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Introducing the basic theory and recent advances in QCD, this book reviews the historical development of the subject up to the present day, covering aspects of strong interactions such as the quark and parton models, the notion of colors and the S-matrix approach. The author then discusses QCD and QED as gauge theories, renormalization procedures, QCD hard processes in hadron collisions, hadron jets, and the different non-perturbative aspects of QCD.
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This book provides a pedagogical introduction to the perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Introducing the basic theory and recent advances in QCD, it also reviews the historical development of the subject up to the present day, covering pre-QCD ideas of strong interactions such as the quark and parton models, the notion of colours, current algebra and the S-matrix approach. The author then discusses tools of quantum field theory, the symmetry and quantization of gauge theory, techniques of dimensional regularization and renormalization, QED high-precision tests, deep inelastic scattering and hard processes in hadron collisions, hadron jets, and inclusive processes in e + e− annihilations. Other topics include power corrections and the technologies of the Shifman–Vainshtein–Zakharov (SVZ) operator product expansion, renormalizations and phenomena beyond the SVZ expansion. The final parts of the book are devoted to modern non-perturbative approaches to QCD, such as lattice and effective theories, and the phenomenological aspects of QCD spectral sum rules. The book will be a valuable reference for graduate students and researchers in high-energy particle and nuclear physics, both theoretical and experimental. s t e p h a n n a r i s o n graduated from the University of Antananarivo, Madagascar and received his Doctorat d’Etat from the University of Marseille. He is currently Director of Research in theoretical physics at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), at the Laboratoire de Physique Math´ematique et Th´eorique de l’Universit´e Montpellier II. He has conducted research in laboratories and university departments throughout the world. Starting his research in the high-precision tests of QED, his main area of research is in non-perturbative aspects of QCD, using QCD spectral sum rules to study the properties of hadrons and low-energy phenomena in terms of the fundamental parameters from QCD first principles. He has worked in this field for more than two decades and has actively participated in its development. Professor Narison has had numerous publications in leading journals, as well as contributing to several books on high-energy physics. He is also the founder and chairman of the QCD Montpellier International Conference Series. CAMBRIDGE MONOGRAPHS ON PARTICLE PHYSICS NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY 17 General Editors: T. Ericson, P. V. Landshoff 1. K. Winter (ed.): Neutrino Physics 2. J. F. Donoghue, E. Golowich and B. R. Holstein: Dynamics of the Standard Model 3. E. Leader and E. Predazzi: An Introduction to Gauge Theories and Modern Particle Physics, Volume I: Electroweak Interactions, the ‘New Particles’ and the Parton Model 4. E. Leader and E. Predazzi: An Introduction to Gauge Theories and Modern Particle Physics, Volume 2: CP-Violation, QCD and Hard Processes 5. C. Grupen: Particle Detectors 6. H. Grosse and A. Martin: Particle Physics and the Schr¨odinger Equation 7. B. Andersson: The Lund Model 8. R. K. Ellis, W. J. Stirling and B. R. Webber: QCD and Collider Physics 9. I. I. Bigi and A. I. Sanda: CP Violation 10. A. V. Manohar and M. B. Wise: Heavy Quark Physics 11. R. K. Bock, H. Grote, R. Fr¨uhwirth and M. Regler: Data Analysis Techniques for High-Energy Physics, Second edition 12. D. Green: The Physics of Particle Detectors 13. V. N. Gribov and J. Nyiri: Quantum Electrodynam