Official description

This advanced graduate course will summarize how we understand the process by which hard scattering events, characterized typically by high transverse-momentum (PT) processes, occur in energetic hadron-hadron collisions, and what effects have to be understood and taken into account in order to make robust measurements and discoveries of new phenomena.  The course will focus on the 7-14 TeV proton-proton collisions produced by the Large Hadron Collider, but will use examples from experience gained at the 2 TeV proton-antiproton Tevatron Collider.  The anatomy of a hard-scattering event will be dissected, and we'll discuss each element through the interplay between the theoretical and phenomenological framework and the experimental challenges.

This course is targeted at graduate students in particle physics experiment, theory or phenomenology who already have a background in relativistic quantum field theory and the Standard Model of particle physics.