Recent developments in Deep-Inelastic Scattering

Abstract

We review several recent developments in the theory and phenomenology of deep-inelastic scattering, with particular emphasis on precision tests of QCD and progress in the detailed perturbative treatment of structure functions and parton distributions. We discuss specifically determinations of alpha_s; higher twist contributions to structure functions and renormalons; structure functions at small x and resummation of energy logarithms.

28 pages, 9 figures, latex with epsfig. Invited talk at RADCOR98. Revised July 99: various updates including reference update; substantial update of the small-x section (sect 4). Invited talk at the 1999 La Thuile conference