Dirty your hands: How to do phenomenology at a QCD machine
Peter Schichtel (Durham University)

By discovering the Higgs the LHC has already shaped a new era in high energy particle physics. In this talk we follow the question of how to do phenomenology at a hadron collider. First we develop an intuitive picture of the physical processes which govern each collision. Then we show how this knowledge can be used to forge dedicated computer programs, the so called Monte Carlo event generators, which simulate these collisions in great detail. In the third part of this talk we then demonstrate how mastering the QCD processes at the LHC can help us to gain deeper insight in the underlying physics, which in the end we are all interested in.