Physics Potential and Opportunities Subgroup (WG3)
Mandate
The Physics Potential and Opportunities subgroup fosters studies of the ILC’s physics case outside and across the detector concept groups, including beyond-collider possibilities. In particular this group supports individuals and groups to become newly active in ILC physics. The physics group initiates and coordinates (a) a number of topical groups with open participation, giving a forum for collaboration and discussion between theorists and experimentalists; and (b) task forces dedicated to specific questions, preparing the physics input to upcoming decisions on the ILC accelerator design, and on detector technology choices. Task forces will be common efforts with the other subgroups of IDT-WG3 on interface to the accelerator, detector R&D and Software, depending on the topic. The physics group ensures the connection to, and ILC representation in, relevant particle physics community initiatives (ECFA Higgs Factory Study, Snowmass, …) and documents the ILC physics potential.
The physics goals of the ILC are very similar to those of other proposed e+e- Higgs factories, including the linear colliders CLIC and C3 and the circular colliders FCC-ee and CEPC. Though there are some specific differences in the experimental environments, there is much more that these proposals have in common. We will learn more and advance faster toward our goals if we share our insights. Thus, we invite those interested in all varieties of e+e- Higgs factories to attend and contribute to the physics activities listed below.
Invitation
We invite interested groups and individuals to join our activities. Please subscribe to our email lists via the following Indico site:
https://agenda.linearcollider.org/event/9154/
Our meeting agendas can be found here:
https://agenda.linearcollider.org/category/266/
Working Group conveners
Michael Peskin (SLAC), Aidan Robson (Glasgow), Junping Tian (Tokyo) [Send email]
Topical Groups
Higgs properties
Conveners: Shinya Kanemura (Osaka), Patrick Meade (Stony Brook), Chris Potter (Oregon), Georg Weiglein (DESY) [Send email]
Top/heavy flavour/QCD
Conveners: Adrian Irles (Valencia), Alexander Mitov (Cambridge), Hua-Xing Zhu (Zhejiang) [Send email]
BSM particle production
Conveners: Mikael Berggren (DESY), Shigeki Matsumoto (IPMU), Werner Porod (Wurzburg), Simone Pagan Griso (LBNL) [Send email]
Electroweak physics
Conveners: Wolfgang Kilian (Siegen), Mariarosaria D’Alfonso (MIT), Taikan Suehara (Kyushu), Graham Wilson (Kansas) [Send email]
Global interpretations
Conveners: Tim Cohen (Oregon), Christophe Grojean (DESY), Sven Heinemeyer (Madrid), Sunghoon Jung (Seoul) [Send email]
Modelling and precision theory
Conveners: Gudrun Heinrich (KIT), Stefan Hoeche (FNAL), Zhao Li (IHEP), Juergen Reuter (DESY) [Send email]
Resources
- ILC documents submitted to European Strategy Update 2019
- The International Linear Collider: A Global Project
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01629 - Tests of the Standard Model at the International Linear Collider
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.11299
- The International Linear Collider: A Global Project
- ILC documents submitted to Snowmass 2021
- ILC Study Questions for Snowmass 2021
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.03650 - The International Linear Collider: Report to Snowmass 2021
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.07622
This is a 350-page comprehensive reference document on the ILC design and e+e- Higgs factory physics and experimentation.
- ILC Study Questions for Snowmass 2021