
IDEAS2020
HIGHTONE-P (2022-2024)
The first ranked project in physics and third in natural sciences in the call IDEAS by the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia. The project was focused on Higgs physics as a tool to access the New physics, primarily through the Higgs couplings measurements, One of the results of HIGHTONE-P has opened a new scientific topic related to violation of CP symmetry in the Higgs interactions. We have published the first full simulation of measurement of the Higgs CP-odd coupling to Z bosons, in vector boson fusion production vertex at a future Higgs factory (Phys. Rev. D 110, 032011 (2024)). Read more about this
RESULTS
The project has delivered 5 papers in leading international journals (M21), 4 M23 papers mostly based on invited talks at international conferences, 11 proceedings from international HEP conferences and a PhD thesis. Read more
DISSEMINATION
Results of the project were disseminated in 11 arXiv documents and 5 talks given at international meetings and conferences (without published proceedings). Read more
COMMUNICATION
The project communicated its research together with the science in general through one seminar given at the Vinča Institute and sciences festivals in Belgrade, Smederevska Palanka and Požega.
Project title: HIGGS BOSON: A PORTAL TO NEW PHYSICS

Acronym: HIGHTONE-P
Sub-program: PHYSICS, PARTICLES&FIELDS
Participating Scientific and Research Organizations (SROs) and their acronyms: ‘’VINCA’’ Institute of Nuclear Sciences – National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade (VINS) and Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac (FSUKG)
Principal Investigator: Dr. Ivanka Bozovic Jelisavcic, Principal Research Fellow, VINS
Abstract: The Higgs boson not only enables generation of masses in the Standard Model, but it represents a unique particle with no analogy in Nature despite the fact that a phenomenon of spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs elsewhere. In the recently released Update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics, Higgs-factory future colliders are seen as the highest-priority in the field. With this Project, we would like to address the Higgs physics at the future electron-positron colliders CEPC, ILC and CLIC, all foreseen to run as Higgs factories. The focus of the Project will be on a novel topic of CP violation in the Higgs sector at CLIC, ILC and CEPC, delivering World’s first results of Higgs factories’ capabilities to measure it. Along the way, measurement of the Higgs to electroweak bosons couplings at CEPC will be advanced in order to meaningfully compare capabilities of future circular e+e- colliders with the well understood linear machines. Specific requirements for future detectors at electron-positron colliders will be derived from the foreseen Higgs studies, which is again considered by the European Strategy as ‘the essential scientific activity for particle physics’. In addition, a concept of an innovative software tool will be delivered in the course of the Project. The innovation will be based on machine learning techniques heavily used in Higgs measurements, to be applied in industry for decision making in logistics. With the innovative CP violation studies accompanied by detector R&D, the Project will deliver comprehensive insight into capabilities of future Higgs factories to address one of the Universe greatest mysteries – preponderance of matter over antimatter.
RESULTS

