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
1 - Introduction
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
This book stems from lectures in different places and at different times. I would like to thank all those colleagues, graduate students and collaborators, who have patiently listened, commented upon and by insistent questioning given me insight into the physics described in this text.
You will find that the physics is described in a semi-classical language. I believe that my generation, the grandchildren of the wonderful generation that developed the tools of quantum mechanics, have largely learned to use semi-classical dynamical pictures while avoiding the quantum mechanical pitfalls. After having understood that the state density is different and that probabilities are not additive in quantum mechanics most of one's classical intuition can be used. I provide an example in Chapter 2 which shows that you can never fool Heisenberg's indeterminacy relations (i.e. position and conjugate momentum cannot be determined simultaneously with arbitrary precision). But you may choose your variables in such a way (rapidity and position for high-energy particles) that all the quantum mechanical rules are fulfilled and you may still transfer easily between the descriptions in terms of the different variable sets.
The material in the book has been chosen to stress the connections between different approaches to high-energy physics. The basic picture is nevertheless the one stemming from field theory as it is used in the Lund model.
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- The Lund Model , pp. 1 - 5Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998