Pomeron Physics and QCD (Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology)
Cambridge University Press, 11/14/2002
EAN 9780521780391, ISBN10: 052178039X
Hardcover, 360 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 2.1 cm
Language: English
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.
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.