An Introduction to the Confinement Problem

• Main Author: Greensite, Jeff (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 821
• Subjects: Physics.; Quantum field theory.; String theory.; Nuclear physics.; Heavy ions.; Hadrons.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Quantum Field Theories, String Theory.

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 gluo...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Global Symmetry, Local Symmetry, and the Lattice
• What is Confinement?- Order Parameters for Confinement
• Properties of the Confining Force
• Confinement From Center Vortices I
• Monopoles, Calorons, and Dual Superconductivity
• Coulomb Confinement
• Ghosts, Gluons, and Dyson-Schwinger Equations
• Large-N, Planar Diagrams, and the Gluon-Chain Model
• The Vacuum Wavefunctional
• Anti-deSitter Space and Confinement
• Concluding Remarks
• Index.