Circular Electron Positron Collider – Physics Potential and Present Status

by Charles C. Young (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Monday 11 Jul 2016, 14:00 → 16:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Careri (Dip. di Fisica - Edificio G. Marconi)

The Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC), proposed by the Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, is a Higgs Factory with a goal of 10^6 ZH events. The bias-free sample of Higgs obtained by tagging the recoil Z-boson allows precision measurements of Higgs boson properties significantly beyond what can be attained at the High-Luminosity LHC. In addition, CEPC can produce ~10^10 events at the Z pole for systematics-limited EW precision studies. This talk will discuss the physics program and the project’s status.