The Future Circular Collider and Physical Review Accelerators & Beams

The pro­posed in­te­grated pro­gram of the Fu­ture Cir­cu­lar Col­lider(FCC) takes a huge step be­yond LEP and LHC. The FCC con­sists, in a first stage, of an en­ergy- and lu­mi­nos­ity-fron­tier elec­tron-positron col­lider, which will op­er­ate at cen­ter-of-mass (c.m.) en­er­gies from about 90 to 365 GeV, and serve as elec­troweak fac­tory. The sec­ond stage of the FCC will be a 100 TeV pro­ton col­lider based on novel high-field mag­nets. A sim­i­lar pro­ject is being pro­posed in China. In par­al­lel to the de­vel­op­ment of fu­ture col­lid­ers, also the field of pub­li­ca­tions is un­der­go­ing pro­found changes. Phys­i­cal Re­view Ac­cel­er­a­tors and Beams (PRAB) was founded in 1997 as a pi­o­neer­ing all-elec­tronic di­a­mond open-ac­cess jour­nal, far ahead of its time. For many years PRAB was the fastest grow­ing jour­nal in the Phys­i­cal Re­view fam­ily. Au­thors, ed­i­tors and ref­er­ees are highly in­ter­na­tion­al­ized. In this paper, on the oc­ca­sion of the ac­cep­tance of the 2019 USPAS Prize for Achieve­ment in Ac­cel­er­a­tor Sci­ence and Tech­nol­ogy, I sketch the his­tory, sta­tus, and chal­lenges of FCC and PRAB.