The Theory of Complex Angular Momenta: Gribov Lectures on Theoretical Physics (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 12/4/2003
EAN 9780521818346, ISBN10: 0521818346
Hardcover, 310 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 2 cm
Language: English
This 2003 book provides a rigorous introduction to the theory of complex angular momenta, based on the methods of field theory. It comprises an English translation of the series of lectures given by V. N. Gribov in 1969, when the physics of high-energy hadron interactions was being created. Besides their historical significance, these lectures contain material which is highly relevant to research today. The basic physical results and the approaches Gribov developed are now being rediscovered in an alternative context: in the microscopic theory of hadrons provided by quantum chromodynamics. The ideas and calculation techniques presented in this book are useful for analysing high-energy hadron scattering phenomena, deep inelastic lepton-hadron scattering, the physics of heavy ion collisions, kinetic phenomena in phase transitions, and will be instrumental in the analysis of electroweak processes at the next-generation particle accelerators, such as LHC and TESLA.
Foreword Yuri Dokshitzer
Introduction Yuri Dokshitzer and Leonid Frankfurt
1. High energy hadron scattering
2. Physics of the t-channel and complex angular momenta
3. Singularities of partial waves and unitarity
4. Properties of Regge poles
5. Regge poles in high energy scattering
6. Scattering of particles with spin
7. Fermion Regge poles
8. Regge poles in perturbation theory
9. Reggeization of an electron
10. Vector field theory
11. Inconsistency of the Regge pole picture
12. Two-reggeon exchange and branch point singularities in the l plane
13. Properties of Mandelstam branch singularities
14. Reggeon diagrams
15. Interacting reggeons
16. Reggeon field theory
17. The structure of weak and strong coupling solutions
Appendix A
space-time description of the hadron interactions at high energies
Appendix B
character of inclusive spectra and fluctuations produced in inelastic processes by multi-pomeron exchange
Appendix C
theory of the heavy pomeron
Index.