Quantum chromodynamics at high energy
By: Yuri V. Kovchegov, Eugene Levin
Contributors: Levin, Eugene (Eugene M.)
Series: Cambridge monographs on particle physics, nuclear physics and cosmology -- 33
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780521112574
Subjects: Quantum chromodynamics; SCIENCE / Nuclear Physics
Description: "Filling a gap in the current literature, this book is the first entirely dedicated to high energy quantum chromodynamics (QCD) including parton saturation. It presents groundbreaking progress on the subject and describes many problems at the forefront of research, bringing postgraduate students, theorists, and advanced experimentalists up to date with the current state of research in this field. A broad range of topics in high energy QCD is covered, most notably on the physics of parton saturation and the color glass condensate (CGC). The clear, helpful presentation includes numerous examples and exercises. Discussion ranges from the quasi-classical McLerran-Venugopalan model to the linear and nonlinear BFKL/BK/JIMWLK small-x evolution equations. The authors' outlook embraces both theory and experiment and the physics of strong interactions is presented in a universal way, making it applicable to physicists from various subcommunities and to processes studied at all high energy accelerators around the world. A selection of color figures is available online at www.cambridge.org/9780521112574"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: basics of QCD perturbation theory; 2. Deep inelastic scattering; 3. Energy evolution and leading logarithm-1/x approximation in QCD; 4. Dipole approach to high parton density QCD; 5. Classical gluon fields and the Color Glass Condensate; 6. Corrections to non-linear evolution equations; 7. Diffraction at high energy; 8. Particle production in high energy QCD; 9. Instead of conclusions; Appendices; Index.