1995-96 HERA Workshop; Beyond the Standard Model Group Summary

TL;DR

This paper summarizes the 1995-96 HERA Workshop's Beyond the Standard Model group, emphasizing the importance of luminosity upgrades for future new physics searches including Higgs, supersymmetry, and leptoquarks.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of proposed physics topics and the potential of HERA with increased luminosity for exploring beyond the Standard Model phenomena.

Findings

HERA's upgraded luminosity enhances its potential for new physics discovery.

Multiple beyond Standard Model topics are actively explored, including Higgs, supersymmetry, and leptoquarks.

The workshop outlines future research directions and experimental sensitivities.

Abstract

We summarize the work done in the ``Beyond the Standard Model'' group of the 1995-96 HERA Workshop. Of the various proposed HERA upgrades, the luminosity improvement is the most important for this physics. With an integrated luminosity of 1 $fb^{-1}$, collected by 2005, HERA will remain a competitive and potentially fruitful facility for new physics searches. The full proceedings of the group with the individual reports can be found at: http://ucosun.desy.de/~heraws96/proceedings/beyondSM/ The topics covered include: 1. Higgs Physics 2. Contact Interactions and Compositeness 3. Lepton Flavor Violation 4. Heavy Neutral Leptons 5. Supersymmetry 5.1 MSSM 5.2 R-Parity Violation 5.3 Light Gluinos 6. Leptoquarks