Substructures of Matter as Revealed with Electroweak Probes: Proceedings of the 32. Internationale Universitätswochen für Kern- und Teilchenphysik Schladming, Austria, 24 February – 5 March 1993

Hartmuth Arenhövel (auth.), Leopold Mathelitsch, Willibald Plessas (eds.)3540575758, 9783540575757, 0387575758

This is a comprehensive overview of the information yielded by electroweak probes about the nuclear-and subnuclear-scale structure of matter. Lepton-induced processes from low energy through to the highest energies are considered. The first three lectures review electromagnetic processes in hadrons; others cover the properties of partons, the behaviour of the constituents of the hadron, muon and neutrino scattering, etc. An introduction to electroweak theory including the status of precision tests and data analyses is given along with a report on the first results from HERA. The lecturers have endeavoured to achieve a balance between scientific and didactic aspects, thus making the book accessible to students of nuclear and particle physics as well as researchers.

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Table of contents :
Electromagnetic interactions of nucleons and nuclei at low energy and momentum transfer….Pages 1-60
Electro-excitation of nucleon resonances and meson production….Pages 61-101
Present electron and photon scattering experiments up to GeV energies….Pages 103-120
Partons and QCD: Hadron structure and basics of the standard model….Pages 121-145
Electroweak reactions in the non-perturbative regime of QCD….Pages 147-174
Polarized structure functions and the spin of the proton….Pages 175-213
Small χ physics….Pages 215-255
Nucleon structure functions….Pages 257-321
The standard electroweak theory and its experimental tests….Pages 323-382
First results from HERA….Pages 383-439
Seminars….Pages 441-441