The QCD/SM Working Group: Summary Report
ArXiv hep-ph/0204316 (2002)
Authors:
S Alekhin, C Balazs, R Ball, T Binoth, E Boos, M Botje, M Cacciari, S Catani, V Del Duca, M Dobbs, SD Ellis, R Field, D de Florian, S Forte, E Gardi, T Gehrmann, A Gehrmann-De Ridder, W Giele, EWN Glover, M Grazzini, J-Ph Guillet, G Heinrich, J Huston, I Hinchliffe, V Ilyin, J Kanzaki, K Kato, B Kersevan, N Kidonakis, A Kulesza, Y Kurihara, E Laenen, K Lassila-Perini, L Lonnblad, L Magnea, M Mangano, K Mazumudar, S Moch, S Mrenna, P Nadolsky, P Nason, F Olness, F Paige, E Pilon, I Puljak, J Pumplin, E Richter-Was, G Salam, R Scalise, M Seymour, T Sjostrand, G Sterman, M Tonnesmann, E Tournefier, W Vogelsang, A Vogt, R Vogt, B Webber, C-P Yuan, D Zeppenfeld
Abstract:
This Report documents the results obtained by the Working Group on Quantum
ChromoDynamics and the Standard Model for the Workshop ``Physics at TeV
Colliders'', Les Houches, France, 21 May - 1 June 2001. The account of
uncertainties in Parton Distribution Functions is reviewed. Progresses in the
description of multiparton final states at Next-to-Leading Order and the
extension of calculations for precision QCD observables beyond this order are
summarized. Various issues concerning the relevance of resummation for
observables at TeV colliders is examined. Improvements to algorithms of jet
reconstruction are discussed and predictions for diphoton and photon pi-zero
production at the LHC are made for kinematic variables of interest regarding
searches for a Higgs boson decaying into two photons. Finally, several
improvements implemented in Monte-Carlo event generators are documented.
