The Large Hadron Collider and the Dawn of Discovery Decade

Presented by Yuri Gershtein, Rutgers University

The Large Hadron Collider has finally produced first proton-proton collisions, signaling the beginning of a new era in experimental particle physics. The LHC energy covers the entire electroweak scale that, according to previous precision measurements and existing theoretical understanding, should contain physics beyond the standard model and shed light on electro-weak symmetry breaking. I will present some results from the pilot run of the LHC last year and discuss what future exploration might reveal.