Quantum Chromodynamics at High Energy
Physics 8820, Spring 2019
Instructor: Yuri
Kovchegov
Office: M2042 Physics Research Building
Office Hours: stop by anytime
Course Meets: Wednesdays Fridays 11:10 am - 12:30 pm , Physics Research Building, room M2035.
*** First Class Meets January 9, 2019 ***
Brief Syllabus:
- Introduction: basics of QCD perturbation theory.
- Deep inelastic scattering, parton model and Bjorken scaling, DGLAP evolution equations.
- Energy evolution and leading logarithm-1/x approximation in QCD: BFKL equation (first introductory visit), its solution, GLR-MQ equation.
- Dipole approach to high parton density QCD: Glauber-Gribov-Mueller multiple rescatterings, saturation; dipole model and BFKL equation (second visit); BK equation and its solution, saturation regime with energy dependence of the saturation scale.
- Classical gluon fields and the Color Glass Condensate: MV model, JIMWLK evolution, light-cone Wilson lines.
- Particle production in high energy QCD.*
- Diffraction.* Connections to the physics of the Electron-Ion Collider.*
* = if time allows
Textbook:
Recommended Reading :
Here's a list of books to complement or supersede Kovchegov and Levin.
Lecture Notes:
To be posted after each class.
Homework Assignments:
- HW 1
- HW 2
- HW 3
- HW 4
- HW 5
- HW 6
- HW 7
Grading will be based on the HW's.
Yuri Kovchegov