| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 530 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. Introduction. 1.1. The quark-gluon structure of hadrons. 1.2. Dressed quarks: a retrospective view. 1.3. Problems discussed in the book -- 2. High energy hadron interactions. 2.1. Energy dependence of hadron interactions. 2.2. Multiparticle production and inclusive processes. 2.3. Regge-pole phenomenology -- 3. Composite systems. 3.1. Non-relativistic composite systems. 3.2. Relativistic description. 3.3. Mesons as quark-antiquark states -- 4. High-energy interactions of composite systems. 4.1. The general picture of screening effects. 4.2. Scattering of fast hadrons on a deuteron. 4.3. Hadron scattering on nuclei. 4.4. Hadron-hadron scattering. 4.5. Pomeron-meson interaction in light-cone variables. 4.6. Hadron-nucleus diffraction, inelastic screening -- 5. Hadron zoology and static features of hadrons. 5.1. Meson systematics: quark-antiquark states. 5.2. Light baryons. 5.3. Naive quark model predictions and masses of constituent quarks. 5.4. Pomeron, glueballs, and scalar-isoscalar mesons. 5.5. Radiative decays of q[symbol]-mesons. 5.6. Baryons beyond the lowest 56-plet -- 6. Binary processes in the quark model. 6.1. Fraction of the hadron momentum carried by the quark. 6.2. Regge description. 6.3. The additive model: elastic scattering of quarks. 6.4. Regge-pole exchange relations in the additive quark model. 6.5. Low and moderately high energies: l/Nc expansions and resonance-Reggeon duality. 6.6. Flavour-exchange reactions. 6.7. Hadron diffractive processes -- 7. Multiparticle production in the quark model: hadron collisions at moderately high energies. 7.1. General features of the hadron production mechanism. 7.2. Quark combinatorics. 7.3. Total and partial multiplicities. 7.4. Inclusive spectra. 7.5. Multiple rescattering and scale breaking at superhigh energies -- 8. Hadron-nucleus collisions. 8.1. The spectator mechanism and its consequences. 8.2. Inclusive spectra in hadron-nucleus collisions. 8.3. Inelastic diffraction scattering of hadrons on nuclei. 8.4. Scale breaking in hadron-nucleus interactions |
| Summary |
This is an updated version of the book published in 1985. QCD-motivated, it gives a detailed description of hadron structure and soft interactions in the additive quark model, where hadrons are regarded as composite systems of dressed quarks. In the past decade it has become clear that nonperturbative QCD, responsible for soft hadronic processes, may differ rather drastically from perturbative QCD. The understanding of nonperturbative QCD requires a detailed investigation of the experiments and the theoretical approaches. Bearing this in mind, the book has been rewritten paying special attention to the interplay of soft hadronic collisions and the quark model. It is at the crossroads of these domains that peculiar features of strong QCD reveal themselves. The book discusses constituent quarks, diquarks, the massive effective gluons and the problem of scalar isoscalar mesons. The quark-gluonium classification of meson states is also given. Experimentally observed properties of hadrons are presented together with the corresponding theoretical interpretation in the framework of the composite hadron structure. The text includes a large theoretical part, which shows how to treat composite systems (including relativistic ones) with a technique based on spectral integration. This technique provides the possibility of handling hadrons as weakly bound systems of quarks and, at the same time, takes into account confinement. Attention is focused on the composite structure revealing itself in high energy hadron collisions. Fields of applicability of the additive quark model are discussed, as is colour screening in hadronic collisions at high and superhigh energies. Along with a detailed presentation of hadron-hadron collisions, a description of hadron-nucleus collisions is given |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Quarks.
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Nuclear reactions.
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Quantum chromodynamics.
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Hadrons.
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nuclear reaction.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Nuclear.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Atomic & Molecular.
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Hadrons
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Nuclear reactions
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Quantum chromodynamics
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Quarks
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Anisovich, V. V. (Vladimir Vladislavovich)
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| ISBN |
9789812794925 |
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9812794921 |
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