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Emmanuel Perez

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arXiv2026

Toward a Measurement of the Higgs Boson Mass with Natural-Width Precision at FCC-ee

Higgs boson mass measurements with sub-10 MeV precision enable sub-percent determinations of Higgs boson couplings and prevent the Higgs boson mass from becoming a limiting input to electroweak fits. Probing the electron Yukawa coupling through resonant Higgs boson production requires a precision comparable to the Higgs boson natural width of approximately 4 MeV. Using the leptonic ZH recoil channels, we show that FCC-ee can reach a Higgs boson mass precision of 4 MeV, including statistical and systematic uncertainties, thereby enabling this unique measurement. We identify the detector and accelerator performance required to reach this precision.

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arXiv2025

Measuring $A_\text{FB}^b$ and $R_b$ with exclusive $b$-hadron decays at the FCC-ee

This paper presents a novel tagging technique to measure the beauty-quark partial decay-width ratio $R_b$ and its forward-backward asymmetry $A_\text{FB}^b$ at the FCC-ee, using $\mathcal{O}(10^{12})$ $Z$-boson decays. The method is based on the exclusive reconstruction of a selected list of $b$-hadron decay modes in $Z\to b\bar{b}$ events at the $Z$ pole, which can provide the flavour and possibly the charge of the hemisphere. This approach effectively eliminates the contamination from light-quark physics events and reduces the leading systematic uncertainties arising from background contamination, tagging-efficiency correlations, and gluon-radiation corrections by exploiting the geometric and kinematic properties of beauty hadrons. This results in a total relative uncertainty of the order of $0.01\,\%$ for both observables. Furthermore, this precision allows to obtain a commensurate precision on the weak mixing angle $\sin^2(\theta_W^\text{eff})$ compared to the muon forward-backward asymmetry on the order of $0.002\,\%$.

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arXiv2024

Timing-based mass measurement of exotic long-lived particles at the FCC-ee

The very high luminosity run foreseen at the $Z$-pole for the FCC-ee will allow the detection in $Z$ decays of new particles with very low couplings to the Standard Model. These particles can have measurable flight paths before they decay. If the timing and the position of the decay vertex can be measured with high precision, the mass of such particles can be measured by exploiting the constrained kinematics of an $e^+e^-$ collider. The mass resolution achievable with this technique is studied through a detailed analysis in the framework of a parametrised simulation of the performance of the IDEA detector. The adopted benchmark model is the production of Heavy Neutral Leptons, which is one of the key channels for new physics discovery at the FCC-ee.

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arXiv2024

Measuring the angle $\alpha_{ds}$ of the flattest Unitary Triangle with $\overline{B}_{d}\to \phi \overline{K}^{()0},\overline{B}_{s}\to \phi{K}^{()0}$ decays

We show that the angle $\alpha_{ds}$ of the ``flattest'' unitarity triange can be directly measured using the decays $\overline{B}_{d}\to \phi \overline{K}^{(*)0}$ and $\overline{B}_{s}\to \phi{K}^{(*)0}$. Using both $\overline{B}_{d}$ and $\overline{B}_{s}$ enables a further consistency test since the expected time-dependent CP violating asymmetries are identical though with opposite signs. Since large statistics of $\overline{B}_{d}$ and $\overline{B}_{s}$ are needed for accurate measurements, FCC-ee and its environment at the Z-pole is well suited for such studies. These measurements, the precision of which could reach the sub-degree level, will contribute to probe further the consistency of the CP sector of the Standard Model with unprecedented level of accuracy. The main detector requirements that are set by these measurements are also outlined.

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arXiv2021

A special Higgs challenge: Measuring the mass and production cross section with ultimate precision at FCC-ee

