Quantum Chromodynamics at High Energy (Paperback)

Filling a gap in the current literature, this book is dedicated to high energy quantum chromodynamics (QCD) including parton saturation and the color glass condensate (CGC). It presents groundbreaking progress on the subject and describes many problems at the forefront of research, bringing postgraduate students, theorists and interested experimentalists up to date with research in this field. The material is presented in a pedagogical way, with numerous examples and exercises. Discussion ranges from the quasi-classical McLerran-Venugopalan model to the linear BFKL and nonlinear BK/JIMWLK small-x evolution equations. The authors adopt both a theoretical and an experimental outlook, and present the physics of strong interactions in a universal way, making it useful for physicists from across high energy and nuclear physics, and applicable to processes studied at high energy accelerators around the world. This title, first published in 2012, has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

填補了當前文獻中的一個空白，本書專注於高能量量子色動力學（QCD），包括部分飽和和色玻璃凝聚物（CGC）。它介紹了該主題的突破性進展，描述了許多前沿研究中的問題，使研究生、理論家和感興趣的實驗者能夠了解該領域的研究進展。材料以教學方式呈現，包含大量的例子和練習題。討論範圍從準經典的麥克勞倫-維努戈帕蘭模型到線性BFKL和非線性BK/JIMWLK小x演化方程。作者既採取理論觀點，又採取實驗觀點，以通用方式呈現強相互作用的物理，使其對高能量和核物理領域的物理學家有用，並適用於世界各地的高能量加速器研究的過程。該書於2012年首次出版，現已作為開放存取出版物重新發行在劍橋核心平台上。