Super Charm-Tau factory (SCT) is an electron–positron collider being designed and built by

Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP) is one of the major centres of advanced study of nuclear physics in Russia. It is located in the Siberian town Akademgorodok, on Academician Lavrentiev Avenue. The institute was founded by Gers ...

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. Its main goal is to study the

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in the processes involving charmed hadrons, to investigate decays of the τ-lepton as well as to search for new forms of matter:

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, etc. In the SCT the center of mass energy of colliding electrons and positrons will be 2–6

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while the

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will reach as high as . The electrons will be partially polarized. The synchrotron will be operating for 10 years. The particle registration and measurements will done using a universal high performance magnetic detector with the

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of 1–1.5 Tesla. The SCT project is one Megascience class projects being built in Russia.

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