Black Book of Quantum Chromodynamics -- A Primer for the Lhc Era

This book provides an in-depth introduction to the particle physics of current and future experiments at particle accelerators. The book will provide the reader with an overview of practically all aspects of the strong interaction necessary to understand and appreciate modern particle phenomenology at the energy frontier.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Hard Scattering Formalism


• 3: QCD at Fixed Order: Technology


• 4: QCD at Fixed Order: Processes


• 5: QCD to All Orders


• 6: Parton Distribution Functions


• 7: Soft QCD


• 8: Data at the Tevatron


• 9: Data at the LHC


• 10: Summary


• Appendix A: Mathematical Background


• Appendix B: The Standard Model


• Appendix C: Catani-Seymour Subtraction

About the author

John Campbell is Senior Scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Joey Huston is MSU Foundation Professor of Physics and Astronomy in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Michigan State University.

Frank Krauss is Professor for Particle Physics at the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology and the Physics Department at Durham University.

Summary

This book provides an in-depth introduction to the particle physics of current and future experiments at particle accelerators. The book will provide the reader with an overview of practically all aspects of the strong interaction necessary to understand and appreciate modern particle phenomenology at the energy frontier.

Additional text

A comprehensive overview of the physics of the strong interaction.

Product details

• Authors: Campbell , Huston , Krauss , John Campbell, John (Senior Scientist Campbell, Campbell John, Joey Huston, Huston Joey, Frank Krauss
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9780192871961
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287196-1
• No. of pages: 768
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics; SCIENCE / Physics / Quantum Theory, SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear, Nuclear physics, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Quantum physics (quantum mechanics and quantum field theory), Particle & high-energy physics, Particle and high-energy physics, SCIENCE / Physics / Particle