Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum V

Download or read book Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum V written by Nora Brambilla and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003-08-27 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an update on our understanding of strong interaction, with theoretical and experimental highlights included. It is divided into five sections. The first section is devoted to the investigations into and the latest results on the mechanism of quark confinement. The second and third sections focus respectively on light and heavy quarks (effective field theories, Schwinger–Dyson approach and lattice QCD results). The fourth section deals with the deconfinement mechanism and quark–gluon plasma formation signals. The last section presents highlights of experiments, new physics beyond QCD, and nonperturbative approaches in other theories (strings and SUSY) that may be useful in QCD. Contents:Vortices, Confinement and Higgs Fields (R Bertle & M Faber)Hadronic Signature of Quark–Gluon Plasma (J Rafelski & J Letessier)Topology of Center Vortices (H Reinhardt)The Nonperturbative Quark-Gluon Vertex (J Skullerud et al.)Equivalence in Minkowski and Euclidean Field Theories (K M Maung et al.)Criterium for the Index Theorem on the Lattice (P Bicudo)Isospin Breaking in the Goldberger–Treiman Discrepancies (J L Goity & J Saez)Quantum Field Theory Approach to the Vacuum Replica in QCD (A V Nefediev & J E F T Ribeiro)Charm and Bottom Quark Masses from QCD Moment Sum Rules (M Eidemüller)Dilepton Production in Heavy-Ion Collisions: A Probe of Deconfinement (E Scomparin)Deuteron Photodisintegration at High Energy (F Ronchetti)Semianalytical Bounds on Spinless–Salpeter Energy Levels (R L Hall et al.)String Breaking and Monopoles in the 3D Abelian Higgs Model (M N Chernodub et al.)and other papers Readership: Researchers in high-energy, particle, theoretical, accelerator and experimental physics. Keywords:Gauge Field Theories;Models beyond the Standard Model;Chiral Symmetries;Perturbative and Nonperturbative QCD;Deconfinement;Hadrons