Pomeron Physics and QCD

Sandy Donnachie, Günter Dosch, Peter Landshoff, Otto Nachtmann

358 pages, parution le 20/11/2002

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Résumé

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

Properties of the S-matrix
Regge poles
Introduction to soft hadronic processes
Duality
Photon-induced processes
QCD: perturbative and nonperturbative
Hard processes
Soft diffraction and vacuum structure
The dipole approach
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

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	Sandy Donnachie, Günter Dosch, Peter Landshoff, Otto Nachtmann
Parution	20/11/2002
Nb. de pages	358
Format	18 x 25,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	762g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521780391
ISBN13	978-0-521-78039-1