Discovery mass reach for excited quarks at hadron colliders

If quarks are composite particles then excited states are expected. We estimate the discovery mass reach as a function of integrated luminosity for excited quarks decaying to dijets at the Tevatron the mass reach is 0.94 TeV for Run 11 (2 fb{sup -1}) and 1. 1 TeV for TeV33 (30 fb{sup -1}). At the LHC the mass reach is 6.3 TeV for 100 fb{sup -1}. At a VLHC with a center of mass energy {radical}s, of 50 TeV (200 TeV) the mass reach is 25 TeV (78 TeV) for an integrated luminosity of 10{sup 4} fb{sup -1}. However, an excited quark with a mass of 25 TeV would be discovered at a hadron collider with {radical}s = 100 TeV and an integrated luminosity of 13 fb{sup -1}, illustrating a physics example where a factor of 2 in machine energy is worth a factor of 1000 in luminosity.