Hadron Physics

Author : I.J. Douglas MacGregor,Ralf Kaiser
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 504 pages
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Release : 2006-07-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 1584887052

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Hadron Physics by I.J. Douglas MacGregor,Ralf Kaiser Pdf

Straddling the traditional disciplines of nuclear and particle physics, hadron physics is a vital and extremely active research area, as evidenced by a 2004 Nobel prize and new research facilities, such as that scheduled to open at CERN. Scientifically it is of vital importance in extrapolating our knowledge of quark-gluon physics at the sub-nucleon level to provide a wider perspective of strongly interacting hadrons, which make up the vast bulk of known matter in the Universe. Through detailed, pedagogical chapters contributed by key international experts, Hadron Physics maps out our contemporary knowledge of the subject. It covers both the theoretical and experimental aspects of hadron structure and properties along with a wide range of specific research topics, results, and applications. Providing a full picture of activity in the field, the book highlights three particular areas of current research: computational lattice hadron physics, the structure and dynamics of hadrons, and generalized parton distributions. It provides a solid introduction, includes background theory, and presents the current state of understanding of the subject.

Author : Irinel Caprini
Publisher : Springer
Page : 130 pages
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Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030189488

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Functional Analysis and Optimization Methods in Hadron Physics by Irinel Caprini Pdf

This book begins with a brief historical review of the early applications of standard dispersion relations in particle physics. It then presents the modern perspective within the Standard Model, emphasizing the relation of analyticity together with alternative tools applied to strong interactions, such as perturbative and lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD), as well as chiral perturbation theory. The core of the book argues that, in order to improve the prediction of specific hadronic observables, it is often necessary to resort to methods of complex analysis more sophisticated than the simple Cauchy integral. Accordingly, a separate mathematical chapter is devoted to solving several functional analysis optimization problems. Their applications to physical amplitudes and form factors are discussed in the following chapters, which also demonstrate how to merge the analytic approach with statistical analysis tools. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable guide for researchers working in precision hadronic physics, as well as graduate students who are new to the field.

Author : I.J. Douglas MacGregor,Ralf Kaiser
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781482286144

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Hadron Physics by I.J. Douglas MacGregor,Ralf Kaiser Pdf

Straddling the traditional disciplines of nuclear and particle physics, hadron physics is a vital and extremely active research area, as evidenced by a 2004 Nobel prize and new research facilities, such as that scheduled to open at CERN. Scientifically it is of vital importance in extrapolating our knowledge of quark-gluon physics at the sub-nucleo

Author : T. Bressani,A. Filippi,U. Wiedner
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 707 pages
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Release : 2005-07-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781614990147

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Hadron Physics by T. Bressani,A. Filippi,U. Wiedner Pdf

This volume of the International School of Physics Enrico Fermi is dedicated to Valerio Filippini. He devoted his life to physics. Valerio Filippini was born in Somma Lombardo (Milano) on December 8, 1958. He obtained the Master Degree in Physics at the University of Pavia in 1982, cum laude. After a working parenthesis at an industrial firm, he became Research Physicist of INFN, Sezione di Pavia, in 1988 and was promoted Senior Research Physicist in 1993. He participated to the experiments PS 179 (TOFRADUPP) and PS 201 (Obelix) at LEAR (CERN), FINUDA at LNF and ATHENA at AD (CERN). His outstanding scientific contributions were provided in the OBELIX and FINUDA experiments. Nobody could compete with Filippini in exploiting at best the daily-evoluting performances of the computing tools for the needs of the experiments, both for on-line and off-line purposes. The FINUDA experiment collected physics data immediately after the roll-in thanks to the reliability and simplicity of the on-line system designed and assembled by the physicist. However, he was not only a 'Clavier Physicist' but a complete Scientist: he also leaded the Pavia Group in designing and providing advanced detectors, and in developing mathematical methods for the analysis of the data. His scientific contributions are documented by about 90 publications on refereed international journals, about 100 contributions to International Conferences and Workshops, and 3 invited talks.

Author : Alex Kalloniatis,Derek Leinweber,Anthomy Williams
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540239111

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Lattice Hadron Physics by Alex Kalloniatis,Derek Leinweber,Anthomy Williams Pdf

Lattice Hadron Physics draws upon the developments made in recent years in implementing chirality on the lattice via the overlap formalism. These developments exploit chiral effective field theory in order to extrapolate lattice results to physical quark masses, new forms of improving operators to remove lattice artefacts, analytical studies of finite-volume effects in hadronic observables, and state-of-the-art lattice calculations of excited resonances. This volume, comprised of selected lectures, is designed to assist those outside the field who want quickly to become literate in these topics. As such, it provides graduate students and experienced researchers in other areas of hadronic physics with the background through which they can appreciate, if not become active in, contemporary lattice-gauge theory and its applications to hadronic phenomena.

