civil, vacuum and cryogenic
infrastructures have been identified [725] (also see e.g. [ID60, ID64]). The ECFA Detector
Panel, with its advisory mandate spanning both particle and astro-particle physics, is uniquely
positioned to identify such synergies. Particle physics has also been the driver of important
developments in the fields of medicine (e.g. medical imaging, radiation treatments, etc.) and bi-
ology. For example, the Medipix and Timepix chips [726] originally developed to meet require-
ments of solid-state tracking detectors and TPCs in particle physics have found applications
in medical imaging, space dosimetry, material analysis (e.g. characterisation of pharmaceuti-
cals, evaluation and synthesis of new materials, detection of counterfeit drugs). To facilitate
the cross-fertilization of innovations across disciplines, the development of technology-centred
R&D programmes, as well as platforms for the exchange of information and ideas, should be
encouraged.
The relationship with external partners is as bidirectional as within scientific fields. Prod-
ucts of particle physics are highly specific with relatively small and cyclic markets. Their de-
velopments and production rely on partners working in other scientific and societal fields using
similar devices, particularly for imaging technologies, for electronics and mechanical systems.
In some cases, collaboration and knowledge transfer with industrial partners (e.g. access to the
bases of fabrication process, understanding the mechanisms of industrialization) are absolutely
necessary for ensuring mass production and for reducing the risks of market instability. Success-
ful initiatives of collaboration and cooperation with industry partners (e.g. ATTRACT [712],
ERDIT [727]) should be encouraged. Valuable candidates for partnership range from mate-
rial science laboratories, foundations or start-ups in technology innovations for relatively small
productions, to medium size companies for larger productions and scientific/technical knowl-
edge transfer (e.g. Hamamatsu Photonics for providing large quantities of silicon sensors for
HL-LHC, TowerJazz for producing CMOS MAPs). It is subject of debate whether involving
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industrial partners at an earlier stage of the scientific R&D projects would be beneficial to par-
ticle physics. For an effective synergy, forms of partnership with industry that go beyond the
client-supplier model should be explored, carefully considering regulatory and patent issues.
11.2 Computing and software for particle physics

The scientific outcomes of an experiment are made possible by the development of an efficient
computing and software infrastructure. Historically, the development of these infrastructures for
particle physics has benefited from Moore’s law, the use of commodity hardware, and highly
distributed systems. This, however, no longer holds true. Nowadays, the landscape of com-
puting infrastructure for particle physics is rapidly changing and becoming more diverse. The
particle physics community faces important challenges in this area and the current computing
and software models must evolve to meet the needs of approved and future experiments.
11.2.1 Computing challenges of current and next generation experiments, and evolution
Since early 2000s the particle physics community has adopted a large-scale distributed comput-
ing model whereby Grid technologies integrate computer centres world-wide to form a single
computing and storage infrastructure supporting, for example, the LHC experiments [728]. At
the same time, the use of heterogeneous facilities consisting of Cloud computing, HPC and High
Level Trigger (HLT) farms has offered extra opportunistic capacity, though often at the cost of
significant development effort and suited to a subset of work-flows. As a result, presently, the
particle physics community has access to an amount of computing resources meeting the needs
of its physics programmes.
In the coming years, however, the science programmes at the HL-LHC Run 4 and beyond,
Belle-II at SuperKEKB, future circular and linear colliders (FCC, CEPC [ID29], ILC, CLIC,
etc.), and large neutrino experiments (DUNE, JUNO, etc.) [ID126], will together require about
an order of magnitude more computing resources presently available, while increase in funding
for computing is not expected [729]. For example, Fig. 11.2 shows the estimated CPU and
disk resource needs of ATLAS during LHC Run 4 and beyond [730]. Within this context, the
community faces a number of challenges that needs to be urgently addressed, now, in order to
enable the physics outcomes of future experiments.
– Cost : Predictability of hardware cost has become difficult as the price trends are driven
by commercial markets and the increased performance that was seen for the same amount
of money due to Moore’s Law no longer holds.
– Hardware evolution: Computing resources are nowadays becoming increasingly hetero-

geneous, placing requirements on both the code base and on the experiment computing
systems.
– Data storage, management and preservation: Data storage needs of future projects ex-
ceed the predicted capacity and affordability of the current data storage and management
model. The current model also does not provide the adaptability required to efficiently
exploit heterogeneous compute infrastructures. There is also an uncertainty in the future
availability of tape storage which could have a significant impact on the data storage ca-
pacity available to experiments. The tape market now depends on a single manufacturer,
increasing the risk of market collapse. Data preservation (reproducibility, accessibility)
Disk Storage [PBytes]

Annual CPU Consumption [MHS06]
ATLAS Preliminary ATLAS Preliminary

100 CPU resource needs 5000 Disk resource needs
80 2018 estimates: 4000 2018 estimates:

MC fast calo sim + standard reco Baseline model
MC fast calo sim + fast reco Reduced storage model
60 Generators speed up x2 3000 Flat budget model
Flat budget model (+15%/year)
(+20%/year)
40 2000
Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Run 5 Run 2 Run 3 Run 4 Run 5
20 1000
0
2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 2028 2030 2032 2018 2020 2022 2024 2026 2028 2030 2032
Year Year
Fig. 11.2: Estimated CPU (left) and total disk resources (right) needed by the ATLAS experi-
ment as a function of time for both data and simulation processing. Plots taken from [730].
and Open access both lack consistent policies in the experiments and across the funding
agencies. This must be addressed urgently, and new proposals must include data man-
agement plans. Open access is also typically not explicitly funded although expected by
many funding agencies.
– Software challenges: The large volume of legacy software used in particle physics re-
quires important improvements in memory usage and throughput. The software must
also be upgraded to make the most efficient use of different computing platforms, e.g.
to take advantage of increased processing power from accelerators and GPU use, tuning
on CPUs, etc. The current legacy software also offers many opportunities for algorithmic
enhancement, and should also be upgraded to take advantage of developments in machine
learning and AI applications [ID5].
– The increasing skills gap between early career physicists and the profile needed for pro-
gramming on new compute architectures [ID114] necessitates the needs for professional
training, development and career opportunities for computing-software professionals [ID5,
ID34, ID53, ID59, ID68, ID69, ID114, ID127, ID150].
As approved projects enter into operation and future projects are being developed, it is
clear that there will be unprecedented pressure on computing resources availability for parti-
cle physics in the 2020s. Past experience has shown that development time-scales are long,
and therefore, these challenges must be addressed now to maximize the scientific outputs of
tomorrow.
11.2.2 R&D for computing and software

