Quantum chromodynamics and the pomeron

This volume describes the Pomeron, an object of crucial importance in very high energy particle physics. The book starts with a general description of the Pomeron within the framework of Regge theory. The emergence of the Pomeron within scalar field theory is discussed next, providing a natural foun...

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Main Authors: Forshaw, J. R., Ross, D. A. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1997
Series:Cambridge lecture notes in physics
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Collection: Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This volume describes the Pomeron, an object of crucial importance in very high energy particle physics. The book starts with a general description of the Pomeron within the framework of Regge theory. The emergence of the Pomeron within scalar field theory is discussed next, providing a natural foundation on which to develop the more realistic case of QCD. The reggeization of the gluon is demonstrated and used to build the Pomeron of perturbative QCD. The dynamical nature of the Pomeron is then investigated. The role of the Pomeron in small-x deep inelastic scattering and in diffractive scattering is also examined in detail. The volume concludes with a study of the colour dipole approach to high energy scattering and the explicit role of unitarity corrections. This book will be of interest to theoretical and experimental particle physicists, and applied mathematicians
Physical Description:xv, 248 pages digital
ISBN:9780511524387