Abstract
The main field of research of QFT@COLLIDERS is the application of Quantum Field Theory
techniques to the phenomenology of present and future colliders.
Important searches and experimental measurements, at modern particle
accelerators at energy and intensity frontiers, require the calculation
of higher-order corrections to a variety of scattering processes in gauge
theories of fundamental interactions. Moreover, such calculations can be
implemented in the form of Monte Carlo event generators, in order to allow
for a systematic and meaningful comparison between data and theory.
In the forthcoming years an increasing level of theoretical precision
will be required to fully exploit the high quality of future data collected
at the LHC and high-intensity e+e- machines.
Searches for new physics phenomena often requires the accurate
simulation of standard model background, and setting limits on the parameter
space of new physics models also require an accurate modeling of the new
physics signal.
Studies of the newly found Higgs boson, and in particular the measurement of
its couplings, requires both a highly accurate
simulation of the production and background processes,
Precision measurements of Standard Model parameters, in combination with
accurate theoretical predictions, may open the way to the detection of
fundamental physics phenomena not yet discovered, even if the present
lack of clear direct new physics signals will persist at the LHC.
Furthermore, the synergy between the research at the energy and
intensity frontiers may allow to deeply probe the SM and eventually
unravel the existence of new physics beyond it.