To meet the challenges laid out in this document, the particle physics community must carry
out carefully planned and coordinated R&D programmes [ID53, ID64, ID79, ID84, ID117,
ID126, ID127, ID128, ID134, ID150, ID162] that will adopt new hardware, take advantage of
industrial trends and emerging technologies, improve the software, and position HEP computing
and software for revolutionary and disruptive technologies. Past experience has shown that
it is important to plan, from the start, the development of an agile computing and software
infrastructure, as technologies will continue to evolve [731]. It is also equally important to
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plan for an infrastructure that requires less hardware and less effort to maintain and operate as
an experiment matures [731]. The following highlights areas of R&D activities that must be
pursued [732, 733].
– Tools and applications development for effective use of capacity provided by heteroge-
neous hardware and specialized architectures. For example, these include tools and appli-
cations to take advantage of GPU improvements for extremely parallel applications that
offload the demand on CPUs, to provide work-flow and task specific acceleration, to en-
able pattern recognition and data transformation with FPGAs, to provide a cost effective
way to enhance the memory bandwidth and low-power consumption with TPUs3 , and to
provide common provisioning mechanisms transparent to users.
– Application and data access tools development at HPC facilities and using commercial
Clouds, which can deliver extra capacity to particle physics.
– Continued R&D on data organization, infrastructure, management and access in the face
of technological changes and cost increase due to large data volume, data preservation
and the data open-access requirement [ID77, ID79, ID150].
– Software R&D, which is expected to provide one of the biggest opportunities to address
the needs of the particle physics community. While inefficiently designed software is very
costly in terms of resource usage, good and clever software allows for greater physics op-
portunities within the same fixed resource budget. For the HL-LHC experiments, the
software and the data formats will be improved to allow for more efficient processing and
storage. To best use the technologies, algorithms and HEP software need to be redesigned
and written, respectively. Common software framework, turnkey stacks can be developed
through the inter-experiment collaboration for the HL-LHC and future collider projects.
There are great opportunities for HEP to improve and generate new software by organiz-
ing the community, reaching out to industry, software engineers and other sciences [ID16,
ID34, ID43, ID53, ID59, ID64, ID77, ID79, ID108, ID126, ID127, ID150, ID162].
– Hardware infrastructure development and support. The particle physics community should
seize the opportunity to be involved in the planning stage of future multidisciplinary re-
search infrastructures, such as large HPC systems and Clouds (e.g. European Open Sci-
ence Cloud (EOSC)), in order to ensure that these systems will be best equipped to address
the needs of the community. Likewise, the maintenance of existing, and development of
new, computing centres for HEP is expected to continue to be important.
– Preparation and follow-up for the innovative, new technologies on the horizon, such as
quantum computing and neuromorphic computing [ID59, ID128]. These may revolu-
tionize HEP computing, despite the fact that they have a great deal of uncertainty. The
particle physics community must position itself to be able to migrate seamlessly to the
new technology when it is ready.
To effectively carry out the above activities, the field needs more skilled developers, and
a significant investment is required here [ID5, ID114]. In order to assess the correct balance
between hardware and development expenditure, a holistic view of computing and software is
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required. Furthermore, R&D in the area of software and computing must also consist of a bal-
anced portfolio that includes activities targeted at the immediate needs of running experiments,
activities focused on addressing the needs of future experiments, and pure R&D activities that
anticipate the use of disruptive technologies.
11.2.3 Synergies and opportunities

In order to provide a sustainable future for software and computing in the field, synergies with
the experiments, other disciplines and with industry are vital [ID53, ID64, ID70, ID77, ID84,
ID117, ID126, ID128, ID150]. Having led the field of data intensive science, driven by the
needs of the LHC and others, the subject must transition to being an important player in a wider
ecosystem.
Internal synergies are illustrated by the number of submissions that highlight the intention
to leverage computing and software developments from the LHC. The diversity of development
projects in the various LHC experiments was useful to prototype various ideas, but the transi-
tion to the use of common tools now the experiments are mature must continue to reduce the
operational and development costs. New projects should investigate the available tools where
they exist rather than developing in-house solutions, minimizing later development costs. The
move to the WLCG supporting the wider particle physics communities has been underway for a
long time in some regions, and has become more formal with DUNE taking an associate status
for developments.
Synergies exist with other science disciplines. Data management issues are similar in
new big astronomy projects and Rucio, already widely used in particle physics, is being used
by LIGO and seriously evaluated by SKA, LSST and CTA. The CERNVM-FS software and
configuration distribution tool has an even wider use in the scientific community and beyond.
There is also a fruitful collaboration between SKA and the LHC community on GEANT. Unique
opportunities of exploiting synergies between astronomy and particle physics in the area of data
stewardship also exist within the H2020 ESCAPE project [734].
Synergies also exist with the commercial world. There have been fruitful direct collab-
orations between commercial Cloud providers and individual experiments, and also through
Helix-Nebula. These may be the best route to accessing non-standard architectures and burst
capacity. Much can be gained from the use of their management and data mining tools. CERN
OpenLab [735] will remain an important element of the engagement with industry.
There are many vehicles for these synergies to be discovered and exploited. In distributed
computing, the WLCG will continue to play a central role; however, the introduction of new
user communities raises issues of governance, with a clear separation between the development
aspects and the resource allocation aspects. This challenge must be addressed in order to benefit
from the availability and use of common tools. The HEP Software Foundation (HSF) [736] pro-
vides an important focus for common software development tasks and long-term planning [737]
and is reaching out beyond particle physics. There are also regional projects that will be im-
portant in this space; the WLCG and HSF will have an important role promoting coherence in
these activities. Moving forward, a strong synergy with other fields and the commercial world
is essential to have access to the resources need for the next-generation experiments.
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11.3 Interplay between instrumentation and computing

