The first year at the large hadron collider

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) offers unprecedented opportunities to study in detail interactions in the unexplored energy range around 1 TeV, where new physical phenomena undoubtedly exist. The luminosity expected in the first year of LHC operation will make it possible to thoroughly tune and calibrate physical facilities, clear up characteristics of the main, most intense processes, and search for new entities, such as the Higgs boson, light supersymmetric particles, and new heavy gauge bosons, with a sensitivity high enough to allow their observation.