Experimental Challenges at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper discusses the experimental challenges faced at the LHC, focusing on detector design, search strategies for the Higgs boson, and supersymmetric particles, highlighting the technical and analytical hurdles in high-energy physics experiments.

Contribution

It provides an overview of the detector requirements and search methodologies for new physics at the LHC, emphasizing the challenges posed by high luminosity and energy levels.

Findings

Detector design must meet specific requirements for high luminosity conditions.

Search strategies for Higgs and supersymmetric particles are outlined.

Challenges include managing high data rates and background noise.

Abstract

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will provide proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 14 TeV with a design luminosity of 10**34/cm**2/s. The exploitation of the rich physics potential offered by the LHC will be illustrated using the expected performance of the two general--purpose detectors ATLAS and CMS. The detector design requirements necessary to extract the physics under the challenging experimental conditions at the LHC are discussed. This is followed by an analysis of search methods for the Higgs sector and the detection of supersymmetric particles.