Confinement, Duality, and Nonperturbative Aspects of QCD

by Pierre van Baal (Editor)

Overview

Proceedings of a NATO ASI and Isaac Newton Institute Workshop held in Cambridge, UK, June 23-July 4, 1997

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306458262
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	02/28/1998
Series:	NATO Science Series B: , #368
Edition description:	2002
Pages:	550
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.05(d)

Table of Contents

Hadronic Physics from the Lattice.- Monte Carlo Results for the Hadron Spectrum.- Physics from the Lattice: Glueballs in QCD; Topology; SU(N) for All N.- QCD on Coarse Lattices.- Finite Size Techniques and the Strong Coupling Constant.- Continuum and Lattice Coulomb-Gauge Hamiltonian.- Gribov Ambiguities and the Fundamental Domain.- Perfect Actions.- Nonperturbative Flow Equations, Low-Energy QCD, and the Chiral Phase Transition.- Light-Front QCD: A Constituent Picture of Hadrons.- Instantons in QCD and Related Theories.- Universal Behavior in Dirac Spectra.- Duality and Oblique Confinement.- Abelian Projections and Monopoles.- The Dual Superconductor Picture for Confinement.- Dual Lattice Blockspin Transformation and Perfect Monopole Action for Su(2) Gauge Theory.- to Rigid Supersymmetric Theories.- Non-Perturbative Gauge Dynamics in Supersymmetric Theories. A Primer.- Phases of Supersymmetric Gauge Theories.

Editorial Reviews

Contains papers from a NATO Advanced Study Institute/Newton Institute Workshop held in July 1997 in Cambridge, UK, covering important techniques in the study of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Papers address longstanding questions of how quarks are confined within subnuclear particles, discussing aspects of hadron spectroscopy and the strong coupling constant. The Wilson renormalization group is discussed in the context of lattice, momentum-cutoff, and light-front approaches. Other topics include instantons, chiral symmetry breaking, random matrix models, and QCD as a dual superconductor. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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