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References2. A Brief Introduction to Modern Amplitude Methods; 1. Introduction; 2. Color Decompositions; 3. The Spinor Helicity Formalism; 3.1. Spinor variables; 3.2. A simple four-point example; 3.3. Helicity formalism for massless vectors; 3.4. A five-point amplitude; 4. Soft and Collinear Factorization; 4.1. Soft gluon limit; 4.2. Collinear limits; 4.3. The Parke-Taylor amplitudes; 4.4. Spinor magic; 4.5. Complex momenta, spinor products and three-point kinematics; 5. The BCFW Recursion Relation for Tree Amplitudes; 5.1. General formula; 5.2. Application to MHV; 5.3. An NMHV application. |
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6. Generalized Unitarity and Loop Amplitudes6.1. The plastic loop integrand; 6.2. The quadruple cut; 6.3. A five-point MHV box example; 6.4. Triangle coefficients; 6.5. The rational part; 7. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; 3. Experimental Methods at the LHC; 1. Basics of pp Collisions and Detection of Emerging Particles; 1.1. Large Hadron Collider (LHC); 1.2. Proton-proton collisions: Main concepts; 1.2.1. Cross section; 1.2.2. Luminosity; 1.2.3. A closer look at pp collisions: hard scattering, PDFs, UE, and why we use pseudorapidity instead of polar angle |
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Preface; 1. Introduction to QCD; 1. Introduction; 2. QCD as a Gauge Theory; 2.1. Construction of the QCD Lagrangian; 2.2. QCD Feynman rules; 2.3. Strength of the QCD interaction; 3. The QCD Coupling Constant; 3.1. The β-function of QCD; 4. Hadronic Final States in QCD; 4.1. Jets; 4.2. Event shapes; 4.3. Jet production in QCD; 5. Proton Structure in QCD; 5.1. Deep inelastic scattering; 5.2. Parton model; 5.3. QCD corrections to the parton model; 5.4. DGLAP equations; 5.5. Hadron collider physics; 5.6. Determination of parton distributions; 6. Multiparticle Production; 7. Conclusions |
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1.3. Detecting particles emerging from collisions1.3.1. Eight particles of interest; 1.3.2. Interactions of particles of interest with matter; 1.4. CMS as a representative LHC detector; 2. Event Reconstruction, Event Selection, and Statistical Analysis of Data; 2.1. Event reconstruction; 2.1.1. Leptons: electrons and muons; 2.1.2. Photons; 2.1.3. Jets (all jets, b-jets, and "fat" jets); 2.1.4. Tau-lepton jets; 2.1.5. Missing transverse momentum (MET); 2.2. Signal-vs-background enhancement strategies; 2.2.1. Cut-and-count analysis; 2.2.2. Shape-based likelihood analysis (one observable) |
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2.2.3. Multi-variate analysis (MVA)2.3. Statistical analysis: The pathway to final numbers; 2.3.1. An example of a counting experiment; 2.3.2. Beyond a simple counting experiment; 3. H ZZ 4 Analysis: Simple, Sophisticated, and How Much One Can Learn from a Couple of Dozen Events; 3.1. Overview; 3.2. Observation of the Higgs boson in the H ZZ 4 decay mode; 3.2.1. Event selection; 3.2.2. Evaluation of reducible background; 3.2.3. Kinematic characterization using the Matrix Element Method; 3.2.4. Observation of the Higgs boson in the H ZZ 4 decay mode |
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Quantum chromodynamics -- Congresses.
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Quantum chromodynamics. |
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Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland) -- Congresses.
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Large Hadron Collider (France and Switzerland) |
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String models -- Congresses.
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String models. |
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Particles (Nuclear physics)
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Particles (Nuclear physics) |
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Gravity -- Congresses.
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Gravity. |
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Gravity -- Seasonal variations. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Dixon, Lance Jenkins, editor.
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Petriello, Frank, editor.
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Print version: 9789814678759 9814678759 (DLC) 2015027986 (OCoLC)911068385 |
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9789814678766 (electronic book) |
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9814678767 (electronic book) |
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9789814678759 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9814678759 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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