Jet Physics at the LHC

Material connected with the "Jet Physics at the LHC" lectures at the Edinburgh Higgs Centre School of Theoretical Physics 2017.

To get the full benefit from the tutorial sessions, please bring a laptop. Some of the tutorials will need a linux / mac-like system and a C++ compiler. (If you're under Windows, you can install a linux system as a virtual machine, e.g. with VirtualBox).

Lectures: Gavin Salam
Tutorials: Enrico Bothmann, Leonardo Vernazza

This page is also accessible as https://git.io/2017jet

Material for tutorials

1. tutorial 1: NB if you're running this on linux, edit the Makefile and add "-ldl" to the LIBRARIES line
2. tutorial 2
3. tutorial 3
4. tutorial 4
5. tutorial 5

Useful references & tools

1. Towards Jetography, arXiv:0906.1833
2. Elements of QCD for hadron colliders, arXiv:1011.5131
3. FastJet jet reconstruction program, http://fastjet.fr/ and fjcontrib contributed add-ons
4. The Pythia8 Monte Carlo event simulation program, http://home.thep.lu.se/~torbjorn/Pythia.html (which also contains a condensed version of FastJet, "fjcore")

Books

1. QCD and Collider Physics (Cambridge University Press, 1996), by R.K. Ellis, W.J. Stirling and B.R. Webber
2. Basics of perturbative QCD (Ed. Frontieres 1991), by Yu.L.Dokshitzer, V.A. Khoze, A.H. Mueller and S.I. Troyan
3. Hadronic Jets: An Introduction (Iop Concise Physics, 2016), by A. Banfi