Pomeron Physics and QCD (Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology)

Donnachie, Sandy/ Dosch, Günter/ Landshoff, Peter

Cambridge University Press（2002/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 360 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780521780391
• DDC分類 539.72

Full Description

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.

Contents

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.