Commissioning and early physics analysis with the ATLAS and CMS experiments

TL;DR

This paper introduces the commissioning process and initial physics analyses of the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC, aimed at graduate students and early-career researchers to understand the early stages of high-energy physics experiments.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of the commissioning procedures and early physics results from ATLAS and CMS, tailored for new researchers entering the field.

Findings

Successful commissioning of ATLAS and CMS detectors

Initial physics measurements demonstrating detector performance

Guidelines for early data analysis at the LHC

Abstract

These lecture notes for graduate students and young postdocs introduce the commissioning and early physics programme of the high-transverse-momentum experiments ATLAS and CMS, operating at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.