ECFA Higgs, electroweak and top factory study

Report

The ECFA Higgs, electroweak, and top Factory Study ran between 2021 and 2025 as a broad effort across the experimental and theoretical particle physics communities, bringing together participants from many different proposed future collider projects. Activities across three main working groups advanced the joint development of tools and analysis techniques, fostered new considerations of detector design and optimisation, and led to a new set of studies resulting in improved projected sensitivities across a wide physics programme. This report demonstrates the significant expansion in the state-of-the-art understanding of the physics potential of future e⁺e^– Higgs, electroweak, and top factories, and has been submitted as input to the 2025 European Strategy for Particle Physics Update.

Authors: Abidi, H; Aguilar-Saavedra, JA; Airen, S; Burrows, PN; Hays, C

• Publication status: Published
• Publisher: CERN
• Series: CERN Yellow Reports: Monographs
• Series number: CERN-2025-005
• Place of publication: Geneva, Switzerland
• Publication date: 2025-06-18
• Acceptance date: 2025-06-01
• DOI: 10.23731/CYRM-2025-005
• EISSN: 2519-8076
• ISSN: 2519-8068
• EISBN: 978-92-9083-701-5
• ISBN: 978-92-9083-700-8
• Language: English