Contacts

• Andrea Banfi

  • office: HIT K 41.3
  • Phone: +41 44 633 78 54
  • email: banfi AT itp.phys
  • web page: ~banfi

• Achilleas Lazopoulos

  • office: HIT K 41.3
  • Phone: +41 44 633 79 73
  • email: lazopoulos AT itp.phys
  • web page: ~lazopoli

Introduction to the course

Theoretical aspects of Quantum Chromodynamics, the theory of strong interactions.

Objective: Basic knowledge of perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of Quantum Chromodynamics sufficient to be able to perform simple calculations and to understand modern publications on this research field.

Content: QCD Lagrangian and Feynman rules; running QCD coupling and asymptotic freedom; parton model; Altarelli-Parisi equations; jets; basic processes; experimental tests at lepton and hadron colliders; lattice gauge theories; current algebra.

Lectures notes and addons.

NEW: some indicative questions for the exam.

25 FEB	AL	Introduction to Colour	notes	ref 1,3	exercises
4 MAR	AB	Classical QCD Lagrangian, gauge invariance, color algebra	notes	ref 1	exercises
11 MAR	AB	Quantum QCD Lagrangian, gauge fixing, Feynman rules	notes	ref 1	exercises
18 MAR	AL	Renormalization of QCD	notes	ref 1	exercises
25 MAR	AL	Renormalization of QCD - Beta function	notes	ref 1	exercises
1 APR	AB	Renormalization Group Equations, asymptotic freedom	notes	ref 1	exercises
15 APR	AL	e+ e- to hadrons	notes	ref 1,2,3	exercises
22 APR	AL	Deep Inelastic Scattering	notes	ref 3,2,1	exercises
29 APR	AL	Deep Inelastic Scattering	notes	ref 3,2,1	exercises
6 MAY	AB	Drell-Yan	notes	ref 2,4,5	exercises
20 MAY	AB	Infrared and collinear singularities in QCD	notes	ref 6	exercises
27 MAY	AB	Hadronic final states: jets, event shapes etc.	notes	ref 1,3	exercises
3 JUN	AL	Parton Showers, Hadronization, Underlying Event	notes	ref 3,7	exercises

Bibliography - references

1. Foundations of Quantum Chromodynamics: An Introduction to Perturbative Methods in Gauge Theories, by Taizo Muta
2. QCD and Collider Physics by R.K. Ellis, W.J. Stirling and B.R. Webber
3. Quantum Chromodynamics: High Energy Experiments and Theory by Günther Dissertori, Ian G. Knowles, Michael Schmelling
4. Handbook of Perturbative QCD, by the CTEQ collaboration
5. Large perturbative corrections to the Drell-Yan process in QCD by Altarelli, Ellis and Martinelli
6. Factorization of Hard Processes in QCD by John C. Collins, Davison E. Soper, George Sterman
7. Dressing the partons and Kingdoms of Modelling by F. Krauss (from the Pauli center for theoretical studies Lecture series on "The Infrared Structure of Gauge Theories")