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

Lectures are given on the blackboard.

A summary PDF of the lectures be found here:

Slide summary of the lectures

Tutorials

8h of tutorials on MG5_aMC spanning from LO to NLO calculations.

Tutorial slides

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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.

Monte Carlo integration

A short introduction to the techniques of Monte Carlo integration. Exercises proposed during lecture are collected in this Mathematica Notebook: mc101.nb.

LHC Phenomenology

• SM Higgs discovery at the LHC: Three important channels
• Simple Black Boxes: New gauge bosons

A collection of test, exercises, and web applications on pQCD can be found in QCD_Pavia2015.pdf.

Going NLO

1. pp>H at LO (1-loop): details of the calculation (Mathematica Notebook) HiggsGG-LO-mtfinite.nb
2. pp>H at NLO: details of the calculation (Mathematica Notebook) higgsGG-NLO.nb
3. pp>H at NLO: cross section evaluation for the LHC (Mathematica Notebook+PDF libraries to be compiled) phenHiggs.tar.gz.

A summary of the results can be found in Higgs.pdf.

-- Main.FabioMaltoni - 2017-01-05