Introduction to QCD

Understand

These lectures were originally given at TASI and are directed at a level suitable for graduate students in High Energy Physics.

• They are intended to give an introduction to the theory and phenomenology of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), focusing on collider physics applications.
• The aim is to bring the reader to a level where informed decisions can be made concerning different approaches and their uncertainties.
• The material is divided into five main areas: 1) fundamentals, 2) fixed-order perturbative QCD, 3) Monte Carlo event generators and parton showers, 4) Matching at Leading and Next-to-Leading Order, and 5) Soft QCD physics.