QCD Course/Studygroup 1999/2000

General

This course started in the spring 1999 and takes the form of a studygroup rather than a traditional course with lectures.

The course gives 5 points, and to pass you are required to give a lecture, and to hand in some problems. You have to solve problem 11, which is compulsory, and in addition at least five of the problems 1-10.

The collection of problems can be found here.

Present (spring 2001):

Tuesday, May 29th: Fredrik Tegenfeldt - Heavy Quark Effective Theories [Abstract]

Past (spring 2000):

Tuesday, Jan 18th: Gunnar Ingelman: Hadronisation models

Monday, Jan 24th: Kristel Torokoff: Yang-Mills instantons

Thursday, Jan 27th: Nicusor Tîmneanu: QCD on the lattice

Monday, Jan 31st: Gunnar Ingelman: Diffractive scattering [Postscript]

Thursday, Feb 3rd: Cristiano Mariotto: Selected topics on the QCD Pomeron

Monday, Feb 14th: Anders Gårdestig: QCD on the light-cone

Thursday, Feb 17th: Jérôme Damet: About charmonium production.

Wednesday, May 31th: Mattias Ellert: Measurements of alpha_s [pdf]

Talks given autumn 1999

Friday, Oct 29th: Stefano Moretti: Particle Physics Computation using Helicity Amplitudes

Oct 18th: Johan Hansson, Gävle: Some basic issues in QCD, e.g. quantization, non-linearity etc.

Oct 13th: Rikard Enberg: Small x physics and BFKL evolution

Oct 4th: Gunnar Ingelman: QCD evolution of parton densities

Sept 27th: Stefano Moretti: Jet physics and jet algorithms for QCD

Sept 23th: Johan Rathsman: Renormalisation in QCD

Sept 9th: Anders Edin: A model for parton distributions of the proton

Participants:

Jerome Damet (damet@tsl.uu.se)

Mattias Ellert (ellert@tsl.uu.se)

Rikard Enberg (enberg@tsl.uu.se)

Anders Gårdestig (Anders.Gardestig@tsl.uu.se)

Cristiano Mariotto (mariotto@tsl.uu.se)

Fredrik Tegenfeldt (tegen@tsl.uu.se)

Nicusor Timneanu (nicusor@tsl.uu.se)

Kristel Torokoff (kristel.torokoff@teorfys.uu.se)

Supervisor: Gunnar Ingelman (ingelman@tsl.uu.se)

 

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Suggested contents (in no particular order)

Part 1 - Theoretical foundation

1. Non-Abelian gauge theories
2. Quantization, path integral formalism
3. Perturbation theory, Feynman rules
4. Regularization and renormalization
5. The renormalization group
6. Operator Product Expansion

Part 2 - Phenomenology I

1. e+e- annihilation
2. Deep Inelastic Scattering, structure functions
3. Hadron-hadron collisions, Drell-Yan
4. Jet physics
5. Heavy quarks

Part 3 - Perturbative QCD

1. The parton model, parton distributions
2. Leading log approximation
3. DGLAP equations
4. Small-x and the BFKL equations
5. Resummation, Sudakov form factors

Part 4 - Phenomenology II

1. Hadronization, Lund model
2. Monte Carlo techniques
3. Diffraction
4. Non-perturbative models
5. (Regge theory)
6. (MIT bag model)

Literature

• T. Muta Foundations of Quantum Chromodynamics
• Ellis, Stirling and Webber QCD and Collider Physics
• Bo Andersson The Lund Model
• G. Sterman et al., Handbook of perturbative QCD, Rev. Mod. Phys. 67 (1995) 157

Some literature tips

About DGLAP evolution and the leading log approximation: The DIS chapter in Ellis-Stirling-Webber (ch 4) is good, but quite technical. Another good text seems to be the review article by G. Altarelli, Partons in Quantum Chromodynamics, [Physics Reports 81(1) (1982) 1-129]. I (Rikard) have it in my room if you want to borrow it. Chapter 9 and 10 in the book by Halzen & Martin, Quarks & Leptons is quite old and introductory, but could be useful.

Some lecture notes on hep-ph:
Lecture notes from the SLAC Summer Institute by D. Soper, hep-ph/9702203 Basics of QCD Perturbation Theory. Lecture notes by C. A. Garcia Canal and R. Sassot, hep-ph/9912233 Deep inelastic scattering, diffraction, and all that. Lecture notes from ICTP Summer School, Trieste by A. Pich, hep-ph/0001118 Aspects of Quantum Chromodynamics.