LHC physics: the first one--two year(s)

We discuss the strategy to commission the LHC experiments and understand standard physics at sqrt{s}=14TeV before data taking starts and in the early phases of the LHC operation. In particular, we review the various steps needed to understand and calibrate the ATLAS and CMS detectors, from construction quality checks, to beam tests, to cosmics runs, to first collisions. We also review the preparation and tuning of Monte Carlo tools, and present a few examples of physics goals for integrated luminosities of up to a few inverse fb.Comment: Proceedings of the 2nd Italian Workshop on the physics of Atlas and CM

Physics Motivations for Future CERN Accelerators

We summarize the physics motivations for future accelerators at CERN. We argue that (a) a luminosity upgrade for the LHC could provide good physics return for a relatively modest capital investment, (b) CLIC would provide excellent long-term perspectives within many speculative scenarios for physics beyond the Standard Model, (c) a Very Large Hadron Collider could provide the first opportunity to explore the energy range up to about 30 TeV, (d) a neutrino factory based on a muon storage ring would provide an exciting and complementary scientific programme and a muon collider could be an interesting later option.Comment: 14 pages, 1 figure, Prepared for the CERN Scientific Policy Committee in September 2001, and presented to the CERN Council in December 200

Collider physics: LHC

The CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will become operational in 2005. These lectures describe the physics motivations for the LHC, the experimental challenges, and the two general-purpose pp detectors (ATLAS and CMS). A few examples of the physics goals of these experiments are discussed: searches for Higgs boson(s) and Supersymmetric particles, and precise measurements of the W and top masses

Searches for supersymmetry at high-energy colliders: the past, the present and the future

The present status of the experimental searches for supersymmetry at LEP and Tevatron is reviewed. Prospects at future machines, i.e. the Large Hadron Collider and lepton colliders, are also discussed. The phenomenology of several scenarios, the experimental strategies and the analysis methods are described, and the sensitivities and reaches of the various machines are compared

The P¯ANDA Experiment at FAIR

Abstract At Darmstadt, in Germany, is under construction FAIR a new international Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research. This will provide scientists in the world with outstanding beams and experimental conditions for studying matter at the level of atoms, nuclei, and other sub-nuclear constituents. An antiproton beam with intensity up to 2 × 10 7 p ¯ / s and high momentum resolution will be available at the High Energy Storage Ring (HESR) where the P ¯ ANDA detector will be installed. P ¯ ANDA will carry out a wide scientific program including meson spectroscopy from light to charm quark sector, baryon/antibaryon production, charm in nuclei, and strangeness physics with particular attention to the systems with strangeness S = − 2 . In this paper will be illustrated the details of the P ¯ ANDA scientific program related to strangeness physics, after a brief introduction about the FAIR facility