Quantum Chromodynamics and the Pomeron / / J. R. Forshaw, D. A. Ross.

• Superior document: Cambridge lecture notes in physics
• VerfasserIn: Forshaw, J. R. 1968-; Ross, D. A. 1948-
• TeilnehmendeR: Ross, D. A. 1948-
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, United Kingdom : : Cambridge University Press,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Cambridge lecture notes in physics.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 248 pages) :; illustrations.

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.

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. What is a Pomeron?; 2. A simple example; 3. The reggeized gluon; 4. The QCD Pomeron; 5. From cuts to poles; 6. Applications in deep inelastic scattering; 7. Diffraction; 8. Taming the growth; Appendices; References; Index.