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Ratcliffe, Philip George was born on October 3, 1955 in Bishop's Stortford, England. Son of George Owen and Pamela Margaret (Stamp) Ratcliffe.
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This book is devoted to the theory and phenomenology of transverse-spin effects in high-energy hadronic physics. Contrary to common past belief, it is now rather clear that such effects are far from irrelevant. A decade or so of intense theoretical work has shed much light on the subject and brought to surface an entire class of new phenomena, which now await thorough experimental investigation. Over the next few years a number of experiments world-wide (at BNL, CERN, DESY and JLAB) will run with transversely polarised beams and targets, providing data that will enrich our knowledge of the transverse-spin structure of hadrons. It is therefore timely to assess the state of the art, and this is the principal aim of the volume. An outline of the book is as follows. After a few introductory remarks (Chapter 1), attention is directed in Chapter 2 to transversely polarised deeply-inelastic scattering (DIS), which probes the transverse spin structure function g2. This existing data are reviewed and discussed (for completeness, a brief presentation of longitudinally polarised DIS is also provided). In Chapter 3 the transverse-spin structure of the proton is illustrated in detail, with emphasis on the transversity distribution and the twist-three parton distribution contributing to g2. Model calculations of these quantities are also presented. In Chapter 4, the QCD evolution of transversity is studied at leading and next-to-leading order. Chapter 5 illustrates the g2 structure function and its related sum rules within the framework of perturbative QCD. The last three chapters are devoted to the phenomenology of transversity, in the context of Drell–Yan processes (Chapter 6), inclusive leptoproduction (Chapter 7) and inclusive hadroproduction (Chapter 8). The interpretation of some recent single-spin asymmetry data is discussed and the prospects for future measurements are reviewed.
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This volume is based on lecture notes prepared for an introductory course on the Phenomenology of Elementary Particles, held within the framework of the master's equivalent degree course in physics. The notes have been augmented and edited with the aim of being as up-to-date and self-contained as is reasonably possible and therefore of more general utility. The volume is thus primarily intended for use by students with a basic knowledge of classical electromagnetism, quantum mechanics and special relativity but not necessarily, for example, of quantum field theory. However, it should also represent a useful reference text and study aid for other similar courses. A number of appendices have been included to include certain more advanced topics in quantum mechanics such as relativistic wave equations, isospin and quantum oscillation; the appendix on scattering takes the reader through the development of the formalism from elastic electron–proton scattering up to deeply inelastic scattering, covering also the technique of partial-wave expansion and the Breit–Wigner resonance formalism.
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Ratcliffe, Philip George was born on October 3, 1955 in Bishop's Stortford, England. Son of George Owen and Pamela Margaret (Stamp) Ratcliffe.
Laureate in physics, Cambridge (England) University, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy, 1983.
Postdoctoral fellow Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University, 1983-1985. Postdoctoral fellow Queen Mary College, University London, 1985-1988. Researcher physics department Milan University, 1988-1991, contract professor, since 1991.
(This volume is based on lecture notes prepared for an int...)
(This book is devoted to the theory and phenomenology of t...)
2003Member United Kingdom Institute Physics, Italian Physical Society, American Physical Society.