What is the Future Circular Collider?

 

The Future Circular Collider (FCC) is a proposed particle accelerator experiment that aims to explore the frontiers of particle physics and continue the scientific legacy of previous colliders like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). In that sense, the FCC is being considered as a potential successor to the LHC, which is currently the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator.

 

The FCC offers several advantages that make it an exciting prospect for the field of particle physics. Here are some of the key advantages:

 

1. Higher Collision Energies: The FCC is designed to achieve collision energies of up to 100 TeV, which is nearly seven times higher than the maximum energy of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

 

2. Exploration of Rare Processes: By reaching higher energies, the FCC can potentially access rare and elusive processes in particle physics.

 

3. Expanded Discovery Potential: The FCC’s increased energy and collision capabilities enhance its discovery potential.

 

4. Precision Measurements: The FCC can also improve the precision of measurements for known particles and processes.

 

5. Technological Innovation: Building a collider of the scale and energy of the FCC requires technological advancements in various areas, such as accelerator design, superconducting magnets, and particle detectors.

 

6. New physics searches: One of the FCC’s priorities is the search for new physics. Among the main search strategies are the direct production of new particles beyond the standard model (new gauge bosons, new scalars, dark matter, etc) and indirect signals of new physics such as deviations of parameters from the standard model that can be affected by the emergence of new particles or new mechanisms.

 

Our work group

 

UFRN joins CERN in 2023 as one of the universities and research centers around the world that will address studies of new physics at the FCC. In this way, we lead a scientific group that will strongly contribute to the phenomenology of colliders to produce original works in physics beyond the standard model that can be detected in the future FCC.

 

Members

 

Our group comprises a multidisciplinary team of physicists who contribute to different aspects of collider physics from theoretical and experimental physics. Our members are:

 

– Farinaldo S. Queiroz(Rio Grande do Norte U. and IIP)
– Victor P. Gonçalves (Pelotas U.)
– Sandro Fonseca De Souza (Rio de Janeiro State U.)
– Luciano M. Abreu (Bahia U.)
– Alexandre Alves (São Paulo U.)
– Glauber Carvalho Dorsch (Minas Gerais U.)
– Gustavo Gil de Silveira (Rio Grande do Sul U.)
– Yoxara Sanchez Villamizar (ABC Federal U.)
– Yohan Mauricio Oviedo Torres (Paraiba U.)