The Padua group participates actively in two major project for future colliders: the “Future Circular Collider” (FCC) project and the “Muon Collider” project.
The FCC project consists of a new 100km tunnel to be excavated at CERN in the Geneva region, that will contain an electron-positron collider (FCC-ee) followed by a proton-proton collider at very high energy, 100 TeV (FCC-hh). The FCC-ee will be a machine able to make extremely precise measurements of the properties of the Higgs boson and of the Standard Model. It will also be able to search directly for new particles that can be dark matter candidates. It is expected to start taking data in 2040. To be ready, we need to start now!
The activities of the Padua group, in collaboration with our international colleagues, are focused on:
● Designing an innovative spectrometer for the FCC-ee optimized to perform the physics measurement with the expected accuracy. For this, we develop simulations of the detector response and we compare their performance across the different technologies on the physics events of interest. In particular, we study the proposal of the IDEA detector concept with an interest in its tracking system;