The Black Book of Quantum Chromodynamics

This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The Black Book of Quantum Chromodynamics is an in-depth introduction to the particle physics of current and future experiments at particle accelerators. The book offers the reader an overview of practically all aspects of the strong interaction necessaryto understand and appreciate modern particle phenomenology at the energy frontier. It assumes a working knowledge of quantum field theory at the level of introductory textbooks used for advanced undergraduate orin standard postgraduate lectures. The book expands this knowledge with an intuitive understanding of relevant physical concepts, an introduction to modern techniques, and their application to the phenomenology of the strong interaction at the highest energies. Aimed at graduate students and researchers, it also serves as a comprehensive reference for LHC experimenters and theorists. This book offers an exhaustive presentation of the technologies developed and used bypractitioners in the field of fixed-order perturbation theory and an overview of results relevant for the ongoing research programme at the LHC. It includes an in-depth description of various analyticresummation techniques, which form the basis for our understanding of the QCD radiation pattern and how strong production processes manifest themselves in data, and a concise discussion of numerical resummation through parton showers, which form the basis of event generators for the simulation of LHC physics, and their matching and merging with fixed-order matrix elements. It also gives a detailed presentation of the physics behind the parton distribution functions, which are a necessaryingredient for every calculation relevant for physics at hadron colliders such as the LHC, and an introduction to non-perturbative aspects of the strong interaction, including inclusive observables such astotal and elastic cross sections, and non-trivial effects such as multiple parton interactions and hadronization. The book concludes with a useful overview contextualising data from previous experiments such as the Tevatron and the Run I of the LHC which have shaped our understanding of QCD at hadron colliders.

“"This excellent and very timely book, written by leading practitioners in the study of strong interactions at hadron colliders, is incredibly broad, covering the full range of concepts and techniques necessary to understand this rich, complex and rapidly developing subject. It captures many of the recent technological advances in perturbative QCD in a clear and concise manner, and combines it with an insightful and comprehensive study of Tevatron and Run 1 LHC data. It is pitched at exactly the right level both to imbue theorists with the necessary depth of understanding of data and to introduce experimentalists to the advantages and disadvantages of different theoretical descriptions. It is a valuable resource one could use as a basis for a graduate course in collider physics, or for more experienced practitioners to dip into." -- Nigel Glover, Institute of Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham University "The complexity of carrying out precise experimental measurements at high-energy colliders such as the LHC is matched by the complexity of the calculations needed to attain the same level of precision in the theoretical predictions. In recent decades there has been significant progress in understanding how to manipulate the underlying quantum field theory, Quantum Chromodynamics, to enable such calculations to be performed. This book, written by world experts in the field, provides a magnificently comprehensive and accessible user guide to the concepts and techniques for doing precision QCD calculations for LHC physics." -- W.J. Stirling, Provost, Imperial College London "I would like to congratulate the authors for producing such a comprehensive and up-to-date book on collider physics and the applications of perturbative QCD. This is a very useful book for both theory and experimental students and postdocs. The authors do a nice job in describing the evolution of our understanding of collider physics in going from the Tevatron to the LHC. The book is an excellent resource for high energy physics researchers, both young and old, as well as for a graduate course in modern particle physics." -- Rick Field, Professor of Physics at the University of Florida and author of Applications of Perturbative QCD "The broad and overlapping expertise of the authors means that this book covers all the topics relevant to strong interactions at hadron colliders, from fixed-order QCD calculations to all-orders resummation, parton shower simulations and parton distribution functions, concluding with an excellent up-to-date review of the experimental data and future prospects." -- Bryan Webber, FRS, Professor of Physics at Cambridge University, author of QCD and Collider Physics”

