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Quantum chromodynamics : high energy experiments and theory /

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The contributors give a comprehensive presentation of how the theoretical concepts of quantum chromodynamics can be studied experimentally. The concepts discussed are illustrated by means of problems, with solutions provided.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Dissertori, Günther (Author), Knowles, I. G. (Ian G.) (Author), Schmelling, Michael (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2009, ©2003.
Series:International series of monographs on physics (Oxford, England) ; 115.
Oxford science publications.
Subjects:
Quantum chromodynamics.
Chromodynamique quantique.
SCIENCE > Physics > Quantum Theory.
Quantum chromodynamics
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The development of QCD
  • 3. The theory of QCD
  • 4. Monte Carlo models
  • 5. Experimental set-up
  • 6. QCD analyses
  • 7. Structure functions and parton distributions
  • 8. The strong coupling constant
  • 9. Tests of the structure of QCD
  • 10. Tests of the gauge structure of QCD: colour factors
  • 11. Leading-log QCD
  • 12. Differences between quark and gluon jets
  • 13. Fragmentation
  • 14. Summary
  • App. A. Elements of group theory
  • App. B. Building blocks of theoretical predictions
  • App. C. Dimensional regularization
  • App. D. R[subscript [gamma]], R[subscript l] and R[subscript [tau]] for arbitrary colour factors
  • App. E. Scaling violations in fragmentation functions
  • App. F. Solutions.