Author: Ellis, J.R.
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TUPME040 TLEP: High-performance Circular e+e Collider to Study the Higgs Boson 1658
 
  • M. Koratzinos, O. Brunner, A.C. Butterworth, J.R. Ellis, P. Janot, E. Jensen, J.A. Osborne, F. Zimmermann
    CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
  • R. Aleksan
    CEA/DSM/IRFU, France
  • A.P. Blondel
    DPNC, Genève, Switzerland
  • M. Zanetti
    MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
 
  The recent discovery of a light Higgs boson has opened up considerable interest in circular e+e Higgs factories around the world. We report on the progress of the “TLEP3” concept since last year. Two options are considered: LEP3, a 240 GeV centre-of-mass (Ecm) e+e machine in the LHC tunnel with cost only a fraction of the cost of an equivalent linear collider, due to the use of existing infrastructure and the two general-purpose LHC detectors, and TLEP, an e+e machine in a new 80 km tunnel that can operate up to an Ecm of 350 GeV. Both concepts enjoy the extensive know-how on circular colliders and how to deliver their design luminosity, and the existence of up to four interaction points. The attainable luminosities are 1034/cm2/s and 5x1034/cm2/s per interaction point for LEP3 and TLEP respectively. Both machines can operate as Tera-Z and Mega-W boson factories, giving decisive opportunities for over-constraining the electroweak sector of the Standard Model. The technical challenges and possible ways to improve the performance further will be discussed.