| Super Charm-Tau factory | |
| Type: | Synchrotron |
| Beam: | Electrons, Positrons |
| Target: | Collider |
| Energy: | 2–6 GeV |
| Current: | 2.2 A |
| Location: | Novosibirsk, Russia |
| Institution: | Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics |
| Dates: | unknown |
| Preceded: | VEPP-5 |
Super Charm-Tau factory (SCT) is an electron–positron collider being designed and built by Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk. Its main goal is to study the CP-violation in the processes involving charmed hadrons, to investigate decays of the τ-lepton as well as to search for new forms of matter: glueballs, dark matter, etc.[1] [2]
In the SCT the center of mass energy of colliding electrons and positrons will be 2–6 GeV while the luminosity 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 field strength of 1–1.5 Tesla.[1]
The SCT project is one Megascience class projects being built in Russia.[3]