EPJ ST Special Issue: The Physics, Simulations, Designs, and Applications of Particle Colliders: CEPC, FCC, and Other Future Colliders

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Published on 26 June 2025

Guest Editors: Yongsheng Huang, Manqi Ruan

Mankind's exploration of the material world has never stopped. In the past 100 years, thanks to scientific and technological advances, high-energy accelerators have been built, and mankind has a powerful tool, the particle collider, to conduct in-depth research on the composition of microscopic particles. Since the birth of the Standard Model, the theory of constructing the universe based on elementary particles such as quarks and gluons has gradually gained recognition, which is inseparable from the massive experimental data obtained by the large particle collider.

A very important piece of the puzzle of the Standard Model is the prediction and discovery of the Higgs particle. He solved the problem of the origin of the mass of elementary particles. However, the existing LHCs are not able to study the properties of Higgs particles in more detail, so we urgently need a more suitable collider to further explore the properties of Higgs particles and the deeper mysteries about the origin of mass. In view of this, China's future electron-positron collider (CEPC) and Europe's FCC have been proposed and designed and discussed by scientists. The Photon Collider is also very interesting as a new type of collider that has not yet been built in the world. He can test multiple predictions of quantum field theory with high precision and can also provide a cleaner path for the generation of new particles in various energy regions, which is a very good complement to the existing leptons and hadron colliders.

We invite researchers and experts in the field to submit original and innovative contributions that advance the understanding of particle colliders and highlight their potential impact on science and technology. The papers in this special issue will focus on the physics, simulation, and design of the world's most cutting-edge new colliders, as well as their possible applications when they are built. These articles will give the public a new perspective to understand the future picture of scientists' exploration of the material world, and on the basis of revealing more deep mysteries of matter, they will show our high and new technologies, as well as the transformative impact of these technologies on the future production and life of human beings. In addition, the editors welcome ideas and contributions from authors from around the world with other novel ideas that could set the stage to enrich the present proposed topics.

Articles should be submitted to the Editorial Office of EPJ ST via the submission system, and should be clearly identified as intended for the topical issue “The Physics, Simulations, Designs, and Applications of Particle Colliders: CEPC, FCC, and Other Future Colliders”.

More detailed author information including paper types can be found in the Submission Guidelines. For the preparation of the manuscripts a special latex template (preferably single-column layout) is available here.

Guest Editors:

Prof. Yongsheng Huang
School of Science, Sun Yat-Sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China
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Prof. Manqi Ruan
Experimental physics center, IHEP, Beijing,China
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