TY - GEN
T1 - The status and physics potential of the LHC
AU - Loch, Peter
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European center for high energy research (CERN) near Geneva, Switzerland, has been designed to collide protons with the highest center of mass energies (√S = 14 TeV) and luminosities (up to 1034 cm-2 s-1) for any particle collider to date. The main physics goal at this accelerator and its two multi-purpose experiments ATLAS and CMS is the discovery of the Standard Model Higgs boson, which is expected within an integrated luminosity ℒ dt = 10 fb -1, or the first three years of collusions, in the mass range of 115 - 180 GeV. In addition, measurements of Standard Model parameters like the W boson mass m w and top quark mass mt are possible at high precision, with δmw ≤ 15 MeV and δmt ≤ 1 GeV. Illumination of new, yet unexplored kinematic domains in proton-proton collisions allows exploration of an enormous parameter space of new physics models beyond the Standard Model, including a possible early discovery of supersymmetry within ℒ dt = 1 fb-1
AB - The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European center for high energy research (CERN) near Geneva, Switzerland, has been designed to collide protons with the highest center of mass energies (√S = 14 TeV) and luminosities (up to 1034 cm-2 s-1) for any particle collider to date. The main physics goal at this accelerator and its two multi-purpose experiments ATLAS and CMS is the discovery of the Standard Model Higgs boson, which is expected within an integrated luminosity ℒ dt = 10 fb -1, or the first three years of collusions, in the mass range of 115 - 180 GeV. In addition, measurements of Standard Model parameters like the W boson mass m w and top quark mass mt are possible at high precision, with δmw ≤ 15 MeV and δmt ≤ 1 GeV. Illumination of new, yet unexplored kinematic domains in proton-proton collisions allows exploration of an enormous parameter space of new physics models beyond the Standard Model, including a possible early discovery of supersymmetry within ℒ dt = 1 fb-1
KW - Detectors
KW - Higgs searches
KW - Jets
KW - LHC
KW - Mass spectooscopy top quark and W boson
KW - SUSY searches
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U2 - 10.1063/1.3131606
DO - 10.1063/1.3131606
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:67650553065
SN - 9780735406537
T3 - AIP Conference Proceedings
SP - 57
EP - 68
BT - Particles and Fields - Proceedings of the XIII Mexican School of Particles and Fields and Mini-Courses of the XIII Mexican School of Particles and Fields
T2 - XIII Mexican School of Particles and Fields and Mini-Courses of the XIII Mexican School of Particles and Fields
Y2 - 2 October 2008 through 11 October 2008
ER -