QCD as a Theory of Hadrons

This 2004 book provides a pedagogical introduction to the perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The text introduces the basic theory of QCD and its historical development covering pre-QCD ideas of strong interactions such as the quark and parton models the notion of colours and the S-matrix approach. The author then discusses gauge theory techniques of dimensional regularization and renormalization deep inelastic scattering and hard processes in hadron collisions hadron jets and e+e annihilations. Other topics include power corrections and the technologies of the ShifmanVainshteinZakharov operating product expansion. The final parts of the book are devoted to modern non-perturbative approaches to QCD and the phenomenological aspects of QCD spectral sum rules. The book will be a valuable reference for graduate students and researchers in high-energy particle and nuclear physics both theoretical and experimental. This book has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.