| Preface | p. v |
| The LHC - A "Why" Machine and a Supersymmetry Factory | p. 1 |
| A "Why" Machine | p. 3 |
| A Superpartner Factory | p. 5 |
| Our String Vacuum | p. 9 |
| After the Champagne | p. 10 |
| Dark Matter at the LHC | p. 13 |
| Introduction | p. 13 |
| Weighing the Universe, or Why Expect Dark Matter? | p. 13 |
| What is the Dark Matter? | p. 16 |
| A Test Case: Supersymmetric Dark Matter | p. 18 |
| Neutralinos at the LHC | p. 19 |
| Simple Dark Matter | p. 20 |
| What If We Don't See Dark Matter at LHC? | p. 21 |
| Conclusions | p. 21 |
| References | p. 22 |
| LHC's ATLAS and CMS Detectors | p. 25 |
| Introduction | p. 25 |
| LHC: The machine | p. 26 |
| LHC: Figures of challenge | p. 31 |
| Detection, Particles and Physics | p. 32 |
| ATLAS and CMS | p. 37 |
| ATLAS/CMS duality | p. 39 |
| Magnet systems | p. 40 |
| ATLAS and CMS: Challenges Addressed | p. 43 |
| Inner detectors | p. 43 |
| Calorimetry | p. 45 |
| Muon detectors | p. 47 |
| Trigger Architecture | p. 49 |
| Googles of data and the grid | p. 50 |
| To Be Continued | p. 52 |
| References | p. 52 |
| Understanding the Standard Model, as a Bridge to the Discovery of New Phenomena at the LHC | p. 55 |
| Introduction | p. 55 |
| Signals of Discovery | p. 57 |
| Mass peaks | p. 58 |
| Anomalous shapes of kinematical distributions | p. 59 |
| Counting experiments | p. 65 |
| Measuring Parameters | p. 68 |
| Conclusions | p. 70 |
| References | p. 71 |
| Thoughts on a Long Voyage | p. 75 |
| The Landscape | p. 75 |
| The Hierarchy | p. 77 |
| Linkages | p. 81 |
| The strong CP problem | p. 83 |
| Supersymmetry Breaking and the Landscape | p. 84 |
| Black Holes at the LHC? | p. 84 |
| The "Top Priority" at the LHC | p. 87 |
| Brief Introduction | p. 87 |
| Top Quark in The Standard Model | p. 88 |
| Top-quark decay in the SM | p. 89 |
| Top-quark production in the SM | p. 90 |
| New Physics in Top-Quark Decay | p. 93 |
| Charged current decay: BSM | p. 93 |
| Neutral current decay: BSM | p. 94 |
| Top Quarks in Resonant Production | p. 95 |
| X to tt, tb | p. 95 |
| T to tZ, tH, bW | p. 97 |
| Top-Rich Events for New Physics | p. 98 |
| TT pair production | p. 98 |
| Exotic top signatures | p. 101 |
| Summary and Outlook | p. 102 |
| References | p. 102 |
| LHC Discoveries Unfolded | p. 109 |
| Escape from Theory Space | p. 109 |
| Dark Matter and Missing Energy | p. 112 |
| Missing Energy at the LHC | p. 114 |
| A Strategy for Early Discovery with Missing Energy | p. 117 |
| Look-Alikes at the Moment of Discovery | p. 119 |
| Twenty Questions | p. 121 |
| Spin Discrimination with 100 pb[superscript -1] | p. 121 |
| More Look-Alikes | p. 123 |
| Simple Robust Discriminators | p. 129 |
| Outlook | p. 130 |
| References | p. 130 |
| From BCS to the LHC | p. 133 |
| References | p. 142 |
| Searching for Gluinos at the Tevatron and Beyond | p. 143 |
| Introduction | p. 143 |
| Event Generation | p. 145 |
| Signal | p. 145 |
| Backgrounds | p. 147 |
| Projected Reach of Searches | p. 148 |
| Implications for the LHC | p. 150 |
| Conclusions and Outlook | p. 152 |
| References | p. 154 |
| Naturally Speaking: The Naturalness Criterion and Physics at the LHC | p. 155 |
| Naturalness in Scientific Thought | p. 155 |
| Drowning by Numbers | p. 157 |
| A Quantum Complication | p. 161 |
| The Naturalness Criterion as a Principle | p. 163 |
| An Account of Events | p. 165 |
| The Paths Chosen by Nature | p. 167 |
| Measuring Naturalness | p. 170 |
| Anthropic Reasoning | p. 172 |
| Naturalness versus Criticality | p. 174 |
| Conclusions | p. 175 |
| References | p. 176 |
| Prospects for Higgs Boson Searches at the LHC | p. 179 |
| Introduction | p. 179 |
| Higgs Boson Production and Decay | p. 181 |
| Search for the Standard Model Higgs Boson | p. 184 |
| Inclusive Higgs boson searches | p. 184 |
| Higgs boson searches using vector boson fusion | p. 188 |
| Higgs boson searches using the associated ttH production | p. 190 |
| Combined signal significance | p. 191 |
| Determination of Higgs Boson Properties | p. 193 |
| Mass and total decay width | p. 193 |