Author : D. E. Fries
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 443 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781468476651

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New Phenomena in Lepton-Hadron Physics by D. E. Fries Pdf

The NATO Advanced Summer Institute 1978 was held at Karlsruhe from Sept. 4 to Sept. 16. The title of the school "New Phenomena in Lepton and Hadron Physics" relates to the present very exciting phase in particle physics. An impressive amount of experimental data has been collected in support of a fundamental new picture of the subnuclear world, - a picture which has found its theoretical formulation in Que~tum Chromodynamics and Gau~ theories. It is a general philosophy of the ASI to address the courses mainly to young and learning scientists, hence our major objective was to offer systematic reviews of both, the experimental situa tion and the basic theoretical concepts of the field. This volume contains the written versions of the major lectures delivered during the course. In addition several lectures and seminars had been scheduled in which also more original and specialized subjects were discus sed by invited speakers and participants of the school. Not all of these contributions are contained in this book.

Author : Paul Urban
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 439 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783709182840

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Concepts in Hadron Physics by Paul Urban Pdf

Soluble quantum field theory models are a rare commodity. An infinite number of degrees of freedom and noncompact invariance groups have a nasty habit of ex ploding in the model-makers' face. Nevertheless, impor tant progress has recently been made in the class of superrenormalizable relativistic theories, such as a self-interacting boson in a two-dimensional space time [ 1]. These results have been obtained starting with the free field and adding the interaction in a carefully controlled way. Yet, the models successfully studied in this way do DQ~ have an infinite field strength renormalization, which, at least according to perturbation theory, should appear for realistic relativistic models in four-dimensional space time. ~2~!Y~~!9n_~g_~h~_~gg~1 The ultralocal scalar field theories discussed in these lecture notes are likewise motivated by relativistic theories but are based on a different approximatiGn. This approximation formally amounts to dropping the spatial gradient term from the Hamiltonian rather than the non linear interaction. For a self-interacting boson field in a space-time of (s+l) dimensions (s~l), the classical ultralocal model Hamiltonian reads (1-1) The quantum theory of this model is the subject of the present paper. This model differs formally from a rela tivistic theory by the term f![Z~Cl(~)]2 d~ which, it is hoped, can, in one or another way, be added as a pertur 229 bation in the quantum theory. However, that still remains a problem for the future, and we confine our remarks to . . a careful study of the "unperturbed" model (1-1).

Author : A.W. Thomas
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 260 pages
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Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642810701

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Modern Three-Hadron Physics by A.W. Thomas Pdf

The model calculations considered here test the DWBA with a wide range of three-body models. Each of the calculations, however, considers only one or two aspects of the accuracy of the DWBA. The lack of overlap of the testing parameters limits the con clusions which can be drawn. This is particularly true with reference to the nucleon core potential where comparable parameters are rarely used. In spite of this limitation, we may make a few observations about the sensitivity of the model cross sections and the mechanism which produces an accurate DWBA. Specifically we may summarize the most important results as follows: 1) In these models the exact DWBA at low energies (E

Author : J. Thanh Van Tran
Publisher : Atlantica Séguier Frontières
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Hadrons
ISBN : 2863320564

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Current Issues in Hadron Physics by J. Thanh Van Tran Pdf

Author : Sidney Dos Santos Avancini,Erasmo Ferreira,Frederico F De Souza Cruz
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-07-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814543668

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Hadron Physics 98, Topics On The Structure And Interaction Of Hadronic Systems by Sidney Dos Santos Avancini,Erasmo Ferreira,Frederico F De Souza Cruz Pdf

The study of QCD in the confinement regime poses some of the most difficult problems of fundamental physics at present. The mechanism of confinement itself is not described formally, and it is hard to investigate the properties of the fundamental theory in the determination of the structures and interactions of hadronic systems. The strong coupling and the extreme non-linearity of the theory severely limit the applicability and the extension and generalization of models and methods. The area of particle/nuclear physics called Hadron Physics deals with the phenomena determined by the confinement regime of QCD.The International Workshop on Hadron Physics 98 aimed to provide a framework for the comparative evaluation of different approaches to the difficult problems of QCD, and gathered together experts who have been leading developments in hadronic physics in recent years. As a central feature of the workshop program, there were four sets of lectures: (1) “An Introduction to Effective Field Theory” (J F Donoghue); (2) “Non-perturbative QCD” (A Di Giacomo); (3) “Diffraction: Past, Present and Future” (E Predazzi); “QCD at High Temperature and Density” (T Hatsuda). These courses provided a pedagogical and updated account of the recent developments that gave support to the discussion of frontier research problems. The lecturers did very useful work in the review and description of important lines of research.The lectures are reproduced in this book, together with invited talks and contributed papers dealing with specific research problems, for the use and appreciation of a wider audience.

