Andrea Banfi's home page

Andrea Banfi's home page


ETH Zürich
Institut fur Theoretische Physik
Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse
8093 Zürich Phone: +41 (0)44 633 7854 Email: banfi@itp.phys.ethz.ch
Switzerland

Research Interests

Perturbative QCD, resummations, event shapes, jets, collider phenomenology
List of publications

Automated resummation of final state observables

CAESAR, an expert system that performs automatically NLL resummation for a large class of observables
Selected resummed results for event-shapes in hadron-hadron collisions

Lectures

Introduction to Quantum Chromodynamics, ETH Zürich, Spring semester 2010
Course web site with lecture notes

Basics of QCD, lectures given at Parma International School of Theoretical Physics (SNFT 2007)
Lecture 1: QCD as a Yang-Mills Theory
Lecture 2: QCD and asymptotic freedom
Lecture 3: Hadrons in the initial state
Lecture 4: Towards QCD at all orders

Jet algorithms, lectures given at Freiburg University Graduate School, Breisach, 21 October 2011
Lecture 1: Jet algorithms and QCD
Lecture 2: Using jets at the LHC

Selected recent talks

Loop lessons from Wilson loops (Frascati, Semptember 2010 and Zürich, October 2010)

Shape variables at hadron colliders (Firenze and Roma, September 2010)