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Review of Deep Inelastic Charged Lepton Scattering
Author(s) -
Nowak W.D.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
fortschritte der physik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.469
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1521-3978
pISSN - 0015-8208
DOI - 10.1002/prop.19860340202
Subject(s) - physics , particle physics , deep inelastic scattering , inelastic scattering , lepton , perturbative qcd , quantum chromodynamics , parton , scattering , quark , muon , nucleon , quasielastic scattering , nuclear physics , inelastic neutron scattering , electron , quantum mechanics
The present situation in deep inelastic lepton‐nucleon scattering is reviewed from an experimenter's point of view. After describing, in some detail, the quark‐parton model (QPM) predictions the basic ideas of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) are illustrated. The perturbative QCD predictions for deep inelastic scattering are summarised discussing also their theoretical uncertainties of today. Past and present experiments on deep inelastic electron and muon scattering are compared regarding their ability to test these predictions. It is shown that all data is in very good agreement with the QPM and fully consistent with perturbative QCD. New results on lepton scattering off nuclei are discussed and confronted to recently invented phenomenological models.