Barone V., Predazzi E. High-Energy Particle Diffraction

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2002. — (Theoretical and Mathematical Physics). — 410 pp. — ISBN: 978-3-642-07567-4 (Print) 978-3-662-04724-8 (Online).This monograph gives a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of soft and hard diffraction processes in strong interaction physics. The first part covers the general formalism (the optical analogy, the eikonal picture, high-energy kinematics, S-matrix theory) and soft hadron--hadron scattering (including the Regge theory) in a complete and mature presentation. It can be used as a textbook in particle physics classes. The remainder of the book is devoted to the "new diffraction": the pomeron in QCD, low-x physics, diffractive deep inelastic scattering and related processes, jet production etc. It presents recent results and experimental findings and their phenomenological interpretations. This part addresses graduate students as well as researchers.