Complementarity of the CERN Large Hadron Collider and the e + e − International Linear Collider

The next-generation high-energy facilities, the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and the prospective e + e − International Linear Collider (ILC), are expected to unravel new structures of matter and forces from the electroweak scale to the TeV scale. In this report we review the complementary role of LHC and ILC in drawing a comprehensive and high-precision picture of the mechanism breaking the electroweak symmetries and generating mass, and the unification of forces in the frame of supersymmetry.