QCD as a Theory of Hadrons

By Stephan Narison

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009290339
• ISBN13: 9781009290333
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 812 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"