The High-Luminosity upgrade of the LHC: Physics and Technology Challenges for the Accelerator and the Experiments

• Published in: Journal of physics. Conference series 2016-04, Vol.706 (2), p.22002
• Main Author: Schmidt, Burkhard
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Detectors; Experiments; Higgs bosons; Large Hadron Collider; Luminosity; Physics
• ISSN: 1742-6588; 1742-6596
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/706/2/022002

In the second phase of the LHC physics program, the accelerator will provide an additional integrated luminosity of about 2500/fb over 10 years of operation to the general purpose detectors ATLAS and CMS. This will substantially enlarge the mass reach in the search for new particles and will also greatly extend the potential to study the properties of the Higgs boson discovered at the LHC in 2012. In order to meet the experimental challenges of unprecedented pp luminosity, the experiments will need to address the aging of the present detectors and to improve the ability to isolate and precisely measure the products of the most interesting collisions. The lectures gave an overview of the physics motivation and described the conceptual designs and the expected performance of the upgrades of the four major experiments, ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb, along with the plans to develop the appropriate experimental techniques and a brief overview of the accelerator upgrade. Only some key points of the upgrade program of the four major experiments are discussed in this report; more information can be found in the references given at the end.