The requirement of efficiency to extract the maximum physics potential from the available com-
puting resources requires an increasingly “holistic” approach to the design of experiments and
their associated computing and software systems.
For example, the detector design decisions can either ease or place a huge burden on the
offline computing and simulation. Full simulation studies are required not only to assess the
level of background and optimize the detector performance, but also to understand the compu-
tational costs in simulation and reconstruction arising from decisions on the geometry, segmen-
tation and situation of detectors. Subsequent evaluation of the detector design must include the
computing burden as a metric.
Online processing has in important role to play in this holistic approach. Many submis-
sions illustrate the trend towards moving more complex algorithmic processing into the online
systems [e.g. ID5, ID162]. This is in parallel with an increasing trend to monolithic devices
that integrate TDAQ functions into the devices as it reduces the offline burdens. Experiment
design should consider the use of detector electronics to do processing and data reduction at an
early stage. In addition, offline-like reconstruction is increasingly possible in online triggering
systems, with further reductions in the offline data volume without loss of physics performance.
There is also a need for a more holistic approach within the computing and software
systems. For example, the design of the overall computing system must take into account both
the hardware costs and the costs of operation. Equally, there is a trade off between effort in
the development of efficient software and event models and consequent resource requirements.
While these may fall into different accounting categories (e.g. recurrent versus capital costs),
they need to be tensioned. This in turn necessitates realistic estimates of required software
development effort.
Organizationally, computing and detector R&D have had little cross-talk. Indeed, com-
puting and software has often been considered as a secondary activity after detector design. In
future, it would be desirable that projects view computing and software responsibilities on an
equal footing with sub-detector responsibilities.
11.4 Developing and preserving knowledge and expertise

The scientific questions tackled by the particle physics community are long-term inquiries, and
as such, in order to reach the community’s scientific goals, human factors need to be carefully
considered. One of the challenges faced by the particle physics community is an adequate level
of development and preservation of expertise in instrumentation and computing-related R&D
activities. For the benefit of the entire research field, it is of utmost importance that both types
of activities be recognized correctly as fundamental research activities bearing a large impact
on the final physics results. This requires, now more than ever, a major change in paradigm in
the community.
11.4.1 Recruitment
For the future of our field, it is essential to attract brilliant young physicists to the interesting
challenges of instrumentation and computing-related R&D. To effectively do so, these activi-
ties must be recognized not only as a means to allow scientists to do physics analyses, but as
research areas requiring a high level of imagination and creativity. Attractiveness of these re-
search areas could also be increased by more effectively communicating to prospective students
that innovative ideas in these areas will often have far reaching impact on industry and society.
Furthermore, in outreach and public relations, it would be highly beneficial and desirable that
the community more systematically highlights the technological dimensions of particle physics.
Particle physics challenges have the potential to continue to attract the best and brightest stu-
dents.
11.4.2 Training
The knowledge, specialization and expertise required in the present and future field of particle
physics are extensive. Students and postdocs often lack basic knowledge in detector technolo-
gies, electronics, mechanics, software and simulation. One of the reasons is that these special-
izations are rapidly evolving and university courses become insufficient to prepare students in
these technical aspects. In addition, excellence in instrumentation development is often not val-
ued and sufficiently recognized at the universities so as to attract the interest of students in this
branch of research. As a consequence, it also becomes difficult to attract young people to work
in R&D for instrumentation and computing. Yet, paradoxically, detector (system) prototyping
is an excellent fertile training ground for young particle physicists.
It would be profitable to enhance, already at the level of university training and/or degree
requirements, the basic knowledge required for applied physics activities. One way would be
to set up common training sessions for physicists and engineers, for example through platforms
that can bring universities and laboratories together [ID65]. Such activities would increase
the training classes and find root in the departments, by creating also a positive feedback in
terms of increased opportunities for careers in academies. In this respect, the community could
consider creating a document targeting universities and laboratories, advocating for the training
specificity of instrumentation and detector development. The means that universities and small
laboratories have, however, are typically limited. It remains therefore extremely important to
preserve initiatives of internships at CERN and other large laboratories [ID65].
With the long time-scale often associated with particle physics experimental projects,
opportunities for students to participate in all phases of an experiment are becoming more and
more scarce. Investment in the specialized education of young physicists in the form of schools
in particle physics instrumentation and/or scientific computing (e.g. EDIT school) is highly
beneficial [ID65].
11.4.3 Expertise preservation and career opportunities

