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Informal School on QCD and Heavy Flavor Physics

Asia/Shanghai
Description

 

This is a series of informal lectures on QCD and heavy flavor physics, covering the following topics. The lecture notes, recorded video and lattice data if available are also given in the timetable. 

Part I: Basics in QCD

  • Composite operator renormalization (local operators, perturbative, nonperturbative); Speaker: Qi-An Zhang
  • 重子的夸克模型与内插流; Speaker: Zhen-Xing Zhao
  • Operator Product Expansion (Four-fermion interaction); Speaker: Zhi-Chao Gong
  • Twist; Speaker: Wei Wang; 
  • Operator Product Expansion (DIS); Speaker: Mu-Hua Zhang
  • DGLAP evolution; Speaker: Hao-Fei Gao
  • Infrared divergence, KLN theoremSpeaker: Shuai Zhao
  • Convention on covariant derivative and Wilson line
  • Fierz transformation and Tree-level factorization for DIS; Speaker: Wei Wang
  • DIS, parton model and collinear Factorization; Speaker: 
  • LCDA, Brodsky-Lepage evolution (Gegenbauer moments and solutions to Brodsky-Lepage evolution); Speaker: Jin-Xin Tan
  • Callan-Symanzik equation; Speaker: Ji Xu
  • Sudakov form factors; Speaker: Chao Han
  • TMD factorization, rapidity divergence;  Speaker:Zhi-Chao Gong
  • DVCS and GPDs
  • QCD sum rules: Zhen-Xing Zhao

Part II: Effective theories

  • An introduction to EFT: Heisenberg-Euler theory, including the introduction to background fields. Speaker: Shuai Zhao
  • Method of Regions for DIS; Speaker: 
  • Method of regions for quasi-PDFs ; Speaker: 
  • HQET and one-loop renormalization; Speaker: Wei Wang
  • Matching of heavy-light and heavy-heavy currents in HQET; Speaker: Zong-Ying Zheng
  • B-meson LCDA and Lange-Neubert evolution; Speaker: Hao-Fei Gao
  • Heavy quark mass and renormalons; Speaker: Jia-Lu Zhang
  • Heavy quarkonium and NRQCD
  • Introduction to Soft-Collinear Effective theory
  • BBNS factorization for B-meson exclusive decays
  • k_T factorization
  • OPE analysis of the B-meson inclusive decays, the B-meson shape function
  • Introduction to chiral perturbation theory. Speaker: Ji Xu

Part III: Advanced topics

  • Method of Region for TMD (example: 4-quark form factors to extract quasi TMDWF)
  • Lattice HQET and NRQCD
  • Large momentum effective theory
  • Conformal symmetry in QCD
  • Regge theory
  • 1/N expansion
  • An introduction to BFKL and small-x
  • Advanced techniques in loop diagram calculation
  • The power corrections in collinear factorization of DIS
  • The power corrections in HQET
  • Strong CP problem, axion
  • Heavy flavor physics in heavy ion collisions, dead-cone effect; Speaker: Qi-Hui Chang
  • Nonperturbative aspects of QCD, e.g., instantons, topological aspects, monopoles;…

Part IV: Lattice QCD topics

  • from 2pt to effective mass, including Jacknife and Bootstrap: Speaker: Han-Zhang Wang;  Note | Code | Data
  • Model Average: Jie Ran Note | Code | Data
  • Markov Chain and Metropolis algorithm
  • propagators, CG, BICG
  • Wilson loop and heavy quark potential
  • GEVP
  • GVAR and Error estimate
  • Rotational Group
  • Luscher formula
  • Smearing, and Distilation 
  • Gradient flow

Part IV: Machine Learning 

  • Flow-based approach