Donnachie S., Dosch G., Landshoff P., Nachtmann O. Pomeron Physics and QCD

Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 360 pp. — (Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology). — ISBN: 9780521675703.This volume gives an account of modern knowledge of Regge Theory and QCD, an active area of high-energy particle-physics research. It records what has been learned in the past, what is relevant now, and what is essential for the future. The authors cover forty years of research and provide unique insight into the theory and its phenomenological development. The phenomenology is applied to a variety of reactions and is compared extensively with experiment. This is essential reading for particle physicists and is suitable as a graduate textbook.Was the first book to give comprehensive coverage of this field
The discussion is illustrated and explained by numerous diagrams and figures
Suitable for graduate courses in particle physicsTable of ContentsProperties of the S-matrix
Regge poles
Introduction to soft hadronic processes
Duality
Photon-induced processes
QCD: perturbative and nonperturbative
Hard processes
Soft diffraction and vacuum structure
The dipole approach
Questions for the future
Sommerfeld-Watson transform
The Group SU(3)
Feynman rules of QCD
Pion-nucleon amplitudes
The density matrix of vector mesons.