LHC Detectors and Early Physics
arXiv:1003.2222
Abstract
In this review I sketch the basic criteria and boundary conditions which have guided the design of the LHC detectors. The discussion will concentrate on the so-called general-purpose experiments, ATLAS and CMS. After an overview of the detector's characteristics and performance, I will elaborate on the expected measurements of hard processes, with emphasis on jet and vector boson production, i.e., tests of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and Electroweak Physics.
Lecture given at the 65th Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics: LHC Physics (16 August to 29 August 2009), St. Andrews