Results from the 2018 ECFA Detector Panel survey [ID68] of the community show that ca-
reer perspectives for detector experts were perceived to exist in research, industry and a tertiary
sector requiring advanced software development skills by 39%, 66% and 80% of respondents.
This perception is driven by the reality of a flawed academic hiring model in which data analy-
sis contributions are given more weight than instrumentation and/or computing-related research
activities. Whether it is the cause, or a consequence, of this hiring model, the reality is that
the particle physics community has a strong tendency to under-sell the intellectual challenges—
and satisfaction—of detector and computing-related R&D work. Furthermore, compounded to
this perception is the reality that except for a very few geniuses, individuals cannot typically be
expert and innovate simultaneously in all areas of physics analysis, detectors, computing, teach-
ing, outreach, etc. As a result, few attractive career opportunities currently exist for individuals
with specific instrumentation or computing expertise.
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The success and future of particle physics will directly depend on the community’s ability
to greatly improve in a systematic way the recognition and career opportunities of detector and
computing experts. One avenue to address this challenge is for the community to strengthen
its effort to advocate for the recognition of these research areas in universities’ hiring plans,
possibly exploiting synergies and potential interests with engineering and computing science
departments. National and international laboratories also have the opportunity to play a major
role in the community, for example, by creating prestigious career paths for physicists with par-
ticular expertise in instrumentation or computing-related research. In doing so, care should be
taken to avoid the development of a two-tier career system composed of “scientific” and “ap-
plied” streams with little or no cross-breeding, thereby only reinforcing the current status quo.
Other avenues to address this challenge could be to setup specialized and attractive grants for
instrumentation and computing R&D, as well as prizes recognizing both young and experienced
scientists.
11.5 Summary of key points

The following summarizes some of the key points discussed in this chapter.
– It is critically important, more than ever, for the community to maintain a strong focus
on instrumentation R&D and to foster an environment that stimulates innovation, with
the primary goal of addressing the well-defined technological challenges of future exper-
imental programmes.
– Computing challenges are immediate and need to be addressed now through a vigorous
R&D programme. A cross-computing view tensioning new hardware costs with the costs
of software development is required.
– It is becoming increasingly vital to take a more holistic approach to detector design

which includes impact on computing resources; however, the detector and the comput-
ing/software communities have been drifting apart, and individuals that can bridge the
growing gap are rare. This is a challenge to the community.
– Both detector and computing development efforts benefit from the existence of networks
and consortia, within particle physics as well as extending to other disciplines and with
industry. There is a clear need to strengthen existing R&D collaborative structures, and
create new ones, to address future experimental challenges of the field post HL-LHC.
– While producing experts who then go on to shape the wider world is a significant benefit
to society, a limited amount of success in attracting, developing and retaining instrumen-
tation and computing experts poses a growing risk to the field of particle physics. It is
of utmost importance that both instrumentation and computing development activities be
recognized correctly as fundamental research areas bearing a large impact on the final
physics results.
206 Appendix A
Appendices
A Glossary
AD Antimatter Decelerator, facility at CERN

ALP Axion-like Particle
APPEC Astro Particle Physics European Consortium
BDF Beam Dump Facility, proposed at the CERN SPS
BSM Beyond the SM, i.e. new physics
CC Circular Collider
CEPC Circular Electron Positron Collider, proposed e+ e− collider (sited in China)
CH Composite Higgs
CKM Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa, the quark mixing matrix
CL Confidence Level
CLIC Compact Linear Collider, proposed e+ e− collider (sited at CERN)
CMOS Technique for fabricating integrated circuits in silicon
CP Combination of discrete symmetries: Charge-conjugation (C) and Parity (P)
CPV CP Violation
CR Cosmic Ray
DIS Deep Inelastic Scattering
DM Dark Matter
DS Dark Sector
ECFA European Committee for Future Accelerators
EDM Electric Dipole Moment
EIC Electron-ion Collider
ERL Energy Recovery Linac
ESPPU European Strategy for Particle Physics Update, also sometimes EPPSU or ESU
EW Electroweak
EWPO Electroweak Precision Observables
EWSB Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
FCC Future Circular Collider, proposed 100-km scale collider (sited at CERN)
FCC-ee Version of FCC with e+ e− collisions
FCC-eh Version of FCC with electron-hadron collisions
FCC-hh Version of FCC with hadron collisions (proton or heavy-ion)
FCNC Flavour Changing Neutral Current
FEL Free Electron Laser, light source
FIP Feebly Interacting Particle
GIM Glashow-Iliopoulos-Maiani, mechanism suppressing some decays
GPD Generalised Parton Distribution (or General Purpose Detector, depending on context)
GUT Grand Unified Theory
HE-LHC High Energy LHC, proposed collider with ∼ double LHC energy in same tunnel
HEP High Energy Physics
HL-LHC High Luminosity LHC, approved upgrade of the LHC to provide higher luminosity
HLT High Level Trigger
HNL Heavy Neutral Lepton
HPC High Performance Computing
HTS High Temperature Superconductor
HV High Voltage
ID Indirect Detection (or Identification, depending on context)
Glossary 207
ILC International Linear Collider, proposed e+ e− collider (sited in Japan)

IP Interaction Point
IR Infrared, i.e. low energy limit
KEKB B factory e+ e− collider in Japan
LC Linear Collider
LDM Light Dark Matter
LEP Z factory e+ e− collider at CERN, used the same tunnel now occupied by LHC
LFUV Lepton Flavour Universality Violation
LFV Lepton Flavour Violation
LHC Large Hadron Collider, hadron collider at CERN
LHeC Proposed electron-hadron collider using hadrons from the LHC plus an ERL
LLP Long-lived Particle
LNV Lepton Number Violation
LQCD Lattice QCD
LSP Lightest Supersymmetric Particle
MFV Minimal Flavour Violation
MSSM Minimal Supersymmetric Model
NLL Next to Leadling Logarithm
NLO Next to Leading Order
NP New Physics, i.e. physics beyond the Standard Model
PBC Physics Beyond Colliders, a study
PDF Parton Distribution Function
POT Protons On Target
pQCD Perturbative QCD
QCD Quantum Chromodynamics, theory of the strong interaction
QED Quantum Electrodynamics, theory of the electromagnetic interaction
QFT Quantum Field Theory
QGP Quark Gluon Plasma
RCS Rapid-cycling Synchrotron
RF Radio Frequency
SC Superconducting
SCT Super Charm Tau (also known as Tau-Charm factory, STC), proposed e+ e− collider
SD Shutdown
SKA Square Kilometer Array, radio telescope array
SLC Linear Collider previously operating at SLAC
SPS Super Proton Synchrotron, accelerator at CERN
SM Standard Model (of particle physics)
SM-EFT Standard Model Effective Field Theory
SPPC Proposed hadron collider to follow the CEPC using the same tunnel
SUSY Supersymmetry, proposed model of NP
TDAQ Trigger and Data Aquisition
TDR Technical Design Report
TPC Time Projection Chamber (or Total Project Cost, depending on context)
UHE Ultra High Energy
UT Unitarity Triangle, relationship between quark mixing matrix elements
WIMP Weakly Interacting Massive Particle, a candidate for DM
WLCG Worldwide LHC Computing Grid
208 Open Symposium scientific programme
B Open Symposium scientific programme

