Applied High Energy QCD

Abstract

These lectures stress the theoretical elements that underlie a wide range of phenomenological studies of high-energy QCD, which include both soft and hard processes. After a brief introduction to the basics of QCD, various aspects of QCD-based phenomenology are covered: colour transparency, hadronization of colour charges, Regge phenomenology, parton model, Bjorken scaling and its violation, DGLAP evolution equation, BFKL formalism, GLR-MQ evolution equation and saturation. In the last part of the lecture, we employ the light-cone dipole formalism to describe deep inelastic lepton scattering, Drell-Yan processes, direct photon production, diffraction, quark and gluon shadowing in nuclei, the Cronin effect and nuclear broadening.

66 pages, 51 figures, Based on lectures given by B.K. at the 4th CERN-CLAF School of High-Energy Physics, Vina del Mar, Chile, 18 February - 3 March 2007, v.2: minor changes. The version to appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys. E

References in corpus (15)

• Heavy-Quark Kinetics in the QGP at LHC
• Thermal Dileptons at LHC
• Heavy Ion Collisions at the LHC - Last Call for Predictions
• Update of Parton Distributions at NNLO
• Centrality Dependence of pi^0 and eta Production at Large Transverse Momentum in sqrt(s_NN) = 200 GeV d+Au Collisions
• Diffractive Higgs Production from Intrinsic Heavy Flavors in the Proton
• Azimuthal Asymmetry of pions in pp and pA collisions
• Evidences for two scales in hadrons
• Direct photons and dileptons via color dipoles
• Azimuthal Asymmetry of Prompt Photons in Nuclear Collisions
• A momentum Space Analysis of the Triple Pomeron Vertex in pQCD
• Diquark Bose-Einstein Condensation and Nuclear Matter
• Cronin effect for protons and pions in pA collisions
• Handedness of direct photons
• Direct photons at LHC

Cited by in corpus (6)

• Prompt photon production and photon-hadron correlations at RHIC and the LHC from the Color Glass Condensate
• Semi-inclusive photon-hadron production in pp and pA collisions at RHIC and LHC
• Hadrons and direct photon in pp and pA collisions at LHC and saturation effects
• Probing of compact baryonic configurations in nuclei in $A(p,\bar{p})X$ reactions and antiproton formation length in nuclear matter
• On the Nuclear Modification Factor at RHIC and LHC
• Gluon saturation effects at forward rapidities at LHC in pp collisions