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QCD as a Theory of Hadrons

From Partons to Confinement

Stephan Narison author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:9th Feb '23

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This 2004 book, now OA, provides an introduction to the perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of quantum chromodynamics (QCD).

This 2004 book, reissued as OA, provides a pedagogical introduction to the perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). It will be a valuable reference for graduate students and researchers in high-energy particle and nuclear physics, both theoretical and experimental.This 2004 book provides a pedagogical introduction to the perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The text introduces the basic theory of QCD and its historical development, covering pre-QCD ideas of strong interactions such as the quark and parton models, the notion of colours and the S-matrix approach. The author then discusses gauge theory, techniques of dimensional regularization and renormalization, deep inelastic scattering and hard processes in hadron collisions, hadron jets and e+e– annihilations. Other topics include power corrections and the technologies of the Shifman–Vainshtein–Zakharov operating product expansion. The final parts of the book are devoted to modern non-perturbative approaches to QCD and the phenomenological aspects of QCD spectral sum rules. The book will be a valuable reference for graduate students and researchers in high-energy particle and nuclear physics, both theoretical and experimental. This book has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

ISBN: 9781009290319

Dimensions: 250mm x 176mm x 47mm

Weight: 1540g

812 pages

Revised edition