Some of the basic concepts and most important results of perturbative QCD are presented, together with some illustrative comparisons with experiment.
Uncertainties of predictions from parton distributions: 1, experimental errors (2002)
Martin, A D, Roberts, R G, Stirling, William James, Thorne, R S
We determine the uncertainties on observables arising from the errors on the experimental data that are fitted in the global MRST2001 parton analysis. By diagonalizing the error matrix we produce...
Update of MRST Parton Distributions (2002)
Thorne, R S, Martin, A D, Roberts, R G, Stirling, William James
We discuss the latest update of the MRST parton distributions in response to the most recent data. We discuss the areas where there are hints of difficulties in the global fit, and compare to some...
NNLO global parton analysis (2002)
Martin, A D, Roberts, R G, Stirling, William James, Thorne, R S
We perform a NNLO (and a LO) global parton analysis in which we include the new precise data for deep inelastic scattering from HERA and for inclusive jet production at the Tevatron, together with...
Martin, A D, Roberts, R G, Stirling, William James, Thorne, R S
We use all the available new precise data for deep inelastic and related hard scattering processes to perform NLO global parton analyses. These new data allow an improved determination of partons...
Forward jets and forward $W$-boson production at hadron colliders (2001)
Andersen, J R, Del Duca, V, Frixione, Stefano, Maltoni, F, Schmidt, C R, Stirling, William James
In this talk we give a short review of forward jets and forward $W$-boson production at hadron colliders, in view of the extraction of footprints of BFKL physics. We argue that at Tevatron energies,...
Catani, S, Dittmar, Michael, Soper, Davison Eugene, Stirling, William James, Tapprogge, Stefan, Alekhin, S I, ...
We discuss issues of QCD at the LHC including parton distributions, Monte Carlo event generators, the available next-to-leading order calculations, resummation, photon production, small x physics,...
BFKL dynamics at hadron colliders (1999)
Ewerz, C, Orr, L H, Stirling, William James, Webber, Bryan R
Hadron colliders can provide important tests of BFKL `small-x' dynamics. We discuss two examples of such tests, the inclusive dijet jet cross section at large rapidity separation and the number of...
Like-Sign W Boson Production at the LHC as a Probe of Double Parton Scattering (1999)
Kulesza, A, Stirling, William James
Double parton scattering, i.e. two parton hard scattering processes in the same hadron-hadron collision, may constitute an important background for Higgs and other new particle searches at the LHC....
Stirling, William James, Werthenbach, Anja
The production of $\nu \bar{\nu} \gamma \gamma$ in high-energy $e^+e^-$ collisions offers a window on anomalous quartic gauge boson couplings. We investigate the effect of two possible anomalous...
Parton Distributions and the LHC: W and Z Production (1999)
Martin, A D, Roberts, R G, Stirling, William James, Thorne, R S
W and Z bosons will be produced copiously at the LHC proton-proton collider. We study the parton distribution dependence of the total production cross sections and rapidity distributions, paying...
Detecting Heavy Charged Higgs Bosons at the LHC with Four b-Quark Tags (1999)
Miller, D J, Moretti, S, Roy, D P, Stirling, William James
We investigate the signature of a heavy charged Higgs boson of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model in the lepton plus multi-jet channel at the Large Hadron Collider with four $b$-tags. The...
Topology of Hadronic Flows for Higgs Production at Hadron Colliders (1998)
Heyssler, M, Khoze, V A, Stirling, William James
Hadronic radiation provides a tool to distinguish different topologies of colour flow in hard scattering processes. We study the structure of hadronic flow corresponding to Higgs production and decay...
The strong coupling alpha_s is a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model. In comparison to parameters like alpha_em and M_Z it is relatively poorly known. However the precision of alpha_s...
$\alpha_{s}: from DIS to LEP (1997)
The strong coupling alpha_s is a fundamental parameter of the Standard Model. In comparison to parameters like alpha_em and M_Z it is relatively poorly known. However the precision of alpha_s...
Report of the Working Group on "W Mass and QCD" (1997)
Ballestrero, A, Charlton, D G, Cowan, G D, Dornan, Peter J, Edgecock, R, Ellis, Jonathan Richard, ...
The W Mass and QCD Working Group discussed a wide variety of topics relating to present and future measurements of M(W) at LEP2, including QCD backgrounds to W+W- production. Particular attention was...
Hadronic Antenna Patterns to Distinguish Production Mechanisms for Large-$E_T$ jets (1996)
Ellis, Jonathan Richard, Khoze, V A, Stirling, William James
Hadronic antenna patterns provide a tool able to diagnose different patterns of colour flow in large-E_T jet events. They reflect the underlying short-distance dynamics, and are sensitive to colour...
W + $\gamma$ + jet production as a test of the electromagnetic couplings of W at LHC and SSC (1993)
Diakonos, F K, Korakianitis, O, Papadopoulos, C G, Philippides, C, Stirling, William James
New jet cluster algorithms: next-to-leading order QCD and hadronization corrections (1991)
Bethke, Siegfried, Kunszt, Zoltán, Soper, Davison Eugene, Stirling, William James
The minimum invariant mass: a technique for heavy quark searches at collider energy (1990)
Berger, E L, DiBitonto, Daryl, Jacob, Maurice René Michel, Stirling, William James
A useful angular variable for the analysis of three-jet events in p$\overline{p}$ collisions (1990)
Ellis, Jonathan Richard, Karliner, I, Stirling, William James
Multijet production in W, Z events at p$\overline{p}$ colliders (1990)
Berends, F A, Giele, W T, Kuijf, H, Kleiss, R H, Stirling, William James
Testing the single-quark radiation hypothesis (1990)
Olsson, M G, Suchyta, C J, Martin, A D, Stirling, William James
Hard hadronic collisions: extrapolation of standard effects (1990)
Ali, A, Aurenche, Patrick, Baier, R, Berger, E, Douiri, A, Fontannaz, M, ...