Brief physics survey with CMS in year one
G. Bruno (for the CMS Collaboration)
TL;DR
This paper provides an overview of CMS detector capabilities during its first year of operation at the LHC, focusing on standard model processes and Higgs searches to assess physics potential.
Contribution
It offers a preliminary physics survey of CMS's performance and expected results during its initial year of data collection.
Findings
Expected to collect 10 fb-1 of data in first year
Studies include weak boson and top quark production
Searches for Higgs bosons are outlined
Abstract
The CMS detector is one of the two general purpose experiments that will study the collisions produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC is supposed to start its operation in 2007 at an instantaneous luminosity of 2 x 10^33 cm-2 s-1, which may well result in an integrated luminosity of 10 fb-1 after the first year of running. The corresponding physics reach of CMS is exemplified with the study of a few standard model channels (weak boson and top quark production) and with the searches for Higgs bosons.
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Taxonomy
TopicsParticle physics theoretical and experimental studies · Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions · High-Energy Particle Collisions Research