Physics at the LHC: a short overview
arXiv:1010.1491 · doi:10.1088/1742-6596/270/1/012001
Abstract
The CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started operation a few months ago. The machine will deliver proton-proton and nucleus-nucleus collisions at energies as high as sqrt(s)=14 TeV and luminosities up to L~10^{34} cm^{-2}s^{-1}, never reached before. The main open scientific questions that the seven LHC experiments -- ATLAS, CMS, ALICE, LHCb, TOTEM, LHCf and MOEDAL -- aim to solve in the coming years are succinctly reviewed.
9 pages, 16 plots. Invited review talk Hot-Quarks 2010, La Londe-Les-Maures, July 2010. J. Phys. Conf. Ser. 270, 012001 (2011). Minor typos corrected