An linear collider has been emphasized [8] to complement a pp collider under the current schedule: that the LHC will have 9.3TeV collisions in 2004 then full 14TeV in 2007. [7] The most relevant complementarity is that a 300GeV collider can certainly find a light Higgs boson of , the ultimate performance that the LHC needs to discover, since the Higgs boson is a key concerning electroweak symmetry breaking. For full complementarity to a pp collider, collider should operate at the optimum center-of-mass energies with high beam polarizations for detailed studies of top quark, Higgs boson and particles, as mentioned in the previous section. [3]
Since the both colliders have many overlapping regions, though concerning different aspects, to explore new physics, even at a 500GeV linear collider, we should also emphasize competition for simultaneous experiments. We have learned from history that healthy competition has generally promoted high-energy physics programs in the world, and has contributed to the understanding of fundamental physics.