Pomeron physics and QCD / / Sandy Donnachie [and others] [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450525803321
• Autore: Donnachie Sandy <1936->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
• ISBN: 1-107-12897-8; 1-280-41788-9; 9786610417889; 1-139-14639-4; 0-511-16995-7; 0-511-06681-3; 0-511-06050-5; 0-511-29708-4; 0-511-53493-0; 0-511-06894-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 347 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Cambridge monographs on particle physics, nuclear physics, and cosmology ; ; 19
• Disciplina: 539.7/21
• Soggetti: Regge theory; Pomerons; Quantum chromodynamics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-342) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.