Quantum Chromodynamics and the Pomeron (Paperback)

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.

本書描述了Pomeron，這是在極高能量粒子物理中至關重要的物體。從Regge理論框架下對Pomeron的一般描述開始，討論了Pomeron在標量場理論中的出現，為發展更現實的QCD情況提供了自然基礎。演示了膠子的Regge化並用於構建微擾QCD的Pomeron。還詳細研究了Pomeron的動力學性質以及其在小x深度非彈性散射和繞射散射中的作用。本書最後研究了高能散射的色偶方法以及單位性修正的明確角色。本書將對理論和實驗粒子物理學家以及應用數學家感興趣。本書於1997年首次出版，現已作為開放存取出版物在Cambridge Core上重新發行。