An Introduction to the Confinement Problem
This book addresses the confinement problem, which concerns the behavior of non-abelian gauge theories, and the force which is mediated by gauge fields, at large distances. The word “confinement” in the context of hadronic physics originally referred to the fact that quarks and gluons appear to be t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2020, 2020
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. 2020 |
| Series: | Lecture Notes in Physics
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Global Symmetry, Local Symmetry, and the Lattice
- What is Confinement?
- Order Parameters for Confinement
- Properties of the Confining Force
- Confinement From Center Vortices I
- Confinement from Center Vortices II
- Confinement from Center Vortices III
- Monopoles, Calorons, and Dual Superconductivity
- Coulomb Confinement
- Ghosts, Gluons, and Dyson-Schwinger Equations
- Large-N, Planar Diagrams, and the Gluon-Chain Model
- The Vacuum Wavefunctional
- Anti-de Sitter Space and Confinement
- Symmetry, Confinement, and the Higgs Phase
- Concluding Remarks