From QCD Lagrangian to Monte Carlo simulation

Abstract

I discuss old and recent aspects of QCD jet-emission and describe how hard QCD results are used to construct Monte Carlo programs for generating hadron emission in hard collisions. I focus on the program HERWIG at LHC.

Comments: To be published in the volume String Theory of Fundamental Interactions, published on the 65th birthday of Gabriele Veneziano, M. Gasperini and J. Maharana editors (Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, 2007)