Many of the current questions in particle physics can be addressed with the advent of the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, at the European research centre for particle physics, CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland.

Moreover, new space telescopes allow for better observations of high energy processes in space. This book presents the status of the field of particle physics at the highest available energies, and presents the recent results and experimental techniques, together with the future of the field. It will be needed and used by researchers from both high energy and astrophysics, since these communities increasingly join to answer key questions of physics.

• The Physics
  • Setting the Scene
  • The Standard Model: Our Picture of the Microcosm
  • Electroweak and Standard Model Tests : the Quest for Precision
  • Hard QCD : Still Going Strong
  • Monte Carlo Generators and Fixed-order Calculations : Predicting the (Un)Expected
  • The Higgs Boson : Still Elusive After 40 Years
  • Supersymmetry
  • Quark Flavour Physics
  • Top Quarks: the Peak of the Mass Hierarchy ?
  • Beyond SUSY and the Standard Model : Exotica
  • Forward and Diffractive Physics: Bridging the Soft and the Hard
• The Technology
  • Accelerators : the Particle Smashers
  • Detector Concepts : from Technologies to Physics Results
  • Tracking Detectors : Following the Charges
  • Calorimetry : Precise Energy Measurements
  • Muon Detectors : Catching Penetrating Particles
  • Luminosity Determination : Normalising the Rates
  • Trigger Systems in High Energy Physics Experiments
  • Grid Computing in High Energy Physics
• The Organisation
  • The Sociology and Management of Terascale Experiments : Organisation and Community
  • Funding of High Energy Physics
  • The Role of the Big Labs
  • Communication, Outreach and the Terascale