QCD as a theory of hadrons : from partons to confinement /
Stephan Narison.
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- 1 online resource (xxxii, 779 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Cambridge monographs on particle physics, nuclear physics, and cosmology ; 17 .
- Cambridge monographs on particle physics, nuclear physics, and cosmology ; 17. .
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This book provides a pedagogical introduction to the perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Introducing the basic theory and recent advances in QCD, it also reviews the historical development of the subject, 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.