News on physics and detectors at CLIC

The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is a proposed high-luminosity linear electron-positron collider at the energy frontier. To optimise its physics potential, CLIC is foreseen to be built and operated in three stages, with a centre-of-mass energy from a few hundred GeV up to 3 TeV. In the first stage, CLIC will focus on the Higgs-boson and the top-quark properties, such as a high precision measurement of the Higgs total decay width and couplings and of the top-quark mass. During the subsequent energy stages, the aim of the physics programme will revolve around measurements of rare Higgs-boson processes, as well as direct and indirect searches for new physics, and precision measurements of possible new particles. To pursue this rich physics programme and to face the challenges imposed by the CLIC conditions, an optimised detector design and innovative new technologies are required. In this document, an overview of the CLIC accelerator, the CLICdet detector and its performance, and the CLIC physics programme is given.