Course objective: This course
will deal with the applications of perturbative QCD (pQCD) to hard
processes in high-energy colliders. After a brief review of the QCD
Lagrangian and Feynman rules in various gauges, we will discuss the
running of the QCD coupling and asymptotic freedom. This will be
followed by detailed descriptions of the applications of pQCD in
electron-positron annihilation, deep-inelastic scattering, Drell-Yan
and hadron-hadron collisions. Topics will include total cross sections,
parton distribution functions, fragmentation functions, parton
evolution and jets. The course will end with a discussion of
factorization and jet modification in dense matter and heavy-ion
collisions. Many of the exercises will include numerical calculation
and comparison with real experimental data (and hopefully some brand
new LHC data!).