Contents
Introduction
Part I. Elastic hA Scattering
1 General Features of Interaction with Nuclei
1.1. Nuclear structure, protons, neutrons, meson currents
1.2. Elastic eA scattering and nuclear form factors
1.3. Hofst\»adter experiments and the geometry of the nucleus
1.4. Unitarity condition, optical model and hA cross sections
1.5. Relativistic kinematics and Lobachevski geometry
2 Elastic and Quasi-elastic hA Scattering at Intermediate Energies
2.1. Eikonal approximation and Glauber theory
2.2. Elastic scattering on a deuteron target
2.3. Elastic scatterings on heavy nuclei
2.4. Quasielastic scattering
2.5. Experimental proton and neutron distributions in the nuclei
2.6. Parameters of NN amplitude for bound target nucleon
3 Hadron-Nucleon Collisions at High Energies
3.1. Elastic hN scattering via Regge-pole exchange
3.2. The change of the space-time picture of interactions at high energies
3.3. Diffractive dissociation in hN collisions
3.4. Inclusive reactions
3.5. The AGK cutting rules for Reggeon diagrams
4 Elastic Hadron-Nucleus Scattering at High Energies
4.1. High energy elastic hadron-deuteron scattering
4.2. Deuteron disintegration in AGK cutting rules
4.3. Inelastic screening for heavy nuclei. The two-channel approach
4.4. Different hA cross sections in the two-channel approach
4.5. Total cross sections of unstable particles
4.6. Multi-channel approach for high energy hA collisions
4.7. Color transparency
5 Elastic and Quasielastic Scattering in the Additive Quark Model
5.1. Total hN cross sections
5.2. Elastic hN scattering
5.3. Vector meson photoproduction
5.4. Diffraction dissociation of hadrons
5.5. Shadowing corrections for hadron-nucleus collisions
5.6. Coherent production from nuclei
Part II. Multiple Hadron Production on Nuclear Targets
6 Production of Particles in hA Collisions at Low Energy and in the Kinematics Forbidden for hN Interactions
6.1. Secondary production on nucleon target near threshold
6.2. Pion production on nuclear targets at low energies
6.3. Subthreshold production
6.4. Cumulative effect
7 Production of Secondaries in the Intranuclear Cascade Model and the Arising Problems
7.1. General features of the model
7.2. Multiplicities of secondaries produced on nuclear targets
7.3. The comparison of nu A and nu N inelastic collisions
7.4. Formation time
7.5. Secondary production in QCD
7.6. Hadron resonance production
7.7. Weak absorption of low-energy antiprotons produced on nuclear target
7.8. The possibility to account some interference contributions in the cascade model
8 Parton Model and Fan Reggeon Diagram Approach
8.1. Space-time picture of secondary production
8.2. Inelastic hadron-nucleus interactions in the Parton Model
8.3. Reggeon Fan Diagrams Approach for description the inclusive spectra of secondaries
9 High Energy Hadron-Nucleus Collisions in Additive Quark Model
9.1. Spectator mechanism and its consequences for secondary production on nuclear targets
9.2. The A-dependence of the inclusive spectra in the fragmentation region
9.3. Comparison with the data
9.4. Hadron content of secondaries in the fragmentation region
10 Multiple Scattering Theory for Secondary Production in hA Collisions
10.1. Non-coherent elastic scattering on nuclear target
10.2. The multiparticle absorptive parts
10.3. Self-shadowing effects
10.4. Energy division in multiple interaction
10.5. The problem of planar/non-planar diagrams
11 Phenomenological Predictions of the Multiple Scattering Theory
11.1. Multiplicities and spectra of secondaries
11.2. Cross sections of double scattering in inelastic hadron-deuteron collisions
11.3. Multinucleon interactions of incident hadron on nuclear target
12 Particle Production in the String Model
12.1. The motion of a relativistic string
12.2. The decay kinematics of the string
12.3. Stochastic iterative fragmentation of the string
12.4. The Schwinger vacuum decay mechanism
12.5. Dipole formalism
13 Quark-Gluon String Model for Multiparticle Production
13.1. General formalism
13.2. Quark and diquark distributions in hadrons in QGSM
13.3. Quark and diquark fragmentation functions
13.4. Comparison of QGSM predictions with experimental data for meson production from nucleon target
13.5. Secondary baryon/antibaryon production
13.6. Baryon diffusion to large distances in rapidity space
14 Spectra of Secondaries on Nuclear Targets
14.1. Inclusive spectra on nuclear target in QGSM
14.2. Comparison with experimental data
14.3. Heavy flavour hadron production
14.4. Parton distributions in the bound nucleons
14.5. A-dependence of hard processes on nuclear targets with accounting of nuclear shadowing
14.6. Predictions for superhigh energies and violation of Feynman scaling
14.7. Passage of cosmic rays through the atmosphere in the QGSM
14.8. Increase of transverse momenta of secondaries and its contribution to Feynman scaling violation
15 Cross Sections and Probabilities in Heavy Ion Collisions
15.1. Amplitude of elastic nucleus-nucleus scattering
15.2. Monte Carlo simulation of nucleus-nucleus scattering
15.3. Integrated cross sections
15.4. Distributions on the number of interacting nucleons
15.5. Multiplicity distributions and dispersions
16 High Density Matter
16.1. Possibility of new physics in heavy ion collisions
16.2. Thermalization and Collective Flow
16.3. Parton saturation and Color Glass Condensate
16.4. Jet quenching
16.5. Percolation of color sources
16.6. Charmonium supression
