The book centers mainly on the geometrical ideas on hadron scattering as generated by C-N Yang and his collaborators. The relation of elastic scattering amplitude with the hadronic form factors is obtained via the Chou-Yang model.
Contents:
- Two Body Scattering Processes:
- Chou-Yang Model for Elastic Scatterings
- Experimental Confirmation and Consequences
- Hadronic Form Factors
- Analytic Models
- Inelastic Two Body Scattering
- Reprints:
- Some Speculations Concerning High-Energy Large Momentum Transfer Processes (T-T Wu & C-N Yang)
- Model of Elastic High-Energy Scattering (T-T Chou & C-N Yang)
- Chou-Yang Model, Current-Current Interaction and Nucleon-Nucleon Scattering (S-Y Lo)
- Opaqueness off pp Collisions from 30 to 1500 GeV/c (A-W Chao & C-N Yang)
- Spin Structure of Proton-Proton Scattering the Current-Current Interaction Picture (D-J Clarke & S-Y Lo)
- Determination of the Pion Form Factor at Large Momentum Transfer Squared (C-H Lai et al.)
- Zeros in the Droplet Model (S-Y Lo)
- Limit of Cross-Sections at Infinite Energy (H Cheng & T-T Wu)
- Fragmentation:
- Hypothesis of Limiting Fragmentation and Experimental Confirmation
- Reprints:
- Experimental Tests of Limiting Fragmentation at the ISR (G Belletini et al.)
- Remarks About the Hypothesis of Limiting Fragmentation (T-T Chou & C-N Yang)
- Multiplicity Fluctuation and Multiparticle Distribution Functions in High-Energy Collisions (C Quigg et al.)
- Remarks on Multiplicity Fluctuations and KNO Scaling in pp Collider Experiments (T-T Chou & C-N Yang)
- and other papers
Readership: High energy physicists and nuclear physicists.