Synopses & Reviews
This volume gives an account of modern knowledge of Regge Theory and QCD, an active area of high-energy particle-physics research. It records what has been learned in the past, what is relevant now, and what is essential for the future. The authors cover forty years of research and provide unique insight into the theory and its phenomenological development. The phenomenology is applied to a variety of reactions and is compared extensively with experiment. This is essential reading for particle physicists and is suitable as a graduate textbook.
Synopsis
This book describes the underlying ideas and modern developments of Regge theory, confronting the theory with 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 book also considers the key issues for future theory and experiment, providing comprehensive coverage of the field. 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.
Synopsis
Describes the underlying ideas and modern developments of Regge theory, covering phenomenology, theory and experiment.
Table of Contents
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.