Physics at the [Formula: see text] linear collider.

A comprehensive review of physics at an [Formula: see text] linear collider in the energy range of [Formula: see text] GeV-3 TeV is presented in view of recent and expected LHC results, experiments from low-energy as well as astroparticle physics. The report focusses in particular on Higgs-boson, top-quark and electroweak precision physics, but also discusses several models of beyond the standard model physics such as supersymmetry, little Higgs models and extra gauge bosons. The connection to cosmology has been analysed as well.

Possible explanation of excess events in the search for jets, missing transverse momentum and a boson in collisions.

We study to which extent SUSY extensions of the Standard Model can describe the excess of events of 3.0 standard deviations observed by ATLAS in the on- signal region, respecting constraints by CMS on similar signal channels as well as constraints from searches for jets and [Formula: see text]. GMSB-like scenarios are typically in conflict with these constraints, and do not reproduce well the shape of the [Formula: see text] distribution of the data.

Bottomonium spectroscopy with mixing of etab states and a light CP-odd Higgs boson.

The mass of the eta(b)(1S), measured recently by the BABAR Collaboration, is significantly lower than expected from QCD predictions for the Upsilon(1S)-eta(b)(1S) hyperfine splitting. We suggest that the observed eta(b)(1S) mass is shifted downwards due to a mixing with a CP-odd Higgs boson A with a mass m(A) in the range 9.4-10.

Constrained next-to-minimal supersymmetric standard model.

We consider the fully constrained version of the next-to-minimal supersymmetric extension of the standard model (cNMSSM) in which a singlet Higgs superfield is added to the two doublets that are present in the minimal extension (MSSM). Assuming universal boundary conditions at a high scale for the soft supersymmetry-breaking mass parameters as well as for the trilinear interactions, we find that the model is more constrained than the celebrated minimal supergravity model. The phenomenologically viable region in the parameter space of the cNMSSM corresponds to a small value for the universal scalar mass m_{0}: in this case, one single input parameter is sufficient to describe the model's phenomenology once constraints from collider data and cosmology are imposed.