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An Introduction to the Confinement Problem

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2011
ISBN
3642143814, 9783642143816, 9783642143823
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-14382-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1991518 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Physics 821
Edition
1
Pages
211\224
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book addresses the confinement problem, which quite generally deals with 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 trapped inside mesons and baryons, from which they cannot escape. There are other, and possibly deeper meanings that can be attached to the term, and these will be explored in this book. Although the confinement problem is far from solved, much is now known about the general features of the confining force, and there are a number of very well motivated theories of confinement which are under active investigation. This volume gives a both pedagogical and concise introduction and overview of the main ideas in this field, their attractive features, and, as appropriate, their shortcomings.

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