Co-Conveners : Marc Ross (SLAC), Andrei Seryi (JLab), Qing Qin (IHEP, Beijing)

Electro-weak physics and the Higgs are currently of major interest to the HEP community and will likely persist into the foreseeable future. Technology for linear and circular e+e- machines are fairly mature. This Group will focus on the remaining technical issues and explore possible cost reduction schemes. Some of the proposed topics are:

1. Question/Topic1 Identification and mitigation of cost drivers
2. Question/Topic 2 Room temperature and superconducting RF
3. Question/Topic 3 Positron sources
4. Question/Topic 4 IR magnets
5. Question/Topic 5 Additional topics related to cost reduction and performance improvement
6. Question/Topic 6 Alternative approaches in the context of EW/Higgs studies such as muon colliders, gamma-gamma, ?