C3: A "Cool" Route to the Higgs Boson and Beyond: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.15800
Mei Bai, Tim Barklow, Rainer Bartoldus, Martin Breidenbach, Philippe Grenier, Zhirong Huang, Michael Kagan, John Lewellen, Zenghai Li, Thomas W. Markiewicz, Emilio A. Nanni, Mamdouh Nasr, Cho-Kuen Ng, Marco Oriunno, Michael E. Peskin, Thomas G. Rizzo, James Rosenzweig, Ariel G. Schwartzman, Vladimir Shiltsev, Evgenya Simakov, Bruno Spataro, Dong Su, Sami Tantawi, Caterina Vernieri, Glen White, Charles C. Young
We present a proposal for a cold copper distributed coupling accelerator that can provide a rapid route to precision Higgs physics with a compact 8 km footprint. This proposal is based on recent advances that increase the efficiency and operating gradient of a normal conducting accelerator. This technology also provides an e+e− collider path to physics at multi-TeV energies. In this article, we describe our vision for this technology and the near-term R&D program needed to pursue it.
Comments: 34 pages, 8 figures, Contribution to Snowmass 2021. The editors can be contacted at the following addresses: mib@slac.this http URL, nanni@slac.this http URL, mpeskin@slac.this http URL, caterina@slac.this http URL