WhyaLinearColliderNow.pptVIP

Why a Linear Collider Now? S. Dawson, BNL October, 2002 The Physics case Why we need both the LC and the LHC Examples: EWSB, SUSY, top quark LC is Next European, Asian, American communities all agree: LC is next step Initial design, Luminosity 80% e- polarization Physics arguments for 1 TeV energy scale Energy upgrade a must! Is mass due to a Higgs boson? Higgs couplings of SM fixed Production rates at LEP, Tevatron, LHC fixed in terms of mass Direct search limit from LEP: Higgs contributions to precision measurements calculable Higgs Discovery at Tevatron or LHC Well determined initial state Precision masses with recoil technique Higgs mass independent of Higgs decay Model independent Higgs BRs Higgs mass measurements LC: LHC: Direct reconstruction of LC @ 350 Gev Is it a Higgs? How do we verify role in EWSB? Measure Yukawa couplings Measure spin/parity Reconstruct Higgs potential Coupling Constant Measurements Higgs spin/parity in e+e-?Zh Angular correlations of decay products distinguish scalar/pseudoscalar Measuring Higgs Self Couplings ghhh, ghhhh completely predicted by Higgs mass Must measure e+e-? Zhh Small rate (.2 fb for Mh=120 GeV), large background Large effects in SUSY Light SUSY consistent with Precision Measurements SUSY predicts light Higgs For MA??, SUSY Higgs sector looks like SM Can we tell them apart? Higgs BR are different in SUSY Find all SUSY Higgs, Into the wedge ?s2MH e+e- ?H+H-, H0A0 observable to MH=460 GeV at?s=1 TeV ?s2MH e+e- ???H+, H+?tb L=1000 fb-1, ??s=500 GeV, 3? signal for MH ?250 GeV Moretti, hep-ph/0209210 LHC/Tevatron will find SUSY SUSY mass differences from cascade decays;eg M?0 limits extraction of other masses Fit to SUGRA parameters LHC: Fits to SUSY Parameters Bachacou, Hinchliffe, Paige, hep-ph/9907518 LC can step through Energy Thresholds Run