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| 7 | An introduction to the phenomenology of strong interactions at high-energy colliders is given. We focus on the basic concepts and results in perturbative QCD that allow us not only to describe but also reliably predict rates and features of SM (as well as of New Physics) events at the LHC. |
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| 9 | 1. The parton model: from DIS to hadron-hadron collider phenomenology. |
| 10 | 1. Perturbative QCD as a weakly interacting theory of gluons and quarks at high-energy. |
| 11 | 1. The IR structure of QCD in e+e- collisions: infrared safety, parton showers and jets. |
| 12 | 1. Factorisation, DGLAP evolution, accurate and precise QCD predictions for LHC physics. |
| 13 | 1. Selected topics in New Physics searches and SM measurements the LHC. |
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| 15 | The course includes tests, simple exercises, fully worked out numerical calculations/simulations, and a complete and easy-to-use series of mathematica notebooks which support 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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