https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-025-15077-x
Review
Future Circular Collider Feasibility Study Report
Volume 1 Physics, Experiments, Detectors
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CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland
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PSI, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland
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CEA/Irfu, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives, Institut de recherche sur les lois fondamentales de l’Univers, Saclay, France
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DESY, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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BNL, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA
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SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, USA
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University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Padova, Padua, Italy
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CNRS/IN2P3, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules, Paris, France
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APC, Laboratoire AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Paris, France
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Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
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LPNHE, Laboratoire de Physique Nucléaire et de Hautes Énergies, Paris, France
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UNIGE, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
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INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy
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NBI, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
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University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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KIT, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
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INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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IJCLab, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 Infinis Irène Joliot Curie, Orsay, France
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Université Paris-Saclay et Université Paris-Cité, Paris, France
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INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari, Bari, Italy
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Università di Bari, Bari, Italy
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IPM, Institute for Research in Fundamental Science, Tehran, Iran
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Malayer University, Malayer, Iran
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LAPP, Laboratoire d’Annecy de Physique des Particules, Annecy, France
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Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Annecy, France
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University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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ICMAB/CISC, Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Barcelona, Spain
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INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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Università Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
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Yozgat Bozok Üniversitesi, Yozgat, Türkiye
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Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
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TOBB ETU, TOBB Ekonomi ve Teknoloji Üniversitesi, Ankara, Türkiye
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INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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CIEMAT, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Madrid, Spain
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KACST, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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Università Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
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INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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İstanbul Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Türkiye
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Eskişehir Teknik Üniversitesi, Eskişehir, Türkiye
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INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli, Naples, Italy
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Università di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
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FNAL, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL, USA
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University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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FUM, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Mashhad, Iran
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University of Texas Austin, Austin, TX, USA
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IPHC, Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, Strasbourg, France
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Université de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano, Milan, Italy
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Università di Milano, Milan, Italy
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PIBG, Pôle Invertébrés du Basin Genevois, Geneva, Switzerland
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UFRN, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil
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UNIBAS, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy
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LIP, Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, Lisbon, Portugal
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University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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CI, Cockcroft Institute, Warrington, UK
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Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA
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A. Alikhanyan National Laboratory, Yerevan, Armenia
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IP2I, Institut de Physique des 2 Infinis de Lyon, Lyon, France
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Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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Ankara Üniversitesi, Ankara, Türkiye
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Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino, Turin, Italy
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New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
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INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany
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Hatay Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi, Hatay, Türkiye
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Doğuş Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Türkiye
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Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, People’s Republic of China
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University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
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RAL, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Didcot, UK
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IMSc, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, Chennai, India
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Universität Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
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University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
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CPPM, Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, Marseille, France
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Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
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Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary
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Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, USA
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Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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LLR, Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Palaiseau, France
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École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Palaiseau, France
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TRIUMF, Canada’s National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vancouver, Canada
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Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
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FEEM, Fondazione Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (ENI) Enrico Mattei, Milan, Italy
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BRGM, Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, Orléans, France
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Işık Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Türkiye
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İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Türkiye
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UNIBE, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Università di Roma la Sapienza, Rome, Italy
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CNR-SPIN, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Genoa, Italy
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Expert naturaliste et entomologiste, Rumilly, France
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ORNL, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
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HEPHY, Institut für Hochenergiephysik, Vienna, Austria
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Geos, Bureau d’ingénieurs conseils en géotechnique, génie civil, hydraulique et environnement, Geneva, Switzerland
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TUWIEN, Technische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
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HEPIA, Haute École du Paysage, d’Ingénierie et d’Architecture de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
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HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, Geneva, Switzerland
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SETEC ALS, Société d’ingénierie conseil en infrastructures de transport, génie civil et environnement, Lyon, France
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East Texas A&M University, Commerce, TX, USA
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Amberg Engineering Ltd, Regensdorf-Watt, Switzerland
