Introduction to QCD

Abstract

These lectures were originally given at TASI and are directed at a level suitable for graduate students in High Energy Physics. They are intended to give an introduction to the theory and phenomenology of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), focusing on collider physics applications. The aim is to bring the reader to a level where informed decisions can be made concerning different approaches and their uncertainties. The material is divided into five main areas: 1) fundamentals, 2) fixed-order perturbative QCD, 3) Monte Carlo event generators and parton showers, 4) Matching at Leading and Next-to-Leading Order, and 5) Soft QCD physics.

Lecture notes from a course given at TASI 2012. Last update: July 2017. 85 pages, including index at the back. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1104.2863

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• PYTHIA 6.4 Physics and Manual
• An Introduction to PYTHIA 8.2
• Parton distributions for the LHC
• Herwig++ Physics and Manual
• EPOS LHC : test of collective hadronization with LHC data
• A parton shower algorithm based on Catani-Seymour dipole factorisation
• An NNLO subtraction formalism in hadron collisions and its application to Higgs boson production at the LHC
• A standard format for Les Houches Event Files
• Boosted objects: a probe of beyond the Standard Model physics
• String Formation Beyond Leading Colour
• Parton Distributions for LHC
• The PDF4LHC Working Group Interim Report
• QCD radiation in the production of heavy colored particles at the LHC
• NNLO corrections to event shapes in $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ annihilation
• Non-perturbative QCD Effects and the Top Mass at the Tevatron
• A simple shower and matching algorithm
• NNLO corrections to 3-jet observables in electron-positron annihilation
• Helac-Phegas: a generator for all parton level processes
• Sector Decomposition
• The four jet production at LHC and Tevatron in QCD
• Automation of the Dipole Subtraction Method in MadGraph/MadEvent
• Effects of Colour Reconnection on Hadron Flavour Observables
• Automated Parton-Shower Variations in Pythia 8
• Study of the underlying event at forward rapidity in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 0.9, 2.76, and 7 TeV
• Determination of the strong coupling constant using matched NNLO+NLLA predictions for hadronic event shapes in e+e- annihilations
• Fixed target Drell-Yan data and NNLO QCD fits of parton distribution functions
• Antenna Showers with One-Loop Matrix Elements
• Measurement of the underlying event in the Drell-Yan process in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
• $pp$ and $\bar{p}p$ total cross sections and elastic scattering
• NLO Antenna Subtraction with Massive Fermions
• Reweighting Parton Showers
• Measurement of the forward charged particle pseudorapidity density in pp collisions at sqrt{s} = 7 TeV with the TOTEM experiment
• Probing Collective Effects in Hadronisation with the Extremes of the Underlying Event
• Antenna Showers with Hadronic Initial States
• The NLO multileg working group: summary report
• MCPLOTS: a particle physics resource based on volunteer computing
• Measurement of event shapes at large momentum transfer with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
• Measurement of charged particle multiplicities and densities in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7$TeV in the forward region
• Diffraction in Pythia
• Effects of QCD radiation on inclusive variables for determining the scale of new physics at hadron colliders
• Underlying event sensitive observables in Drell-Yan production using GENEVA
• Investigation of Monte Carlo Uncertainties on Higgs Boson searches using Jet Substructure
• Simulation of Finite Width Effects in Physics Beyond the Standard Model
• Revisiting Radiation Patterns in $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ Collisions
• What did HERA teach us about the structure of the proton?
• Drell-Yan as a probe of small x partons at the LHC
• Soft interactions in Herwig++
• On the Feasibility and Utility of ISR Tagging
• The Development of MPI Modelling in PYTHIA
• Monte Carlo Generators
• Soft-QCD and UE spectra in pp collisions at very high CM energies (a Snowmass white paper)
• Monte Carlo tuning and generator validation
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• Helicity-Dependent Showers and Matching with VINCIA
• Rho-meson properties in medium
• Status and developments of event generators
• Analytic Boosted Boson Discrimination
• Charged-particle production as a function of the relative transverse activity classifier in pp, p$-$Pb, and Pb$-$Pb collisions at the LHC
• Particle spectra from dark matter annihilation: physics modeling and QCD uncertainties
• Inspecting the power of parton showering the generated events by comparing the events generated in NLO+PS to NLO and NNLO without parton shower in $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ at 91.2 GEV
• Improved tuning methods for Monte Carlo generators
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