102 Cardwell Hall
The full potential of the Large Hadron Collider will ultimately be realized through the running period that will take collider operations into the late 2030s. The so-called High Luminosity era of the LHC (HL-LHC), planned to begin in 2027, will see up to a 5-fold increase in the nominal brightness of the LHC beams, which will consequently allow experiments to collect a data set of proton-proton collisions approximately 20 times larger than what has been collected so far in high energy LHC running. This significant increase in data sample size will be a boon for the physics program of the LHC experiments, further enabling searches for ultra-rare phenomena and refining precision measurements of known processes. At the CMS experiment, a suite of novel upgrades will be deployed that will enable the experiment to cope with the onslaught of collisions in the high luminosity environment and fully capitalize on the opportunities presented in the HL-LHC era. In this talk I will describe the transition of the collider to the HL-LHC era, the challenges this transition poses to the experiments, the upgrade program that has been undertaken at CMS and the projected impact on several high-profile physics signatures that are prime targets in the HL-LHC era.