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ECOTEC Environnement SA, Bureau d’études et de conseil en environnement, Geneva, Switzerland
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Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA
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IFJ PAN, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland
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Cerema, établissement public pour l’élaboration, le déploiement et l’évaluation de politiques publiques d’aménagement et de transport, Lyon, France
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Rendel Ltd, Engineering Design Consultancy Firm, London, UK
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INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
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İstanbul Beykent Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Türkiye
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University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
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Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India
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EPFL, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Fakultät für Mathematik, Informatik und Naturwissenschaften, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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VUB, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples, Italy
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Affiliated with an Institute Formerly Covered by a Cooperation Agreement with CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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University of Saskatchewan and the Canadian Light Source, Saskatoon, Canada
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University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
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University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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York University, Toronto, Canada
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INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
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CFTP-IST, Centro de Física Téorica de Partículas, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
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Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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MPP, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik Garching, Garching, Germany
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NSC KIPT, National Science Center Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology, Kharkiv, Ukraine
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Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Como, Italy
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Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
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JAI, John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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CNRS/INP, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut de Physique, Paris, France
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LPTHE, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies, Paris, France
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Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
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INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova, Genoa, Italy
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LBNL, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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IIT, Instituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy
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Gümüşhane Üniversitesi, Gümüşhane, Türkiye
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WSP Ingénieurs Conseils SA, Geneva, Switzerland
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UADY, Autonomous University of Yucatan, Mérida, Mexico
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INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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Università di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
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MARCELEON, Cabinet d’ingénierie juridique et foncière, Chambéry, France
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CSIL (Economic Research Institute), Milan, Italy
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ETHZ, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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UAH, Universidad de Alcalá Madrid, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
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CIA, Conseil Ingénierie Acoustique, Lyon, France
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Evinerude, Bureau d’études environnementales, Lyon, France
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LPCA, Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Université Clermont Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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ANSTO, Australian Synchrotron, Melbourne, Australia
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Brahmananda Keshab Chandra College, Kolkata, India
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ANL, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
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INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Lecce, Lecce, Italy
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Università di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland
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Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
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Università di Padova, Padua, Italy
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IUE, İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi, Izmir, Türkiye
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Ege Üniversitesi, Izmir, Türkiye
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INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Gruppo Collegato di Udine, Udine, Italy
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Università di Udine, Udine, Italy
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University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA
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INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma, Rome, Italy
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CELLS/ALBA, Consortium for the Construction, Equipment and Exploitation of the Synchrotron Light Laboratory, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
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LPSC, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Grenoble, France
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Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
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Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope, Naples, Italy
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National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
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IGFAE, Instituto Galego de Fisica de Altas Enerxías, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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LSE, London School of Economics, London, UK
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Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Imperial College London, London, UK
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MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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CETU, Centre d’Etude des Tunnels, Lyon, France
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University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
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Linde Kryotechnik AG, Pfungen, Switzerland
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ILF Consulting Engineers, Zurich, Switzerland
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Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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CUNI, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
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INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Firenze, Florence, Italy
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University of Malta, Msida, Malta
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BU, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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IBU, Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi, Bolu, Türkiye
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Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
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University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
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HIP, Helsinki Institute of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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ULB, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
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IMA, Institut für Maschinenelemente, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
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CP3, Centre de Cosmologie, de Physique des Particules et de Phénoménologie, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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NIKHEF, Nationaal Instituut Voor Subatomaire Fysica, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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IHEP, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, People’s Republic of China
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UAS, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacán, Mexico
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BOKU, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Vienna, Austria
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University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland
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Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA
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University of Delhi, Delhi, India
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Ginger BURGEAP, bureau d’études en environnement, Lyon, France
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King’s College London, London, UK
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University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
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KEK, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan
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Geoenergy, Reservoir Geology and Basin Analysis Group, Geneva, Switzerland
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SETEC International, Société d’ingénierie en charge des transports et des infrastructures, Lyon, France
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KKU, Kırıkkale Üniversitesi, Kırıkkale, Türkiye
