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Résumé |
This series of three 90-minute lectures will treat the scientific
opportunities offered by the next round of experimentation at CERN's Large
Hadron Collider, which
will provide high-luminosity proton-proton collisions at c.m. energies
approaching 14
TeV. We will begin with an introduction to hadron colliders, the
essentials of proton
structure, and how to compute signals and backgrounds. We will review how
the goal of
establishing the nature of electroweak symmetry breaking shaped the
parameters of the
LHC, survey open questions in the electroweak theory before the LHC,
summarize the
Higgs boson search and discovery, and look forward to today's unresolved
issues. We
will address the strong interactions and quantum chromodynamics as well,
both in
proton-proton collisions and in heavy-ion collisions. We will tour the
opportunities
to test ideas for physics beyond the standard model, both in hard,
high-scale processes
and in flavor physics. We will conclude with a brief look toward the
High-Luminosity
LHC and possible future hadron colliders. My goal throughout will be to
present
facts and ideas, but also perspectives on the questions that will be
important for the future. |
