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Computational Techniques for the LHC

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Although the search for the Higgs boson is motivated by the electroweak interaction, a detailed knowledge of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is required to make precise predictions at a hadron collider such as the LHC.

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    A mathematically rigorous proof of confinement is one of seven Millennium Prize Problems of the Clay Mathematics Institute, with a bounty of $1,000,000.

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Hall, D. (2015). Computational Techniques for the LHC. In: Discovery and Measurement of the Higgs Boson in the WW Decay Channel. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19989-4_2

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