Author : Erasmo Ferreira,Vera Lucia Baltar,Jose De Sa Borges,Rui A M S Nazareth
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 462 pages
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Release : 1997-05-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789814546348

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Hadron Physics 96: Topics On The Structure And Interaction Of Hadronic Systems - Proceedings Of The International Workshop by Erasmo Ferreira,Vera Lucia Baltar,Jose De Sa Borges,Rui A M S Nazareth Pdf

The study of QCD in the confinement regime poses some of the most difficult problems of fundamental physics at present. The mechanism of confinement is not yet understood, and it is hard to investigate the properties of the fundamental theory in the determination of the structures and interactions of hadronic systems. As a consequence of these difficulties, the frontier between effective and fundamental theories has been intensively investigated in the last few years, and progress has been achieved in several directions. The 'Hadron Physics' workshop gathered together experts who have been taking the lead in these developments in recent years. Four sets of lectures were presented, providing a pedagogical and updated basis that gives support to research work in frontier problems. This book puts together the main current methods in the study of the properties of hadrons. The perspective of future developments based on different approaches can then be more clearly perceived.

Author : C‚sar A. Z. Vasconcellos,V. E. Herscovitz
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789812704429

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Proceedings of the VIII International Workshop on Hadron Physics 2002 by C‚sar A. Z. Vasconcellos,V. E. Herscovitz Pdf

This book provides in a pedagogical way some up-to-date reviews of properties of strongly interacting matter produced at RHIC, analytical approaches to QCD, and nuclear and high-energy astrophysics. It also contains schematic outlines of topics on high-precision non-perturbative QCD, first results from RHIC, and heavy-ion collisions at LHC with the ATLAS detector.The proceedings have been selected for coverage in: OCo Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings)"

Author : Syed Afsar Abbas
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781315354446

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Group Theory in Particle, Nuclear, and Hadron Physics by Syed Afsar Abbas Pdf

This user-friendly book on group theory introduces topics in as simple a manner as possible and then gradually develops those topics into more advanced ones, eventually building up to the current state-of-the-art. By using simple examples from physics and mathematics, the advanced topics become logical extensions of ideas already introduced. In addition to being used as a textbook, this book would also be useful as a reference guide for graduates and researchers in particle, nuclear and hadron physics.

Author : Mamoru Fujiwara,Tatsushi Shima
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789814488280

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Electromagnetic Interactions in Nuclear and Hadron Physics by Mamoru Fujiwara,Tatsushi Shima Pdf

This book covers the following topics: (1) meson and hadron production by real and virtual photon interaction with nucleons and nuclei; (2) astrophysical studies via photoreactions and hadron reactions; (3) new technologies for the electromagnetic probes and detector development; (4) nuclear structure studies with electromagnetic probes; (5) fundamental symmetries with electromagnetic probes and related problems. The proceedings have been selected for coverage in: • Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings) Contents:Search for New Baryon Resonances (B Saghai & Z Li)Overview of Laser-Electron Photon Facility at SPring-8 (T Nakano)Weak Nucleon Form Factors (P A Souder)High Energy Approaches to Low Energy Phenomena in Astrophysics (S M Austin)Photo-Nuclear Reactions in the Big-Bang and Supernovae (T Kajino et al.)Transition Properties of Low-Lying Resonances in a Relativistic Quark Model with a Meson Cloud Effect (Y B Dong et al.)Weak Interaction, Giant Resonances and Nuclear Astrophysics (K Langanke & G Martínez-Pinedo)Electroproduction of Strange Nuclei (E V Hungerford)Photonuclear Reactions of Light Nuclei and Few-Body Problems (T Shima et al.)On Use of Quark–Hadron Duality in Photoabsorption Sum Rules (S B Gerasimov)Chiral Symmetry and Hadron Properties in Lattice QCD (A W Thomas)Photoproduction Experiments with Polarized HD Targets (S Bouchigny et al.)Development of a Compact Photon Detector for ANKE at COSY Julich (H Büscher et al.)and other papers Readership: Graduate students and researchers in nuclear physics. Keywords:

Author : Tullio Bressani,Ulrich Wiedner,Alessandra Filippi
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Science
ISBN : 1586035266

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Hadron Physics by Tullio Bressani,Ulrich Wiedner,Alessandra Filippi Pdf

Valerio Filippini devoted his life to physics. His scientific contributions were provided in the OBELIX and FINUDA experiments. The FINUDA experiment collected physics data immediately after the roll-in, thanks to the reliability and simplicity of the on-line system designed and assembled by the physicist. This work is dedicated to him.