LHC experiments Committee

The LHCC was set up after the March 1992 meeting in Evian-les-Bains, where Expressions of Interest were presented. Intensive interaction between the Committee and the Collaborations is required in order to converge on the detector designs, and to review the construction and installation of the experiments. Like other experimental committees, the LHCC makes recommendations to the CERN Executive Board.

Letters of Intent for the proton-proton collider programme were submitted in October 1992. ATLAS and CMS submitted Technical Proposals in December 1994. A Letter of Intent for a dedicated heavy ion experiment was submitted by the ALICE Collaboration in March 1993. ALICE submitted a Technical Proposal in December 1995. Letters of Intent for three specialized B physics experiments were submitted in October 1993. These were superseded by the LHCb Letter of Intent submitted in August 1995. LHCb submitted a Technical Proposal in February 1998 and a Technical Design Report for a Reoptimized Detector in September 2003. The TOTEM experiment is dedicated to the measurement of the total cross-section, elastic scattering and diffraction dissociation at the LHC. The Technical Proposal for TOTEM was submitted in March 1999 and the Technical Design Report in January 2004. Letters of Intent have been submitted by the MOEDAL Collaboration in February 1998 to search for monopoles and other highly-ionizing exotic particles at the LHC and by the LHCf Collaboration in November 2003 for the measurement of photons and neutral pions in the very forward region of the LHC.

ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb are presently fully engaged in the construction and installation of their experiments in the respective experimental areas and are following plans to have working detectors for the start of LHC physics in 2007. Construction of the TOTEM detector apparatus has commenced following approval of their Technical Design Report while MOEDAL and LHCf are developing their experimental designs. 

The LHCC also reviews the LHC Computing Grid (LCG) Project. The latter makes available to the LHCC for review documents and reports from the project, including its future Technical Design Report.

The LHCC is also responsible for reviewing the remaining detector R&D projects (RD39, RD42 and RD50).

Members

Calendar

List of documents available for 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 onwards

Minutes are available here or as paper copies from the secretariat

Reviews of the LHC Experiments Installation

LHCC Computing Reviews

Agenda

Electronic Submission for LHCC Documents

 

LHCC Special Open Sessions:

-   Heavy-ion Theoretical Perspectives for RHIC and Implications for the LHC Programme: B. MŸller   (16.5.2001)
-   The RHIC Heavy-ion Experimental Programme: J. Harris  (16.5.2001)
-   Measurement of CP Violating Asymmetries with the BaBar Detector: Fernando Ferroni (ppt)  (pdf)(13.3.2002)
-   Results and Prospects of the Belle Experiment: Alexander Bondar (13.3.2002)
-   Report from the Tevatron Collider Programme: G. Chiarelli  (27.11.2002)

Further physics topics were the subject of an open workshop in November 1994, and an open supersymmetry workshop was held in October 1996. A workshop on Standard Model Physics and beyond was held in May and October 1999.

 

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