QCD and Hard Diffraction at the LHC

Abstract

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.

Comments: To be published in Proceedings of the XIth International Conference on Elastic and Diffractive Scattering, BLois (2005). 6 pages, 0 figures