• 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

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

Die Vorlesung beginnt am 5.5.2020

Vorlesung

• Di, 11:30 - 13:00, online (ILIAS)

Übung

• Do, 08:45 - 09:30, online (ILIAS)

Institut für Theoretische Physik (ITP)
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76131 Karlsruhe
E-Mail: gudrun.heinrich@kit.edu

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