Deep Inelastic Scattering [Hardcover]

1. Introduction
2. The quark-parton model
3. Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and formal methods
4. QCD improved parton model
5. Deep inelastic scattering (DIS) experiments and data
6. Extraction of parton densities
7. Alpha s from scaling violations and jets at high Q squared
8. DIS at high Q squared
9. DIS at low x
10. Hadron induced DIS
11. Polarized DIS
12. Beyond the standard model
A. Dirac equations and some other conventions
B. Phase space and cross-sections
C. DIS cross-sections
D. Feynman rules
E. Monte Carlo codes
F. Data sources
G. Parton parameterizations

Introducing deep inelastic scattering in high energy particle physics, Devenish and Cooper-Sarkar (both of the Department of Physics, U. of Oxford, UK) update the overview of the topic provided in Roberts' The Structure of the Proton (CUP 1990), but from a more experimental perspective and with particular reference to nucleon structure. After covering the theoretical formalism and experimental technique of the field, hey examine the extraction of parton momentum distributions and the extension of the measurements and the formalism to very low values of parton momentum. They also present the formalism that will be required to analyze the high luminosity, high momentum transfer data from the HERA-II ep collider and discuss the prospects for electroweak physics at large momentum transfer. --SciTech Book News

Robin Devenish joined the Department of Physics and Hertford College at the University of Oxford in 1979 and was awarded the title of Professor in 1996. He has worked on particle physics phenomenology and experimental high-energy physics, particularly electron-positron annihilation at DORIS and PETRA and with the ZEUS collaboration at the electron-proton collider HERA since its inception. Amanda Cooper-Sarkar joined the Rutherford Laboratory in 1979 and held a CERN Senior Fellowship 1983-85. In 1990, she joined the Deplã0