Working group report: Quantum chromodynamics

Coordinator: PRAKASH MATHEWS¹

Contributors: Rahul Basu², D Indumathi², E Laenen³, Swapan Majhi⁴,

Anuradha Misra⁵, Asmita Mukherjee⁶ and W Vogelsang⁷

¹Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhan Nagar, Kolkata 700 064, India

²The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, CIT Campus, Chennai 600 113, India

³NIKHEF Theory Group, Kruislaan 409, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands

⁴Harish-Chandra Research Institute, Chhatnag Road, Jhusi, Allahabad 211 019, India

⁵Department of Physics, University of Mumbai, Mumbai 400 098, India

⁶InstitÄut fur Physik, University of Dortmund, D 44221 Dortmund, Germany

⁷Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and RIKEN-BNL Research

Center, Upton, New York 11973, USA

E-mail: prakash@theory.saha.ernet.in

Abstract. This is the report of the QCD working sub-group at WHEPP-8 which was

part of the QCD and QGP working group. Discussion and work on some aspects of

resummation and parton distribution are reported.

Keywords. Quantum chromodynamics; resummation; polarised scattering; parton distributions.

PACS No. 12.38.-t