Collider Physics and Cosmology

Understand

In the coming year, the Large Hadron Collider will begin colliding protons at energies nearly an order of magnitude beyond the current frontier.

• The LHC will, of course, provide unprecedented opportunities to discover new particle physics.
• Less well-known, however, is that the LHC may also provide insights about gravity and the early universe.
• I review some of these connections, focusing on the topics of dark matter and dark energy, and highlight outstanding prospects for breakthroughs at the interface of particle physics and cosmology.