The Future of Particle Physics: The LHC and Beyond

Abstract

AbstractI have been asked to submit a revised version of this chapter, published almost a decade ago. However, I think that it is better to leave the historical record as it was—this was an article written in its time and for its time. If I was writing this article today, I would call it “The Future of Particle Physics—Beyond the LHC”, in recognition of the fact that, when originally written, the LHC was still under construction and now it has been operating for several years. The other key event which informed the original article was the recently-developed European Strategy for Particle Physics, adopted by the CERN Council in July 2006; the strategy was updated in 2013 and formally adopted in May of that year [1]; as I write, the process of updating the strategy is under way.