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Author Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics (2014 : Boulder, Colo.)

Title TASI 2014 : journeys through the precision frontier : amplitudes for colliders : proceedings of the 2014 Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics, Boulder, Colorado, 2-27 June 2014 / editors, Lance Dixon, Frank Petriello
Published Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd., ©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 621 pages)
Contents 880-01 6. Generalized Unitarity and Loop Amplitudes6.1. The plastic loop integrand; 6.2. The quadruple cut; 6.3. A five-point MHV box example; 6.4. Triangle coefficients; 6.5. The rational part; 7. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; 3. Experimental Methods at the LHC; 1. Basics of pp Collisions and Detection of Emerging Particles; 1.1. Large Hadron Collider (LHC); 1.2. Proton-proton collisions: Main concepts; 1.2.1. Cross section; 1.2.2. Luminosity; 1.2.3. A closer look at pp collisions: hard scattering, PDFs, UE, and why we use pseudorapidity instead of polar angle
880-01/(S Preface; 1. Introduction to QCD; 1. Introduction; 2. QCD as a Gauge Theory; 2.1. Construction of the QCD Lagrangian; 2.2. QCD Feynman rules; 2.3. Strength of the QCD interaction; 3. The QCD Coupling Constant; 3.1. The β-function of QCD; 4. Hadronic Final States in QCD; 4.1. Jets; 4.2. Event shapes; 4.3. Jet production in QCD; 5. Proton Structure in QCD; 5.1. Deep inelastic scattering; 5.2. Parton model; 5.3. QCD corrections to the parton model; 5.4. DGLAP equations; 5.5. Hadron collider physics; 5.6. Determination of parton distributions; 6. Multiparticle Production; 7. Conclusions
1.3. Detecting particles emerging from collisions1.3.1. Eight particles of interest; 1.3.2. Interactions of particles of interest with matter; 1.4. CMS as a representative LHC detector; 2. Event Reconstruction, Event Selection, and Statistical Analysis of Data; 2.1. Event reconstruction; 2.1.1. Leptons: electrons and muons; 2.1.2. Photons; 2.1.3. Jets (all jets, b-jets, and "fat" jets); 2.1.4. Tau-lepton jets; 2.1.5. Missing transverse momentum (MET); 2.2. Signal-vs-background enhancement strategies; 2.2.1. Cut-and-count analysis; 2.2.2. Shape-based likelihood analysis (one observable)
2.2.3. Multi-variate analysis (MVA)2.3. Statistical analysis: The pathway to final numbers; 2.3.1. An example of a counting experiment; 2.3.2. Beyond a simple counting experiment; 3. H ZZ 4 Analysis: Simple, Sophisticated, and How Much One Can Learn from a Couple of Dozen Events; 3.1. Overview; 3.2. Observation of the Higgs boson in the H ZZ 4 decay mode; 3.2.1. Event selection; 3.2.2. Evaluation of reducible background; 3.2.3. Kinematic characterization using the Matrix Element Method; 3.2.4. Observation of the Higgs boson in the H ZZ 4 decay mode
Summary "This volume is a compilation of the lectures at TASI 2014. The coverage focuses on modern calculational techniques for scattering amplitudes, and on the phenomenology of QCD in hadronic collisions. Introductions to flavor physics, dark matter, and physics beyond the Standard Model are also provided. The lectures are accessible to graduate students at the initial stages of their research careers."-- Provided by publisher
Notes Title from PDF file title page (viewed October 29, 2015)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Quantum chromodynamics -- Congresses
Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland) -- Congresses
String models -- Congresses
Particles (Nuclear physics)
Gravity -- Congresses
Elementary Particles
particle physics.
SCIENCE -- Physics -- Quantum Theory.
Gravity
Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland)
Particles (Nuclear physics)
Quantum chromodynamics
String models
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Dixon, Lance Jenkins
Petriello, Frank
World Scientific (Firm)
ISBN 9789814678766
9814678767
Other Titles Journeys through the precision frontier : amplitudes for colliders