Implications of First LHC Data

a joint Berkeley-MIT workshop

OLD-Overview

In 2010 we expect to see the first significant LHC collision data, and this workshop is held to maximize the physics potential of this first LHC run. Current estimates for the 2010 run are that the center-of-mass energy will start at 7 TeV and later increase toward 10 TeV and that the integrated luminosity will be of order 200 pb^-1. While exhaustive and detailed studies of the LHC physics potential exist with higher luminosity and energy, there are relatively few studies at lower energy with low luminosity. Even though the energy is lower than the design, it may be very interesting to make measurements at this lower energy which is still a factor of 3-5 larger than ever observed in a controlled environment! It may be particularly interesting to measure something at 7-10 TeV, as this may never be done again when the LHC runs at full steam. This workshop aims at exploring the physics that might be possible with such a data sample and particularly is aimed at PhD students who wish to graduate on the 2010 data. Since the integrated luminosity is still uncertain (both in terms of how much will be delivered by LHC and also how much good data will be acquired for physics analysis by the experiments) we will survey opportunities for any luminosities between 30 pb^-1 and 300 pb^-1. For theorists this presents the great opportunity to inspire those students to measure some property that may otherwise not get measured.

Lunch and Dinner Options During the Workshop