| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 347 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Cambridge monographs on particle physics, nuclear physics, and cosmology ; v. 19 |
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Cambridge monographs on particle physics, nuclear physics, and cosmology ; 19.
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| 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 -- 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-342) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Regge theory.
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Pomerons.
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Quantum chromodynamics.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Nuclear.
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SCIENCE -- Physics -- Atomic & Molecular.
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Pomerons
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Quantum chromodynamics
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Regge theory
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Pomeron
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Quantenchromodynamik
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Regge-Theorie
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Donnachie, Sandy, 1936-
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| ISBN |
0511066813 |
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9780511066818 |
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9780511534935 |
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0511534930 |
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