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1. Introduction -- 2. Relativistic kinematics, electromagnetic fields and the method of virtual quanta -- 3. The harmonic oscillator and the quantum field -- 4. The vacuum as a dielectric medium; renormalisation -- 5. Deep inelastic scattering and the parton model -- 6. The classical motion of the massless relativistic string -- 7. The decay kinematics of the massless relativistic string -- 8. A stochastic process for string decay -- 9. The properties of the Lund model fragmentation formulas; the external-part formulas -- 10. The internal-part fragmentation formulas and their relations to the unitarity equations of a field theory; Regge theory -- 11. The dynamical analogues of the Lund model fragmentation formulas.

The Lund model, inspired by quantum chromodynamics, has provided a very promising approach to the dynamics of quark and gluon interactions. Starting with a brief reprise of basic concepts in relativity, quantum mechanics of fields and particle physics, this 1998 book discusses: the dynamics of the massless relativistic string; confinement; causality and relativistic covariance; Lund fragmentation processes; QED and QCD Bremsstrahlung; multiplicities and particle-parton distributions. Throughout the book, theory is confronted with current experimental data, and implications for future experiments are also considered. The book also explores the relationships between the Lund model and other models based on field theory (the Schwinger model, S-matrix models, light-cone algebra physics and variations of the parton model), and models based on statistical mechanics (the Feynman-Wilson gas, scaling, iterative cascade models).