50 Years of Quantum Chromodynamics
Abstract
This paper presents a comprehensive review of both the theory and experimental successes of Quantum Chromodynamics, starting with its emergence as a well defined theory in 1972-73 and following developments and results up to the present day. Topics include a review of the earliest theoretical and experimental foundations; the fundamental constants of QCD; an introductory discussion of lattice QCD, the only known method for obtaining exact predictions from QCD; methods for approximating QCD, with special focus on effective field theories; QCD under extreme conditions; measurements and predictions of meson and baryon states; a special discussion of the structure of the nucleon; techniques for study of QCD at high energy, including treatment of jets and showers; measurements at colliders; weak decays and quark mixing; and a section on the future, which discusses new experimental facilities or upgrades currently funded. The paper is intended to provide a broad background for Ph.D. students and postdocs starting their career. Some contributions include personal accounts of how the ideas or experiments were developed.
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@article{arxiv.2212.11107,
title = {50 Years of Quantum Chromodynamics},
author = {Franz Gross and Eberhard Klempt and Stanley J. Brodsky and Andrzej J. Buras and Volker D. Burkert and Gudrun Heinrich and Karl Jakobs and Curtis A. Meyer and Kostas Orginos and Michael Strickland and Johanna Stachel and Giulia Zanderighi and Nora Brambilla and Peter Braun-Munzinger and Daniel Britzger and Simon Capstick and Tom Cohen and Volker Crede and Martha Constantinou and Christine Davies and Luigi Del Debbio and Achim Denig and Carleton DeTar and Alexandre Deur and Yuri Dokshitzer and Hans Günter Dosch and Jozef Dudek and Monica Dunford and Evgeny Epelbaum and Miguel A. Escobedo and Harald Fritzsch and Kenji Fukushima and Paolo Gambino and Dag Gillberg and Steven Gottlieb and Per Grafstrom and Massimiliano Grazzini and Boris Grube and Alexey Guskov and Toru Iijima and Xiangdong Ji and Frithjof Karsch and Stefan Kluth and John B. Kogut and Frank Krauss and Shunzo Kumano and Derek Leinweber and Heinrich Leutwyler and Hai-Bo Li and Yang Li and Bogdan Malaescu and Chiara Mariotti and Pieter Maris and Simone Marzani and Wally Melnitchouk and Johan Messchendorp and Harvey Meyer and Ryan Edward Mitchell and Chandan Mondal and Frank Nerling and Sebastian Neubert and Marco Pappagallo and Saori Pastore and José R. Peláez and Andrew Puckett and Jianwei Qiu and Klaus Rabbertz and Alberto Ramos and Patrizia Rossi and Anar Rustamov and Andreas Schäfer and Stefan Scherer and Matthias Schindler and Steven Schramm and Mikhail Shifman and Edward Shuryak and Torbjörn Sjöstrand and George Sterman and Iain W. Stewart and Joachim Stroth and Eric Swanson and Guy F. de Téramond and Ulrike Thoma and Antonio Vairo and Danny van Dyk and James Vary and Javier Virto and Marcel Vos and Christian Weiss and Markus Wobisch and Sau Lan Wu and Christopher Young and Feng Yuan and Xingbo Zhao and Xiaorong Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.11107},
year = {2023}
}
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Invited volume for the EJPC; 567 pages if text/figures and 4783 references occupying about 160 additional pages. arXiv abstract abridged, for the complete abstract please see the full text