Developments in Perturbative QCD: Challenges from Collider Physics

Abstract

The search for new phenomena at hadron colliders requires a good understanding of QCD processes. The analysis of multi-jet signatures in the top quark search at the Tevatron is one example, forward jet-tagging and rapidity gap techniques in the analysis of weak boson scattering events at the LHC will be another important application. These topics are discussed in the context of multi-parton/multi-jet QCD processes. Also described are some of the calculational tools, like amplitude techniques and automatic code generation for tree level processes.

Lectures given at the VIIIth J. A. Swieca Summer School, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 6-18, 1995. Latex, 38 pages, uses worldsci.sty and epsf.sty, 17 postscript figures. Postscript version of paper with figures at http://phenom.physics.wisc.edu/pub/preprints/1996/madph-96-933.ps.Z or at ftp://phenom.physics.wisc.edu/pub/preprints/1996/madph-96-933.ps.Z