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| 3 | = '''QCD and Collider Physics''' (Florence, GGI 2017)= |
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| 5 | 10h course on QCD, MC's and 8h tutorials on QCD and the physics of colliders, in particular the LHC, by Fabio Maltoni and Marco Zaro |
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| 9 | === Lectures === |
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| 12 | Lectures are given on the blackboard. |
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| 14 | A summary PDF of the lectures be found here: |
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| 16 | [attachment:GGI2017.pdf Slide summary of the lectures] |
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| 19 | === Tutorials === |
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| 22 | 8h of tutorials on MG5_aMC spanning from LO to NLO calculations. |
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| 24 | [attachment:exercises-2017.pdf Tutorial slides] |
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| 29 | 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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| 31 | ===== Monte Carlo integration ===== |
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| 33 | A short introduction to the techniques of Monte Carlo integration. Exercises proposed during lecture are collected in this Mathematica Notebook: [attachment:mc101.nb mc101.nb]. |
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| 35 | ===== LHC Phenomenology ===== |
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| 37 | * [wiki:DiscoverTheHiggs SM Higgs discovery at the LHC]: Three important channels |
| 38 | * [wiki:WarmingUpChallenge Simple Black Boxes]: New gauge bosons |
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| 41 | A collection of test, exercises, and web applications on pQCD can be found in [attachment:QCD_Pavia2015.pdf QCD_Pavia2015.pdf]. |
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| 43 | ==== Going NLO ==== |
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| 45 | 1. pp>H at LO (1-loop): details of the calculation (Mathematica Notebook) [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/CernSchool2011/HiggsGG-LO-mtfinite.nb HiggsGG-LO-mtfinite.nb] |
| 46 | 1. pp>H at NLO: details of the calculation (Mathematica Notebook) [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/CernSchool2011/HiggsGG-NLO.nb higgsGG-NLO.nb] |
| 47 | 1. pp>H at NLO: cross section evaluation for the LHC (Mathematica Notebook+PDF libraries to be compiled) [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/CernSchool2011/phenHiggs.tar.gz phenHiggs.tar.gz]. |
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| 49 | A summary of the results can be found in [attachment:Higgs.pdf Higgs.pdf]. |
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| 53 | -- Main.FabioMaltoni - 2017-01-05 |
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