Sumários

Exercise class 8

7 Maio 2025, 09:00 João Nuno Ramalho Gonçalves Pires

Discussion and solution of the eigth series of exercises.



Theory lecture 10

5 Maio 2025, 15:00 João Nuno Ramalho Gonçalves Pires

  • Matrix-element calculations in QED and QCD
  • Colour confinment hypothesis: colour singlet meson and baryon wavefunctions
  • Evaluating QCD colour factors and QCD colour potential
  • e+e- annihilation to hadrons: experimental evidence for QCD colour degree of freedom
  • hadronization, jet production and jet algorithms at LEP: dijet angular distributions with spin 1/2 final state quarks 
  • gluon emission in 3-jet events at LEP: gluon spin determination
  • experimental tests of the non-abelian QCD triple gluon vertex with 4 jet events at LEP
  • renormalization in QED and QCD and running coupling constants of QED and QCD
  • experimental evidence for asymptotic freedom of the SU(3) QCD coupling constant
  • factorization theorem for hadron-hadron cross sections at the LHC
  • hadron collider event kinematics
  • Drell-Yan and jet production at the LHC and the search for new physics beyond the Standard Model

Recommended reading: Chapter 10 of Mark Thomson's book and Chapter 9 of D.Griffith's book


Exercise class 7

30 Abril 2025, 09:00 João Nuno Ramalho Gonçalves Pires

Discussion and solution of the seventh series of exercises.


Theory lecture 10

28 Abril 2025, 15:00 João Nuno Ramalho Gonçalves Pires

Class canceled due to a national power outage.


Exercise class 6

16 Abril 2025, 09:00 João Nuno Ramalho Gonçalves Pires

Discussion and solution of the sixth series of exercises.