=  '''QCD and Collider Physics''' (Florence, GGI 2017)=

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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=== Lectures (F. Maltoni) ===


Lectures are given on the blackboard. 

A summary  PDF of the lectures be found here:

[attachment:QCDandColliderPhysics-GGI-2017.pdf Slide summary of the lectures]


=== Tutorials (M. Zaro) ===


8h of tutorials on QCD and aspects of computations in QCD, spanning from LO to NLO calculations with applications using MadGraph5_aMC@NLO.

[attachment:QCD-GGI-2017.pdf QCD Exercises]

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We provide here complementary material to the lectures that can used by students to verify their understanding of the basic concepts. 


===== LHC Phenomenology =====

   * [wiki:DiscoverTheHiggs SM Higgs discovery at the LHC]: Three important channels
   * [wiki:WarmingUpChallenge Simple Black Boxes]: New gauge bosons


==== Higgs production at the LHC : A case study ====

   1. pp>H at LO (1-loop): details of the calculation (Mathematica Notebook) [attachment:HiggsGG-LO-mtfinite.nb HiggsGG-LO-mtfinite.nb]
   1. pp>H at NLO: details of the calculation (Mathematica Notebook) [attachment:higgsgg-nlo.nb higgsgg-nlo.nb]
   1. pp>H at NLO: cross section evaluation for the LHC (Mathematica Notebook+PDF libraries to be compiled) [attachment:phenHiggs.zip].

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].


==== Bibliography ====



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