Academic Training Lecture For Postgraduate Students

QCD

Name: QCD
Start: 1999-11-15T11:00:00+01:00
End: 1999-11-15T11:15:00+01:00
Location: CERN

by B. WEBBER (CERN/TH)

Monday 15 Nov 1999, 11:00 → 11:15 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

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Description

Lecture 1 The lectures will first cover the basic properties of QCD: the Lagrangian, the running coupling, asymptotic freedom and colour confinement. Next, some examples of perturbative calculations in electron-positron physics (total cross sections and event shapes) will be given. The "parton branching" approach will then be used to derive the evolution equations for hadron structure functions and jet fragmentation functions. Comparisons with data on deep inelastic scattering and jet production will be given. Hadronization models will be described and compared with recent data. If time permits, non-perturbative corrections to perturbative QCD predictions will be also be discussed.