Physics at future hadron colliders

/ Authors

U. Baur, T. Plehn, Tao Han, J. Hansen, D. Rainwater, Laura Reina, I. Gaines, C. Pagliarone, F. Olness, G. Brooijmans

and 23 more authors

I. Hinchliffe, F. Maltoni, M. Albrow, R. Brock, D. Zeppenfeld, D. Denisov, C. Oleari, U. Heintz, T. G. Rizzo, S. Belyaev, M. Bosman, Shufang Su, T. Tait, J. Parsons, S. Godfrey, G. Landsberg, F. Paige, D. Wackeroth, A. Kotwal, J. Qian, C. Kao, E. Vataga, J. Hauser

/ Abstract

We discuss the physics opportunities and detector challenges at future hadron colliders. As guidelines for energies and luminosities we use the proposed luminosity and/or energy upgrade of the LHC (SLHC), and the Fermilab design of a Very Large Hadron Collider (VLHC). We illustrate the physics capabilities of future hadron colliders for a variety of new physics scenarios (supersymmetry, strong electroweak symmetry breaking, new gauge bosons, compositeness and extra dimensions). We also investigate the prospects of doing precision Higgs physics studies at such a machine, and list selected Standard Model physics rates.

DOI: 10.2172/799980