Deep inelastic phenomena

Conference · Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1980

OSTI ID:6745508

Prescott, C Y

Nucleon structure as seen in the context of deep inelastic scattering is discussed. The lectures begin with consideration of the quark-parton model. The model forms the basis of understanding lepton-nucleon inelastic scattering. As improved data in lepton-nucleon scattering at high energies became available, the quark-parton model failed to explain some crucial features of these data. At approximately the same time a candidate theory of strong interactions based on a SU(3) gauge theory of color was being discussed in the literature, and new ideas on the explanation of inelastic scattering data became popular. A new theory of strong interactions, now called quantum chromodynamics provides a new framework for understanding the data, with a much stronger theoretical foundation, and seems to explain well the features of the data. The lectures conclude with a look at some recent experiments which provide new data at very high energies. These lectures are concerned primarily with charged lepton inelastic scattering and to a lesser extent with neutrino results. Furthermore, due to time and space limitations, topics such as final state hadron studies, and multi-muon production are omitted here. The lectures concentrate on the more central issues: the quark-parton model and concepts of scaling, scale breaking and the ideas of quantum chromodynamics, the Q/sup 2/ dependence of structure function, moments, and the important parameter R.

• Research Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 6745508
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-2625; CONF-800778-2; TRN: 81-002355
• Resource Relation: Conference: 18. course: the high energy limit, Erice, Trapani, Italy, 31 Jul 1980
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
LEPTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS
DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING
PARTON MODEL
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
QUARK MODEL
SCALING LAWS
STRONG INTERACTIONS
SU-3 GROUPS
BASIC INTERACTIONS
COMPOSITE MODELS
FIELD THEORIES
INELASTIC SCATTERING
INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-BARYON INTERACTIONS
LEPTON-HADRON INTERACTIONS
LIE GROUPS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
PARTICLE INTERACTIONS
PARTICLE MODELS
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
SCATTERING
SU GROUPS
SYMMETRY GROUPS
645204* - High Energy Physics- Particle Interactions & Properties-Theoretical- Strong Interactions & Properties