Lectures on QCD for hadron colliders

Authors

  • K. Melnikov

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23730/CYRSP-2018-003.37

Keywords:

Lectures, QCD, perturbative computations, collider physics

Abstract

I discuss how perturbative QCD can be used to describe outcomes of hard hadron collisions in a detailed and precise way. To an extent that four lectures permit, we touch upon fixed order computations, resummations, parton distribution functions and parton showers. Main ideas behind these concepts are explained and derivations of many important results are given. The importance of understanding the soft and collinear limits of scattering amplitudes for the perturbative QCD description of hadron collisions is repeatedly emphasized.

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Published

2018-12-20

Issue

Vol. 3 (2018): Proceedings of the 2017 European School of High-Energy Physics

Section

Submission to the proceedings of ESHEP2017

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