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Note: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Notation -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The development of QCD -- 2.1 Experimental evidence -- 2.1.1 The quark model -- 2.1.2 The quark parton model -- 2.1.3 Colour -- 2.1.4 Other puzzles -- 2.2 The QCD Lagrangian -- 3 The theory of QCD -- 3.1 QCD as an SU(3) gauge theory -- 3.2 The QCD description of basic reactions -- 3.2.1 Electron-positron annihilation -- 3.2.2 Lepton-hadron scattering -- 3.2.3 Hadron-hadron scattering -- 3.3 Born level calculations of QCD cross sections -- 3.3.1 e(sup[+])e(sup[-]) annihilation to quarks at O(α(sup[0](sub[s])) -- 3.3.2 e(sup[+])e(sup[-]) annihilation to quarks at O(α(sup[1](sub[s])) -- 3.3.3 Gauge invariance of the QCD Lagrangian -- 3.3.4 The evaluation of colour factors -- 3.4 Ultraviolet divergences and renormalization -- 3.4.1 Self-energy and vertex corrections -- 3.4.2 Renormalization -- 3.4.3 The renormalization group equations -- 3.4.4 Calculating the RGE coefficient functions -- 3.4.5 The running coupling and quark masses -- 3.4.6 An explicit example -- 3.5 Infrared safety -- 3.5.1 Infrared cancellations -- 3.5.2 e(sup[+])e(sup[-]) annihilation to hadrons at NLO -- 3.5.3 Infrared safe observables -- 3.6 The QCD improved parton model -- 3.6.1 DIS at the parton level -- 3.6.2 DIS at leading order -- 3.6.3 A heuristic treatment of factorization -- 3.6.4 DIS at next-to-leading order -- 3.6.5 The evolution of the parton density functions -- 3.6.6 Leading logarithms -- 3.6.7 The analysis of ladder diagrams -- 3.6.8 The Drell-Yan process -- 3.7 The treatment of soft gluons -- 3.8 Hadronization models -- 3.8.1 Space-time structure of multi-hadron events -- 3.8.2 Independent hadronization -- 3.8.3 String hadronization -- 3.8.4 Cluster hadronization -- 3.8.5 A comparison of the main hadronization models -- 4 Monte Carlo models. , 4.1 Fixed-order Monte Carlos -- 4.2 All-orders Monte Carlos -- 4.2.1 The parton evolution equations -- 4.2.2 Branching kinematics -- 4.2.3 Time-like Monte Carlo algorithm -- 4.2.4 Space-like Monte Carlo algorithm -- 4.2.5 Soft gluon logarithms -- 4.2.6 The colour dipole model -- 4.2.7 The soft underlying event model -- 4.3 Multi-purpose event generators -- 4.3.1 Using event generators -- 5 Experimental set-up -- 5.1 Accelerators -- 5.1.1 Accelerator systems -- 5.1.2 Beam optics -- 5.2 Detectors at high energy colliders -- 5.2.1 Tracking detectors -- 5.2.2 Calorimeters -- 5.2.3 Passage of particles through matter -- 5.2.4 Particle identification -- 5.2.5 ALEPH: an example of a LEP detector -- 6 QCD analyses -- 6.1 General concepts -- 6.1.1 Event selection -- 6.2 Observables -- 6.3 Corrections -- 6.3.1 Detector corrections -- 6.3.2 Hadronization corrections -- 6.4 Systematic uncertainties -- 6.5 Examples -- 6.5.1 Structure function measurement at HERA -- 6.5.2 Inclusive jet production at the TEVATRON -- 6.5.3 Jet rates at LEP -- 7 Structure functions and parton distributions -- 7.1 Charged lepton-nucleon scattering -- 7.1.1 Neutral current interactions -- 7.1.2 Charged current interactions -- 7.1.3 The low-x and low-Q2 region -- 7.1.4 The gluon density in the proton -- 7.2 Neutrino{nucleon scattering -- 7.2.1 Experimental issues -- 7.2.2 Measurements of F2 and xF3 -- 7.2.3 The gluon distribution -- 7.2.4 The strange quark distribution -- 7.3 Sum rules -- 7.3.1 The Adler sum rule -- 7.3.2 The Gross-Llewellyn Smith sum rule -- 