Ebook: High-Energy Particle Diffraction

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.

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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.

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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.
Content:
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

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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.
Content:
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
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