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.

Comments: 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