Deep Inelastic Scattering
Robin Devenish and Amanda Cooper-Sarkar
Abstract
The book provides a self-contained account of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) in high energy physics. It covers the classic results that lead to the quark-parton model of hadrons and the establishment of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), through to the new vistas in the subject opened up by the electron-proton collider HERA. The extraction of parton momentum distribution functions, a key input for physics at hadron colliders such as the Tevatron and Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is described in detail. The challenges of the HERA data at low-x are described, and possible explanations in terms of glu ... More
The book provides a self-contained account of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) in high energy physics. It covers the classic results that lead to the quark-parton model of hadrons and the establishment of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), through to the new vistas in the subject opened up by the electron-proton collider HERA. The extraction of parton momentum distribution functions, a key input for physics at hadron colliders such as the Tevatron and Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is described in detail. The challenges of the HERA data at low-x are described, and possible explanations in terms of gluon dynamics outlined. Other chapters cover: jet production at large momentum transfer and the determination of the strong coupling constant; electroweak probes 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 a brief account of methods for searching for signals ‘beyond the standard model’.
Keywords:
deep inelastic scattering,
quark-parton model,
quantum chromodynamics,
HERA,
low-x,
momentum distribution functions,
Tevatron,
Large Hadron Collider,
electroweak probes
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2003 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198506713 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198506713.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Robin Devenish, author
Department of Physics, University of Oxford
Amanda Cooper-Sarkar, author
Department of Physics, University of Oxford
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