TL;DR
This paper discusses the challenges of perturbative QCD in LHC physics, focusing on signal-background discrimination, and reviews techniques to address QCD issues in Higgs and exotic searches, with phenomenological insights.
Contribution
It provides an overview of QCD-related challenges at the LHC and discusses modern methods to mitigate them in the context of Higgs and exotic particle searches.
Findings
QCD dominates LHC signal and background analysis.
Techniques to handle QCD issues improve search sensitivity.
Phenomenological discussions on missing energy and helicity amplitudes.
Abstract
Welcome to the 2008 TASI lectures on the exciting topic of `tools and technicalities' (original title). Technically, LHC physics is really all about perturbative QCD in signals or backgrounds. Whenever we look for interesting signatures at the LHC we get killed by QCD. Therefore, I will focus on QCD issues which arise for example in Higgs searches or exotics searches at the LHC, and ways to tackle them nowadays. In the last section you will find a few phenomenological discussions, for example on missing energy or helicity amplitudes.
Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.