Quantum chromodynamics and the dynamics of hadrons Available to Purchase

The application of perturbative quantum chromodynamics to the dynamics of hadrons at short distance is reviewed, with particular emphasis on the role of the hadronic bound state. A number of new applications are discussed, including (a) the modification to QCD scaling violations in structure functions due to hadronic binding (b) a discussion of coherence and binding corrections to the gluon and sea‐quark distributions; (c) QDC radiative corrections to dimensional counting rules for exclusive processes and hadronic form factors at large momentum transfer; (d) generalized counting rules for inclusive processes; (e) the special role of photon‐induced reactions in QCD, specially applications to jet production in photon–photon collisions, and photon production at large transverse momentum. We also present a short review of the central problems in large P_T hadronic reactions and the distinguishing characteristics of gluon and quark jets.