A QCD Primer
Abstract
1. Introduction 2. Massless QCD and Scale Invariance 3. The Renormalisation Group and Asymptotic Freedom 4. More on the Running Coupling 5. Application to Hard Processes 5.1 Re+e- and Related Processes 5.2 The Final State in e+e- Annihilation 5.3 Deep Inelastic Scattering 5.4 Factorisation and the QCD Improved Parton Model 6. Measurements of αs 6.1 αs from e+e- Colliders 6.2 αs from Deep Inelastic Scattering 7. Conclusion 8. Appendix: The Formalism of Gauge Theories
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