PhysicsQCD@Colliders
The course will be given during November and December 2006.There will be a first meeting on Tuesday, October 31st, at 14.15 in the coffe/meeting room at the department of Nuclear and Particle Physics, when we will go through some practicalities such as deciding the schedule for the course. (If you cannot come to this meeting, please send me an email with your most important time constraints.)
The lectures will mainly follow the book
"QCD and Collider Physics"
by Ellis, Stirling and Webber (Cambridge), with the following contents:
1. Fundamentals of QCD
2. Asymptotic freedom and confinement
3. QCD in electron-positron annihilation
4. Deep inelastic scattering
5. Parton branching and jet simulation
6. Jet properties beyond fixed order
7. Hadroproduction of jets and photons
(8. Electroweak interactions)
9. The production of vector bosons
10. Heavy quarks
(11. Higgs bosons at high energy colliders)
12. Measurements of the strong coupling constant
Other books of relevance are:
"Foundations of Quantum chromodynamics", T. Muta, World Scientific
"Basics of Perturbative QCD", Y. Dokshitzer et al, Editions Frontiers
"The structure of the proton", R.G. Roberts, Cambridge monographs
"The Lund Model", B. Andersson, Cambridge
"Handbook of perturbative QCD", G. Sterman et al., http://www.phys.psu.edu/~cteq/#Handbook
and also some more general books on particle physics and field theory:
"Quarks and Leptons", Halzen and Martin, Wiley
"Elementary Particle Physics", O. Nachtmann, Springer
"Quantum Field Theory", M. Peskin and D.V. Schroeder, Addison Wesley?
"Gauge Theory of Elementary Particle Physics", Cheng and Li, Oxford
The course gives 5 points, and the examination will be in the form of hand-in excercises and a seminar, on a specialized subject, by each of the participants. (If you do not want to take the full course please contact me and we can can decide on a suitable subset of hand-in exercises.)
Responsible lecturer: Johan Rathsman
Preliminary schedule:
| Date | Time | Place | Subject | Hand-in exercise |
| Mon 6/11 | 13-15 | 80101 | Fundamentals of QCD | fundamentals |
| Fri 17/11 | 13-15 | 12167 | Asymptotic freedom and confinement | asymptotic |
| Tue 21/11 | 13-15 | 80109 | Asymptotic freedom and confinement, cont'd | |
| Wed 22/11 | 13-15 | 80127 | QCD in electron-positron annihilation | eeannihilation |
| Fri 1/12 | 13-15 | 80115 | Deep inelastic scattering | |
| Mon 4/12 | 13-15 | 11167 | Deep inelastic scattering, cont'd | dis |
| Wed 6/12 | 13-15 | 4006 | Hand-in exercise 1, 2 and 3 | |
| Mon 11/12 | 13-15 | 12167 | Parton branching and jet simulation | |
| Thu 14/12 | 13-15 | 80115 | Parton branching and jet simulation, cont'd | fragmentation |
| Mon 18/12 | 10-12 | 11167 | Hadroproduction of jets and the Drell-Yan mechanism | |
| Thu 11/1 | 13-15 | 12167 | Hadroproduction of vector bosons and heavy quarks | hadron |
| Mon 15/1 | 13-15 | 11167 | Presentations by students | |
| Thu 18/1 | 13-15 | 11167 | Presentations by students |
Suggested topics for presentations by students (20+5 min):
| Student | Topic | |
| Camille | Jet-algorithms for hadron colliders | pdf-file |
| David | CKKW and MLM matching | pdf-file |
| Elias | Top-quark decays including QCD corrections | pdf-file |
| Henrik | Quarkonium production | pdf-file |
| Magdalena | (S)QCD and AdS/CFT correspondence | pdf-file |
| Martin | Underlying events in hadron collisions | pdf-file |
| Oscar | MC@NLO | pdf-file |
| Sophie | Quarkonium spectroscopy | pdf-file |
A similar course was given in 1999/2000 by Gunnar Ingelman. For more details, see this link.