The Structure of the Proton

Deep Inelastic Scattering

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This graduate/research level book describes our present knowledge of protons and neutrons, the particles which make up the nucleus of the atom. Experiments using high energy electrons, muons and neutrinos reveal the proton as being made up of point-like constituents, quarks. The strong forces which bind the quarks together are described in terms of the modern theory of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the 'glue' binding the quarks being mediated by new constituents called gluons. Larger and new particle accelerators probe the interactions between quarks and gluons at shorter distances. The understanding of this detailed substructure and of the fundamental forces responsible is one of the keys to unravelling the physics of the structure of matter. This book will be of interest to all theoretical and experimental particle physicists.

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"...a concise, complete, and up-to-date summary of the field, from precise definitions of lepton-nucleon cross-sections in terms of structure functions, to their interpretation in terms of the quark-parton model, to perturbative quantum chromodynamics and nuclear effects." Gabriel Karl, Science "Written by one of the subject's leading experts, it comes as no surprise to find that all the important theoretical and experimental results to date are included. Together with a beautifully clear writing style, this makes an invaluable purchase for beginners and experts alike." CERN Courier

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Introduction	p. 1
Structure functions	p. 8
Kinematics and variables	p. 8
Electromagnetic interaction	p. 9
Structure functions	p. 9
Elastic contribution	p. 12
Cross-sections for virtual photons	p. 13
Weak charged current interaction	p. 14
Structure functions	p. 14
Elastic contribution	p. 15
Cross-sections for virtual W's	p. 16
Polarised structure functions	p. 17
Extracting structure functions from experiment	p. 19
Quark parton model	p. 24
Light cone dominance and the impulse approximation	p. 24
Bjorken scaling	p. 25
Quark distributions	p. 28
Electron nucleon scattering via the neutral current	p. 28
Neutrino-nucleon scattering via the charged current	p. 30
Neutrino-nucleon scattering via the neutral current	p. 32
Electron-nucleon scattering via the charged current	p. 33
Sum rules	p. 33
Behaviour of quark distributions at small and large x	p. 35
Small x	p. 35
Large x	p. 36
Information on quark distributions from experiment	p. 38
Information from electromagnetic structure functions	p. 38
Information from weak structure functions in neutrino scattering	p. 39
Polarised structure functions	p. 41
Parton transverse momentum	p. 46
Perturbative QCD	p. 50
Renormalisation group and the running coupling constant	p. 50
Regularisation	p. 56
Operator product expansion	p. 57
An example: leading log behaviour of valence quarks	p. 62
Applying QCD to deep inelastic scattering	p. 65
Moments of structure functions in leading order QCD	p. 65
Non-singlet moments	p. 65
Target mass corrections	p. 67
Singlet moments	p. 68
Altarelli-Parisi equations in leading order QCD	p. 71
Target mass corrections	p. 80
NLO corrections to moments of structure functions	p. 82
Non-singlet moments	p. 83
QCD corrections to sum rules	p. 87
NLO corrections to singlet moments	p. 88
Corrections to sum rules of polarised structure functions	p. 90
NLO corrections to the Altarelli-Parisi equations	p. 92
Inverse Mellin transforms of moment evolution	p. 92
Longitudinal structure function and [sigma][subscript L]/[sigma][subscript T]	p. 94
Heavy flavour thresholds	p. 95
Large and small x	p. 101
Large x: dimensional counting rules	p. 101
Large x: soft gluons beyond the renormalisation group	p. 104
Large x: higher twists	p. 107
Small x region: predictions of theory	p. 112
Very small x: parton-parton interactions	p. 115
The parton distributions	p. 120
Analysing the DIS data	p. 120
The gluon and light quark distributions	p. 124
The strange quark distribution	p. 127
The charm and bottom quark distributions	p. 130
Information on the gluon distribution from other processes	p. 131
Hadroproduction of J/[Phi]	p. 133
Prompt photon production	p. 134
Hadronic jet production	p. 135
Pinning down the small-x gluon distribution	p. 136
Polarised quark and gluon distributions	p. 140
Quarks and gluons in nuclei - structure of the bound nucleon	p. 143
Experimental situation	p. 143
The convolution model	p. 144
Conventional nuclear physics model	p. 149
Alternative convolution model	p. 153
Relations between nuclear properties and QCD	p. 156
Polarised nuclei	p. 157
Parton recombination	p. 159
Parton fusion functions and the recombination contribution	p. 161
Q[superscript 2]-dependence and shadowing of the structure function	p. 164
Radiative corrections	p. 168
Radiation from the electron	p. 168
Radiation from the hadron	p. 170
Results	p. 171
References	p. 174
Index	p. 180
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