SUSY Simplified Models at 14, 33, and 100 TeV Proton Colliders

120 citations (109 excluding self-citations). Applied the Simplified Models framework to future collider projections, contributing to the physics case for a 100 TeV proton collider.

The Approach

The paper takes the simplified model mass planes developed for LHC searches and projects them forward to higher energies and luminosities. For each model — gluino-neutralino (light and heavy flavor), squark-neutralino, gluino-squark — it applies the appropriate search strategy (jets+MET, monojet, or same-sign dileptons) and computes both the 95% exclusion reach and the 5σ discovery reach. At 14 TeV with 3000 fb^-1, a gluino decaying to light quarks can be discovered below 2.3 TeV. At 100 TeV, that reach extends to 11 TeV. The study uses the Snowmass combined detector simulation and explores the impact of pileup.

Impact

The paper was part of the Snowmass 2013 community planning exercise and contributed to the scientific case for a future very-high-energy proton collider. The 100 TeV reach numbers were widely cited in subsequent discussions of the Future Circular Collider (FCC-hh) physics program.

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• DOI
• arXiv:1311.6480
• INSPIRE