Quantum Chromodynamics

Book Description
The book is a self-contained introduction to perturbative and nonperturbative quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) with worked-out exercises for students of theoretical physics. It will be useful as a reference for research scientists as well. Starting with the hadron spectrum, the reader becomes familiar with the representations of SU(N). Relativistic quantum field theory is recapitulated, and scattering theory is discussed in the framework of scalar quantum electrodynamics. Then the gauge theory of quarks and gluons is introduced. In the more advanced chapters, perturbative and nonperturbative techniques in state-of-the-art QCD are discussed in great detail. This completely revised and enlarged second edition will fill the gap in the literature.

Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German


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The book is a selfcontained introduction in perturbative and nonperturbative Quantumchromodynamics (QCD) with worked out exercises for students of theoretical physics. It will be useful as a reference for research scientists as well. Starting with the hadron spectrum the reader becomes famliar with the representations of SU(N). Relativistic quantum field theory is recapitulated and scattering theory is discussed in the framework of scalar quantum electrodynamics. Then the gauge theory of quarks and gluons is introduced. In the more advanced chapters perturbative and nonperturbative techniques in state of the art QCD are discussed in great detail.This completely revised and enlarged second edition will fill the gap in the literature.FROM THE REVIEWS: FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS "For those who are teaching QCD in the context of its applications to hadronic physics and, especially, nucleon structure functions and Drell-Yan physics as studied experimentally at the world's large accelerator laboratories, the text of Greiner and Schaefer successfully fills a major gap."


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