High-Energy Particle Diffraction

✍ Scribed by Dr. Vincenzo Barone, Professor Dr. Enrico Predazzi (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 413
• Series: Text and Monographs in Physics
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This monograph gives a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of soft and hard diffraction processes in strong interaction physics. The first part covers the general formalism (the optical analogy, the eikonal picture, high-energy kinematics, S-matrix theory) and soft hadron--hadron scattering (including the Regge theory) in a complete and mature presentation. It can be used as a textbook in particle physics classes. The remainder of the book is devoted to the "new diffraction": the pomeron in QCD, low-x physics, diffractive deep inelastic scattering and related processes, jet production etc. It presents recent results and experimental findings and their phenomenological interpretations. This part addresses graduate students as well as researchers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Preliminaries....Pages 11-33
Kinematics....Pages 35-50
The Relativistic S -Matrix....Pages 51-81
Regge Theory....Pages 83-121
Geometrical and s -Channel Models....Pages 123-138
Soft Diffraction: a Phenomenological Survey....Pages 139-161
The Pomeron in QCD....Pages 163-220
Deep Inelastic Scattering....Pages 221-282
Phenomenology of Hard Diffraction....Pages 283-319
Hard Diffraction in QCD....Pages 321-379
Back Matter....Pages 381-410

✦ Subjects

Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics;Particle and Nuclear Physics