The First Year of the Large Hadron Collider: A Brief Review
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2011-06-21 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
The first year of LHC data taking provided an integrated luminosity of about 35/pb in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV. The accelerator and the experiments have demonstrated an excellent performance. The experiments have obtained important physics results in many areas, ranging from tests of the Standard Model to searches for new particles. Among other results the physics highlights have been the measurements of the W-, Z-boson and t t-bar production cross-sections, improved limits on supersymmetric and other hypothetical particles and the observation of jet-quenching, elliptical flow and J/Psi suppression in lead-lead collisions at sqrt(sNN) = 2.76 TeV.
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@article{arxiv.1104.4205,
title = {The First Year of the Large Hadron Collider: A Brief Review},
author = {Gregor Herten},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.4205},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
11 pages, 9 figures, invited brief review for Mod. Phys. Lett. A