Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Relativistic kinematics, electromagnetic fields and the method of virtual quanta
- 3 The harmonic oscillator and the quantum field
- 4 The vacuum as a dielectric medium; renormalisation
- 5 Deep inelastic scattering and the parton model
- 6 The classical motion of the massless relativistic string
- 7 The decay kinematics of the massless relativistic string
- 8 A stochastic process for string decay
- 9 The properties of the Lund model fragmentation formulas; the external-part formulas
- 10 The internal-part fragmentation formulas and their relations to the unitarity equations of a field theory; Regge theory
- 11 The dynamical analogues of the Lund model fragmentation formulas
- 12 Flavor and transverse momentum generation and the vector meson to pseudoscalar meson ratio
- 13 Heavy quark fragmentation and baryon production
- 14 The Hanbury-Brown-Twiss effect and the polarisation effects in the Lund model
- 15 The Lund gluon model, its kinematics and decay properties
- 16 Gluon emission via the bremsstrahlung process
- 17 Multigluon emission, the dipole cascade model and other coherent cascade models
- 18 The λ-measure in the leading-log and modified leading-log approximations of perturbative QCD
- 19 The parton model and QCD
- 20 Inelastic lepto-production in the Lund model, the soft radiation model and the linked dipole chain model
- References
- Index
19 - The parton model and QCD
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Relativistic kinematics, electromagnetic fields and the method of virtual quanta
- 3 The harmonic oscillator and the quantum field
- 4 The vacuum as a dielectric medium; renormalisation
- 5 Deep inelastic scattering and the parton model
- 6 The classical motion of the massless relativistic string
- 7 The decay kinematics of the massless relativistic string
- 8 A stochastic process for string decay
- 9 The properties of the Lund model fragmentation formulas; the external-part formulas
- 10 The internal-part fragmentation formulas and their relations to the unitarity equations of a field theory; Regge theory
- 11 The dynamical analogues of the Lund model fragmentation formulas
- 12 Flavor and transverse momentum generation and the vector meson to pseudoscalar meson ratio
- 13 Heavy quark fragmentation and baryon production
- 14 The Hanbury-Brown-Twiss effect and the polarisation effects in the Lund model
- 15 The Lund gluon model, its kinematics and decay properties
- 16 Gluon emission via the bremsstrahlung process
- 17 Multigluon emission, the dipole cascade model and other coherent cascade models
- 18 The λ-measure in the leading-log and modified leading-log approximations of perturbative QCD
- 19 The parton model and QCD
- 20 Inelastic lepto-production in the Lund model, the soft radiation model and the linked dipole chain model
- References
- Index
Summary
Introduction
In this chapter we will provide the parton model, the PM, with a QCD field theoretical structure according to the conventional method; for more details see e.g. In the next chapter we continue the discussion and present the Lund model version of the properties of deep inelastic scattering (DIS) events, both the treatment of the fragmentation and, in particular, the use of the newly developed linked dipole chain model, to provide the fragmenting string state.
The method of virtual quanta (MVQ) in Chapter 2 describes the electromagnetic field from a fast-moving charge in terms of the photon flux from the bremsstrahlung spectrum, and we will make use of this as an analogy. It is evident that Feynman picked up the basic features of the MVQ to make the PM into a description of the corresponding flux of the hadronic field quanta. In that way he made the PM into a useful tool to describe the cross sections for DIS events. Those we consider in this book are initiated by an electromagnetic probe, i.e. they correspond to inelastic electron-baryon (or muon-baryon) scatterings. But it is also possible to use the PM to describe e.g. inelastic neutrino-baryon scattering events as well as to consider the interactions between the partons themselves.
Feynman assumed that the partons can be treated as a stream of free elastic scatterers with respect to the probe.
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- The Lund Model , pp. 392 - 422Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998