Course on Introduction to the Physics of Hadronic Collisions

[Sain Rosanna, ICTP - Trieste]

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Course on INTRODUCTION TO THE PHYSICS OF
HADRONIC COLLISIONS

Prof. M. MANGANO (CERN, Geneva)

	
	Please note that Prof. M. Mangano will give a short course on 
Introduction to the Physics of Hadronic Collisions as per following 
schedule.  All lessons will take place in Lecture Room C.

Monday 7 July - 14:00-15:30
Tuesday 8 July - 11:00-12:30
Wednesday 9 July - 11:00-12:30
Thursday 10 July - 11:00-12:30
Friday 11 July - 11:00-14:30


Lecture 1: Initial-state evolution
- The factorization theorem
- Partonic densities and their evolution
- Applications to Drell-Yan production

Lecture 2: Final-state evolution
- Soft gluon emission
- Angular ordering
- Shower evolution, preconfinement, and hadronization

Lecture 3: The simulation of hadronic collisions
- Cross-section evaluators
- Parton-level Monte Carlos
- Shower Monte Carlos

Lecture 4: Objects and observables in hadronic collisions
- Jets
- Leptons
- Heavy quarks

Lecture 5: Example of applications
- The study of backgrounds to Supersymmetry searches


ALL THOSE INTERESTED ARE MOST WELCOME TO ATTEND!

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