======  Colourful Loops: Introduction to Quantum Chromodynamics and Loop Calculations ====== 

===== Contents (preliminary) =====

  * QCD Lagrangian, Feynman Rules
  * Colour Algebra
  * Tree level amplitudes
  * From amplitudes to cross sections
  * Renormalisation Group and the QCD Beta Function
  * Next-to-Leading Order in perturbation theory
  * One-Loop Integrals
  * Soft and Collinear Singularities
  * Parton Distribution Functions
  * Techniques for Two-Loop Amplitudes and Integrals

====== Literature ======

**Textbooks**

  * G. Dissertori, I. Knowles, M. Schmelling, "Quantum Chromodynamics: High energy experiments and theory", International Series of Monographs on Physics No. 115, Oxford University Press, Feb. 2003. Reprinted in 2005.
  * T. Muta, "Foundations of QCD", World Scientific (1997).
  * J. Campbell, J. Huston and F. Krauss, "The Black Book of Quantum Chromodynamics: A Primer for the LHC Era", Oxford University Press, December 2017.
  * R.K. Ellis, W.J. Stirling and B.R. Webber, "QCD and collider physics", Cambridge University Press, Camb. Monogr. Part. Phys. Nucl. Phys. Cosmol.  8 (1996) 1.
  * V.A.Smirnov, "Feynman integral calculus", Springer, Berlin 2006.

**Lecture Notes**
  * https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.5353
  * https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.00770
  * https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.02381 
  * http://cds.cern.ch/record/454171

====== Organisatorisches ======

Die Vorlesung beginnt am 5.5.2020

**Vorlesung**
  * Di, 11:30 - 13:00, online (ILIAS)
 

**Übung**
  * Do, 08:45 - 09:30, online (ILIAS)

====== Team ======


===== Prof. Gudrun Heinrich  =====

Institut für Theoretische Physik (ITP) \\ 
Campus Süd, Geb. 30.23   \\
Wolfgang-Gaede-Strasse 1  \\
76131 Karlsruhe  \\
E-Mail: [[gudrun.heinrich@kit.edu]]

===== Dr. Tomas Jezo =====

Institut für Theoretische Physik (ITP)  \\
Campus Süd, Geb. 30.23  \\
Wolfgang-Gaede-Strasse 1  \\
76131 Karlsruhe \\
E-Mail: [[tomas.jezo@kit.edu]]