Friday 19 February 2010, 11:00h, at Nikhef in H331
Speaker: Zoltan Kunszt (ETH Zürich)
Title: Towards automated precision calculations for the LHC
Abstract:
Automated theoretical calculations in leading order of perturbation theory are very important and widely used for the description of complex scattering processes at high energy colliders. In many cases, however, the accuracy of the measurements can only be matched if the next-to-leading order QCD corrections are also calculated.
Recent theoretical results are providing us with new efficient algorithms. They offer us the possibility to automate also the evaluation of the next-to-leading order corrections.
I shall describe the main theoretical ideas behind of this development and briefly review their recent phenomenological applications.