Pomeron Physics And Qcd

This page intentionally left blank Pomeron Physics and QCD This book describes the underlying ideas and modern developments of Regge theory. It confronts the theory with a huge variety of experimental data and with quantum chromodynamics. The book covers forty years of research and provides a unique insight into the theory and its phenomenological development. It provides comprehensive coverage of the various different theoretical approaches and considers the key issues for future theory and experiment. The authors review experiments that suggest the existence of a soft pomeron and give a detailed description of attempts to describe this through nonperturbative quantum chromodynamics. They suggest that a second, hard pomeron is responsible for the dramatic rise in energy observed in deep inelastic lepton–nucleon scattering. The two-pomeron hypothesis is applied to a variety of interactions and is compared with perturbative quantum chromodynamics, as well as with the dipole approach. This book will be a valuable reference for theoretical and experimental particle physicists all over the world. It is also suitable as a textbook for graduate courses in particle physics, high-energy scattering, QCD and the standard model. sandy donnachie obtained his PhD from the University of Glasgow in 1961. He is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Manchester, a post he has held since 1969. He has been a visiting professor at departments and institutes throughout the world and is the author of around 170 publications, including one previous book. ¨nter dosch was awarded his PhD in 1963, from the University of Heidelberg. Since gu then he has held positions at the University of Heidelberg, CERN, the University of Karlsruhe and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has published numerous articles in journals and also in the proceedings of conferences and schools. He is currently a professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Heidelberg. peter landshoff qualified for his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1962. He is Professor of Mathematical Physics there and is Vice-Master of Christ’s College. He has led new research ventures in quantum information and in e-science and played an active role in the creation of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences and of the Millennium Mathematics Project, whose object is to help people of all ages share in the excitement of mathematics. Professor Landshoff has spent extended periods at CERN and is an editor of Physics Letters B. He is the author of about 130 publications, including two previous books. otto nachtmann obtained his PhD in 1967, from the University of Vienna. Since 1975 he has been a professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Heidelberg. He has spent extended periods at institutes and universities throughout the world and is the author of about 140 publications, including one previous book. Pomeron Physics and QCD Sandy Donnachie University of Manchester G¨ unter Dosch Universit¨ at Heidelberg Peter Landshoff University of Cambridge Otto Nachtmann Universit¨ at Heidelberg    Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Camb