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This 2003 book provides a rigorous introduction to the theory of complex angular momenta, based on the methods of field theory. It comprises an English translation of the series of lectures given by V. N. Gribov in 1969, when the physics of high-energy hadron interactions was being created. Besides their historical significance, these lectures contain material which is highly relevant to research today. The basic physical results and the approaches Gribov developed are now being rediscovered in an alternative context: in the microscopic theory of hadrons provided by quantum chromodynamics. The ideas and calculation techniques presented in this book are useful for analysing high-energy hadron scattering phenomena, deep inelastic lepton-hadron scattering, the physics of heavy ion collisions, kinetic phenomena in phase transitions, and will be instrumental in the analysis of electroweak processes at the next-generation particle accelerators, such as LHC and TESLA.

Angular momentum (Nuclear physics). --- Quantum field theory. --- Angular momentum (Nuclear physics) --- Quantum field theory --- Nuclear Physics --- Physics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Relativistic quantum field theory --- Field theory (Physics) --- Quantum theory --- Relativity (Physics) --- Angular momentum --- Nuclear moments

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Measuring the spin distribution of supermassive black holes is of critical importance for understanding how these black holes and their host galaxies form and evolve over time, yet this type of study is only in its infancy.  This brief describes how astronomers measure spin in supermassive black holes using X-ray spectroscopy.   It also reviews the constraints that have been placed on the spin distribution in local, bright active galaxies over the past six years, and the cosmological implications of these constraints.  Finally, it summarizes the open questions that remain in this exciting new field of research and points toward future discoveries soon to be made by the next generation of space-based observatories.

Space research --- Cosmology --- Astronomy --- Physics --- Theory of relativity. Unified field theory --- Geophysics --- zwaartekracht --- astrofysica --- fysica --- relativiteitstheorie --- ruimte (astronomie) --- astronomie --- kosmologie --- Angular momentum (Nuclear physics) --- Black holes (Astronomy)

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This book is devoted to the theory and phenomenology of transverse-spin effects in high-energy hadronic physics. Contrary to common past belief, it is now rather clear that such effects are far from irrelevant. A decade or so of intense theoretical work has shed much light on the subject and brought to surface an entire class of new phenomena, which now await thorough experimental investigation. Over the next few years a number of experiments world-wide (at BNL, CERN, DESY and JLAB) will run with transversely polarised beams and targets, providing data that will enrich our knowledge of the transverse-spin structure of hadrons. It is therefore timely to assess the state of the art, and this is the principal aim of the volume. An outline of the book is as follows. After a few introductory remarks (Chapter 1), attention is directed in Chapter 2 to transversely polarised deeply-inelastic scattering (DIS), which probes the transverse spin structure function g2. This existing data are reviewed and discussed (for completeness, a brief presentation of longitudinally polarised DIS is also provided). In Chapter 3 the transverse-spin structure of the proton is illustrated in detail, with emphasis on the transversity distribution and the twist-three parton distribution contributing to g2. Model calculations of these quantities are also presented. In Chapter 4, the QCD evolution of transversity is studied at leading and next-to-leading order. Chapter 5 illustrates the g2 structure function and its related sum rules within the framework of perturbative QCD. The last three chapters are devoted to the phenomenology of transversity, in the context of Drell-Yan processes (Chapter 6), inclusive leptoproduction (Chapter 7) and inclusive hadroproduction (Chapter 8). The interpretation of some recent single-spin asymmetry data is discussed and the prospects for future measurements are reviewed.

High spin physics. --- Nuclear spin. --- Hadrons. --- Strongly interacting particles --- Particles (Nuclear physics) --- Partons --- Spin, Nuclear --- Angular momentum (Nuclear physics) --- Nuclear physics --- High energy spin physics --- High spin nuclear levels --- High spin states (Physics)

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This volume describes the Pomeron, an object of crucial importance in very high energy particle physics. Starting with a general description of the Pomeron within the framework of Regge theory, the emergence of the Pomeron within scalar field theory is discussed, providing a natural foundation on which to develop the more realistic case of QCD. The reggeization of the gluon is demonstrated and used to build the Pomeron of perturbative QCD. The dynamical nature of the Pomeron and its role in small-x deep inelastic scattering and in diffractive scattering is also examined in detail. The volume concludes with a study of the colour dipole approach to high energy scattering and the explicit role of unitarity corrections. This book will be of interest to theoretical and experimental particle physicists, and applied mathematicians. First published in 1997, this title has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

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

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The progress in nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy that took place during the last several decades is observed in both experimental capabilities and theoretical approaches to study the spectral parameters. The scope of NMR spectroscopy for studying a large series of molecular problems has notably broadened. However, at the same time, it requires specialists to fully use its potentialities. This is a notorious problem and it is reflected in the current literature where this spectroscopy is typically only used in a routine way. Also, it is seldom used in several disciplines in whic

Chemistry, Organic. --- Nuclear magnetic resonance. --- Spectroscopy. --- Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy --- Molecular structure --- Nuclear magnetic resonance --- Spectrum analysis --- Chemistry, Organic --- Chemistry --- Physics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Electricity & Magnetism --- Analytical Chemistry --- Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. --- Nuclear spin. --- Spin, Nuclear --- Angular momentum (Nuclear physics) --- Nuclear physics --- NMR spectroscopy --- Spectroscopy, NMR --- Spectroscopy, Nuclear magnetic resonance --- Nuclear spectroscopy --- Knight shift