At the frontier of particle physics : handbook of QCD : Boris Ioffe festschrift / edited by M. Shifman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ioffe, B. L., 1926-

Shifman, Mikhail A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum chromodynamics.

Ioffe, B. L., 1926-.

Ioffe, B. L.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2196 p.)

Other Title:

Atthefrontierofparticlephysics

Handbook of QCD

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; River Edge, NJ : World Scentific, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book consists of reviews covering all aspects of quantum chromodynamics as we know it today. The articles have been written by recognized experts in this field, in honor of the 75th birthday of Professor Boris Ioffe. Combining features of a handbook and a textbook, this is the most comprehensive source of information on the present status of QCD. It is intended for students as well as physicists - both theorists and experimentalists.Each review is self-contained and pedagogically structured, providing the general formulation of the problem, telling where it stands with respect to other is

Contents:

Volume 1; Foreword; Note from the Editor; CONTENTS (VOLUME 1); Acknowledgments; Part 1; Introduction; Introducing Boris Ioffe; Boris Lazarevich Ioffe is 75; Chapter 1 Pages of the Past; A Top Secret Assignment; Editor's Comments; Snapshots from the 1950's; Chapter 2 The Making of QCD; Quantizing the Yang-Mills Field; The Discovery of Asymptotic Freedom and the Emergence of QCD; Editor's note; Recollections on Dimensional Regularization and Related Topics

Historical Curiosity: How Asymptotic Freedom of the Yang-Mills Theory Could Have Been Discovered Three Times before Gross Wilczek and Politzer but Was NotPart 2; Chapter 3 From Hadrons to Nuclei: Crossing the Border; 1 Introduction; 2 Two-Nucleon Systems at Very Low Energies; 3 Phenomenological Applications of EFT(*); 4 The Three-Nucleon System; 5 N N Interactions at Higher Energies; 6 Perturbative TT-Exchange and its Problems; 7 Don't Mess with Texas: the Weinberg Program for Physics of the Two-Nucleon System; 8 External Probes of the Deuteron; 9 Gains over the Traditional Approach

10 The Nuclear Many-Body Problem as an EFT11 Conclusion; Chapter 4 Chiral Dynamics; 1 Introduction; 2 Massless QCD - a theoretical paradise; 3 Effective action; 4 Chiral symmetry in terms of Green functions: Ward identities; 5 Basic low energy constants; 6 Low energy expansion of the effective action; 7 Effective Lagrangian; 8 Effective field theory; 9 Illustration: Topological susceptibility; 10 Higher orders; 11 Outline of the proof; 12 Effective Lagrangian of next-to-leading order; 13 Perturbation theory; 14 Illustration: Form factors; 15 Magnitude of the coupling constants

16 Partition function17 Universality; 18 Concluding remarks; Chapter 5 Aspects of Chiral Symmetry; 1 Classic Sagas; 2 Quarks on Euclidean Lattice; 3 Continuum Theory: Some Exact Results; 4 Mesoscopic QCD; 5 QCD at finite 8; Chapter 6 Nucleons as Chiral Solitons; 1 Introduction; 2 How do we know chiral symmetry is spontaneously broken?; 3 Effective Chiral Lagrangian (ExL); 4 Properties of the effective chiral Lagrangian; 5 The nucleon; 6 Quantum numbers of baryons; 7 Some applications; 8 Nucleon structure functions; 9 Skewed parton distributions; 10 Light-cone wave function of the nucleon

11 ConclusionsChapter 7 Chiral QCD: Baryon Dynamics; 1 A short guide through this long essay; 2 From symmetry to dynamics; 3 Effective field theory with matter fields; 4 Two flavors: The structure of the nucleon; 5 Three flavors: Hyperons cascades and the nucleon revisited; 6 Summary; Chapter 8 Hadrons in the 1/N Expansion; 1 Introduction; 2 QCD; 3 Meson Phenomenology; 4 Baryons; 5 Spin-Flavor Symmetry for Baryons; 6 Masses with SU(3) Breaking; 7 Other Results for Baryons; 8 Large N and Chiral Perturbation Theory; Chapter 9 QCD Inequalities; 1 Introduction

2 The Basic Approach and Inequalities

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references .

ISBN:

981-281-045-5