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The Black Book of Quantum Chromodynamics is an in-depth
introduction to the particle physics of current and future
experiments at particle accelerators. The book offers the reader an
overview of practically all aspects of the strong interaction
necessary to understand and appreciate modern particle
phenomenology at the energy frontier. It assumes a working
knowledge of quantum field theory at the level of introductory
textbooks used for advanced undergraduate or in standard
postgraduate lectures. The book expands this knowledge with an
intuitive understanding of relevant physical concepts, an
introduction to modern techniques, and their application to the
phenomenology of the strong interaction at the highest energies.
Aimed at graduate students and researchers, it also serves as a
comprehensive reference for LHC experimenters and theorists. This
book offers an exhaustive presentation of the technologies
developed and used by practitioners in the field of fixed-order
perturbation theory and an overview of results relevant for the
ongoing research programme at the LHC. It includes an in-depth
description of various analytic resummation techniques (which form
the basis for our understanding of the QCD radiation pattern and
how strong production processes manifest themselves in data) and a
concise discussion of numerical resummation through parton showers.
This forms the basis of event generators for the simulation of LHC
physics, and their matching and merging with fixed-order matrix
elements. It also gives a detailed presentation of the physics
behind the parton distribution functions (which are a necessary
ingredient for every calculation relevant for physics at hadron
colliders such as the LHC) and an introduction to non-perturbative
aspects of the strong interaction, including inclusive observables
such as total and elastic cross sections, and non-trivial effects
such as multiple parton interactions and hadronization. The book
concludes with a useful overview contextualising data from previous
experiments such as the Tevatron and the Run I of the LHC which
have shaped our understanding of QCD at hadron colliders.
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