Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-xxiv

About Stephan Narison

pp xxv-xxvi

Outline of the book

pp xxvii-xxviii

Preface

pp xxix-xxxi

Acknowledgements

pp xxxii-xxxii

Part I - General introduction

pp 1-2

1 - A short flash on particle physics

pp 3-9

2 - The pre–QCD era

pp 10-30

3 - The QCD story

pp 31-39

4 - Field theory ingredients

pp 40-54

Part II - QCD gauge theory

pp 55-56

5 - Lagrangian and gauge invariance

pp 57-62

6 - Quantization using path integral

pp 63-69

7 - QCD and its global invariance

pp 70-72

Part III - MS¯ scheme for QCD and QED

pp 73-75

8 - Dimensional regularization

pp 76-83

9 - The MS¯ renormalization scheme

pp 84-90

10 - Renormalization of operators using the background field method

pp 91-97

11 - The renormalization group

pp 98-122

12 - Other renormalization schemes

pp 123-130

13 - MS¯ scheme for QED

pp 131-134

14 - High–precision low–energy QED tests

pp 135-148

Part IV - Deep inelastic scatterings at hadron colliders

pp 149-150

15 - OPE for deep inelastic scattering

pp 151-159

16 - Unpolarized lepton–hadron scattering

pp 160-173

17 - The Altarelli–Parisi equation

pp 174-179

18 - More on unpolarized deep inelastic scatterings

pp 180-187

19 - Polarized deep–inelastic processes and the proton ‘spin’ crisis

pp 188-215