Deep Inelastic Scattering - Hardcover

Devenish, Robin; Cooper-Sarkar, Amanda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198506716 ISBN 13: 9780198506713

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Devenish Robin CooperSarkar Amanda

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Críticas

[Devenish and Cooper-Sarkar] have written a book whose distinction reflects this pedigree and which is a landmark ... The authors thus deserve our congratulations. (Contemporary Physics)

Reseña del editor

The book is an up-to-date, self-contained account of deep inelastic scattering in high-energy physics. Intended for graduate students and physicists new to the subject, it covers the classic results which led to the quark-parton model of hadrons and the establishment of quantum chromodynamics as the theory of the strong nuclear force, in addition to new vistas in the subject opened up by the electron-proton collider HERA. The extraction of parton momentum distribution functions, a key input for physics at hadron colliders such as the Tevatron at Fermi Lab and the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, is described in detail. The challenges of the HERA data at 'low x' are described and possible explanations in terms of gluon dynamics and other models outlined. Other chapters cover: jet production at large momentum transfer and the determination of the strong coupling constant, electroweak interactions at very high momentum transfers, the extension of deep inelastic techniques to include hadronic probes, a summary of fully polarised inelastic scattering and the spin structure of the nucleon, and finally a brief account of methods in searching for signals 'beyond the standard model'.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0198506716
• ISBN 13: 9780198506713
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 418