Substructures of Matter as Revealed with Electroweak Probes: Proceedings of the 32. Internationale Universitätswochen für Kern- und Teilchenphysik Schladming, Austria, 24 February – 5 March 1993

This is a comprehensive overview of the information yielded by electroweak probes about the nuclear-and subnuclear-scale structure of matter. Lepton-induced processes from low energy through to the highest energies are considered. The first three lectures review electromagnetic processes in hadrons; others cover the properties of partons, the behaviour of the constituents of the hadron, muon and neutrino scattering, etc. An introduction to electroweak theory including the status of precision tests and data analyses is given along with a report on the first results from HERA. The lecturers have endeavoured to achieve a balance between scientific and didactic aspects, thus making the book accessible to students of nuclear and particle physics as well as researchers. This is a comprehensive overview of the information yielded by electroweak probes about the nuclear- and subnuclear-scale structure of matter. Lepton-induced processes from low energy through to the highest energies are considered. The first three lectures review electromagneticprocesses in hadrons; others cover the properties of partons, the behaviour of the constituents of the hadron, muon and neutrino scattering etc. An introduction to electroweak theory including the status of precision tests and data analyses is given along with a report on the first results from HERA. The lecturers have endeavoured to achieve a balance between scientific and didactic aspects thus making the book accessible also to students of nuclear and particle physics. Electromagnetic interactions of nucleons and nuclei at low energy and momentum transfer....Pages 1-60 Electro-excitation of nucleon resonances and meson production....Pages 61-101 Present electron and photon scattering experiments up to GeV energies....Pages 103-120 Partons and QCD: Hadron structure and basics of the standard model....Pages 121-145 Electroweak reactions in the non-perturbative regime of QCD....Pages 147-174 Polarized structure functions and the spin of the proton....Pages 175-213 Small χ physics....Pages 215-255 Nucleon structure functions....Pages 257-321 The standard electroweak theory and its experimental tests....Pages 323-382 First results from HERA....Pages 383-439 Seminars....Pages 441-441 An overview of the information yielded by electroweak probes regarding the nuclear and subnuclear scale of matter. Topics discussed include electromagnetic processes in hadrons, the properties of partons and the behaviour of the constituents of the hadron, muon and neutrino.