Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Properties of the S-matrix -- 1.1 Kinematics -- 1.2 The cross section -- 1.3 Unitarity and the optical theorem -- 1.4 Crossing and analyticity -- 1.5 Partial-wave amplitudes -- 1.6 The Froissart-Gribov formula -- 1.7 The Froissart bound -- 1.8 The Pomeranchuk theorem -- 2 Regge poles -- 2.1 Motivation -- 2.2 The Sommerfeld-Watson transform -- 2.3 Connection with particles -- 2.4 Regge cuts -- 2.5 Signature and parity of cuts -- 2.6 Reggeon calculus -- 2.7 Daughter trajectories -- 2.8 Fixed poles -- 2.9 Spin -- 3 Introduction to soft hadronic processes -- 3.1 Totalcross sections -- 3.2 Elastic scattering -- 3.3 Spin dependence of high energy proton-proton scattering -- 3.4 Soft diffraction dissociation -- 3.5 Central production -- 3.6 Diffractive Higgs production -- 3.7 Helicity structure of the pomeron -- 3.8 Glueball production -- 3.9 The Gribov-Morrison rule -- 3.10 The odderon -- 3.11 Scattering on nuclei -- 4 Duality -- 4.1 Finite-energy sum rules -- 4.2 Duality -- 4.3 Two-component duality and exchange degeneracy -- 4.4 The Veneziano model -- 4.5 Pion-nucleon scattering -- 5 Photon-induced processes -- 5.1 Photon-proton and photon-photon total cross sections -- 5.2 Vector-meson-dominance model -- 5.3 Vector-meson photoproduction -- 5.4 Spin effects in vector-meson photoproduction -- 5.5 Diffraction dissociation -- 5.6 Pion photoproduction -- 6 QCD: perturbative and nonperturbative -- 6.1 Basics of QCD -- 6.2 Semi-hard collisions -- 6.3 Soft hadron-hadron collisions -- 6.4 The QCD vacuum -- 6.5 Nonlocal condensates -- 6.6 Loops and the non-Abelian Stokes theorem -- 6.7 Stochastic-vacuum model -- 6.8 Renormalons -- 7 Hard processes -- 7.1 Deep-inelastic lepton scattering -- 7.2 The DGLAP equation -- 7.3 The BFKL equation -- 7.4 Regge approach.

7.5 Real photons: a crucial question -- 7.6 Perturbative evolution -- 7.7 Photon-photon interactions -- 7.8 Exclusive vector-meson production -- 7.9 Inclusive vector-meson photoproduction -- 7.10 Diffractive structure function -- 7.11 Diffractive jet production -- 7.12 The perturbative odderon -- 8 Soft diffraction and vacuum structure -- 8.1 The Landshoff-Nachtmann model -- 8.2 Functional-integral approach -- 8.3 Quark-quark scattering amplitudes -- 8.5 Evaluation of the dipole-dipole scattering amplitude -- 8.6 Wave functions of photons and hadrons -- 8.7 Applications to high-energy hadron-hadron scattering -- 8.8 Application to photoproduction of vector mesons -- 8.9 Photoproduction of pseudoscalar and tensor mesons -- 8.10 The pomeron trajectory and nonperturbative QCD -- 8.11 Scattering amplitudes in Euclidean space -- 9 The dipole approach -- 9.1 Deep-inelastic scattering -- 9.2 Production processes -- 9.3 Different approaches to dipole cross sections -- 9.4 Saturation -- 9.5 Two-pomeron dipole model -- 10 Questions for the future -- Issues for experiment -- Issues for theory -- Appendix A Sommerfeld-Watson transform -- Appendix B The group SU(3) -- Appendix C Feynman rules of QCD -- Appendix D Pion-nucleon amplitudes -- Pion-nucleon scattering amplitudes -- Pion-photoproduction amplitudes -- Appendix E The density matrix of vector mesons -- References -- Index.