Pomeron Physics and Qcd

Informationen zum Autor Sandy Donnachie obtained his PhD from the University of Glasgow in 1961. He is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester, a post he has held since 1969. Klappentext This book describes the underlying ideas and modern developments of Regge theory, covering phenomenology, theory and experiment. Zusammenfassung This book describes the underlying ideas and modern developments of Regge theory! confronting the theory with a huge variety of experimental data. Covering forty years of research! it provides a unique insight into the theory and its phenomenological development. Essential reading for particle physicists. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: S. Donnachie, Sandy Donnachie, Sandy Dosch Donnachie, Gunter Dosch, Günter Dosch, H. G. Dosch, Peter Landshoff, O. Nachtmann
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2002
• EAN: 9780521780391
• ISBN: 978-0-521-78039-1
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Cambridge Monographs on Partic
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics