Super C-Tau factory is a project for a mega-science installation of an electron-positron collider, which is under development by Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of Siberian Branch Russian Academy of Sciences. (BINP SB RAS). One of its most important parts is a universal particle detector, i.e., a system that registers and identifies particles born as a result of electrons and positrons collisions. On November 18, 2021, a Partnership was launched around the experiment at the Super C-Tau factory. The Partnership participants will coordinate the development of the detector project and the physical program of the experiment. On November 18, there was the first meeting of the Partnership Council and the election of members at the BINP SB RAS.
Letters of intent to join the Partnership on the Detector and Physics of the Super C-Tau factory Collider Experiment were signed by the BINP SB RAS (Novosibirsk), as well as research groups of the All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics RFNC-VNIIEF (Sarov), Research Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University (Moscow), National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University), the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (Germany, Gisen), Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences(Moscow), Novosibirsk State Research University (Novosibirsk), Novosibirsk State Technical University of NETI (Novosibirsk), The Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (Mexico City, Mexico). Other partners from Russia, Italy, France, and China are also expected to enter the partnership. On November 18, there was the first meeting of the Partnership Council and the election of members at the BINP SB RAS. Pavel Pakhlov was chosen as the Russian spokesman of the project. He is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the chief researcher of the LPI, Professor of HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics. Ivan Logashenko, the Deputy Research Director at BINP SB RAS, Head an NSU Department, Doctor of Sciences (Physics and Mathematics), became the Chairman of the Partnership Council. The foreign spokesman of the Partnership is soon to be elected.
The Super C-Tau factory includes an accelerator complex in which copious beams of electrons and positrons are formed, as well as a detector that registers the products of particle beams collisions; with the help of these data, physicists learn the laws of nature.
"International experience shows," explained Ivan Logashenko, "that in mega-science class collider projects, the country on whose territory the project is being implemented is more responsible for the creation of the accelerator since it is related to construction and other administrative issues. However, several countries take part in the construction of the detector, as a rule. The detector is filled with a variety of unique high-tech equipment. There are only a few specialists who can create such equipment, and they are scattered all over the world. At the same time, the physical program of the Super C-Tau factory is very diverse, and to implement it, specialists from many countries and organizations need to be brought together.
Therefore, we are forming a partnership that will help participants work together on the project and make key decisions regarding its development."
The main goal of the experiments at the Super C-Tau Factory is to study tau leptons and particles containing enchanted quarks with record accuracy and to search for new physical phenomena not described by the Standard Model. According to experts, this installation will give a chance to gain fundamentally new knowledge about the world structure.
NSTU NETI is purposefully engaged in personnel training for the Super S-tau factory and is a partner of BINP SB RAS on the project of the SRF SKIF.