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Quantenchromodynamik

Greiner, Walter, Schramm, Stefan, Stein, Eckart

Walter Greiner; Eckart Stein; Stefan Schramm

Steinkopff. in Springer-Verlag GmbH

2nd rev. and enlarged ed. / Walter Greiner, Stefan Schramm, Eckart Stein ; with a foreword by D.A. Bromley., Berlin, New York, Germany, 2002

Physics and astronomy online library, 2., rev. and enl. ed, Berlin Heidelberg New York Barcelona Hong Kong London Milan Paris Tokyo, 2002

Springer physics and astronomy online library, 2., rev. and enl. ed, Berlin, 2002

Springer Nature (Textbooks & Major Reference Works), Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The theory of strong interactions, quantum chromodynamics (QCD), was for­ mulated 30 years ago and has since been a very active field of research. The underlying equations of motion for the gauge degrees of freedom are nonlin­ ear and minimally coupled to fermions with global and local SU(3) charges. This leads to spectacular problems compared with those of QED since the gauge bosons themselves interact with each other. On the other hand, it is exactly the self-interaction of the gluons which leads to asymptotic freedom and the pos­ sibility to calcuate quark-gluon interaction at small distances in the framework of perturbation theory. We discover one of the most complicated but most beau­ tiful gauge theories which poses extremely challenging problems on modem theoretical and experimental physics today. Quantum chromodynamics is the quantum field theory that allows us to cal­ culate the propagation and interaction of colored quarks and gluons at small distances. Today's experiments do not allow these colored objects to be detected directly; instead one deals with colorless hadrons: mesons and baryons seen far away from the actual interaction point. The hadronization itself is a complicated process and not yet understood from first principles. Therefore one may won­ der how the signature of quark and gluon interactions can be traced through the process of hadronization.

The book is a self-contained introduction to perturbative and nonperturbative quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) with worked-out exercises for students of theoretical physics. It will be useful as a reference for research scientists as well. Starting with the hadron spectrum, the reader becomes familiar with the representations of SU(N). Relativistic quantum field theory is recapitulated, and scattering theory is discussed in the framework of scalar quantum electrodynamics. Then the gauge theory of quarks and gluons is introduced. In the more advanced chapters, perturbative and nonperturbative techniques in state-of-the-art QCD are discussed in great detail. This completely revised and enlarged second edition will fill the gap in the literature.

This is a self-contained introduction to perturbative and nonperturbative quantum chromodynamics. Relativistic quantum field theory is recapitulated and scattering theory is discussed in the framework of scalar quantum electrodynamics. Then the gauge theory of quarks and gluons is introduced, before moving on to an advanced discussion of perturbative and nonperturbative techniques in state-of-the-art QCD

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