Strong Interactions of Hadrons at High Energies
Gribov Lectures on Theoretical Physics

Graduate lecture notes by Vladimir Gribov, one of the founding fathers of high-energy elementary particle physics, now reissued as OA.

Vladimir Gribov (Author)

9781009290272, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 9 February 2023

488 pages
25 x 17.6 x 3.1 cm, 0.99 kg

Vladimir Gribov was one of the founding fathers of high-energy elementary particle physics. This volume derives from a graduate lecture course he delivered in the 1970s. It provides graduate students and researchers with the opportunity to learn from the teaching of one of the twentieth century's greatest physicists. Its content is still deeply relevant to modern research, for example exploring properties of the relativistic theory of hadron interactions in a domain of peripheral collisions and large distances that quantum chromodynamics has barely approached. In guiding the reader step-by-step from the basics of quantum mechanics and relativistic kinematics to the most challenging problems of high-energy hadron interactions with simplifying models and physical analogies, it demonstrates general methods of addressing difficult problems in theoretical physics. Covering a combination of topics not treated elsewhere, this 2008 title has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

1. Introduction
2. Analyticity and unitarity
3. Resonances
4. Electromagnetic interaction of hadrons
5. Strong interactions at high energies
6. t channel unitarity and growing interaction radius
7. Theory of complex angular momenta
8. Reggeon exchange
9. Regge poles in perturbation theory
10. Regge pole beyond perturbation theory
11. Reggeon branchings
12. Branchings in the s channel and shadowing
13. Interacting reggeons
14. Reggeon field theory
15. Particle density fluctuations and RFT
16. Strong interactions and field theory
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Mathematical physics [PHU], Particle & high-energy physics [PHP], Nuclear physics [PHN]