The FCC-ee offers powerful opportunities to determine the Higgs boson parameters, exploiting over $10^6$ ${\rm e^+e^- \to ZH}$ events and almost $10^5$ ${\rm WW \to H}$ events at centre-of-mass energies around 240 and 365 GeV. This essay spotlights the important measurements of the ZH production cross section and of the Higgs boson mass. The measurement of the total ZH cross section is an essential input to the absolute determination of the HZZ coupling -- a "standard candle" that can be used by all other measurements, including those made at hadron colliders -- at the per-mil level. A combination of the measured cross sections at the two different centre-of-mass energies further provides the first evidence for the trilinear Higgs self-coupling, and possibly its first observation if the cross-section measurement can be made accurate enough. The determination of the Higgs boson mass with a precision significantly better than the Higgs boson width (4.1 MeV in the Standard Model) is a prerequisite to either constrain or measure the electron Yukawa coupling via direct ${\rm e^+e^- \to H}$ production at $\sqrt{s} = 125$ GeV. Approaching the statistical limit of 0.1% and $\mathcal{O}(1)$ MeV on the ZH cross section and the Higgs boson mass, respectively, sets highly demanding requirements on accelerator operation (ZH threshold scan, centre-of-mass energy measurement), detector design (lepton momentum resolution, hadronic final state reconstruction performance), theoretical calculations, and analysis techniques (efficiency and purity optimization with modern tools, constrained kinematic fits, control of systematic uncertainties). These challenges are examined in turn in this essay.

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arXiv2021

Exploring requirements and detector solutions for FCC-ee

Circular colliders have the advantage of delivering collisions to multiple interaction points, which allow different detector designs to be studied and optimized - up to four for FCC-ee. On the one hand, the detectors must satisfy the constraints imposed by the invasive interaction region layout. On the other hand, the performance of heavy-flavour tagging, of particle identification, of tracking and particle-flow reconstruction, and of lepton, jet, missing energy and angular resolution, need to match the physics programme and the exquisite statistical precision offered by FCC-ee. During the FCC feasibility study (2021-2025), benchmark physics processes will be used to determine, via appropriate simulations, the requirements on the detector performance or design that must be satisfied to ensure that the systematic uncertainties of the measurements are commensurate with their statistical precision. The usage of the data themselves, in order to reach the challenging goals on the stability and on the alignment of the detector, in particular for the programme at and around the Z peak, will also be studied. In addition, the potential for discovering very weakly coupled new particles, in decays of Z or Higgs bosons, could motivate dedicated detector designs that would increase the efficiency for reconstructing the unusual signatures of such processes. These studies are a crucial input to the further optimization of the two concepts described in the Conceptual Design Report, CLD, and IDEA, and to the development of new concepts which might actually prove to be better adapted to the FCC-ee physics programme, or parts thereof.

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arXiv2021

CP violation and determination of the $bs$ "flat" unitarity triangle at FCCee

We investigate the sensitivity with which two angles of the "flat" unitarity triangle, defined by $V_{ub}^* V_{us} + V_{cb}^* V_{cs} + V_{tb}^* V_{ts} =0$, can possibly be measured directly at FCCee. We show that the measured errors on the angle $α_s = \arg(- V_{ub}^* V_{us} /V_{tb}^* V_{ts})$ and $β_s = \arg(-V_{tb}^* V_{ts} / V_{cb}^* V_{cs})$ should be better than $0.4^\circ$ and $0.035^\circ$, respectively. These measurements, combined with the measurement of the 3rd angle $γ_s = \arg(- V_{cb}^* V_{cs}/ V_{ub}^* V_{us})$, discussed in a different paper, will contribute to probe further the consistency of the CP sector of the Standard Model with unprecedented level of accuracy.

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arXiv2019

Beam-beam effects on the luminosity measurement at FCC-ee

The first part of the physics programme of the integrated FCC (Future Circular Colliders) proposal includes measurements of Standard Model processes in $e^+e^-$ collisions (FCC-ee) with an unprecedented precision. In particular, the potential precision of the Z lineshape determination calls for a very precise measurement of the absolute luminosity, at the level of 1E-4, and the precision on the relative luminosity between energy scan points around the Z pole should be an order of magnitude better. The luminosity is principally determined from the rate of low-angle Bhabha interactions, $e^+e^- \to e^+e^-$, where the final state electrons and positrons are detected in dedicated calorimeters covering small angles from the outgoing beam directions. Electromagnetic effects caused by the very large charge density of the beam bunches affect the effective acceptance of these luminometers in a nontrivial way. If not corrected for, these effects would lead, at the Z pole, to a systematic bias of the measured luminosity that is more than one order of magnitude larger than the desired precision. In this note, these effects are studied in detail, and methods to measure and correct for them are proposed.

