The Theory of Complex Angular Momenta
The Theory of Complex Angular Momenta
This 2003 book provides a rigorous introduction to the theory of complex angular momenta, based on the methods of field theory. It comprises an English translation of the series of lectures given by V. N. Gribov in 1969, when the physics of high-energy hadron interactions was being created. Besides their historical significance, these lectures contain material which is highly relevant to research today. The basic physical results and the approaches Gribov developed are now being rediscovered in an alternative context: in the microscopic theory of hadrons provided by quantum chromodynamics. The ideas and calculation techniques presented in this book are useful for analysing high-energy hadron scattering phenomena, deep inelastic lepton-hadron scattering, the physics of heavy ion collisions, kinetic phenomena in phase transitions, and will be instrumental in the analysis of electroweak processes at the next-generation particle accelerators, such as LHC and TESLA.
- Simple and intuitive introduction to the topic
- Based on lectures by V. N. Gribov, one of the most distinguished physicists in particle physics
- Unique in its approach
Reviews & endorsements
'The book is a very useful, pedagogical description of the way in which the general principles of the theory of complex angular momentum can be derived and applied to high-energy processes.' Contemporary Physics
'… unique, important and impressive.' Zentralblatt MATH
Product details
June 2007Paperback
9780521037037
312 pages
243 × 168 × 17 mm
0.494kg
265 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Foreword Yuri Dokshitzer
- Introduction Yuri Dokshitzer and Leonid Frankfurt
- 1. High energy hadron scattering
- 2. Physics of the t-channel and complex angular momenta
- 3. Singularities of partial waves and unitarity
- 4. Properties of Regge poles
- 5. Regge poles in high energy scattering
- 6. Scattering of particles with spin
- 7. Fermion Regge poles
- 8. Regge poles in perturbation theory
- 9. Reggeization of an electron
- 10. Vector field theory
- 11. Inconsistency of the Regge pole picture
- 12. Two-reggeon exchange and branch point singularities in the l plane
- 13. Properties of Mandelstam branch singularities
- 14. Reggeon diagrams
- 15. Interacting reggeons
- 16. Reggeon field theory
- 17. The structure of weak and strong coupling solutions
- Appendix A: space-time description of the hadron interactions at high energies
- Appendix B: character of inclusive spectra and fluctuations produced in inelastic processes by multi-pomeron exchange
- Appendix C: theory of the heavy pomeron
- Index.
