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Physics Motivations for Future CERN Accelerators

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We summarize the physics motivations for future accelerators at CERN. We argue that (a) a luminosity upgrade for the LHC could provide good physics return for a relatively modest capital investment, (b) CLIC would provide excellent long-term perspectives within many speculative scenarios for physics beyond the Standard Model, (c) a Very Large Hadron Collider could provide the first opportunity to explore the energy range up to about 30 TeV, (d) a neutrino factory based on a muon storage ring would provide an exciting and complementary scientific programme and a muon collider could be an interesting later option.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0112004,
  title  = {Physics Motivations for Future CERN Accelerators},
  author = {Albert De Roeck and John Ellis and Fabiola Gianotti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0112004},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

14 pages, 1 figure, Prepared for the CERN Scientific Policy Committee in September 2001, and presented to the CERN Council in December 2001