The full agenda and presentations of the Open Symposium in Granada (13-16 May 2019) are
available from the meeting website. The presentations making up the scientific programme are
listed here. There were also many discussion sessions. The symposium ended with summaries
of the parallel sessions, presented by the Conveners.
Title Presented by
Opening plenary
Goals of the Symposium Halina Abramowicz
Implementation of the 2013 European Strategy Update Fabiola Gianotti
Outstanding questions in Particle Physics Pilar Hernandez
State of the art and challenges in accelerator technology Akira Yamamoto
Future – path to very high energies Vladimir Shiltsev
Technological challenges of particle physics experiments Francesco Forti
Computing challenges of the future Simone Campana
Electroweak Physics
Prospects for Higgs and EW measurements at HL-LHC Patrizia Azzi
QCD uncertainties on Higgs and EWK measurables Fabrizio Caola
Theory perspective on direct & indirect searches for new physics Riccardo Rattazzi
Overview and technical challenges of proposed Higgs factories Daniel Schulte
Capability of future machines for precision Higgs physics Maria Cepeda
Electroweak Precision Measurements at future experiments Mark Lancaster
Precision EW calculations (Giga-Z, WW , Higgs BRs, etc.) Stefan Dittmaier
The Higgs potential and its cosmological histories Geraldine Servant
Path towards measuring the Higgs potential Elisabeth Petit
Interpretation of Higgs and EWK data in EFT framework Jorge de Blas
Strong Interactions
Scientific aspirations of the community in strong interactions Thomas Gehrmann
Experimental QCD physics at future pp and e+ e− colliders David d’Enterria
Theoretical path for QCD physics Gavin Salam
Strong int. physics with (HL-)LHC pre-accelerator complex Gunar Schnell
Precision QCD physics at low energies Klaus Kirch
Lattice QCD: challenges and opportunities Hartmut Wittig
Theory challenges for Heavy Ion physics Urs Wiedemann
Heavy Ion collisions at (HL-)LHC Johanna Stachel
Strong interaction physics at future eA colliders Nestor Armesto Perez
Emerging facilities around the world for strong int. physics Tetyana Galatyuk
Synergies with astroparticle, nuclear and neutrino physics Tanguy Pierog
Strong interaction physics at future ep colliders Uta Klein
What strong int. physics can one do with LHC after HL-LHC? Daniel Boer
Appendix B 209
Title Presented by
Flavour Physics
Overview on Flavour Physics Yosef Nir
Flavour and CP searches with kaons Marco Sozzi
Flavour and CP searches with heavy flavours Marie-Helene Schune
Precision prospects for the lattice input to CKM determinations Carlos Pena
Theoretical perspective on EDMs and the strong CP problem Michael Dine
The EDM hunt: neutron, charged hadrons, leptons Stephan Paul
CP violation in Higgs and in gauge boson couplings Stefania Gori
Flavour and CP violation in the dark sectors Jure Zupan
Invisible channels & long-lived particles: comparison of potential Augusto Ceccucci
Physics prospects with muons Yoshikata Kuno
Physics prospects with taus Alberto Lusiani
Lepton universality: B and K anomalies Svetlana Fajfer
Discussion leaders Gudrun Hiller, Gino Isidori, Ana Teixeira
Neutrino Physics & Cosmic Messengers
Theories of neutrino masses and leptonic CP violation Silvia Pascoli
Precision determination of neutrino mass-mixing parameters Eligio Lisi
Prospects for measurement of neutrino mass ordering & leptonic CPV Mauro Mezzetto
Measurements of Neutrino-nucleus cross sections and neutrino flux Federico Sanchez
Measurements of the neutrino mass Susanne Mertens
Prospects for the search of sterile neutrinos Bonnie Fleming
Prospects for the search of Heavy Neutral Leptons Nicola Serra
Cosmic ray physics Andreas Haungs
Neutrino astroparticle physics Francis Halzen
Gravitational waves Bangalore Sathyaprakash
Multimessenger physics Marek Kowalski
Dark Matter and Dark Sector
Dark Sectors and DM Models: from ultralight to ultra heavy Hitoshi Murayama
Dark Matter Direct Detection Searches Jocelyn Monroe
Indirect DM detection overview Christoph Weniger
How can Direct & Indirect DM searches guide accel. searches? Mariangela Lisanti
Theory: DM at Colliders Matthew Mccullough
Collider Search: DM at Colliders Caterina Doglioni
Ultra-light DM (ALPS) Theory and Overview Prateek Agrawal
ALPS: Lab searches Axel Lindner
ALPS: Helioscope searches Igor Garcia Irastorza
Dark Sector searches with Beam Dumps: Theory & Overview Claudia Frugiuele
Lepton Beams: LDMX@eSPS (NA64++, AWAKE++) Ruth Pottgen
Proton Beams: SHIP@BDF Elena Graverini
General Perspective Claude Vallee
210 Open Symposium scientific programme
Title Presented by
Beyond the Standard Model
EWSB dynamics and resonances: what expect from experiments Juan Alcaraz Maestre
EWSB dynamics and resonances: implications for theory Andrea Wulzer
Supersymmetry: what we can expect from experiments Monica D’Onofrio
Supersymmetry: implications for theory Andreas Weiler
Extended Higgs sectors & HE flavour dynamics: expected from exp. Philipp Roloff
Feebly interacting particles: theory landscape Gilad Perez
Feebly interacting particles: what we can expect from experiments Gaia Lanfranchi
Accelerator Science and Technology
LHC future Lucio Rossi
Future Circular Colliders Michael Benedikt
Future Linear Colliders Steinar Stapnes
Overview & technological challenges of proposed Higgs Factories Daniel Schulte
Capability of future machines for precision Higgs physics Maria Cepeda
Muon collider Daniel Schulte
Accelerator-based Neutrino beams Vladimir Shiltsev
Energy efficiency of HEP infrastructures Erk Jensen
Current plasma acceleration projects Edda Gschwendtner
Challenges of plasma acceleration Wim Leemans
Beyond colliders Mike Lamont
Instrumentation and Computing
Lessons learned from past instrumentation R&D Didier Contardo
Detector challenges of future HEP experiments Lucie Linssen
Detector R&D for future HEP experiments Felix Sefkow
Technological synergies in inst. R&D with non-HEP exp. & industry Cinzia Da Via
Current HEP computing model Ian Bird
Lessons learned from development of current HEP computing model Roger Jones
Future challenges of HEP computing Matthias Kasemann
HEP computing infrastructure R&D Maria Girone
HEP Computing Software R&D Graeme Stewart
Panel discussion members Amber Boehnlein, Simone Campana, Ariella Cattai,
Giuliana Fiorillo, Francesco Forti, Weidong Li & the speakers
Closing plenary
Perspective on the European Strategy from the Americas Young-Kee Kim
Perspective on the European Strategy from Asia Geoffrey Taylor
APPEC Roadmap Teresa Montaruli
NuPPEC long term plan Marek Lewitowicz
Programmes of Large European and National Labs Pierluigi Campana
Overview of National Inputs to the Strategy Update Siegfried Bethke
Education, Communication and Outreach Perrine Royole-Degieux
Appendix C 211
C European Strategy Update contributions

