HEP: Strong Interactions

Instructors

• Sandra S. Padula
• Sérgio F. Novaes
• Thiago R. F. P. Tomei

Duration

• 8 weeks
• 32 hours

Audience

Enrollment

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About the Course

Recommended Background

• It is essential to have a first course in Quantum Field Theory and it is desirable to have notions of regularisation and renormalisation

Course Format

• Lectures
• Exercises

Course Syllabus

5. Introduction to QCD

• 5.1 A Chronology of the Strong Interaction
• 5.2 Fundamentals of QCD
• 5.3 Some Aspects and Concepts of QCD

6. QCD in Electron-Positron Collisions

• 6.1 Quark and Gluon Production
• 6.2 Jet Events

7.QCD in Lepton-Hadron Collisions

• 7.1 Electron scattering: Historical perspective
• 7.2 Elastic and Inelastic Scatterings
• 7.3 Deep Inelastic Scattering and the Parton Model
• 7.4 Parton Distribution Functions
• 7.5 QCD and the Parton Model

8. QCD in Hadronic Collisions

• 8.1 Hadronic Processes
• 8.2 Drell-Yan Mechanism
• 8.3 Jet Production

Suggested Readings

• Foundations of Perturbative QCD, John Collins (Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology, 2013)
• QCD and Collider Physics, R. K. Ellis and W. J. Stirling (Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology, 2003)