The Lund Model
The Lund Model
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9781009401289The Lund model, inspired by quantum chromodynamics, has provided a very promising approach to the dynamics of quark and gluon interactions. Starting with a brief reprise of basic concepts in relativity, quantum mechanics of fields and particle physics, this 1998 book discusses: the dynamics of the massless relativistic string; confinement; causality and relativistic covariance; Lund fragmentation processes; QED and QCD Bremsstrahlung; multiplicities and particle-parton distributions. Throughout the book, theory is confronted with current experimental data, and implications for future experiments are also considered. The book also explores the relationships between the Lund model and other models based on field theory (the Schwinger model, S-matrix models, light-cone algebra physics and variations of the parton model), and models based on statistical mechanics (the Feynman-Wilson gas, scaling, iterative cascade models).
- Well-written, covers both theory and experiment
- Extensive coverage is given to Lund fragmentation processes
Reviews & endorsements
'The monograph is well written and contains many physical insights. It is an authoritative source of information on models, originating in Lund, which form the basis of Monte Carlo programmes that are widely used in the analysis of data in the collisions of high energy particles. It will be of value to experimental and theoretical particle physicists alike.' A. D. Martin, Contemporary Physics
'… a fine reference work which every decent science library should have.' Brian L. Burrows, Zentralblatt MATH
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February 2011Adobe eBook Reader
9780511881497
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115 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Relativistic kinematics, electromagnetic fields and the method of virtual quanta
- 2. The harmonic oscillator and the quantum field
- 3. The vacuum as a dielectric medium and renormalisation
- 4. Deep inelastic scattering and the parton model
- 5. The classical motion of the massless relativistic string
- 6. The decay kinematics of the massless relativistic string
- 7. A stochastic process for string decay
- 8. The properties of the Lund model fragmentation formulae: external part formulas
- 9. The internal part fragmentation formulae and their relations to the unitarity equations of Regge theory
- 10. The dynamical analogues of the Lund model fragmentation formulae
- 11. Flavour and transverse momentum generation, and the vector to pseudoscalar meson ratio
- 12. Heavy quark fragmentation and Baryon production
- 13. The Hanbury–Brown–Twiss-effect and polarisation in the Lund model
- 14. The Lund gluon model, the kinematics and the decay properties
- 15. Gluon emission via the Bremsstrahlung process
- 16. Multigluon emission, the dipole moment and parton coherence cascade models
- 17. The lambda measure in the leading log, and the modified lead log approximation of perturbative QCD
- 18. The parton model and QCD
- 19. Inelastic lepto-production in the Lund model, the soft radiation model and heretical structure functions
- 20. Hadronic interaction models
- References
- Index.
