TASI 2014 : journeys through the precision frontier : amplitudes for colliders : proceedings of the 2014 Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics, Boulder, Colorado, 2-27 June 2014 / editors, Lance Dixon, Frank Petriello.

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"This volume is a compilation of the lectures at TASI 2014. The coverage focuses on modern calculational techniques for scattering amplitudes, and on the phenomenology of QCD in hadronic collisions. Introductions to flavor physics, dark matter, and physics beyond the Standard Model are also provided. The lectures are accessible to graduate students at the initial stages of their research careers."-- Provided by publisher.

880-01 6. Generalized Unitarity and Loop Amplitudes6.1. The plastic loop integrand; 6.2. The quadruple cut; 6.3. A five-point MHV box example; 6.4. Triangle coefficients; 6.5. The rational part; 7. Conclusions; Acknowledgments; References; 3. Experimental Methods at the LHC; 1. Basics of pp Collisions and Detection of Emerging Particles; 1.1. Large Hadron Collider (LHC); 1.2. Proton-proton collisions: Main concepts; 1.2.1. Cross section; 1.2.2. Luminosity; 1.2.3. A closer look at pp collisions: hard scattering, PDFs, UE, and why we use pseudorapidity instead of polar angle

1.3. Detecting particles emerging from collisions1.3.1. Eight particles of interest; 1.3.2. Interactions of particles of interest with matter; 1.4. CMS as a representative LHC detector; 2. Event Reconstruction, Event Selection, and Statistical Analysis of Data; 2.1. Event reconstruction; 2.1.1. Leptons: electrons and muons; 2.1.2. Photons; 2.1.3. Jets (all jets, b-jets, and "fat" jets); 2.1.4. Tau-lepton jets; 2.1.5. Missing transverse momentum (MET); 2.2. Signal-vs-background enhancement strategies; 2.2.1. Cut-and-count analysis; 2.2.2. Shape-based likelihood analysis (one observable)

2.2.3. Multi-variate analysis (MVA)2.3. Statistical analysis: The pathway to final numbers; 2.3.1. An example of a counting experiment; 2.3.2. Beyond a simple counting experiment; 3. H ZZ 4 Analysis: Simple, Sophisticated, and How Much One Can Learn from a Couple of Dozen Events; 3.1. Overview; 3.2. Observation of the Higgs boson in the H ZZ 4 decay mode; 3.2.1. Event selection; 3.2.2. Evaluation of reducible background; 3.2.3. Kinematic characterization using the Matrix Element Method; 3.2.4. Observation of the Higgs boson in the H ZZ 4 decay mode

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