High-Energy Particle Diffraction

1. Introduction.- 2. Preliminaries.- 3. Kinematics.- 4. The Relativistic S-Matrix.- 5. Regge Theory.- 6. Geometrical and s-Channel Models.- 7. Soft Diffraction: a Phenomenological Survey.- 8. The Pomeron in QCD.- 9. Deep Inelastic Scattering.- 10. Phenomenology of Hard Diffraction.- 11. Hard Diffraction in QCD.- A. Conventions.- A.1 Four-Vectors.- A.2 Sudakov Parametrization.- A.3 Reference Frames.- A.4 Fermionic States.- B. Mellin Transforms.- C. QCD Formulas.- C.2 Feynman Rules for QCD.- References.

From the reviews:

This monograph is a very high quality up-to-date review of soft and hard diffraction processes in strong interaction physics. We can divide this very interesting book into two parts. The first part covers the Chapters 1-7 and can be used as a textbook in particle physics classes. The second part covers the Chapters 8-11 and can be used by graduate students as well as researchers. I think that this book is useful for every particle physicist. (Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences & Engineering)

"This monograph gives a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of soft and hard diffraction processes in strong interaction physics. ... It can be used as a textbook in particle physics classes. ... It presents recent results and experimental findings and their phenomenological interpretations. ... addresses graduate students as well as researchers." (ETDE Energy Database, 2003)

"The purpose of the present book is to present the main insights which have mentioned the growth of high-energy diffractive physics in recent decades and also to present the recent state of the art. ... This monograph is a very high quality up-to-date review of soft and hard diffraction processes in strong interaction physics. ... I think that this book is useful for every particle physicists." (T. E. Simos, Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering, Vol. 3 (1), 2003)