Theory lecture 9

27 Abril 2022, 08:30 João Nuno Ramalho Gonçalves Pires

  • 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
  • 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