This course aims to cover the basics of QCD, from the development of the Quark Parton Model, though to the establishment of QCD as a gauge theory of the strong interaction. It will provide a survey of experimental measurements of QCD from low to high energies that have served to establish today's understanding. Methods used to extract the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton will be covered, and the implications for the LHC will be discussed. The course is NOT designed to go through in-depth QCD calculations in detail, but will provide steps needed to derive some relevant results.
QCD lecture notes:
Lecture 1 Lecture 2 Lecture 3 Lecture 4 Lecture 5 Lecture 6 Lecture 7
Lecture 8 is a Guest Lecture delivered by Gavin Salam: Lecture 8
Due in by Thursday 12PM Week 8.
Deep Inelastic Scattering - Devenish & Cooper-Sarkar
QCD and Collider Physics - Ellis, Stirling & Weber
Quarks and Leptons - Halzen & Martin
Gauge Theories in Particle Physics - Aitchison & Hey
Handbook of Perturbative QCD - Sterman et al. (CTEQ Coll.), https://www.physics.smu.edu/scalise/cteq/
QCD and MC lectures - Hannes Jung https://www.desy.de/~jung/QCD_and_Monte_Carlo_lectures.html
%QCD and MC lectures - Hannes Jung lecture-writeup.pdf