Next Frontiers in Particle Physics Detectors: INSTR2020 Summary and a Look into the Future

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent advances and future challenges in particle physics detector technology, emphasizing the need for innovative approaches to meet the stringent requirements of upcoming high-luminosity accelerators and colliders.

Contribution

It summarizes recent trends and technological developments in particle physics instrumentation based on INSTR2020 conference presentations.

Findings

Technological limits are being reached in current detector methods.

New approaches are needed to overcome technological challenges.

Future projects require long-term R&D and innovative solutions.

Abstract

The physics goals of high luminosity particle accelerators, from LHC to HL-LHC and to the next generation of lepton colliders, have set quite stringent constraints on the future needs at the Instrumentation Frontier. Many technologies are reaching their sensitivity limit and new approaches need to be developed to overcome the currently irreducible technological challenges. The timescales spanned by future projects in particle physics, ranging from few years to many decades, constitute a challenge in itself, in addition to the complexity and diversity of the required accelerator and detector R&D. This paper summarizes advances and recent trends in the instrumentation techniques for particle physics experiments, largely based on the presentations given at the International Conference "Instrumentation for Colliding Beam Physics" (INSTR-20), held at BINP Novosibirsk, Russia, from 24 to 28 February, 2020.