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

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

GRB Observed by IBIS/PICsIT in the MeV Energy Range

We present the preliminary results of a systematic search for GRB and other transients in the publicly available data for the IBIS/PICsIT (0.2-10 MeV) detector on board INTEGRAL. Lightcurves in 2-8 energy bands with time resolution from 1 to 62.5 ms have been collected and an analysis of spectral and temporal characteristics has been performed. This is the nucleus of a forthcoming first catalog of GRB observed by PICsIT.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures. Poster presented at COSPAR 2008. Advaces in Space Research, accepted for publicatio