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Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is a remarkably rich theory exhibiting numerous emergent degrees of freedom, from flux tubes to hadrons. Their description in terms of the underlying quarks and gluons of the QCD Lagrangian remains a central…

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High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-28 Stefano I. Finazzo , Jorge Noronha

The strong interaction is the fundamental force that holds quarks and the gluon force carriers together to form protons and neutrons and also binds the atomic nucleus. The theory governing quark-gluon interactions is Quantum Chromodynamics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-04 Xiangdong Ji , Gerald A. Miller , Chen Yang

An elementary introduction to the physics of quark-gluon plasma is given. We start with a sketchy presentation of the Quantum Chromodynamics which is the fundamental theory of strong interactions. The structure of hadrons built up of quarks…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-03-17 Stanislaw Mrowczynski

The current status of the QCD coupling constant $\alpha_S$ and experimental and theoretical studies of hadronic jets are reviewed.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 B R Webber

The `XIIIth Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum' conference (Confinement 2018) contained a `Round Table Discussion' on the status of the determinations of the strong coupling $\alpha_s(m_Z)$ as well as prospects for future…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-17 Antonio Pich , Juan Rojo , Rainer Sommer , Antonio Vairo

When hadrons scatter at high energies, strong color fields, whose dynamics is described by quantum chromodynamics (QCD), are generated at the interaction point. If one represents these fields in terms of partons (quarks and gluons), the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Munier

We compare phenomenological values of the frozen QCD running coupling constant ($\alpha_s$) with two classes of solutions obtained through nonperturbative Schwinger-Dyson equations. We use these same solutions with frozen coupling constants…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 A. C. Aguilar , A. Mihara , A. A. Natale

We present a specific class of models for an infrared-finite analytic QCD coupling, such that at large space-like energy scales the coupling differs from the perturbative one by less than any inverse power of the energy scale. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Gorazd Cvetic , Cristian Valenzuela

For a complete description of the physical properties of low-energy QCD, it might be advantageous to first reformulate QCD in terms of gauge-invariant dynamical variables, before applying any approximation schemes. Using a canonical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-03-18 Hans-Peter Pavel

Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) phase diagram is usually plotted as temperature (T) versus the chemical potential associated with the conserved baryon number (\mu_{B}). Two fundamental properties of QCD, related to confinement and chiral…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2011-07-06 Bedangadas Mohanty

We propose a novel method to determine the strong coupling of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and fix its running behavior at all scales by using the Bjorken sum rules (BSR). The BSR defines an effective coupling $\alpha^{g_1}_s(Q)$ which…

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We have attempted to build a parametric based simplified and analytical model to map the interaction of quarks and gluons in presence of magnetic field, which has been constrained by quark condensate and thermodynamical quantities like…

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Through a holographic model of QCD, we present a phenomenological approach to study the running of the strong coupling constant $\alpha_s$ in both non-perturbative and perturbative regimes. The renormalization of the metric tensor, driven…

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High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-01 Hao Chen , Ian Moult , Hua Xing Zhu

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High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 WOLFGANG OCHS

The vacuum is now understood to possess a rich and complex structure, characterized by fluctuating energy fields and a condensate of virtual quark-antiquark pairs. The spontaneous breaking of the approximate chiral symmetry, signaled by the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-10 The STAR Collaboration

Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory of strong interactions of quarks and gluons collectively called partons, the basic constituents of all nuclear matter. Its non-abelian character manifests in nature in the form of two remarkable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-24 Astrid Morreale , Farid Salazar

Virtuality and coherence determine the limits of applicability of holographic concepts in QCD. In light-front quantization, the invariant mass controls the off-shell behavior of a physical process and thus provides a measure of its…

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