| Partial decay widths and couplings | p. 194 |
| Spin and CP quantum number | p. 195 |
| Search for MSSM Higgs Bosons | p. 196 |
| Search for heavy MSSM Higgs bosons | p. 197 |
| Discovery potential in various benchmark scenarios | p. 197 |
| Conclusions | p. 201 |
| References | p. 202 |
| A Review of Spin Determination at the LHC | p. 205 |
| Introduction | p. 205 |
| Rate and Mass Measurement | p. 208 |
| Angular Correlations in a General Decay Topology | p. 211 |
| Mis-Pairing and Background | p. 212 |
| Spin Determination of Electroweak Gauge-Boson Partners | p. 214 |
| Charged boson partner's spin - Jet-W[superscript plus or minus] correlations | p. 214 |
| Charged boson partner's spin - Jet-Z[superscript 0] correlations | p. 216 |
| Neutral boson partner's spin | p. 217 |
| Spin Determination of Standard Model Matter Partners | p. 218 |
| Non-degenerate spectrum | p. 221 |
| Degenerate spectrum | p. 221 |
| Slope information | p. 222 |
| Long cascade decays and total spin determination | p. 222 |
| Off-Shell Decays | p. 224 |
| Simulation tools to study spin correlations | p. 226 |
| Conclusion and Outlook | p. 228 |
| References | p. 229 |
| Anticipating a New Golden Age | p. 233 |
| Where We Stand | p. 233 |
| Celebrating the standard model | p. 233 |
| An unfinished agenda | p. 235 |
| Electroweak Symmetry Breaking | p. 236 |
| The cosmic superconductor | p. 236 |
| Minimal model and search | p. 236 |
| Unification and Supersymmetry | p. 237 |
| Unification of charges | p. 237 |
| Unification of couplings | p. 239 |
| Unification Love SUSY | p. 241 |
| SUSY as calibration | p. 246 |
| Dark Matter | p. 246 |
| Dark matter from supersymmetry | p. 246 |
| "Mission accomplished"? | p. 247 |
| Hidden Sectors and Portals | p. 253 |
| Might the LHC see nothing? | p. 253 |
| Motivations for hidden sectors | p. 255 |
| Bringing method to the madness | p. 256 |
| Summary and Conclusions | p. 256 |
| References | p. 257 |
| Strongly Interacting Electroweak Theories and Their Five-Dimensional Analogs at the LHC | p. 259 |
| Introduction | p. 259 |
| Higgsless Models | p. 261 |
| The original technicolor model. Achievements and pitfalls | p. 261 |
| 5D Higgsless models | p. 264 |
| Composite Higgs Models | p. 268 |
| Higgs potential and vacuum misalignment | p. 270 |
| Fermionic resonances | p. 272 |
| LHC Phenomenology | p. 274 |
| Heavy resonances at the LHC | p. 274 |
| Experimental tests of a composite Higgs | p. 276 |
| References | p. 280 |
| How to Find a Hidden World at the LHC | p. 283 |
| Particle Physics in the LHC Era | p. 283 |
| Hidden Worlds | p. 285 |
| Hidden Abelian Higgs Model (HAHM) | p. 286 |
| Precision Electroweak | p. 288 |
| Example LHC Phenomena of HAHM | p. 289 |
| Beyond the Standard Model and the Hidden World | p. 295 |
| References | p. 297 |
| B Physics at LHCb | p. 299 |
| Introduction | p. 299 |
| b Physics at the LHC: Environment, Background, General Trigger Issues | p. 300 |
| Detector Description and Performance | p. 302 |
| Trigger | p. 303 |
| VELO and tracking system | p. 305 |
| Particle identification | p. 306 |
| Physics Objectives | p. 307 |
| Introduction of formalism | p. 308 |
| Measurement of the B[subscript s] mixing phase [phi subscript s] | p. 309 |
| B[subscript s] to [phi phi] as a probe for new physics | p. 311 |
| Measurement of the weak decay-phase [gamma] from tree-level processes | p. 312 |
| Example of radiative penguins: B[subscript s] to [phi gamma] | p. 315 |
| Example of an electroweak penguin: B to K*[mu mu] | p. 316 |
| Example of a Higgs-penguin: B[subscript s] to [mu superscript + mu superscript -] | p. 318 |
| Conclusions and Outlook | p. 319 |
| References | p. 320 |
| The LHC and the Universe at Large | p. 323 |
| Introduction | p. 323 |
| The Dark Side of LHC | p. 324 |
| The Gravitational Side of LHC | p. 330 |
| Phase transitions at the terascale: the LHC-LISA connection | p. 331 |
| Black hole physics and the LHC | p. 333 |
| Conclusion | p. 335 |
| References | p. 336 |
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