Perturbative QCD at High Energy Colliders

TL;DR

This paper reviews the application of perturbative QCD to high energy collider processes, highlighting past successes and outlining future challenges in predicting Standard Model phenomena.

Contribution

It provides a personal retrospective on perturbative QCD applications at high energies, emphasizing key achievements and future research directions.

Findings

Successful predictions of Standard Model processes at colliders

Identification of unresolved problems in perturbative QCD

Retrospective insights into the field's development

Abstract

Selected applications of perturbative Quantumchromodynamics (QCD) to predictions of the Standard Model for processes at high energy colliders are reviewed with emphasis on past successes and future problems. This is a personal retrospective is not intended to be a comprehensive review of the field.