Aspects of Quantum Chromodynamics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
These lectures provide an overview of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the SU(3) gauge theory of the strong interactions. The running of the strong coupling and the associated property of Asymptotic Freedom are analyzed. Some selected experimental tests and the present knowledge of and the quark masses are briefly summarized. A short description of the QCD flavour symmetries and the dynamical breaking of chiral symmetry is also given.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0001118,
title = {Aspects of Quantum Chromodynamics},
author = {A. Pich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0001118},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
50 pages, 24 figures. Lectures given at the ICTP Summer School in Particle Physics (Trieste, 1999)