Handbook of perturbative QCD: Version 1.0

The elements, theoretical basis, and experimental status of perturbative quantum chromodynamics are presented. Relevant field-theoretic methods are introduced at a nonspecialist level, along with a review of the basic ideas and methods of the parton model. This is followed by an account of the fundamental theorems of quantum chromodynamics, which generalize the parton model. Summaries of the theoretical and experimental status of the most important hard-scattering processes are then given, including electron-positron annihilation, deeply inelastic scattering, and hard hadron-hadron scattering, as induced both by electoweak interactions and by quantum chromodynamics directly. In addition, a discussion is presented of the global fitting approach to the determination of parton distributions in nucleons.

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quantum chromodynamics: perturbation theory
model: parton
electron positron: annihilation
annihilation: electron positron
lepton hadron: deep inelastic scattering
deep inelastic scattering: lepton hadron
hadron hadron: interaction
interaction: hadron hadron

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