Buch, Englisch, 364 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1570 g
ISBN: 978-0-306-44636-8
Verlag: Springer US
The primary objective of the book on "Contemporary Topics in Medium Energy Physics" is to help the reader in exploring important frontier research, as of the year of 1992, in the area of medium energy physics. The book is the result of the multi-pronged efforts by the authors who were invited to speak at the Second German Chinese Symposium on "Medium Energy Physics" (September 7-10, 1992, Bochum, Germany). The premise of the meeting is to investigate primarily how quantum chromo dynamics (QCD), the candidate theory of strong interactions, manifests itself in high energy and nuclear physics. This book is divided into four parts: (i) field-theoretic treatments in QCD; (ii) effective chirally symmetric models and QCD; (iii) electroweak physics in general; and (iv) topological solutions. The focus is more on exposition of new ideas, rather than a comprehensive review of the current status, concerning these subjects, as of the year of 1992. As there are many distinctly different research areas in contemporary intermediate energy physics, we could only choose a few topics of current interest, especially those which are related, directly or indirectly, to the structural studies of the nucleon (proton or neutron). Fortunately, there are in recent years merging trends in these studies: There is a call for an alternative, and more efficient, method to handle problems related to strong interactions (as described by QCD). This is the focus of the papers included in Part I.
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I. Field-Theoretic Treatments in QCD.- Regularization and Renormalization within the Hamiltonian Formulation of QCD.- Vacuum Polarization in Nucleon Structure.- QCD Sum Rules and the Nucleon Structure.- Evolution Equations for Nonlocal Hadron Operators.- Non-perturbative Propagators in QCD.- An Extended Perturbation Theory for QCD.- II. Effective Chirally Symmetric Models and QCD.- Solitonic Solutions of the SU(2) Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Model with Vector Mesons.- Highlights of the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Chiral Soliton.- The Strange Content of the Baryons in the SU(3) Nambu-Jona-Lasinio Model.- Large-Nc Higher Order Weak Chiral Lagrangians for Nonleptonic and Radiative Kaon Decays.- A Chirally Symmetric, Confining Quark Model.- Nucleon’s Possible Quark-Diquark Structure.- III. Electroweak Physics in General.- Consequences of the Heavy Quark Symmetry for Semileptonic Decays of Heavy Baryons.- Heavy Quark Symmetry and Heavy-Flavor-Conserving Nonleptonic Weak Decays.- Spectator and Non-Spectator Models in the B Meson Systems.- The Electromagnetic Structure of Hadrons and Gauge Invariance.- Meson-Meson Contributions to the Nucleon Sigma-Term and Electromagnetic Form Factors.- ? Excitations in Nuclei and the Coherent Pion Decay.- Recent Progress in the 3N- and 4N-Problem.- Spin-Dependent Inelastic Electron Scattering from Three-Nucleon Bound States.- Maximal-Decoupling Variational Principle and Optimal Auxiliary Hamiltonians for Nuclear Collective Motions.- IV. Topological Solutions.- SU(N) Instantons in the Field Strength Approach to QCD.- Applications of instanton Induced Quark Forces in Hadron Spectroscopy and Nuclear Physics.- Sphalerons in the Weak Interactions.- Braid Group Structure in Chern-Simons Theory on a Torus.- Anomaly Langrangian with Nucleon.- Author Index.
