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Deep Inelastic Scattering
Author(s): Robin Devenish (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
- Publication Date: July 7, 2011
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 420 pages
- ISBN-10: 0199602255
- ISBN-13: 9780199602254
Book Description
Deep Inelastic Scattering provides 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 H.E.R.A. . 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 C.E.R.N., is described in detail. The challenges of the H.E.R.A. 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’.
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Book Description
An up-to-date, self-contained account of deep inelastic scattering in high-energy physics.
