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This text looks at Quantum Chromodynamics, the theory of the strong force between quarks, which form the building blocks of nuclear matter. With a primary focus on experiments, the authors also include an extensive theoretical introduction to the field, as well as many exercises with solutions explained in detail.

Quantum chromodynamics. --- Chromodynamics, Quantum --- QCD (Nuclear physics) --- Particles (Nuclear physics) --- Quantum electrodynamics

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The advent of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) in the early 1970s was one of the most important events in twentieth-century science. This book examines the conceptual steps that were crucial to the rise of QCD, placing them in historical context against the background of debates that were ongoing between the bootstrap approach and composite modeling, and between mathematical and realistic conceptions of quarks. It explains the origins of QCD in current algebra and its development through high-energy experiments, model-building, mathematical analysis and conceptual synthesis. Addressing a range of complex physical, philosophical and historiographical issues in detail, this book will interest graduate students and researchers in physics and in the history and philosophy of science.

Quantum chromodynamics --- Algebra. --- Mathematical models. --- History. --- Chromodynamics, Quantum --- QCD (Nuclear physics) --- Particles (Nuclear physics) --- Quantum electrodynamics --- Mathematics --- Mathematical analysis

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The purpose of this book is to give a systematic pedagogical exposition of the quantitative analysis of Wilson lines and gauge-invariant correlation functions in quantum chromodynamics. Using techniques from the previous volume (Wilson Lines in Quantum Field Theory, 2014), an ab initio methodology is developed and practical tools for its implementation are presented. Emphasis is put on the implications of gauge invariance and path-dependence properties of transverse-momentum dependent parton density functions. The latter are associated with the QCD factorization approach to semi-inclusive hadronic processes, studied at currently operating and planned experimental facilities. Contents:IntroductionParticle Number Operators in Quantum Mechanics and in Quantum Field TheoryGeometry of Quantum Field TheoriesBasics of Wilson Lines in QCDGauge-Invariant Parton DensitiesSimplifying Wilson Line CalculationsBrief Literature GuideConventions and Reference FormulaeIntegrationsBibliographyIndex

Quantum chromodynamics. --- Partons. --- Gauge invariance. --- Gauge fields (Physics) --- Fields, Gauge (Physics) --- Gage fields (Physics) --- Gauge theories (Physics) --- Field theory (Physics) --- Group theory --- Symmetry (Physics) --- Gage invariance --- Gauge transformations --- Invariance, Gauge --- Electromagnetism --- Transformations (Mathematics) --- Parton model --- Hadrons --- Particles (Nuclear physics) --- Quarks --- Chromodynamics, Quantum --- QCD (Nuclear physics) --- Quantum electrodynamics --- QCD factorization. --- Wilson lines and loops. --- gauge-invariance. --- parton density functions. --- perturbative calculations in QCD. --- transverse-momentum dependence.

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"The most non-trivial of the established microscopic theories of physics is QCD: the theory of the strong interaction. A critical link between theory and experiment is provided by the methods of perturbative QCD, notably the well-known factorization theorems. Giving an accurate account of the concepts, theorems and their justification, this book is a systematic treatment of perturbative QCD. As well as giving a mathematical treatment, the book relates the concepts to experimental data, giving strong motivations for the methods. It also examines in detail transverse-momentum-dependent parton densities, an increasingly important subject not normally treated in other books. Ideal for graduate students starting their work in high-energy physics, it will also interest experienced researchers wanting a clear account of the subject"--

Quantum chromodynamics. --- SCIENCE / Nuclear Physics --- Physics. --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Chromodynamics, Quantum --- QCD (Nuclear physics) --- Particles (Nuclear physics) --- Quantum electrodynamics

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This book describes the underlying ideas and modern developments of Regge theory, confronting the theory with quantum chromodynamics and a huge variety of experimental data. It covers forty years of research and provides a unique insight into the theory and its phenomenological development. The authors review experiments that suggest the existence of a soft pomeron, and give a detailed discussion of attempts at describing this through nonperturbative quantum chromodynamics. They suggest that a second, hard pomeron is responsible for the dramatic rise in energy observed in deep inelastic lepton scattering. The two-pomeron hypothesis is applied to a variety of interactions and is compared and contrasted with perturbative quantum chromodynamics, as well as with the dipole approach. This book will provide a valuable reference for experimental particle physicists all over the world. It is also suitable for graduate courses in particle physics, high-energy scattering, QCD and the standard model.

Regge theory. --- Pomerons. --- Quantum chromodynamics. --- Chromodynamics, Quantum --- QCD (Nuclear physics) --- Particles (Nuclear physics) --- Quantum electrodynamics --- Pomeranchuk particles --- Pomeranchuk poles --- Pomeranchuk trajectories --- Angular momentum (Nuclear physics)