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Charting the Path Towards FCC-ee Approval

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Next flagship collider

The electron–positron Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee) is recommended as the preferred option for the next flagship collider at CERN.

Link to the Recommendations adopted by the CERN Council on 22.05.2026

The adventure started in 2011

It lead, at the 2020 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, to a compelling scientific case for a new electron–positron collider operating as a Higgs factory, followed by further exploration using a proton–proton collider at the highest achievable energy.

In 2025, an in depth comparison of the options lead to a consensus in the European High Energy Physics community, endorsed by the CERN Council on 22 May 2026.

Many questions now have to be answered in view of the project approval, and the call for “Expressions of Interest” that will follow.

PED Groups & People

Physics, Experiments and Detectors (PED) is one of the main organisational pillars of the FCC project. At CERN, PED is associated with the Research & Computing sector, but its contributors are distributed across a growing network of Universities and Institutes.

PED Goals & Objectives

The mandate of the PED pillar is to establish the foundations for the FCC-ee experimental programme by fostering and coordinating the theoretical and experimental development needed to reach the expected measurements precision.

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