Collider Physics

a course given at the Galileo Galilei Institute Winter School, January 2015

The GGI Winter School is a school for first-year graduate students in theoretical physics who have had some exposure to Quantum Field Theory. The purpose of this course is to explain the basic principles needed to understand physics at the CERN Large Hadron Collider.

• 0: Introduction
• 1: Collider Physics at e+e- Colliders
• 2: The Parton Model
• 3: Altarelli-Parisi Evolution
• 4: Collider Events at the LHC
• 5: The Goldstone Boson Equivalence Theorem
• 6: Properties of the Higgs Boson
• 7: Aspects of Searches for New Particles at the LHC