Enseignement académique: QCD: are we ready for the LHC

2006-2007 ACADEMIC TRAINING PROGRAMME
LECTURE SERIES
4, 5, 6, 7 December, from 11:00 to 12:00
4, 5, 6 December - Main Auditorium, bldg. 500, 7 December - TH Auditorium, bldg. 4 - 3-006

QCD: are we ready for the LHC
S. FRIXIONE / INFN, Genoa, Italy

The LHC energy regime poses a serious challenge to our capability of predicting QCD reactions to the level of accuracy necessary for a successful programme of searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. In these lectures, I'll introduce basic concepts in QCD, and present techniques based on perturbation theory, such as fixed-order and resummed computations, and Monte Carlo simulations.

I'll discuss applications of these techniques to hadron-hadron processes, concentrating on recent trends in perturbative QCD aimed at improving our understanding of LHC phenomenology.