High Energy Interactions and the Dynamic Quark Model

Abstract

Deep inelastic scattering (DIS) experiments between leptons and nucleons confirmed that quarks are not fictitious mathematical objects. DIS processes involve high transferred momentum from the lepton to the hadron constituents (the quarks). Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) predicts a small value of the coupling constant α _S at large transferred momentum. The detailed studies of the proton structure was possible thanks to the improved technology of ν _M beams production, the ep HERA collider at Hamburg and the development of large detectors. Here, we present problems about the structure of hadrons and the production of neutrino beams. At present, the LHC collider at CERN is the world’s largest and highest energy particle accelerator. Supplement 10.1 deals in particular with the huge computing effort needed to reduce and analyze data collected at LHC.