John Collins

Foundations of Perturbative QCD

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A systematic treatment of perturbative QCD, covering the concepts, theorems and their justification, ideal for graduate students and researchers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 638
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1207g
• ISBN-13: 9781009401838
• ISBN-10: 1009401831
• Artikelnr.: 68319412

Autorenporträt

John Collins is Distinguished Professor of Physics at Penn State University. He has a long experience in perturbative QCD. He has proved a number of the fundamental theorems that form the main content of this book, and has a record of formulating and deriving novel results in QCD. During his career he has received several awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship, a Humboldt Research Award, a Mercator professorship, and the JJ Sakurai prize.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Why QCD?
3. Basics of QCD
4. Infra-red safety and non-safety
5. Libby¿Sterman analysis and power counting
6. Parton model to parton theory I
7. Parton model to parton theory II
8. Factorization
9. Corrections to the parton model in QCD
10. Factorization and subtractions
11. DIS in QCD
12. Fragmentation
13. TMD factorization
14. Hadron-hadron collisions
15. More advanced topics
Appendices
References
Index.