Quark Distributions Functions (T) - physics7506
| Course | Quark Distributions Functions (T) |
|---|---|
| Course No. | physics7506 |
| Category | Type | Language | Teaching hours | CP | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elective | Lecture | English | 2 | 3 | WT |
Preparation: Quantum Field Theory (physics755 or equivalent)
Form of Testing and Examination: oral examination
Length of Course: 1 semester
Aims of the Course: By the end of the course, the student should be able to understand the formal parton model, renormalization of parton distributions, and current attempts to compute them on the lattice.
Contents of the Course: Deep Inelastic Scattering; The Operator Product Expansion; Basics of the parton model; The formal parton model; Quark distributions and quasi-quark distributions; One loop corrections and renormalization; Lattice attempts to compute PDF
Recommended Literature:
Elliot Leader, Enrico Predazzi: An introduction to gauge theories and modern particle physics.
Cambridge Monographs on Particle physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology 1996.
John Collins: Foundations of Perturbative QCD.
Cambridge Monographs on Particle physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology 2011.
Anthony W. Thomas, Wolfram Weise: The Structure of the Nucleon. Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin 2001.
R. K. Ellis, W. J. Stirling, B. R. Webber: QCD and Collider Physics.
Cambridge Monographs on Particle physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology 2003.