A QCD Primer

Guido Altarelli

doi:10.1063/1.1513677

A QCD Primer

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-11-07 v1

Authors: Guido Altarelli

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1. Introduction 2. Massless QCD and Scale Invariance 3. The Renormalisation Group and Asymptotic Freedom 4. More on the Running Coupling 5. Application to Hard Processes 5.1 $R_{e^+e^-}$ and Related Processes 5.2 The Final State in $e^+e^-$ Annihilation 5.3 Deep Inelastic Scattering 5.4 Factorisation and the QCD Improved Parton Model 6. Measurements of $\alpha_s$ 6.1 $\alpha_s$ from $e^+e^-$ Colliders 6.2 $\alpha_s$ from Deep Inelastic Scattering 7. Conclusion 8. Appendix: The Formalism of Gauge Theories

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perturbative qcd renormalization in quantum field theory quantum electrodynamics

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0204179,
  title  = {A QCD Primer},
  author = {Guido Altarelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0204179},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Lectures given at the 2001 European School of High-Energy Physics, Beatenberg, Switzerland and at the Pan American Advanced Studies Institute on "New States of Matter in Hadronic Interactions", January 2002,Campos do Jordao, Brazil

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