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:

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.

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

• SM Higgs discovery at the LHC: Three important channels
• 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) 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.zip​.

The original paper by Sally Dawson on the NLO calculation can be found dawson_ggh_nlo.pdf here​ and a note of the calculation results can be found in ​here.

Bibliography

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