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QCD beyond diagrams

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-09-01 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

QCD, the theory of the strong interactions, involves quarks interacting with non-Abelian gluon fields. This theory has many features that are difficult to impossible to see in conventional diagrammatic perturbation theory. This includes quark confinement, mass generation, and chiral symmetry breaking. This paper is a colloquium level overview of the framework for understanding how these effects come about.

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@article{arxiv.2010.04774,
  title  = {QCD beyond diagrams},
  author = {Michael Creutz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.04774},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

21 pages, 12 figures. Revision adds new section and various edits

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