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SETEC LERM, Société d’ingénierie conseil en matériaux de construction, Lyon, France
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BUAP, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
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Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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MUL, Montanuniversität Leoben, Lehrstuhl für Subsurface Engineering, Geotechnik und Unterirdisches Bauen, Leoben, Austria
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MUL-ZaB, Underground Research Center, Zentrum am Berg, Leoben, Austria
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IFAE, Institut de Física d’Altes Energies, Barcelona, Spain
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FHNW, University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland, Windisch, Switzerland
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UPES, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India
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GANIL, Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds, Caen, France
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Université Caen Normandie, Caen, France
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UFRGS, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
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Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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UFPel, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil
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University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
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Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy
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Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
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University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
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Università di Torino, Turin, Italy
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Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Fudan University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
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LAPTh, Laboratoire d’Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Théorique, Annecy-le-Vieux, France
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Dongguan University of Technology, Dongguan, People’s Republic of China
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Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam Üniversitesi, Kahramanmaraş, Türkiye
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UNACH, Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico
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MCTP, Mesoamerican Centre for Theoretical Physics, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico
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UAZ, Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas, Zacatecas, Mexico
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University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany
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Overleaf, London, UK
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University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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FIT, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, USA
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Shirokuma GmbH, Zurich, Switzerland
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National Centre for Physics, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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PAEC, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, Islamabad, Pakistan
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Mathabhanga College, Mathabhanga, India
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Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Prayagraj, India
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MPIK, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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European Spallation Source ERIC, Lund, Sweden
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Centre de calcul de l’IN2P3, Villeurbanne, France
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GSI, Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany
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IBS, Institute for Basic Science, Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
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University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Microhumus, Bureau d’étude et d’ingénierie spécialisé dans la gestion des sols dégradés, Nancy, France
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Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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Niğde Ömer Halisdemir Üniversitesi, Niğde, Türkiye
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Giresun Üniversitesi, Giresun, Türkiye
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University of Miskolc, Miskolc, Hungary
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NTUA, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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Transmutex SA, Geneva, Switzerland
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DIAS, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, School of Theoretical Physics, Dublin, Ireland
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AGH, University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland
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University of Science and Technology of Mazandaran, Behshahr, Iran
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IPPP, Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham University, Durham, UK
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Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, Bursa, Türkiye
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YU, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Affiliated with an International Laboratory Covered by a Cooperation Agreement with CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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CPT, Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille, France
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Aix-Marseille Université et Université du Sud Toulon Var, Marseille, France
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KIAS, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
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FEAC Engineering P.C., Patras, Greece
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UPATRAS, University of Patras, Patras, Greece
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University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
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AUTH, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloníki, Greece
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IML, Fraunhofer-Institut für Materialfluss und Logistik, Dortmund, Germany
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RWTH Aachen, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen, Germany
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ZHAW, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland
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Universität Münster, Münster, Germany
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University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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Fachhochschule Technikum Wien, Vienna, Austria
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University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
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Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
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ESI, European Scientific Institute, Archamps, France
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UOS, University of Seoul, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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KNU Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea
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KU, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
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University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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BG Ingénieurs Conseils, Lausanne, Switzerland
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T.-D. Lee Institute, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China
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CNR, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, Italy
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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ESRF, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France
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SUSSEX, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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Università di Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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University of Bath, Bath, UK
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Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Pisa, Italy
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Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Universität Graz, Graz, Austria
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Center for High Energy Physics, Fayoum University, Fayoum, Egypt
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Center of theoretical physics, British University in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
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Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt
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Sorbonne Université et Université Paris Cité, Paris, France
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Università di Genova, Genoa, Italy
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IFIC-CSIC/UV, Instituto de Física Corpuscular, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas/Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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Service de géologie, sols et déchets du canton de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
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NICPB, National Institute for Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia
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UT, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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UGTO, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico
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Edaphos Engineering, Geneva, Switzerland
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Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany
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Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Mumbai, Mumbai, India
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Universiteit Gent, Ghent, Belgium
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CNR-IOM, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Trieste, Italy
