Quantum Chromodynamics

Quantum Chromodynamics is a thorough introduction for students in theoretical physics and scientists needing a reference and exercise book in this field. The book presents the necessary mathematical tools together with many examples and worked problems. In introductory chapters the reader becomes familiar with the hadron spectrum, while the SU(N) symmetry groups and the relativistic field theory are briefly recapitulated; then a discussion of scalar quantum electrodynamics and scattering reactions follow before gauge quark-quark interactions, perturbational QCD, renormalization groups, and tests of pertubational QCD are all treated in detail. Chapters on non-perturbational QCD and quasi-phenomenological applications conclude the text. Front Matter....Pages I-XII The Introduction of Quarks....Pages 1-15 Review of Relativistic Field Theory....Pages 17-68 Scattering Reactions and the Internal Structure of Baryons....Pages 69-129 Gauge Theories and Quantum-Chromodynamics....Pages 131-179 Perturbative QCD I: Deep Inelastic Scattering....Pages 181-266 Perturbative QCD II: The Drell—Yan Process and the Gribov—Levin—Ryskin Equation....Pages 267-310 Nonperturbative QCD....Pages 311-385 Phenomenological Models for Non-Perturbative QCD Problems....Pages 387-409 Back Matter....Pages 411-415