This lecture provides an introduction to the physics of high-energy colliders with an emphasis on the study of strong-interaction effects. This includes theoretical concepts as the operator product expansion, factorisation and parton branching as well as their application to scattering processes at collider experiments.

Contents:

  • Short review of QCD
  • e+ e- annihilation into hadrons
  • Event shapes and jet cross sections
  • Deep inelastic scattering and the parton model
  • Parton distribution functions and DGLAP equations
  • Proton-proton collisions and Drell-Yan production
  • Monte-Carlo event generation