The three authors of the Black Book of of Quantum Chromodynamics are leading world experts in the field and have produced an authoritative and comprehensive text on the subject. There is a wealth of information for students of particle physics and for researchers in high energy physics which has never before been collected together in one place. Alan D. Martin, Contemporary Physics
...a comprehensive overview of the physics of the strong interaction. Virginia Greco, CERN Courier
This excellent and very timely book, written by leading practitioners in the study of strong interactions at hadron colliders, is incredibly broad, covering the full range of concepts and techniques necessary to understand this rich, complex and rapidly developing subject. It captures many of the recent technological advances in perturbative QCD in a clear and concise manner, and combines it with an insightful and comprehensive study of Tevatron and Run 1 LHC data. It is pitched at exactly the right level both to imbue theorists with the necessary depth of understanding of data and to introduce experimentalists to the advantages and disadvantages of different theoretical descriptions. It is a valuable resource one could use as a basis for a graduate course in collider physics, or for more experienced practitioners to dip into. Nigel Glover, Institute of Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham University
The complexity of carrying out precise experimental measurements at high-energy colliders such as the LHC is matched by the complexity of the calculations needed to attain the same level of precision in the theoretical predictions. In recent decades there has been significant progress in understanding how to manipulate the underlying quantum field theory, Quantum Chromodynamics, to enable such calculations to be performed. This book, written by world experts in the field, provides a magnificently comprehensive and accessible user guide to the concepts and techniques for doing precision QCD calculations for LHC physics. W.J. Stirling, Provost, Imperial College London
I would like to congratulate the authors for producing such a comprehensive and up-to-date book on collider physics and the applications of perturbative QCD. This is a very useful book for both theory and experimental students and postdocs. The authors do a nice job in describing the evolution of our understanding of collider physics in going from the Tevatron to the LHC. The book is an excellent resource for high energy physics researchers, both young and old, as well as for a graduate course in modern particle physics. Rick Field, Professor of Physics at the University of Florida and author of Applications of Perturbative QCD
The broad and overlapping expertise of the authors means that this book covers all the topics relevant to strong interactions at hadron colliders, from fixed-order QCD calculations to all-orders resummation, parton shower simulations and parton distribution functions, concluding with an excellent up-to-date review of the experimental data and future prospects. Bryan Webber, FRS, Professor of Physics at Cambridge University, author of QCD and Collider Physics

John Campbell is Senior Scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Joey Huston is MSU Foundation Professor of Physics and Astronomy in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Michigan State University. Frank Krauss is Professor for Particle Physics at the Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology and the Physics Department at Durham University.

The Black Book of Quantum Chromodynamics is an in-depth introduction to the particle physics of current and future experiments at particle accelerators. The book offers the reader an overview of practically all aspects of the strong interaction necessary to understand and appreciate modern particle phenomenology at the energy frontier. It assumes a working knowledge of quantum field theory at the level of introductory textbooks used for advancedundergraduate or in standard postgraduate lectures. The book expands this knowledge with an intuitive understanding of relevant physical concepts, an introduction to modern techniques, and their application to the phenomenology of the strong interaction at the highest energies. Aimed at graduate students andresearchers, it also serves as a comprehensive reference for LHC experimenters and theorists.This book offers an exhaustive presentation of the technologies developed and used by practitioners in the field of fixed-order perturbation theory and an overview of results relevant for the ongoing research programme at the LHC. It includes an in-depth description of various analytic resummation techniques, which form the basis for our understanding of the QCD radiation pattern and how strong production processes manifest themselves in data, and a concise discussion of numerical resummationthrough parton showers, which form the basis of event generators for the simulation of LHC physics, and their matching and merging with fixed-order matrix elements. It also gives a detailed presentation of the physics behind the parton distribution functions, which are a necessary ingredient forevery calculation relevant for physics at hadron colliders such as the LHC, and an introduction to non-perturbative aspects of the strong interaction, including inclusive observables such as total and elastic cross sections, and non-trivial effects such as multiple parton interactions and hadronization. The book concludes with a useful overview contextualising data from previous experiments such as the Tevatron and the Run I of the LHC which have shaped our understanding of QCD at hadroncolliders.

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