A Comparison of Future Proton Colliders Using SUSY Simplified Models
10/1/2013
11 citations. Companion to the SUSY Simplified Models at future colliders paper, part of the Snowmass 2013 community planning exercise.
The Key Idea
With the LHC running and future collider proposals under discussion, a key question for the community was how much additional reach a higher-energy proton collider would provide. This Snowmass whitepaper uses SUSY simplified models as physics benchmarks to compare the discovery and exclusion reach of 14, 33, and 100 TeV proton-proton colliders. Simplified models isolate individual production and decay topologies, making it possible to compare collider capabilities without committing to a full UV-complete theory.
The results fed into the broader journal publication and informed the community discussion about the physics case for a 100 TeV collider, showing substantial gains in mass reach for colored superpartners at each energy step.