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Description
It is widely accepted that the next lepton collider beyond a Higgs factory would require
center-of-mass energy of the order of up to 15 TeV. Since, given reasonable space and cost restrictions,
conventional accelerator technology reaches its limits near this energy, high-gradient advanced
acceleration concepts are attractive. Advanced and novel accelerators (ANAs) are leading candidates
due to their ability to produce acceleration gradients on the order of 1–100GV/m, leading to compact
acceleration facilities. However, intermediate energy facilities (IEF) are required to test the critical technology elements on the way towards multi-TeV-class collliders. Here we discuss a science case for a 20–100 GeV center-of-mass energy ANA-based lepton collider that can be a candidate for an intermediate energy facility is presented as well as the contributions of the SFQED processes studies to this science case and the design of a future lepton collider.
