arXiv:1306.6352·v1·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
The International Linear Collider Technical Design Report - Volume 2: Physics
Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma, Department of Physics and Astronomy)🇺🇸 · Tim Barklow (SLAC)🇺🇸 · Keisuke Fujii (KEK)🇯🇵 · Yuanning Gao (TUHEP) · Andre Hoang (Universität Wien, Theoretische Physik)🇦🇹 · Shinya Kanemura (University of Toyama, Department of Physics)🇯🇵 · Jenny List (DESY)🇩🇪 · Heather E. Logan (Carleton University, Department of Physics)🇨🇦 · Andrei Nomerotski (University of Oxford, Particle Physics Department)🇬🇧 · Maxim Perelstein (Cornell University, Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics)🇺🇸 · Michael E. Peskin (SLAC)🇺🇸 · Roman Pöschl (LAL)🇫🇷
Abstract
The International Linear Collider Technical Design Report (TDR) describes in four volumes the physics case and the design of a 500 GeV centre-of-mass energy linear electron-positron collider based on superconducting radio-frequency technology using Niobium cavities as the accelerating structures. The accelerator can be extended to 1 TeV and also run as a Higgs factory at around 250 GeV and on the Z0 pole. A comprehensive value estimate of the accelerator is give, together with associated uncertainties. It is shown that no significant technical issues remain to be solved. Once a site is selected and the necessary site-dependent engineering is carried out, construction can begin immediately. The TDR also gives baseline documentation for two high-performance detectors that can share the ILC luminosity by being moved into and out of the beam line in a "push-pull" configuration. These detectors, ILD and SiD, are described in detail. They form the basis for a world-class experimental programme that promises to increase significantly our understanding of the fundamental processes that govern the evolution of the Universe.
Comments: See also http://www.linearcollider.org/ILC/TDR . The full list of signatories is inside the Report