QCD and event simulation for the LHC (Pavia 2015)

6h course on QCD, MC's and 4h tutorial on MadGraph5_aMCatNLO by Fabio Maltoni and Marco Zaro

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Lectures

The PDF of the lectures be found here:

Introduction​

QCD Redux: Three lectures on QCD basics for hadron collider physics​

MC1: From Lagrangians to Fixed order calculations​

MC2: Parton showers​

MC3: Merging and matching​

Tutorials

4h of tutorials on MG5_aMC spanning from LO to NLO calculations.

Tutorial slides​

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We provide here complimentary 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 - 2015-05-14