Hadronic Structure

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Written by leading experts in the field, this book provides an authoritative overview on electromagnetic interactions. It describes the main features of the experimental data and the theoretical ideas used in their interpretation, and is an essential reference for graduate students and researchers in particle physics and electromagnetic interactions.

This book contains the proceedings of the third international workshop on From Parity Violation to Hadronic Structure and More. The many applications of parity violation are way beyond the scope of what Lee and Yang could have imagined fifty years after their proposal. For the physics topics discussed during this workshop, the application of parity violation has become a standard work horse allowing for the extraction of many physics topics in different experiments.

Contents: The Structure of the Nucleon (D Drechsel)Introduction to Chiral Perturbation Theory (B Holstein)Lattice Gauge Theory — QCD from Quarks to Hadrons (D Richards)Light and Exotic Mesons (C Meyer)QCD and the Structure of the Nucleon in Electron Scattering (W Melnitchouk)High Energy Electron Nucleus Scattering (B Filippone)The HERMES Experiment (S Pate) Readership: High energy physicists. Keywords:

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: • Index to Scientific & Technical Proceedings (ISTP CDROM version / ISI Proceedings) Contents: HomagesLecturesSeminarsContributions:Lattice, Light-Front and Effective TheoriesHadron ModelsHigh-Energy CollisionsDecays and Medium-Energy ReactionsNuclear Matter, Astrophysics, GravitationStructure Functions and Sum RulesField Theories, Formal DevelopmentsOutlines Readership: Researchers, academics, graduate students and upper level undergraduates in high energy physics. Keywords:Nuclear and High Energy Astrophysics;QGP Signatures;Lattice QCD;Heavy Ions Physics/High Energy Collisions;Quark Models;RHIC Physics;Hadron Physics/Hadron Models;Gravitational Waves;Effective Theories;Decay and Low Energy Reactions;Relativistic Field Theory

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.

The conference NSTAR 2000 was part of a series of conferences and workshops that began in New York in 1988. Since then, the field of excited nucleons and hadron structure has developed enormously, and the scope has broadened. Most significantly, new experimental facilities have come into operation, allowing precise measurements of resonance couplings and transition form factors. The search for “missing” quark model states and gluonic excitations in complex hadronic channels is now possible.On the theory side, new and promising developments have emerged: quark models with meson degrees of freedom, hybrid baryon models, and studies of baryons in the limit of many colors. For the first time, lattice QCD has been employed to calculate masses of excited nucleons. Nucleon resonances are now recognized as providing significant contributions to the nucleon spin sum rules, as well as the Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn and Bjorken integrals, at finite momentum transfer.