There were 167 documents submitted to the European Strategy Update by the deadline of 18
December 2018, of which 7 were withdrawn (mostly due to multiple submission). The re-
maining 160 submissions are also available via the meeting website, and are listed below (some
titles abridged to fit). The submissions are referenced in the text of this document using the form
[IDn], and some have addenda which give further details of the community involved, schedule
and cost (available via the website). The contributions can be accessed directly by clicking on
the ID number in the list below.
ID Title Submitted by
1 Searches for Sterile Neutrinos at CERN Robert Shrock
2 Newtonian Test of the Standard Model Philip Yock
4 TIARA contribution to the ESPPU Roy Aleksan
5 A European Data Science Institute for Fundamental Physics Maurizio Pierini
6 Gamma Factory for CERN Mieczyslaw Krasny
7 Advanced LinEar collider study GROup (ALEGRO) Input Brigitte Cros
8 DM follies and the ‘Krisis’ of particle physics Francois Richard
9 Prospects for exploring the Dark Sector with NA64 Sergei Gninenko
11 The Belle II experiment at SuperKEKB Bostjan Golob
12 The SHiP experiment at the SPS Beam Dump Facility Andrei Golutvin
13 Proposal from the NA61/SHINE Collaboration for the ESPPU Marek Gazdzicki
14 Complex NEVOD for multi-component investig. of cosmic rays Anatoly Petrukhin
15 Contribution of the French Physics Society Yannis Karyotakis
16 Strategic R&D Prog. on Technologies for Future Experiments Christian Joram
17 Status & perspectives of neutron time-of-flight facility nT OF ... Enrico Chiaveri
18 Feasibility Study for an EDM Storage Ring Hans Stroeher
19 The JUNO Experiment Marcos Dracos
20 PBC Conventional Beams Executive Summary Lau Gatignon
21 Initial contribution of the INFN Hadron Physics Community Mauro Taiuti
22 Communicating particle physics matters Perrine Royole Degieux
24 The Biennial African School on Fund. Phys. and Appl. Ketevi A. Assamagan
25 Charged LFV using Intense Muon Beams at Future Facilities Andre Schoening
26 Initial INFN input on the ESPPU Fabio Zwirner
27 The Int. Axion Observatory (IAXO): case, status and plans Igor G. Irastorza
28 REDTOP: Rare Eta Decays with a TPC for Optical Photons Corrado Gatto
29 CEPC Input to the ESPPU – Physics and Detector Manqi Ruan
30 Large-scale neutrino detectors: from INR, Russian Acad. of Sci. Sergey Troitskiy
31 Input from the Spanish Particle Physics Community Teresa Rodrigo
33 Statement by the German Particle Physics Community Ulrich Uwer
34 Israeli Input to the European Strategy for Particle Physics Gilad Perez
35 AWAKE: On the path to Particle Physics Applications Allen Caldwell
36 Dark Sector Phys. with a Primary Electron Beam Facility ... Torsten Akesson
37 Future of Heavy Ion Physics at Colliders Johanna Stachel
38 COMET Yoshitaka Kuno
39 EPIC: Exploiting the Potential of ISOLDE at CERN Gerda Neyens
40 Input of Nuclear Physics Section, Russian Acad. of Sci. Valery Rubakov
212 European Strategy Update contributions
41 Further searches of the Higgs scalar sector Carlo Rubbia
42 The Physics Beyond Colliders Study at CERN Claude Vallee
43 Research Plans of the Norwegian Physics Communities till 2025 Gerald Eigen
44 HFLAV input to the ESPPU Ulrik Egede
45 Future Opportunities in Accelerator-based Neutrino Phys. Joachim Kopp
46 Heavy-flavour prod. in relativistic heavy-ions ... at CERN & JINR Grigori Feofilov
47 Physics opportunities for a fixed-target programme in ALICE Laure M. Massacrier
48 Conclusions of the Town Meeting: Relativistic Heavy Ion Coll. Urs Wiedemann
+ −
49 Precision experiments at e e collider Super Charm-Tau Factory Vitaly Vorobyev
50 Particle physics applications of the AWAKE acceleration scheme Matthew Wing
51 CEPC Input to the ESPPU – Accelerator Jie Gao
52 Future colliders – Linear and circular Roman Poeschl
53 HEP Computing Evolution Ian Bird
54 CERN’s view on Knowledge Transfer as input for the ESPPU Giovanni Anelli
55 Particle Physics in Finland Katri Huitu
56 Ultra-relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions: Italian community input Andrea Dainese
57 A high precision neutrino beam for a new gen. of SBL exp. Andrea Longhin
58 AWAKE++ ... for New Particle Physics Experiments at CERN Edda Gschwendtner
59 Initial INFN input on the ESPPU: software and computing Donatella Lucchesi
60 PBC technology subgroup report Andrzej Siemko
61 Input to the ESPPU from the Danish community Jens-Jorgen Gaardhoeje
62 Future Dark Matter Searches with Low-Radioactivity Argon Cristiano Galbiati
63 Japan’s Updated Strategy for Future Projects in PP Toshinori Mori
64 Gravitational Waves in the ESPPU Michele Punturo
65 The JUAS and ESIPAP graduate schools Johann Collot
66 The International Linear Collider: a European Perspective Juan Fuster Verdú
67 Community Support for a Fixed-Target Programme for LHC Jean-Philippe Lansberg
68 ECFA Detector Panel Report Doris Eckstein
69 Statement by the German Astroparticle Physics Community Christian Weinheimer
70 A memorandum by the Global Neutrino Network Uli Katz
73 Romanian input to the ESPPU Alexandru M. Bragadireanu
74 Electron Ion Collider Accelerator Science and Technology Andrei Seryi
75 MATHUSLA Henry Lubatti
76 Input from J-PARC to the ESPPU Takeshi Komatsubara
77 The International Linear Collider: a Global Project Juan Fuster Verdú
78 Slovenian input to the ESPPU Bostjan Golob
79 The Importance of Software and Computing to Particle Physics Graeme Stewart
80 Input of Joint Institute for Nuclear Research Boris Sharkov
81 A View on the European Strategy for Particle Physics Christian Fabjan
82 Submission from Univ. of Liverpool Exp. PP Group Themis Bowcock
83 Ensuring the future of PP in a more sustainable world Veronique Boisvert
84 APPEC Contribution to the ESPPU Job de Kleuver