7.3.3 The Gottfried sum rule -- 7.3.4 The momentum sum rule -- 7.3.5 Sum rules for polarized structure functions -- 7.4 Hadron-hadron scattering -- 7.4.1 The Drell-Yan process -- 7.4.2 The W rapidity asymmetry -- 7.4.3 Direct-photon production -- 7.4.4 Inclusive jet production -- 7.5 Global QCD analyses. , 8 The strong coupling constant -- 8.1 Theoretical predictions -- 8.2 Comparison and combination of results -- 8.3 Inclusive measurements -- 8.3.1 The ratios R(sub(γ]) and R(sub(l]) -- 8.3.2 Measurement of α(sub[s]) from R(sub[τ]) -- 8.3.3 α(sub[s]) from sum rules -- 8.4 Measurements of α(sub[s]) from heavy flavours -- 8.4.1 Decays of heavy quarkonia -- 8.4.2 Lattice calculations -- 8.5 Scaling violations -- 8.5.1 Scaling violations in fragmentation functions -- 8.5.2 Scaling violations in structure functions -- 8.6 Measurements at hadron colliders -- 8.7 Global event shape variables -- 8.7.1 Theoretical predictions -- 8.7.2 Event shape variables -- 8.8 Analytical approaches to power law corrections -- 8.9 Jets in deep inelastic scattering -- 8.10 Summary of α(sub[s]) measurements -- 9 Tests of the structure of QCD -- 9.1 Parton spins -- 9.1.1 The quark spin -- 9.1.2 The gluon spin -- 9.2 Flavour independence of strong interactions -- 10 Tests of the gauge structure of QCD: colour factors -- 10.1 Three-jet variables -- 10.2 Four-jet variables -- 10.3 Combination of three- and four-jet variables -- 10.4 Information from the running of α(sub[s]) -- 10.5 Information from jet fragmentation -- 10.6 Limits on new physics -- 11 Leading-log QCD -- 11.1 The structure of the parton shower -- 11.2 Momentum spectra -- 11.3 Particle multiplicities -- 11.4 Isolated hard photons -- 11.5 Subjet multiplicities -- 11.6 Breit frame analyses -- 12 Differences between quark and gluon jets -- 12.1 Theoretical expectations -- 12.2 Extracting quark and gluon jet properties -- 12.3 Experimental properties of quark and gluon jets -- 12.3.1 Topology dependence of jet properties -- 12.3.2 Multiplicities -- 12.3.3 Jet profiles -- 12.3.4 Fragmentation functions -- 12.3.5 Particle content -- 13 Fragmentation -- 13.1 Identified particles -- 13.1.1 Multiplicities. , 13.1.2 Momentum spectra -- 13.2 Inter-jet soft gluons and colour coherence -- 13.2.1 The string effect -- 13.2.2 Colour coherence in hadron-hadron collisions -- 13.3 Two-particle correlations -- 13.3.1 Proton-antiproton correlations -- 13.3.2 Strangeness correlations -- 13.3.3 Bose-Einstein correlations -- 13.4 Colour reconnection -- 14 Summary -- Appendices -- A Elements of group theory -- A.1 Basics of Lie groups -- A.2 The U(N) and SU(N) groups -- A.3 Colour factors -- B Building blocks of theoretical predictions -- B.1 The Feynman rules of QCD -- B.2 Phase space and cross section formulae -- C Dimensional regularization -- C.1 Integration in non-integer dimensions -- C.2 D-dimensional γ-matrix algebra -- C.3 D-dimensional phase space -- C.4 Useful mathematical formulae -- D R(sub[γ]), R(sub[l]) and R(sub[τ]) for arbitrary colour factors -- D.1 The running coupling constant and masses -- D.2 Theoretical predictions for R(sub[γ]) -- D.3 The theoretical prediction for R(sub[l]) -- D.4 The theoretical prediction for R(sub[τ]) -- E Scaling violations in fragmentation functions -- E.1 Definitions -- E.2 The flavour non-singlet case -- E.3 The flavour-singlet case -- E.4 Fragmentation functions and hadron spectra -- E.5 Electroweak weight functions -- F Solutions -- References -- Index.