From QCD Lagrangian to Monte Carlo simulation

Abstract

I discuss old and recent aspects of QCD jet-emission and describe how hard QCD results are used to construct Monte Carlo programs for generating hadron emission in hard collisions. I focus on the program HERWIG at LHC.

To be published in the volume String Theory of Fundamental Interactions, published on the 65th birthday of Gabriele Veneziano, M. Gasperini and J. Maharana editors (Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2007)