QCD as a Theory of Hadrons

QCD as a Theory of Hadrons
Author: S. Narison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 820
Release: 2004-02-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780521811644

An introduction to the basic theory and recent advances in QCD, for graduates and researchers.

Basics of Perturbative QCD

Basics of Perturbative QCD
Author: Yuri Dokshitzer
Publisher: Atlantica Séguier Frontières
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1991
Genre: Perturbation (Quantum dynamics).
ISBN: 9782863321010

Looking Inside Jets

Looking Inside Jets
Author: Simone Marzani
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2019-05-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030157091

This concise primer reviews the latest developments in the field of jets. Jets are collinear sprays of hadrons produced in very high-energy collisions, e.g. at the LHC or at a future hadron collider. They are essential to and ubiquitous in experimental analyses, making their study crucial. At present LHC energies and beyond, massive particles around the electroweak scale are frequently produced with transverse momenta that are much larger than their mass, i.e., boosted. The decay products of such boosted massive objects tend to occupy only a relatively small and confined area of the detector and are observed as a single jet. Jets hence arise from many different sources and it is important to be able to distinguish the rare events with boosted resonances from the large backgrounds originating from Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). This requires familiarity with the internal properties of jets, such as their different radiation patterns, a field broadly known as jet substructure. This set of notes begins by providing a phenomenological motivation, explaining why the study of jets and their substructure is of particular importance for the current and future program of the LHC, followed by a brief but insightful introduction to QCD and to hadron-collider phenomenology. The next section introduces jets as complex objects constructed from a sequential recombination algorithm. In this context some experimental aspects are also reviewed. Since jet substructure calculations are multi-scale problems that call for all-order treatments (resummations), the bases of such calculations are discussed for simple jet quantities. With these QCD and jet physics ingredients in hand, readers can then dig into jet substructure itself. Accordingly, these notes first highlight the main concepts behind substructure techniques and introduce a list of the main jet substructure tools that have been used over the past decade. Analytic calculations are then provided for several families of tools, the goal being to identify their key characteristics. In closing, the book provides an overview of LHC searches and measurements where jet substructure techniques are used, reviews the main take-home messages, and outlines future perspectives.

QCD and Collider Physics

QCD and Collider Physics
Author: R. K. Ellis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2003-12-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780521545891

A detailed overview of the physics of high-energy colliders emphasising the role of QCD.

Hadronic Jets

Hadronic Jets
Author: Andrea Banfi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
Genre: SCIENCE
ISBN: 9780750347365

This second edition course text provides a general overview of jet physics by presenting the basic experimental and theoretical problems arising when dealing with jets, and describing the solutions proposed in recent years.

QCD as a Theory of Hadrons

QCD as a Theory of Hadrons
Author: Stephan Narison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 813
Release: 2023-01-31
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1009290312

This 2004 book provides a pedagogical introduction to the perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The text introduces the basic theory of QCD and its historical development, covering pre-QCD ideas of strong interactions such as the quark and parton models, the notion of colours and the S-matrix approach. The author then discusses gauge theory, techniques of dimensional regularization and renormalization, deep inelastic scattering and hard processes in hadron collisions, hadron jets and e+e- annihilations. Other topics include power corrections and the technologies of the Shifman-Vainshtein-Zakharov operating product expansion. The final parts of the book are devoted to modern non-perturbative approaches to QCD and the phenomenological aspects of QCD spectral sum rules. The book will be a valuable reference for graduate students and researchers in high-energy particle and nuclear physics, both theoretical and experimental. This book has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

Jets of Hadrons

Jets of Hadrons
Author: Werner Hofmann
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2006-04-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3540385894

Quark--Gluon Plasma 3

Quark--Gluon Plasma 3
Author: Rudolph C. Hwa
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 786
Release: 2004
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9812795537

Annotation. Text reviews the major topics in Quark-Gluon Plasma, including: the QCD phase diagram, the transition temperature, equation of state, heavy quark free energies, and thermal modifications of hadron properties. Includes index, references, and appendix. For researchers and practitioners.