Name: Mini-workshop: Highlights from the Future Circular Collider Design with Path to Construction, and theory aspects of the upcoming precision physics program (ACC+TH)
Start: 2025-10-13T14:25:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-13T21:05:00+02:00
Location: Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati

Mini-workshop: Highlights from the Future Circular Collider Design with Path to Construction, and theory aspects of the upcoming precision physics program (ACC+TH)

Monday 13 October 2025 - 14:25

Monday 13 October 2025
14:25 Introduction - Manuela Boscolo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Introduction
- Manuela Boscolo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
14:25 - 14:30
Room: Aula Salvini
14:30 Highlights from the Future Circular Collider Design and Path to Construction - Frank Zimmermann (CERN) Michael Benedikt (CERN)
Highlights from the Future Circular Collider Design and Path to Construction
- Frank Zimmermann (CERN)
- Michael Benedikt (CERN)
14:30 - 15:30
Room: Aula Salvini The proposed Future Circular Collider (FCC) integrated programme consists of two stages: An electron–positron collider serving as a highest luminosity Higgs-boson, electroweak and top-quark factory, followed by proton–proton collider with a collision energy around 100 TeV. In 2021, the CERN Council launched the FCC Feasibility Study. This study covered, inter alia, physics objectives and potential, geology, civil engineering, technical infrastructure, territorial implementation,environmental aspects, R&D needs for the accelerators and detectors, socio-economic benefits, and cost. The Feasibility Study was completed on 31 March 2025. The subsequent European Strategy Symposium has singled out the FCC as the by-far preferred future collider option for CERN. We present a few study highlights, the status, and the next steps.
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 15:45
Room: Aula Salvini
15:45 Introduction - Emanuele Angelo Bagnaschi (INFN LNF)
Introduction
- Emanuele Angelo Bagnaschi (INFN LNF)
15:45 - 15:50
Room: Aula Salvini
15:50 Gearing up for the precision frontier: theory challenges at HL-LHC and FCC - Pier Francesco Monni (CERN)
Gearing up for the precision frontier: theory challenges at HL-LHC and FCC
- Pier Francesco Monni (CERN)
15:50 - 16:50
Room: Aula Salvini As the High-Luminosity LHC prepares to deliver an order of magnitude more data, and the planning of future colliders such as the FCC gains momentum, the collider physics programme for the upcoming decades relies critically on the precision of theoretical predictions for scattering observables. Delivering predictions with the necessary accuracy and flexibility is paramount to enhance the discovery potential of future experiments as well as to stress test the Standard Model and explore its complex structure. Meeting this challenge requires a collective effort and entails a multitude of obstacles in several areas of theoretical calculations. In this talk, I will discuss the road ahead and highlight some of the key opportunities and the conceptual and technical challenges that must be tackled in the upcoming years.

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