Read the report by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. It just came out and it is bold; it calls for the US to catapult itself back to the top of the energy frontier by building a Muon…
Vienna, the Imperial and Royal (k.u.k.) capital was the place where this year’s FCC Week took place. With the submission of the feasibility study report earlier this year the excitement is noticeable and the number of participants has shot up…
Organized in a co-production between Fermi- and Argonne Laboratory the Third Annual US FCC Workshop (now actually called Annual Higgs Factory FCC Workshop) was a smashing success. After our initial road trip to the First Annual US FCC Workshop at…
The Feasibility Study of the Future Circular Collider at CERN, a major milestone in the largest fundamental science project ever in planning, has been completed on schedule on March 31, 2025. The report has resulted in three volumes: Volume 1:…
Every January, I head from Geneva (CERN) to Boston for a couple of weeks to work with students on Future Circular Collider (FCC) Physics analysis projects at MIT. It’s something I look forward to every year, and this time was…
An interesting crowd has gathered to a strategic, invitation-only meeting at SUNY, Stony Brook on Long Island. We are discussing the planning for the future. This is interesting and also not interesting, because the options are well known and nothing…
About 450 people participated in this years FCC Week, where the full FCC project is reviewed in many sessions and even more presentations. The majority of them in parallel. The scene was set in the old St. Francis Hotel in…
Abid Patwa, the DOE manager of the High Energy Physics office, informed the US Higgs Factory coordinators in an email about exciting news from Washington DC: “As an FYI — Today afternoon, April 26, 2024, a joint “Statement of Intent…
For three days, much of the U.S. and international community met in a rainy Cambridge to discuss the plans of the Future Circular Collider and the future of the field. This was the second U.S. annual FCC workshop, and the…
On February 2, 2024 CERN concluded the midterm review of the FCC. The work is progressing at the required pace to be completed by the end of 2025 as planned. The document of over 700 pages found strong support by…
