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This is a self-contained account of deep inelastic scattering in high-energy physics. It covers the classic results which led to the quark-parton model of hadrons and the establishment of quantum chromodynamics as the theory of the strong nuclear force, in addition to new vistas in the subject.
Rutherford scattering -- Form factors -- Inelastic scattering -- Heroic age of DIS -- Importance of weak probes -- Partons and Quantum Chromodynamics -- Extraction of parton density functions -- DIS at colliders -- The quark-parton model -- The essential idea of the parton model -- Elastic electron-muon scattering -- Elastic electron-quark scattering -- Inelastic e- or [mu]-hadron scattering -- Neutrino-induced DIS -- Elastic neutrino-electron scattering -- Elastic neutrino-quark scattering -- Inelastic neutrino-hadron scattering -- Neutrino scattering via the neutral current -- Quark-parton model tests -- Sum rules -- QCD and formal methods -- Quantum Chromodynamics -- The QCD Lagrangian -- QCD colour factors -- Some simple tree-level diagrams -- Infrared and collinear singularities -- Renormalization -- Regularization and renormalization schemes -- Charge renormalization in QED -- The QCD running coupling at leading order -- Renormalization group methods -- Anomalous dimensions -- The QCD running coupling -- The hadronic tensor W[subscript mu v] -- Light cone dominance -- The operator product expansion -- OPE applied to DIS -- RGE calculation of moments -- Factorization -- QCD improved parton model -- Improving the parton model -- Splitting Functions -- Running coupling and the OPE -- The DGLAP equations -- F[subscript 2] and F[subscript L] -- A useful approximation -- DGLAP evolution at LO -- Valence quark evolution -- Singlet and gluon evolution -- Higher twist -- Heavy quarks.
Robin Devenish and Amanda Cooper-Sarkar.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 394-399) and index.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004