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| | 3 | = '''Collider Phenomenology''' (Oxford, BUSSTEP 2017)= |
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| | 5 | An introduction to the collider physics, through a quick tour on perturbative QCD (with the minimum required to understand LHC events) and examples of phenomenology of jets, Higgs and the top quark. |
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| | 7 | Lectures are given at the blackboard with some material presented through slides. Reference slides containing a much wider selection of topics with respect to those actually presented can be found here: |
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| | 9 | 1. A QCD tool box [attachment:BUSSTEP-QCD.pdf Slides] |
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| | 11 | 2. The SM of EW interactions [attachment:BUSSTEP-SM.pdf Slides] |
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| | 13 | 3. The Higgs boson [attachment:BUSSTEP-Higgs.pdf Slides] |
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| | 15 | 4. The Top quark [attachment:BUSSTEP-Top.pdf Slides] |
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| | 17 | 5. Searching New Physics through the Higgs and the top quark [attachment:BUSSTEP-NewPhysicsHiggsTop.pdf Slides] |
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| | 20 | === Supporting material === |
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| | 22 | The course includes tests, simple exercises, fully worked out numerical calculations/simulations, and a complete and easy-to-use series of mathematica notebooks which allow the computation at next-to-leading order accuracy of the total production cross section of a Higgs boson in gluon-gluon fusion at the |
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| | 31 | [attachment:QCD-GGI-2017.pdf QCD Exercises] |
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| | 36 | We provide here complementary material to the lectures that can used by students to verify their understanding of the basic concepts. |
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| | 39 | ===== LHC Phenomenology ===== |
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| | 41 | * [wiki:DiscoverTheHiggs SM Higgs discovery at the LHC]: Three important channels |
| | 42 | * [wiki:WarmingUpChallenge Simple Black Boxes]: New gauge bosons |
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| | 45 | ==== Higgs production at the LHC : A case study ==== |
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| | 47 | 1. pp>H at LO (1-loop): details of the calculation (Mathematica Notebook) [attachment:HiggsGG-LO-mtfinite.nb HiggsGG-LO-mtfinite.nb] |
| | 48 | 1. pp>H at NLO: details of the calculation (Mathematica Notebook) [attachment:higgsgg-nlo.nb higgsgg-nlo.nb] |
| | 49 | 1. pp>H at NLO: cross section evaluation for the LHC (Mathematica Notebook+PDF libraries to be compiled) [attachment:phenHiggs.zip]. |
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| | 51 | The original paper by Sally Dawson on the NLO calculation can be found [attachment:dawson_ggh_nlo.pdf here] and a note of the calculation results can be found in [http://inspirehep.net/record/1359548/files/95-122%20Maltoni.pdf here]. |
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| | 54 | ==== Bibliography ==== |
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| | 56 | The main references for the lectures are: |
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| | 58 | * QCD and collider physics, The pink Book, by Ellis, Stirling and Webber, Cambridge Press. |
| | 59 | * Michelangelo Mangano [attachment:Mangano.pdf write-up] of his QCD lectures. |
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| | 63 | -- Main.FabioMaltoni - 2017-01-05 |
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