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abstract: 'These lecture notes for graduate students and young postdocs introduce the commissioning and early physics programme of the high-transverse-momentum experiments ATLAS and CMS, operating at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.' 
author:
- Andreas Hoecker
title: |
    Commissioning and early physics analysis with the ATLAS and CMS experiments\
    [*Lecture notes, 2009*]{}[^1]
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Introduction

Motivation LHC Detectors CommissioningOverview

TestBeams

Cosmics

SingleBeam

EarlyPhysicsOverview PhysicsCommissioning

EarlyPhysics

Outlook

Bibliography

[^1]: Lecture notes from the 5$^{\rm th}$ Latin American School of High-Energy Physics, Recinto Quirama, Antioquia Region, Colombia, March 15–28, 2009.