Related papers: The FP420 R&D Project at the LHC
We discuss the special challenges posed by measuring diffractive and forward physics at the LHC at high luminosity and the solutions proposed by the FP420 R&D collaboration.
The physics case of the FP420 R&D project aiming at the installation of proton detectors in the LHC tunnel at 420 m from the ATLAS and CMS interaction points, is presented. The motivations of the measurements accessible with FP420 --…
As an introduction to QCD at the LHC I give an overview of QCD at the Tevatron, emphasizing the high Q^2 frontier which will be taken over by the LHC. After describing briefly the LHC detectors I discuss high mass diffraction, in particular…
We present the FP420 R&D project, which has been studying the key aspects of the development and installation of a silicon tracker and fast-timing detectors in the LHC tunnel at 420 m from the interaction points of the ATLAS and CMS…
In this talk, I review progress in experimental QCD in the last year, concentrating on the results and phenomenology of the first year of running of the LHC.
We review the prospects for studies in electroweak physics at the LHC.
This paper describes the main concepts and performance goals for the LHC and HL-LHC projects. It summarizes the main technical challenges and highlights the key technologies that have been developed for both projects.
We review the prospects for studies of the top quark at the LHC.
I present a brief review of present CGC phenomenological applications and of the physics prospects for the forthcoming proton-lead run at the LHC
A brief review of theoretical and experimental aspects of $b$-quark production measurements at the LHC.
The goal of this report is to give a comprehensive overview of the rich field of forward physics, with a special attention to the topics that can be studied at the LHC. The report starts presenting a selection of the Monte Carlo simulation…
We review the theoretical and experimental motivations behind recent proposals to add forward proton tagging detectors to the LHC experiments as a means to search for new physics. We also review the current diffractive programs at the…
We report here about activities of newly formed working group aiming to define a forward and diffractive physics program at the LHC for the years to come.
We review here the prospects of a long-term upgrade programme for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN laboratory's new proton-proton collider. The super-LHC, which is currently under evaluation and design, is expected to deliver of the…
Recent developments in the study of hard QCD processes at colliders are reviewed, in the context of the imminent startup of the LHC.
I discuss recent developments in the theoretical study of Higgs search at LHC.
In this short review, we describe some of the results on diffraction from the Tevatron and give some prospects for the LHC. In particular, we discuss the search for exclusive events at the Tevatron and their importance for the LHC program/…
This is a cursory review of diffractive studies ( mostly elastic scattering)at the LHC with physical interpretation of the experimental data and comments to related problems of theory.
An overview is presented of the ALFA forward detector system in the ATLAS detector at the LHC, CERN. Details of the construction are given, with summaries of the resulting analysis.
I review some issues related to short distance QCD and its relation to the experimental program of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) now under construction in Geneva.