Two Lectures on QCD at Short Distances: Jets and Factorization
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-06-23 v1
Abstract
This is a brief introduction to two of the central concepts in perturbative quantum chromodynamics, jets and factorization, which serve as windows into the short-distance behavior of quantum fields.
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@article{arxiv.1412.5698,
title = {Two Lectures on QCD at Short Distances: Jets and Factorization},
author = {George Sterman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.5698},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
34 pages, 21 figures. Based on lectures presented at 54th Cracow School of Theoretical Physics,"Quantum Chromodynamics meets experiment", held at Zakopane, Poland, June 2014