# The super-LHC

## TL;DR

The paper discusses the prospects, technical challenges, and planning status of the super-LHC, a proposed upgrade to the LHC aiming to increase data collection by tenfold for advanced physics research.

## Contribution

It provides a comprehensive review of the scientific motivation, technological challenges, and current planning status for the super-LHC upgrade.

## Key findings

- Expected tenfold increase in data statistics
- Overview of technological challenges in accelerator and detector upgrades
- Current status of planning and evaluation for the super-LHC

## Abstract

We review here the prospects of a long-term upgrade programme for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN laboratory's new proton-proton collider. The super-LHC, which is currently under evaluation and design, is expected to deliver of the order of ten times the statistics of the LHC. In addition to a non-technical summary of the principal physics arguments for the upgrade, I present a pedagogical introduction to the technological challenges on the accelerator and experimental fronts, and a review of the current status of the planning.