The Black Book of Quantum Chromodynamics provides a thorough introduction to particle physics, with a focus on experiments at the energy frontier such as those at the LHC. This study book is written by John Campbell and colleagues and addresses the strong interaction in the context of modern particle physics.
The book covers essential concepts and techniques, including fixed-order perturbation theory, resummation, and parton distribution functions, which are crucial for understanding QCD processes at hadron colliders. In addition, both analytical and numerical methods are discussed that are applied in LHC physics, including non-perturbative aspects such as multiple parton interactions and hadronization.
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- Author: John Campbell (Senior Scientist, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication date: 2017-12-14
- Number of pages: 768
- ISBN: 9780199652747
- Theme: Nuclear physics
- BISAC: SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear
This book is open access and is offered free of charge as a PDF via Oxford Academic under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. It is intended for both PhD students and researchers involved in experiments and theories related to the LHC.