ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS AND HADRONIC STRUCTURE

By V. DASAR

Chapter 1  QCD, QUARK CURRENTS, AND HADRONS 1 11 BASIC ELEMENTS OF QCD 1 111 QCD Lagrangian 1 112 Perturbative QCD, the running coupling, and quark mass 2 113 Nonperturbative regime, con nement, and hadrons 5 114 Quark-gluon coupling and quark masses 7 12 QUARK ELECTROMAGNETIC CURRENT 8 13 QUARK WEAK CURRENTS 9 14 EFFECTIVE CURRENTS 11 15 ISOSPIN AND SU(3)FLAVOR SYMMETRIES 13 16 CHIRAL SYMMETRY AND ITS VIOLATION 15 17 HADRONS AND THEIR SPECTROSCOPY 17 171 Mesons and baryons 17 172 Hadronic state in QCD 18 173 Exotic hadrons and hadronic molecules 19 174 Basics of hadron spectroscopy 20 175 Varying the quark avors 23 176 Hadrons are not alike 25 177 Mixing of light isoscalar mesons 26 178 Unstable hadrons 28 18 HEAVY QUARK SYMMETRIES AND EFFECTIVE THEORY 31 Chapter 2  MESON FORM FACTORS 39 21 HADRONIC MATRIX ELEMENT OF THE ELECTRONPION SCATTERING 39 22 PION ELECTROMAGNETIC FORM FACTOR 42 23 SIMPLER THAN A FORM FACTOR: THE PION DECAY CONSTANT 46 24 THE FORM FACTORS OF WEAK e3 DECAY 49 25 VARYING FLAVORS: K, D, AND BMESON FORM FACTORS 54 26 FORM FACTORS IN HQET 65 Chapter 3  BARYON FORM FACTORS 71 31 ELECTROMAGNETIC FORM FACTORS OF THE NUCLEON 71 32 WEAK FORM FACTORS OF THE NUCLEON AND DECAY 73 33 VARYING FLAVORS: FORM FACTORS OF ;C, AND B BARYONS 75 34 IOFFE CURRENT AND BARYON DECAY CONSTANTS 77 Chapter 4  HADRONIC RADIATIVE TRANSITIONS 79 41 THE  !  DECAY AND VECTOR DOMINANCE 79 42 D ! D AND B ! B DECAYS 84 43 RADIATIVE TRANSITIONS IN HEAVY QUARKONIUM 85 44 B ! K DECAY 87 Chapter 5  FORM FACTORS IN THE TIMELIKE REGION 89 51 CROSSING TRANSFORMATION AND ANALYTICITY 89 52 UNITARITY AND DISPERSION RELATION 92 53 PION FORM FACTOR IN THE ELASTIC REGION AND THE WATSON THEOREM 96 54 OMNES REPRESENTATION 99 55 RESONANCES IN THE PION FORM FACTOR 101 56 KAON FORM FACTORS AND  DECAYS 111 57 B ! `` DECAYS 117 Chapter 6  NONLOCAL HADRONIC MATRIX ELEMENTS 125 61 0 ! 2 DECAY 125 62 PHOTOLEPTONIC WEAK DECAYS 130 63 THE ANATOMY OF B ! K()`+`?? AMPLITUDES 135 Chapter 7  FORM FACTOR ASYMPTOTICS 143 71 CAN WE CALCULATE HADRON FORM FACTORS IN QCD? 143 72 ASYMPTOTICS OF THE PION FORM FACTOR IN QCD 144 Chapter 8  QCD SUM RULES 153 81 TWOSIDED USE OF THE CORRELATION FUNCTION 153 82 SHORT DISTANCE DOMINANCE 157 83 PERTURBATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS 159 84 VACUUM CONDENSATES AND OPERATORPRODUCT EXPANSION 160 85 CALCULATING A TWOPOINT CORRELATION FUNCTION 162 851 Perturbative loop 162 852 Condensate terms 166 86 VARIOUS APPLICATIONS OF QCD SUM RULES 174 861 The s-quark mass determination 174 862 Pion decay constant 176 863 Heavy quarkonium 181 864 Decay constants of heavy mesons 187 87 THREEPOINT SUM RULES FOR HADRON FORM FACTORS 192 Chapter 9  LIGHTCONE EXPANSION AND DISTRIBUTION AMPLITUDES 205 91 THE   ! 0 AMPLITUDE 205 92 LIGHTCONE DOMINANCE 207 93 EXPANSION NEAR THE LIGHTCONE 208 94 THE PION DISTRIBUTION AMPLITUDE 211 Chapter 10  QCD LIGHTCONE SUM RULES 223 101 QUARK PROPAGATOR NEAR THE LIGHTCONE 223 102 CALCULATION OF THE PION FORM FACTOR 226 103 THE PHOTONPION TRANSITION FORM FACTOR 235 104 VARYING FLAVORS: HEAVYTOLIGHT FORM FACTORS 239 105 SUM RULES WITH BMESON DISTRIBUTION AMPLITUDES 244

ISBN978-93-7743-193-8
Copyright Year2027
Pages501
Price$271.99
LanguageEnglish
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