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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry (NAII, volume 83)
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Table of contents (34 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
The problem of quark confinement is one of the classic unsolved problems of particle physics and is fundamental to our understanding of the physics of the strong interaction and the behaviour of non-Abelian gauge theories in general. The confinement problem is also are area in which concepts from topology and techniques of computational physics both find important applications. This volume contains a snapshot of current research in this field as of January 2002. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of topological field configurations such as centre vortices and monopoles in proposed confinement mechanisms. Other topics covered include colour superconductivity, instantons and chiral symmetry breaking, matrix models and the construction of chiral gauge theories.
Readership: Research scientists and graduate students of high energy physics and nuclear physics.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Confinement, Topology, and Other Non-Perturbative Aspects of QCD
Editors: Jeff Greensite, Štefan Olejník
Series Title: NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0502-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0873-3Published: 30 September 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-0874-0Published: 30 September 2002
eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0502-9Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1568-2609
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 326
Topics: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons, Geometry, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics