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The Compact Linear Collider (CLIC) is a proposed TeV-scale linear electron-positron collider based on a novel two-beam acceleration technique. With its high luminosity and a broad energy range, from 380 GeV to 3 TeV, CLIC presents a mature option for a future Higgs factory and discovery machine. Detailed studies of the CLIC physics potential based on a dedicated detector concept, CLICdet, profit from a comprehensive suite of software tools designed for physics analysis. This talk presents a general introduction to CLIC. Highlights of the CLIC physics studies will be reported, many of which rely on full simulation.
The clean environment at CLIC, its high collision energies and electron beam polarisation enable unprecedented precision in Higgs, electroweak and top quark studies. These measurements include Higgs self-coupling determination, constraining its invisible decays, studies of CP violation effects, and top-threshold scan. At high energy stages, CLIC offers promising prospects for Beyond the Standard Model physics searches. It provides both indirect sensitivity through the Effective Field Theory framework, probing extremely high new physics scales, and direct searches encompassing high-mass particles and diverse non-standard signatures. The presented studies show that CLIC surpasses the HL-LHC in its potential for precision measurements and is competitive in the exploration of many new physics scenarios.
