Some auxiliary material has been relegated to the Appendices and could probably aid the reader in making various explicit calculations. We would like to thank A.A. Anselm, I.M. Dremin, S.S. Gerstein, V.G. Grishin, E.M. Levin, N.N. Nikoiaev, M.G. Ryskin, E.V. Shuryak for extremely helpful discussions of the problems considered in the book. We are also deeply indebted to V.N. Gribov: his comments were extremely helpful for us. We are happy to thank our friends and colleagues V.M. Braun, L.G. Dakhno, A.K. Likhoded and P.E. Volkovitski: some papers written in collaboration with them are reflected in this work. The authors are grateful to K.K. Phua for his encouragement in writing this book. Two of us (V.V.A. and Yu.M.S.) are much obliged to 0.1. Sumbaev for the permanent support of the investigations presented here: the book could hardly be accomplished without it. We are specially indebted to our deceased friend V.M. Shekhter. Our collaboration with him has provided much material which is being passed on in this book. This book is dedicated to his memory.
He has published over 150 research papers on the theory and the phenomenological aspects of multiparticle production processes, nuclear target phenomena, heavy quark production on nucleon targets, heavy ion physics and some applied physics problems.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.