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arXiv2019

Beam-beam effects on the luminosity measurement at LEP and the number of light neutrino species

In $e^+ e^-$ collisions, electromagnetic effects caused by large charge density bunches modify the effective acceptance of the luminometer system of the experiments. These effects consequently bias the luminosity measurement from the rate of low-angle Bhabha interactions $e^+ e^- \to e^+ e^- $. Surprisingly enough, the magnitude of this bias is found to yield an underestimation of the integrated luminosity measured by the LEP experiments by about 0.1%, significantly larger than the reported experimental uncertainties. When accounted for, this effect modifies the number of light neutrino species determined at LEP from the measurement of the hadronic cross section at the Z peak.

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arXiv2019

Polarization and Centre-of-mass Energy Calibration at FCC-ee

The first stage of the FCC (Future Circular Collider) is a high-luminosity electron-positron collider (FCC-ee) with centre-of-mass energy ranging from 88 to 365 GeV, to study with high precision the Z, W, Higgs and top particles, with samples of $5 \times 10^{12}$ Z bosons, $10^8$ W pairs, $10^6$ Higgs bosons and $10^6$ top quark pairs. A cornerstone of the physics program lays in the precise (ppm) measurements of the W and Z masses and widths, as well as forward-backward asymmetries. To this effect the centre-of-mass energy distribution should be determined with the high precision. This document describes the capacity offered by FCC-ee, starting with transverse polarization of the beams around the Z pole and the W pair threshold. A running scheme based on regular measurements of the beam energy by resonant depolarization of pilot bunches, during physics data taking, is proposed. The design for polarization wigglers, polarimeter and depolarizer is outlined. The $e^\pm$ beam energies will be monitored with a relative precision of $10^{-6}$. The centre-of-mass energy is derived subject to further corrections, related to the beam acceleration, synchrotron radiation and beamstrahlung; these effects are identified and evaluated. Dimuon events $e^+e^- \to μ^+ μ^-$, recorded in the detectors, provide with great precision the beam crossing angle, the centre-of-mass energy spread, and the $e^+$ and $e^-$ energy difference. Monitoring methods to minimize absolute error and relative uncertainties are discussed. The impact on the physics measurements is given. A programme of further simulations, design, monitoring and R&D is outlined.

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arXiv2019

FCC-ee: Your Questions Answered

This document answers in simple terms many FAQs about FCC-ee, including comparisons with other colliders. It complements the FCC-ee CDR and the FCC Physics CDR by addressing many questions from non-experts and clarifying issues raised during the European Strategy symposium in Granada, with a view to informing discussions in the period between now and the final endorsement by the CERN Council in 2020 of the European Strategy Group recommendations. This document will be regularly updated as more questions appear or new information becomes available.

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arXiv2019

Machine detector interface for the $e^+e^-$ future circular collider

The international Future Circular Collider (FCC) study aims at a design of $pp$, $e^+e^-$, $ep$ colliders to be built in a new 100 km tunnel in the Geneva region. The $e^+e^-$ collider (FCC-ee) has a centre of mass energy range between 90 (Z-pole) and 375 GeV (tt_bar). To reach such unprecedented energies and luminosities, the design of the interaction region is crucial. The crab-waist collision scheme has been chosen for the design and it will be compatible with all beam energies. In this paper we will describe the machine detector interface layout including the solenoid compensation scheme. We will describe how this layout fulfills all the requirements set by the parameters table and by the physical constraints. We will summarize the studies of the impact of the synchrotron radiation, the analysis of trapped modes and of the backgrounds induced by single beam and luminosity effects giving an estimate of the losses in the interaction region and in the detector.

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arXiv2003

Magnetic oscillations and frequency mixing in a two-band conductor

Exact analytical results of the de Haas-van Alphen (dHvA) effect in an idealized two-band Fermi liquid with parabolic dispersion are presented. We consider a Fermi surface consisting in two electron bands with different band edges and band masses. Magnetic breakthrough (MB) between the bands is negligible. Analytical expressions of the dHvA Fourier amplitudes are derived in the case where the total number of electron is fixed (Canonical Ensemble, CE). As already reported in the literature, the oscillations of the chemical potential yield frequency mixing and Lifshitz-Kosevich (LK) theory, which is valid in the Grand Canonical Ensemble (GCE), does not apply at very low temperature. We show that the corresponding Fourier amplitudes depend on the commensurability between the two effective masses and also the two fundamental frequencies.

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