Physics at the Large Hadron Collider

1. The Large Hadron Collider: Overall Motivation
Debajyoti Choudhury, Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya

2. The Standard Model and Beyond-LEP/SLC/Tevatron and the LHC
A. Gurtu

3. Accelerator Physics and Technological Challenges of the LHC
Oliver Brüning, Vinod Chohan, Swapan Chattopadhyay

4. Challenges to Software/Computing for Experimentation at the LHC
Sunanda Banerjee

5. Electroweak Symmetry Breaking at the LHC
Abdelhak Djouadi, Rohini Godbole

6. Prospects of Searches for the Higgs Boson at the LHC
Bruce Mellado

7. QCD at the Large Hadron Collider—Higgs Searches and Some Non-SUSY Extensions Beyond the SM
Prakash Mathews, V. Ravindran

8. Heavy Ions at the LHC: A Quest for Quark-gluon Plasma
Rajeev S. Bhalerao, Rajiv V. Gavai

9. Search and Study of Quark-gluon Plasma at the CERN-LHC
Tapan Nayak, Bikash Sinhah

10. Strong Gauge Boson Scattering at the LHC
Saurabh D. Rindani

11. Signatures of Supersymmetry at the LHC
Amitava Datta, Monoranjan Guchait, Sourov Royc

12. Dark Matter and the LHC
Howard Baer, Xerxes Tata

13. Using Tau Polarisation for Charged Higgs Boson and SUSY Searches at the LHC
Monoranjan Guchait, D. P. Roy

14. Extra Spacetime Dimensions and the LHC
Sreerup Raychaudhuri

15. Universal Extra Dimensions
Bogdan A. Dobrescu

Keywords: Physics, Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Field Theories, String Theory, Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics, Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Measurement Science and Instrumentation