QCD and Hard Diffraction at the LHC
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As an introduction to QCD at the LHC I give an overview of QCD at the Tevatron, emphasizing the high Q^2 frontier which will be taken over by the LHC. After describing briefly the LHC detectors I discuss high mass diffraction, in particular central exclusive production of Higgs and vector boson pairs. I introduce the FP420 project to measure the scattered protons 420m downstream of ATLAS and CMS.
To be published in Proceedings of the XIth International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering, BLois (2005). 6 pages, 0 figures
To be published in Proceedings of the XIth International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering, BLois (2005). 6 pages, 0 figures