Quantum Chromodynamics

• Main Authors: Greiner, Walter (Author), Schramm, Stefan (Author), Stein, Eckart (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Edition: Third Revised and Enlarged Edition.
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum physics.; Nuclear physics.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.; Quantum Physics.

The book is a self-contained introduction to perturbative and nonperturbative Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) with worked-out exercises for students of theoretical physics. It will be useful as a reference for research scientists as well. Starting with the hadron spectrum, the reader becomes familiar w...

Table of Contents:

• The Introduction of Quarks
• Review of Relativistic Field Theory
• Scattering Reactions and the Internal Structure of Baryons
• Gauge Theories and Quantum-Chromodynamics
• Perturbative QCD I: Deep Inelastic Scattering
• Perturbative QCD II: The Drell-Yan Process and Small-x Physics
• Nonperturbative QCD
• Phenomenological Models for Nonperturbative QCD Problems.