QCD as a Theory of Hadrons : From Partons to Confinement

This book provides a pedagogical introduction to the perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of quantum chromodynamics (QCD).

Introducing the basic theory and recent advances in QCD, it also reviews the historical development of the subject, 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 Shifman-Vainshtein-Zakharov 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.