Excited quark production at a 100 TeV VLHC

TL;DR

This paper investigates the potential to detect excited quarks at a future 100 TeV proton-proton collider, demonstrating the ability to explore very high mass resonances up to 50 TeV using simulated data.

Contribution

It presents a simulation-based analysis of excited quark production at a 100 TeV collider, highlighting the discovery reach for masses up to 50 TeV.

Findings

Potential to discover excited quarks up to 50 TeV mass

Simulation shows effective cut-and-count analysis approach

Explores length scales around 4 attometers

Abstract

I look for a dijet resonance produced by an excited quark q* in a simulated sample corresponding to 3 ab^{-1} of pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} = 100$ TeV. Using a cut and count analysis approach I demonstrate the potential to explore q* masses up to 50 TeV, corresponding to a length scale of around 4 am.