Below is some material related to PhD-level lectures I've given (if
no material is given, click on the link to get to the official
school page and programme):
-
2 lectures, as part of a series of 4 given together with Matteo
Cacciari on jets during the Focus Week at the GGI Workshop on
High
energy QCD after the start of the LHC,
Florence, Italy, September 2011.
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2 lectures on jets at
the 2011
IPMU-YITP School and Workshop on Monte Carlo Tools for LHC,
Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University,
September 2011.
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3 CERN
academic training lectures on jets, March 2011:
- Lecture
1: introduction, followed by an outline of some of the main
sequential recombination jet algorithms
- Lecture 2:
comparing theory and experiment (including illustration of
cone-algorithm issues); the relation between a
parton and a jet; jet shapes; and the example of top reconstruction
- Lecture 3:
optimising the use of jets in a simple case (dijet
reconstruction); and the study of fat jets, i.e. boosted
hadronically-decaying massive objects.
- 4 introductory lectures on QCD,
given at
the 2010
Maria Laach autumn high-energy-physics school, Germany,
September 2010. This is an abridged version of the Bautzen lectures
given below.
- Lecture
1: Introduction (Lagrangian, perturbative and non-perturbative methods, beta-function,
soft and collinear divergences)
- Lecture
2: The concepts of parton showers and jets
- Lecture
3: Parton Distribution Functions
- Lecture
4: QCD as it's relevant at the LHC
- Jet Physics at the Cargèse: Physics at TeV
colliders school, July 2010.
- Jet Physics at
the Aspects
of perturbative Quantum chromodynamics Bielefeld-Paris-Helsinki
school, Orsay, France, March 2010.
- 4 introductory lectures on QCD, for experimental PhD students,
given at
the 2009 European
School of High Energy Physics, in Bautzen, Germany, June 2009:
- Lecture
1: Basics (Lagrangian, perturbative and non-perturbative methods, beta-function,
soft and collinear divergences).
- Lecture
2: Parton Distribution Functions.
- Lecture 3: A brief overview of fixed order calculations, parton showers.
- Lecture 4: Merging fixed-order and parton-shower
calculations; jets.
- Two
lectures on jets at
the 2008 CTEQ-MCnet Summer
School on QCD Phenomenology and Monte Carlo Event Generators,
Debrecen, Hungary, August 2008.
These lectures provide an introduction to sequential
recombination and cone-type jet algorithms, including concrete
illustrations of the differences between various cone
algorithms. They also discuss questions related to infrared and
collinear safety, and look at issues and difficulties that arise
when trying determine which jet definitions are "best".
- Transparencies
and
some simple
exercises for a course on the theory of jets at the École de de Gif 2007.
- Two seminars in a series
accompanying the course by
Gabriele Veneziano on perturbative QCD at the Collège de
France (Paris, France, 2005)
- Phenomenology (Course given at BUSSTEPP 2004,
Plymouth, UK, August 2004, and BUSSTEPP 2005, Ambleside, UK, August 2005)
The course consists of 4 lectures: - Lecture
1: quick recall of the standard model and an introduction to
indirect bounds on the Higgs mass
- Lecture
2: the search for the Higgs boson
- Lecture
3: introduction to QCD and to soft radiation
- Lecture
4: QCD for processes with incoming protons
- Lecture
4 (from 2004): QCD jets and principles of "all-order"
calculations