85 LPNHE scientific perspectives for the ESPPU Reina C. Camacho Toro
86 Particle Physics at PIK Reactor Complex Vladimir Voronin
Appendix C 213
87 Development of Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors (RD51) Maksym Titov
88 Inputs to ESPPU by the Czech particle physics community Tomas Davidek
89 Future strategies for ... measurement of Higgs self coupling Patrick Janot
90 Study of hard and EM processes at CERN-SPS energies ... Gianluca Usai
91 Synthesis on the ELN Project by A. Zichichi Horst Wenninger
92 Prospect of the IN2P3 Community involved in the ILC Marc Winter
93 Nuclotron-based Ion Collider Facility at JINR (NICA Complex) Dmitri Peshekhonov
94 FASER: ForwArd Search ExpeRiment at the LHC Jonathan Lee Feng
95 On the Prospect & Vision of UH Gradient Plasma Acc. for HEP Ralph Assmann
96 STFC input on Innovation/Tech. Transfer, Knowledge Exchange Elizabeth Bain
97 Input from the DARWIN collaboration to the ESPPU Laura Baudis
98 The European Spallation Source neutrino Super Beam ESSνSB Tord Ekelof
99 Synergies between a US-based Electron-Ion Coll. & European PP Daniel Boer
100 Precision calculations for high-energy collider processes Thomas Gehrmann
101 Theory Requirements and Possibilities for the FCC-ee ... Alain Blondel
102 TauFV: a fixed-target exp. to search for flavour viol. in tau decays Guy Wilkinson
103 The DIS and Related Subjects Strategy Document ... Aharon Levy
104 Future Challenges in Particle Physics Education & Outreach Hans Peter Beck
105 An Open Lab for Development of Technical Superconductors Julia Double
106 R&D for Near Detector Systems for LBL Neutrino Experiments Stefania Bordoni
107 The ILD Detector at the ILC Ties Behnke
108 Research Strategy of the Austrian Particle Physics Community Manfred Jeitler
109 The EuPRAXIA Research Infrastructure ... Plasma Accelerators Ralph Assmann
110 A next-generation LHC heavy-ion experiment Federico Antinori
111 The LHCSpin Project Pasquale Di Nezza
112 A European Strategy Towards Finding Axions and Other WISPs Axel Lindner
113 Vacuum Mag. Birefringence & Axion search using pulsed magnets Carlo Rizzo
114 Monte Carlo event generators for HEP event simulation Mike Seymour
115 Hadron Physics Opportunities in Europe Frank Maas
116 IN2P3 contribution for the ESPPU Patrice Verdier
117 Statement of the Pierre Auger Collaboration as ESPPU input Ralph Engel
118 The MUonE experiment Clara Matteuzzi
119 GRAND: Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detect. ESPPU input Sijbrand De Jong
120 Muon Colliders Nadia Pastrone
121 Particle Physics & Related Topics at the Paul Scherrer Institute Klaus Kirch
122 Belgian national input to the ESPPU Nick Van Remortel
123 Electric dipole moment community input to ESPPU Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg
124 Neutrino Beam from Protvino to KM3NeT/ORCA Juergen Brunner
125 Polish input to the ESPPU Jan Krolikowski
126 Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) Stefan Soldner-Rembold
127 Submission from the Swedish Particle Physics Community David Milstead
128 Quantum Computing for High Energy Physics Federico Carminati
129 SPS Beam Dump Facility Mike Lamont
130 Input to the Strategy Process from LNF-INFN Pierluigi Campana
214 European Strategy Update contributions
131 Enhancing the LBNF/DUNE Physics Programme Roberto Petti
132 Future Circular Collider – Lepton Collider (FCC-ee) Michael Benedikt
133 Future Circular Collider – Hadron Collider (FCC-hh) Michael Benedikt
134 UK input to the ESPPU Claire Shepherd-Themistocleous
135 Future Circular Collider – Integrated Programme (FCC-int) Michael Benedikt
136 Future Circular Collider – High-Energy LHC (HE-LHC) Michael Benedikt
137 The Short-Baseline Neutrino Program at Fermilab Regina Abby Rameika
138 INFN National Scientific Committee for HEP with Acc. Nadia Pastrone
139 Birmingham Particle Physics Group Submission Paul R. Newman
140 Energy frontier lepton-hadron coll., VLQ/leptons, preons ... Saleh Sultansoy
142 Swiss input for the ESPPU Tatsuya Nakada
143 A New QCD Facility at the M2 beam line of the CERN SPS Vincent Andrieux
144 ESPPU: Input from UK National Laboratories Dave Newbold
+ −
145 The Compact Linear e e Coll. (CLIC): Physics Potential Philipp Roloff
+ −
146 The Compact Linear e e Coll. (CLIC): Acc. and Detector Aidan Robson
147 PERLE: A High Power Energy Recovery Facility for Europe Max Klein
148 Nuclear physics and ESPPU Eberhard Widmann
149 APS DPF: Community Planning and Science Drivers Kate Scholberg
150 APS DPF: Tools for Particle Physics Kate Scholberg
151 New physics searches with heavy-ion collisions at the LHC David d’Enterria
152 The physics potential of HL-LHC Michelangelo Mangano
153 KLEVER: An exp. to measure KL → π 0 νν Matthew Moulson
154 νSTORM at CERN: Executive Summary Kenneth R. Long
155 CEA-Irfu contribution to the ESPPU Anne-Isabelle Etienvre
156 The HIBEAM/NNBAR Experiment for the ESS David A. Milstead
157 Canadian Submission to the ESPPU Michael Roney
158 Opportunities in Accelerator-based Neutrino Phys. in Japan Francesca Di Lodovico
159 Exploring the Energy Frontier with DIS at the LHC Max Klein
160 The physics potential of HE-LHC Michelangelo Mangano
161 MAGIS-1K: a 1000 m Atom Interferometer for DM & GW Jonathon Coleman
162 The Importance of Research-Ind. Collab. for Exascale Comp. Alberto Di Meglio
163 QCD: Theory – Input for the ESPPU Francesco Hautmann
164 The European Spallation Source ERIC – ESPPU input Valentina Santoro
165 Initial INFN input on the ESPPU – Astropart. Phys. Comm. 2 Marco Pallavicini
166 Input from the Netherlands for the ESPPU Stan Bentvelsen
167 Status of Fermilab’s Neutrino Facilities Louise Suter
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Electroweak Physics: Richard Keith Ellis1 , Beate Heinemann2,3 (Conveners)

