Structure of the Proton

Deep Inelastic Scattering
Erscheinungsjahr 1993
ISBN: 978-0-521-44944-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 293 g

Reihe: Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics

This graduate/research level book describes our present knowledge of protons and neutrons, the particles which make up the nucleus of the atom. Experiments using high energy electrons, muons and neutrinos reveal the proton as being made up of point-like constituents, quarks. The strong forces which bind the quarks together are described in terms of the modern theory of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the 'glue' binding the quarks being mediated by new constituents called gluons. Larger and new particle accelerators probe the interactions between quarks and gluons at shorter distances. The understanding of this detailed substructure and of the fundamental forces responsible is one of the keys to unravelling the physics of the structure of matter. This book will be of interest to all theoretical and experimental particle physicists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roberts, R. G.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Kernphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Teilchenphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Structure functions; 3. Quark parton model; 4. Perturbative QCD; 5. Application of perturbative to deep inelastic scattering; 6. Exotic phenomena; Appendix; References; Index.