This book will be of great interest to advanced students and researchers in the area of high energy theoretical physics. Being the most complete and updated review volume on Perturbative QCD, it serves as an extremely useful textbook or reference book. Some of the reviews in this volume are the best that have been written on the subject anywhere.
This book has been designed to honor Lev Nikolaevich Lipatov, as a person and as one of the leading scientists in theoretical high energy physics.The book begins with three articles on Lev as a person, written endearingly by family members, a very close friend and Physics professor, Eugene Levin, and another outstanding scientist, Alfred Mueller. The book further collects 18 articles by several scientists who closely knew and/or collaborated with Lev.With an overarching range over various subfields, the book summarizes parts of Lev's achievements, presents new results which are based upon Lev's work, and paints an outlook on possible future developments. Lev's theoretical work has had an influential impact on phenomenology and experimental high energy physics; befittingly, this collection also includes several articles on these experimental aspects.
Contents: Basic Concepts and Consequences of Stochastic Vacuum Model (H G Dosch)Variational Approximations for Correlation Functions in Quantum Field Theories (C Martin)SU(2) Gauge Theory in Covariant (Maximal) Abelian Gauges (M Schaden)The Vacuum Wave Function in Supersymmetric Matrix Theory (C M Sommerfield)HERA Results on Elastic Hadronic and Sub-Hadronic Diffraction (G Knies)Deriving Effective Transport Equations for Non-Abelian Plasmas (D F Litim)Aspects of Non-Commutativity in ADS/CFT (A Jevicki)Thermal Field Theory in Equilibrium (J O Andersen)Puzzling Aspects of Hot Quantum Fields (T Grandou)DIS Results from HERA (C M Ginsburg)Electroproduction of Vector Mesons (T Teubner)New Developments in Cosmology (J W Moffat)Heavy-Light Physics from Lattice NRQCD (T Onogi)Non-Relativistic Effective Theory for Perturbative Heavy Quark-Antiquark Systems (A H Hoang)The Spin Dependence of Swift Proton Collisions (N H Buttimore)Numerical Investigation of Domain-Wall QCD on CP-PACS (S Aoki)When is It Possible to Use Perturbation Technique in Field Theory? (T N Truong)and other papers Readership: Researchers in high energy physics. Keywords: