Beyond LHC: Particle physicists explore the potential of more powerful proton colliders

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An international group of about 100 physicists gathered last week for the first formal workshop at SLAC to explore the world of high-energy physics beyond CERN’s Large Hadron Collider, which is famous for unearthing the Higgs boson – and even beyond the International Linear Collider, a facility that hasn’t been built yet. Their focus: a 100 tera-electronvolt (TeV) proton-proton collider about seven times more powerful than the LHC will be when it reaches its maximum energy of 14 TeV in 2015.  Members of the Physics at 100 TeV workshop gather for a photo. (Lori Ann White/SLAC) Getting Ready for the Future “It does seem like a crazy thing to hold a workshop like this when the LHC hasn’t even hit 14 TeV,” said Tim Cohen, a member of the SLAC particle theory group and one of the organizers of the workshop, along with SLAC colleagues Michael Peskin and Jay Wacker and experimentalist Mike Hance from Lawrence Berkeley Lab. “But I think the Snowmass process we went through last summer has the HEP community really looking toward the future.” The Snowmass process refers to a lengthy planning and consensus-building effort by the high-energy physics community that culminated in a week-long meeting, during which

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