COLLIDER PHYSICS

• Perturbative QCD (pQCD): 
• Field theory history in a nutshell
• pQCD lagrangian
• Feynman rules
• Exact and approximated symmetries, anomalies
• Instantons and vacuum structure
• Perturbative expansion, field theory taxonomy, renormalons
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• [Renormalization group equations (RGEs)]: 
• Writing and solving the RGEs
• Asymptotic freedom and dimensional trasmutations (scale anomaly)
• QCD scale vs. mass scale
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• e^+ e^- into hadrons: 
• Soft gluons and collinear divergencies
• Infrared safe observables: total cross sections and jets
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• Deep inelastic scattering (DIS), I: 
• Parton model
• QCD corrections
• Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi (GLAP) equations
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• [DIS, II] : 
• Operator-product expansion (OPE)
• OPE in DIS: parton-like picture without partons
• GLAP equations (again!)
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• Parton showers and event generation: 
• Branching and evolution
• Montecarlo methods
• Software tools
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• Vector and Higgs bosons at colliders: 
• Drell-Yan
• W, Z production and decays
• Higgs boson production and decays

FLAVOR PHYSICS

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• Effective weak Hamiltonians:
• Operator bases and Wilson coefficients
• Delta S and Delta B = 1, 2
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• [Hadonic matrix elements]:
• 1/N_c
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• Kaon and B-physics:
• CP violation