Table of Contents

The Large Hadron Collider: Overall Motivation The Standard Model and Beyond – LEP/SLC/Tevatron and LHC Accelerator Physics and Technological Challenges of the LHC Challenges to Software/Computing for Experimentation at the LHC Electroweak Symmetry Breaking at the LHC Prospects of Searches for the Higgs Boson at the LHC QCD at the Large Hadron Collider – Higgs Searches and Some Non-SUSY Extensions beyond the SM Heavy Ions at the LHC: A Quest for Quark Plasma at the CERN-LHC Strong Gauge Boson Scattering at the LHC Signatures of Supersymmetry at the LHC Dark Matter and the LHC Using Tau Polarisation for Charged Higgs Boson and SUSY Searches at the LHC Extra Spacetime Dimensions and the LHC Universal Extra Dimensions