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JKU, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Linz, Austria
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University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
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Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, Trento, Italy
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Caltech, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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Università dalla Calabria, Rende, Italy
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IFT, Instituto de Física Teórica, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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UPC, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
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Departamento de Física, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
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Centro de Física das Universidades do Minho e do Porto, Porto, Portugal
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LaPMET, Laboratory of Physics for Materials and Emergent Technologies, Porto, Portugal
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University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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SAPHIR, Instituto Milenio de Física Subatómica en la Frontera de Altas Energías, Santiago, Chile
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Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile
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IIP, International Institute of Physics, Natal, Brazil
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Tokyo International University, Tokyo, Japan
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İzmir Bakırçay Üniversitesi, Izmir, Türkiye
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INFN, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Assergi, Italy
348
Universitá degli Studi di Cassino e del Lazio Meridionale, Cassino, Italy
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Vinc̆a Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia
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Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA, USA
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Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
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Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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DOE, Department of Energy of the United States of America, Washington, DC, USA
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IPSA, Institut Polytechnique des Sciences Avancées, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
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Università degli Studi del Sannio, Benevento, Italy
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UJ, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria
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Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Institut für Angewandte Physik, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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HFFH, Helmholtz Forschungsakademie Hessen für FAIR, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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INCDTIM, National Institute for Research and Development of Isotopic and Molecular Technologies, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
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Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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RTU, Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia
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Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
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University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
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Cosmos Open University, Nicosia, Cyprus
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CBPF, Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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CMU, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
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JLAB, Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News, VA, USA
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ESPOL, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral, Guayaquil, Ecuador
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IRB, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
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Air Liquide Advanced Technologies, Grenoble, France
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VU Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
375
INGÉROP, Groupe d’ingénierie et de conseil en mobilité durable, transition énergétique et cadre de vie, Lyon, France
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Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
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IFCA, Instituto de Física de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
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Institut für Beschleunigerphysik und Technologie, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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Uşak Üniversitesi, Uşak, Türkiye
380
ICEPP, International Center for Elementary Particle Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
381
Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
382
All Souls College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
383
Akdeniz Üniversitesi, Antalya, Türkiye
384
Latitude Durable SARL, Geneva, Switzerland
385
USAL, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
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PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence, Mainz, Germany
387
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
388
Universidad Complutense Madrid, Madrid, Spain
389
scMetrology SARL, Lausanne, Switzerland
390
IST, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
391
CeFEMA, Center of Physics and Engineering of Advanced Materials, Lisbon, Portugal
392
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Mohali, India
393
NIU, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, USA
394
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
395
Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
396
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
397
Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
398
KAIST, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
399
Amberg Engineering Chambéry, Chambéry, France
400
Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
401
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
402
WIFO, Österreichisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Vienna, Austria
403
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
404
Mélica, NATURA SCOP, Études et expertises environnementales, Aubenas, France
405
Università LUM, Casamassima, Casamassima, Italy
406
University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
407
Arak University, Arak, Iran
408
Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
409
ForestAllia, Cabinet de gestion et d’expertise forestières, Besançon, France
410
Universität Siegen, Siegen, Germany
411
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
412
Universität Rostock, Rostock, Germany
413
CEGELEC SA, Geneva, Switzerland
414
KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
415
OKC, Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics, Stockholm, Sweden
416
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA
417
Expert foncier et agricole, Chadrat, France
418
ITSM, Institut für Thermische Strömungsmaschinen und Maschinenlaboratorium, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
419
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, Lyon, France
420
CTU, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
421
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
422
Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA
423
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
424
University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
425
Swisstopo, Federal Office of Topography, Wabern, Switzerland
426
Daresbury Laboratory, Science and Technology Facilities Council, Daresbury, UK
427
IZTECH, İzmir Yüksek Teknoloji Enstitüsü, Izmir, Türkiye
428
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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June
2025
Accepted:
14
November
2025
Published online:
24
December
2025
Volume 1 of the FCC Feasibility Report presents an overview of the physics case, experimental programme, and detector concepts for the Future Circular Collider (FCC). This volume outlines how FCC would address some of the most profound open questions in particle physics, from precision studies of the Higgs and EW bosons and of the top quark, to the exploration of physics beyond the Standard Model. The report reviews the experimental opportunities offered by the staged implementation of FCC, beginning with an electron-positron collider (FCC-ee), operating at several centre-of-mass energies, followed by a hadron collider (FCC-hh). Benchmark examples are given of the expected physics performance, in terms of precision and sensitivity to new phenomena, of each collider stage. Detector requirements and conceptual designs for FCC-ee experiments are discussed, as are the specific demands that the physics programme imposes on the accelerator in the domains of the calibration of the collision energy, and the interface region between the accelerator and the detector. The report also highlights advances in detector, software and computing technologies, as well as the theoretical tools/reconstruction techniques that will enable the precision measurements and discovery potential of the FCC experimental programme. The content and structure of this report are guided by the scope and priorities defined in the mandate of the FCC Feasibility Study. It is therefore not intended to serve as an exhaustive review of the full physics potential of FCC. Several topics, already covered in earlier reports such as the FCC CDR, are not reiterated here or are addressed only briefly, in alignment with the study’s focus. This volume reflects the outcome of a global collaborative effort involving hundreds of scientists and institutions, aided by a dedicated community-building coordination, and provides a targeted assessment of the scientific opportunities and experimental foundations of the FCC programme.
Study Leader: M. Benedikt
Deputy Study Leader: F. Zimmermann
Editors: B. Auchmann, W. Bartmann, J. P. Burnet, C. Carli, A. Chancé, P. Craievich, M. Giovannozzi, C. Grojean, J. Gutleber, K. Hanke, A. Henriques, P. Janot, C. Lourenço, M. Mangano, T. Otto, J. Poole, S. Rajagopalan, T. Raubenheimer, E. Todesco, L. Ulrici, T. Watson, G. Wilkinson
Volume 1 Chapter Coordinators: P. Azzi, G. Bernardi, A. Blondel, M. Boscolo, D. d’Enterria, M. Dam, J. de Blas, B. Francois, A. Freitas, G. Ganis, J. Keintzel, M. Klute, M. McCullough, P. F. Monni, F. Palla, E. Perez, M.-A. Pleier, W. Riegler, F. Sefkow, M. Selvaggi.
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