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| | 3 | = '''QCD and MC tools for the LHC''' in Pavia 2015= |
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| | 5 | 6h course on QCD, MC's and 4h tutorial on MadGraph5_aMCatNLO |
| | 6 | by Fabio Maltoni and Marco Zaro |
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| | 11 | ---- |
| | 12 | === Lectures === |
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| | 15 | The PDF of the lectures be found here: |
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| | 17 | [attachment:intro.pdf Introduction] |
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| | 19 | [attachment:QCDRedux.pdf QCD Redux: Three lectures on QCD basics for hadron collider physics] |
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| | 21 | [attachment:MC1.pdf MC1: From Lagrangians to Fixed order calculations] |
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| | 23 | [attachment:MC2.pdf MC2: Parton showers] |
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| | 25 | [attachment:MC3.pdf MC3: Merging and matching] |
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| | 27 | ==== Tests and exercises ==== |
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| | 29 | We provide here complimentary material to the lectures that can used by students to verify their understanding of the basic concepts. |
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| | 31 | ===== Monte Carlo integration ===== |
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| | 33 | A short introduction to the techniques of Monte Carlo integration. Exercises proposed during lecture are collected in this Mathematica Notebook: [attachment:mc101.nb mc101.nb]. |
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| | 35 | ===== LHC Phenomenology ===== |
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| | 37 | * [wiki:DiscoverTheHiggs SM Higgs discovery at the LHC]: Three important channels |
| | 38 | * [wiki:WarmingUpChallenge Simple Black Boxes]: New gauge bosons |
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| | 41 | A collection of test, exercises, and web applications on pQCD can be found in [attachment:QCD_TASI2013.pdf QCD_TASI2013.pdf]. |
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| | 43 | ==== Going NLO ==== |
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| | 45 | 1. pp>H at LO (1-loop): details of the calculation (Mathematica Notebook) [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/CernSchool2011/HiggsGG-LO-mtfinite.nb HiggsGG-LO-mtfinite.nb] |
| | 46 | 1. pp>H at NLO: details of the calculation (Mathematica Notebook) [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/CernSchool2011/HiggsGG-NLO.nb higgsGG-NLO.nb] |
| | 47 | 1. pp>H at NLO: cross section evaluation for the LHC (Mathematica Notebook+PDF libraries to be compiled) [https://cp3.irmp.ucl.ac.be/projects/madgraph/attachment/wiki/CernSchool2011/phenHiggs.tar.gz phenHiggs.tar.gz]. |
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| | 49 | A summary of the results can be found in [attachment:Higgs.pdf Higgs.pdf]. |
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| | 52 | === Tutorials === |
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| | 55 | ==== Madgraph tutorial (I) ==== |
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| | 57 | * [attachment:13_06_10_tutomg_tasi.pdf MG5 Tutorial (question and answer)] |
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| | 59 | ==== FeynRules tutorial ==== |
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| | 61 | * [attachment:feynrules.tar.gz FeynRules] |
| | 62 | * [attachment:Tutorial.pdf Hand out] |
| | 63 | * [attachment:FR_TASI_2013.pdf Slides] |
| | 64 | * [attachment:Tutorial.tar.gz Tutorial Solutions] |
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| | 66 | ==== Madgraph tutorial (II) ==== |
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| | 68 | * [attachment:13_06_13_tutomg_tasi2.pdf BSM in MG5 (question only)] |
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| | 70 | -- Main.FabioMaltoni - 2013-06-06 |
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