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PGS8D
Course: Diffraction in particle physics
Department/Abbreviation: SLO/PGS8D
Year: 2020
Guarantee: 'Mgr. Marek Taševský, Ph.D.'
Annotation: Students are assumed to master the topics described in the content of the subject.
Course review:
Goals: introduction to the proces diffraction in particle physics, its phenomenology and experimental observations.
1. Diffraction and analogy with optics
2. Kinematics, Mandelstam variables, energy scales
3. Relativistic S-matrix, scattering amplitude, optical theorem
4. Soft and hard diffraction
5. Regge theory
6. Pomeron
7. Experimental observation of diffraction processes, experimental techniques
8. Diffractive structure functions and factorization violation