Proton structure in the LHC era: Testing the standard model and searching for new physics

• Katerina Lipka (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))

Designed for the discovery of the Higgs boson and physics beyond the standard model, the Large Hadron Collider LHC at CERN is operating in an energy regime, in which the experiments are confronted with unprecedented rates of jet, vector boson and top quark production. Successful operation of the LHC at proton-proton collision energies of 7, 8 TeV and 13 TeV allowed for a wealth of precision tests of the theory of the strong interactions, quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The recent measurements of jet and the top quark pair production are highlighted in this talk, with focus on their impact on improvements in the understanding of the proton structure, the fundamental parameters of QCD, and in the indirect searches for new physics.