M23
- Ivan Smiljanic, Ivanka Bozovic Jelisavcic, Goran Kacarevic, Natasa Vukasinovic, Ivana Vidakovic and Vladimir Rekovic, Systematic uncertainties in integrated luminosity measurement at CEPC, JINST 17 P09014, 2022
- Bozovic-Jelisavcic Ivanka, Higgs Physics with Future Linear Colliders, MOSCOW UNIVERSITY PHYSICS BULLETIN 2022 77 (2):180-183, invited talk at the Lomonosov University
- Vukasinovic N., Agatonovic-Jovin T., Bozovic-Jelisavcic I., Kacarevic G., Milutinovic-Dumbelovic G., Smiljanic I., Radulovic M., Stevanovic J., CPV in e+e-H at 1 TeV ILC, MOSCOW UNIVERSITY PHYSICS BULLETIN 2022 77 (2):268-269, invited talk at the Lomonosov University
- I. Bozovic Jelisavcic, Higgs physics at ILC, International Journal of Modern Physics A, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS A 2024 39 (28), invited talk at ICNFP 2022
- I. Bozovic-Jelisavcic, N. Vukasinovic, and G. Kacarevic, Higgs Physics with TeV e+e- Colliders, Moscow Univ. Phys. 79 (Suppl 1), 8–11 (2024)
M21
- G. Kacarevic, I. Bozovic-Jelisavcic, N. Vukasinovic, G. Milutinovic-Dumbelovic, I. Smiljanic, M. Radulovic, J. Stevanovic, T. Agatonovic-Jovin, Measurement of the Higgs boson branching ratio BR($Hrightarrowgammagamma$) at a 3 TeV CLIC, Phys. Rev. D 105, 092009 (2022), IF 5.0, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.092009 arXiv:2201.03203v1 [physics.acc-ph] (2022)
- N. Vukasinovic, I. Bozovic-Jelisavcic, G. Kacarevic, G. Milutinovic-Dumbelovic, T. Agatonovic-Jovin, I. Smiljanic, M. Radulovic, J. Stevanovic, Measurement of the H to ZZ branching fraction at a 350 GeV and 3 TeV CLIC, Phys. Rev. D Vol. 105, 092008 (2022), IF 5.0,
- N. Vukasinovic, I. Bozovic-Jelisavcic, G. Kacarevic, I. Smiljanic, and I. Vidakovic, Probing CPV mixing in the Higgs sector in VBF at 1 TeV ILC, (ILD-PHYS-2024-002), Phys. Rev. D 110, 032011 (2024), IF 5.0, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.110.032011 arXiv:2405.05820 [hep-ex]
- Ivan Smiljanic, Ivanka Bozovic, and Goran Kacarevic, Uncertainties from metrology in the integrated luminosity measurement with the updated design of a detector at CEPC, Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, ptae141, (IF 8.6), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ptep/ptae141 arXiv:2404.18605 [hep-ex]
- Ivan Smiljanic, Ivanka Bozovic, Goran Kacarevic, Mirko Radulovic, and Jasna Stevanovic, Metrology requirements for the integrated luminosity measurement using small-angle Bhabha scattering at ILC, ILD-PHYS-2024-003 arXiv:2407.03024 [hep-ex], accepted as manuscript 2410-037 by Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (IF 8.6)
M33
- I. Bozovic, N. Vukasinovic, G. Kacarevic, Probing CPV mixing in the Higgs sector in VBF at 1 TeV ILC, PoS(EPS-HEP2023)404
- N. Vukasinovic, I. Bozovic-Jelisavcic, G. Kacarevic, Measurement of the CPV Higgs mixing angle in ZZ-fusion at 1 TeV ILC, LCWS 2023; ILDPHYS-PROC–2023-006 (2023).
- I. Bozovic Jelisavcic, Highlights of the Higgs precision program at ILC, PoS(ICHEP2022)1238
- N. Vukasinovic, I. Bozovic Jelisavcic, Determination of CPV Higgs mixing angle in ZZ-fusion at 1.4 TeV CLIC, PoS(ICHEP2022)527
- N. Vukasinovic, I. Bozovic-Jelisavcic, G. Kacarevic, M. Radulovic, J. Stevanovic, Determination of the CPV Higgs mixing angle in ZZ-fusion at 1.4 TeV CLIC, PoS(BPU11)102, 2023
- G. Kacarevic, I. Bozovic-Jelisavcic, N. Vukasinovic, M. Radulovic, J. Stevanovic, Measurement of the Higgs to 𝜸𝜸 branching fraction at 3TeV CLIC, PoS(BPU11)092, 2023
- I. Smiljanic, I. Bozovic Jelisavcic, G. Kacarevic, N. Vukasinovic, I. Vidakovic, V. Rekovic, Systematic uncertainties in integrated luminosity measurement at CEPC, PoS(BPU11)086, 2023
- Ivana Vidaković, Mirko Radulović, Jasna Stevanović, Goran Kačarević, Application of Multivariate Analysis in Separation of Higgs Boson Signal at Future e+e− Colliders, PoS(BPU11)101, 2023
- G. Milutinović-Dumbelović, I. Božović-Jelisavčić, N. Vukašinović, G. Kačarević, M. Radulović and J. Stevanović, Measurement of the sigma times BR(H ->ZZ*) at 350 GeV and 3 TeV center-of-mass energies CLIC, PoS(BPU11)097, 2023
- N. Vukasinovic, I. Bozovic-Jelisavcic, G. Kacarevic, Probing CPV mixing in the Higgs sector in VBF at 1 TeV ILC, PoS(ICHEP2024)045
PhD THESIS
N. Vukasinovic, Measurement of the H to ZZ branching fraction at a 350 GeV and 3 TeV CLIC, PMF, University of Novi Sad, PhD thesis, accepted for evaluation, defended (March 2025), CERN-THESIS-2024-249
DISSEMINATION

Talks without proceedings
- N. Vukasinovic, Physics potential for 𝜎 x BR(H → ZZ∗) measurement at CLIC, 1st ECFA Workshop on e+e- Higgs/EW/Top Factories, October 5-7 2022, DESY, Hamburg, Germany
- G. Kačarević, Measurement of the Higgs to γγ branching fraction at 3 TeV CLIC, FIRST ECFA WORKSHOP ON e+e- Higgs/EW/Top Factories, October 5-7 2022, DESY, Hamburg, Germany
- I. Smiljanic [on behalf of ILD and FCAL Collaborations], Very forward calorimeters at ILC/ILD, First ECFA Workshop on e+e- Higgs/EW/Top factories, October 5 – 7, 2022, DESY, Hamburg, Germany
- G. Milutinovic Dumbelovic [on behalf of ILD Collaboration], Higgs physics studies with ILC, First ECFA Workshop on e+e- Higgs/EW/Top factories, October 5 – 7, 2022, DESY, Hamburg, Germany
- G. Milutinovic Dumbelovic, Higgs studies with ILC, [on behalf of the ILC IDT Detector& Physics Group], HIGGS 2022 PISA, Italy, 6-11 November 2022
- I. Smiljanić I. Božović-Jelisavčić, G. Kačarević and N. Vukašinović, Report on metrology challenges in integrated luminosity measurement at CEPC and ILC, The 2024 International Workshop on the High Energy Circular Electron Positron Collider, Hangzhou, China, October 2024