The Structure Of The Nucleon

As the only stable baryon, the nucleon is of crucial importance in particle physics. Since the nucleon is a building block for all atomic nuclei, there is a need to analyse the its structure in order to fully understand the essential properties of all atomic nuclei.

After more than forty years of research on the nucleon, both the experimental and theoretical situations have matured to a point where a synthesis of the results becomes indispensable. Here, A.W. Thomas and W. Weise present a unique report on the extensive empirical studies, theoretical foundations and the different models of the nucleon. The appendices provide an extensive summary of formulae needed in practical calculations.

From the contents: electromagnetic structure of the nucleon, weak probes of nucleon structure, deep inelastic lepton scattering on the nucleon; elements of QCD, aspects of non-perturbative QCD, Chiral Symmetry and nucleon structure, models of the nucleon

Introduction
ELECTROMAGNETIC STRUCTURE OF THE NUCLEON
Elastic Electron Scattering
Electromagnetic Form Factors of the Nucleon
Nucleon Resonances
Compton Scattering
WEAK PROBES OF NUCLEON STRUCTURE
Matrix Elements of the Weak Currents
The Axial Matrix Elements in Charged Current Neutrino Reactions
Beta-Decay
Myon Capture
Near Threshold Pion Electroproduction
Neutral Current Interactions
DEEP-INELASTIC LEPTON SCATTERING ON THE NUCLEON
The Parton Model
Scaling Violations
Sum Rules
Neutrino Deep-Inelastic Scattering
Experimental Results for Unpolarised Targets
Spin Dependent Structure Functions
Qualitative Understanding of Parton Distributions
ELEMENTS OF QCD
Basic Lagrangian
Feynman Rules
Renormalization
The Renormalization Group
Deep Inelastic Scattering: Parton Model
Deep Inelastic Scattering within QCD
ASPECTS OF NON-PERTUBATIVE QCD
Symmetries, Currents and Anomalies
Structure of the QCD Vacuum: Brief Survey
QCD Sum Rules
Lattice QCD and the Nucleon
CHIRAL SYMMETRY AND NUCLEON STRUCTURE
Chiral Effective Field Theory
Baryon Masses and Sigma Terms
Chiral Low Energy Theorems
Summary: The Pion Cloud of the Nucleon
MODELS OF THE NUCLEON
Survey
Non-relativistic Quark Models
Soliton Models
Bag Models
Chiral Quark Models
Chiral Solitons
Final Remarks
App. A Notations and Conventions
App. B Cross Sections for Lepton and Photon Nucleon Scattering