Dawn of the LHC Era

Contains material from the lecture courses conducted at the Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (TASI, Colorado, USA) on high energy physics and cosmology in 2008. This book presents in parallel series of lectures in the areas of Large Hadron Collider phenomenology and experimentation; and advanced theoretical topics beyond the standard model.

The Standard Model and LHC Phenomenology: Introduction to the Standard Model and Electroweak Physics (P Langacker); Topics in Flavor Physics (K S Babu); LHC Phenomenology for Physics Hunters (T Plehn); Collider Signal I: Resonance (T M P Tait); Collider Signal II: Missing ET Signatures and Dark Matter Connection (H Baer); LHC Experimentation: A Short Guide to Accelerators, Detectors, Objects, and Searches (P Witch); Dealing with Data: Signals, Backgrounds, and Statistics (L Demortier); Advanced Theoretical Topics: Introduction to SUSY and SUSY Breaking (Y Shirman); Strings for Particle Physicists (G Shiu); Particle Physics in Extra Dimensions (B Dobrescu); Neutrino Physics, Astroparticle Physics, and Cosmology: Neutrinos: Theory (M C Gonzalez-Garcia); Experimentation of Neutrino Physics (K Scholberg); Inflationary Cosmology (W H Kinney); Particle Dark Matter (D Hooper).