Abstract

The best way to study the existence of the Higgs boson, supersymmetry and grand unified theories, and perhaps the physics of dark matter and dark energy, is at the TeV scale. This is the energy scale that will be explored at the Large Hadron Collider. This machine will generate the energy and rate of collisions that might provide evidence of new fundamental physics. It also brings with it the formidable challenge of building detectors that can record a large variety of detailed measurements in the inhospitable environment close to the collisions points of the machine.

1. Department of Physics, University of Oslo, 0316 Blindern, Oslo, Norway.
2. Department of Physics, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland.

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