Strong Interactions: Jorgen D’Hondt14 , Krzysztof Redlich15 (Conveners)

Flavour Physics: Belen Gavela31 , Antonio Zoccoli32 (Conveners)

Beyond the Standard Model: Gian F. Giudice20 , Paris Sphicas20,52 (Conveners)

Accelerator Science and Technology: Caterina Biscari61 , Leonid Rivkin62 (Conveners)

Instrumentation and Computing: Xinchou Lou65 , Brigitte Vachon66 (Conveners)

Editors: Halina Abramowicz71 , Roger Forty20 , and the Conveners

7 Cosmic Messengers 105

9 Dark Matter and Dark Sectors 142

10 Accelerator Science and Technology 162

11 Instrumentation and Computing 187

1.1 High Luminosity LHC

1.2 Design studies for pushing the energy frontier

1.4 Beyond the Standard Model at Colliders

1.5 Neutrino Physics

1.7 Flavour Physics and CP violation

1.8 Dark Matter and the Dark Sector

1.9 Strong Interactions

1.10 A diverse experimental physics programme

1.11 Essential tools for the future of particle physics

1.11.1 Accelerator Science

1.11.2 Instrumentation and Computing

1.11.3 Theoretical and Phenomenological tools

The role of exploration in particle physics

Can we predict new discoveries?

Open questions in particle physics

1 Electroweak Symmetry Breaking

8 Dark Sectors and Feebly Interacting Particles

understood. It is the case of black-hole observations in gravitational-wave detectors, of particle

Advancing particle physics

ε ∼ 1 correspond to no fine-tuning. Note that in the literature, it is common to express the

3.1.1 Higgs studies at hadron colliders

Fig. 3.1: Higgs production cross sections in hadronic collisions.

3.1.2 Higgs studies at e+ e− colliders

3.1.3 Electroweak Precision Observables

σ(e+e- → HX) [fb]

Polarisation Scaling factor

direct MW and mt measurements

140 150 160 170 180 190

Z-pole and at the WW threshold is also foreseen.

3.1.4 The Higgs potential

3.1.5 Higgs boson decays to new particles

3.2 Future prospects

S and T parameters for the different colliders.

-0.10 -0.05 0.00 0.05 0.10

3.2.2 Higgs boson physics

δgi /gi [%]

δgi /gi [%]

δgi /gi [%]

δgi /gi [%]

δgi /gi [%]

δgi /gi [%]

6 Future colliders combined with HL-LHC

The Higgs boson self-coupling

3.2.3 Theoretical developments

Higgs@FC WG September 2019

provements in the resummed predictions as well as their matching to fixed-order calculations of

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