Hadronic jets : an introduction / Andrea Banfi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Banfi, Andrea, author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP (Series). Release 22.

IOP ebooks. 2022 collection.

[IOP release $release]

IOP ebooks. [2022 collection]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Particles (Nuclear physics).

Hadrons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2022]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.

Biography/History:

Prof. Andrea Banfi is a theoretical particle physicist, expert in the development of theoretical tools for the calculation of observables involving hadronic jets at high-energy colliders.

Summary:

This second edition course text provides a general overview of jet physics by presenting the basic experimental and theoretical problems arising when dealing with jets, and describing the solutions proposed in recent years.

Contents:

1. Introduction

1.1. Basics of elementary particle physics

2. Jet algorithms

2.1. Cone or sequential algorithms?

2.2. Common issues with jet algorithms

2.3. Further jet clustering procedures

3. QCD for jet physics

3.1. Fixed-order QCD calculations

3.2. QCD at all orders

3.3. At the boundary of perturbative QCD

4. Jets as discovery tools

4.1. Optimising the jet radius

4.2. Boosted objects and jet substructure

4.3. Quark and gluon jets.

Notes:

"Version: 20221201"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on January 9, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9780750347372

9780750347365

OCLC:

1358414218

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.