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RE: About my own research: gluons, gluinos and sgluons are not weird creatures from Harry Potter
And one must ensure that all options for new phenomena are experimentally covered to exploit the LHC as good as possible.
And especially the new LHC, right? I mean, to the extent that some observations will require new stuff to be built.
This is definitely a weird world and I worry that we're making much of this stuff up, and 'cooking' as you say. But if it works, it works, and that's what we care about.
We have hence imposed the first constraints on pseudoscalar sgluons, that must be thus be heavier than 1 TeV (roughy 5 times the mass of the heaviest Standard Model particle).
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The Standard Model itself would require the next machine. There are a few parameters of the theory for which we have predictions and that cannot be really probed at the LHC. On the other hand, we don't know what lies a a higher scale, and exploration is in order.
From there, we may need to convince politics to fund the field. This may be tough... :(