QCD and collider physics

One of the triumphs of modern particle physics has been the extent to which QCD has successfully accounted for the strong interaction processes observed at high energy particle colliders, i.e. the production of heavy quarks and jets of part icles, and the short distance parton structure of the proton. This book gives a detailed overview of collider physics with special emphasis on the study of QDC. After a general descriptin of the QDC Lagrangian, and the properties of asy mptotic freedom and colour confinement which follow from it, the most important applications at high energy colliders are described in detail. These include the production of jets, heavy quarks, electroweak gauge bosons and Higgs bosons. The various methods of measuring the strong coupling constant are summerised. Many important theoretical results are calculated from first principles, and the book will be both a textbook and a valuable source of reference material for al l particle physicists.