Sandy Donnachie

Pomeron Physics and QCD (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book describes the underlying ideas and modern developments of Regge theory, confronting the theory with quantum chromodynamics and a huge variety of experimental data. It covers forty years of research and provides a unique insight into the theory and its phenomenological development. The authors review experiments that suggest the existence of a soft pomeron, and give a detailed discussion of attempts at describing this through nonperturbative quantum chromodynamics. They suggest that a second, hard pomeron is responsible for the dramatic rise in energy observed in deep inelastic lepton scattering. The two-pomeron hypothesis is applied to a variety of interactions and is compared and contrasted with perturbative quantum chromodynamics, as well as with the dipole approach. This book will provide a valuable reference for experimental particle physicists all over the world. It is also suitable for graduate courses in particle physics, high-energy scattering, QCD and the standard model.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511060502
• Artikelnr.: 38209726

Autorenporträt

Sandy Donnachie obtained his PhD from the University of Glasgow in 1961. He is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester, a post he has held since 1969.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Properties of the S-matrix
2. Regge poles
3. Introduction to soft hadronic processes
4. Duality
5. Photon-induced processes
6. QCD: perturbative and nonperturbative
7. Hard processes
8. Soft diffraction and vacuum structure
9. The dipole approach
10. Questions for the future
Appendix A. Sommerfeld-Watson transform
Appendix B. The Group SU(3)
Appendix C. Feynman rules of QCD
Appendix D. Pion-nucleon amplitudes
Appendix E. The density matrix of vector mesons.