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

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Filling a gap in the current literature, this book is dedicated to high energy quantum chromodynamics (QCD) including parton saturation and the color glass condensate (CGC). It presents groundbreaking progress on the subject and describes many problems at the forefront of research, bringing postgraduate students, theorists and interested experimentalists up to date with research in this field. The material is presented in a pedagogical way, with numerous examples and exercises. Discussion ranges from the quasi-classical McLerran-Venugopalan model to the linear BFKL and nonlinear BK/JIMWLK small-x evolution equations. The authors adopt both a theoretical and an experimental outlook, and present the physics of strong interactions in a universal way, making it useful for physicists from across high energy and nuclear physics, and applicable to processes studied at high energy accelerators around the world. This title, first published in 2012, has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

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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Baryons. --- Quantum chromodynamics. --- Chromodynamics, Quantum --- QCD (Nuclear physics) --- Particles (Nuclear physics) --- Quantum electrodynamics --- Fermions --- Hadrons --- Heavy particles (Nuclear physics)

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Aimed at graduate students and researchers in theoretical physics, this book presents the modern theory of strong interaction: quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The book exposes various perturbative and nonperturbative approaches to the theory, including chiral effective theory, the problems of anomalies, vacuum tunnel transitions, and the problem of divergence of the perturbative series. The QCD sum rules approach is exposed in detail. A great variety of hadronic properties (masses of mesons and baryons, magnetic moments, form factors, quark distributions in hadrons, etc.) have been found using this method. The evolution of hadronic structure functions is presented in detail, together with polarization phenomena. The problem of jets in QCD is treated through theoretical description and experimental observation. The connection with Regge theory is emphasized. The book covers many aspects of theory which are not discussed in other books, such as CET, QCD sum rules, and BFKL.

Elementary particles --- Quantum mechanics. Quantumfield theory --- Quantum chromodynamics --- Chromodynamique quantique --- Quantum chromodynamics. --- Chromodynamique quantique. --- Chromodynamics, Quantum --- QCD (Nuclear physics) --- Particles (Nuclear physics) --- Quantum electrodynamics