Phenomenology of Large Nc QCD
Phenomenology of Large Nc QCD

Author: Richard F. Lebed

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 9812776915

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The generalization of QCD from three to N C colors, developed in 1974 by Nobel laureate Gerard ''t Hooft, has proved to be an extraordinarily useful and robust theoretical extension for studying the behavior of strong interaction physics. This book is the proceedings of the first-ever meeting exclusively devoted to large N C QCD. The workshop brought together representatives of many subdisciplines for a OC meeting of mindsOCO on topics ranging from finite temperature and density to the lattice, perturbative QCD, instantons, mesons, baryons, and nuclear physics. Beginning with ''t Hooft''s keynote presentation, the contributions are designed to introduce uses of large N C methods in each specialty to a broader particle physics audience."

Large Nc Qcd 2004 - Proceedings Of The Workshop
Large Nc Qcd 2004 - Proceedings Of The Workshop

Author: Jose Luis Goity

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2005-08-04

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 9814479896

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The large Nc limit plays a fundamental role in the study of non-abelian gauge theories such as quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Since its discovery in 1974 by 't Hooft, the 1/Nc expansion has provided crucial insights into the non-perturbative aspects of gauge theories. The expansion implemented at the effective theory level is one of the fundamental tools currently in use in hadronic physics; there are important effects and relations that follow from the 1/Nc expansion, which held remarkably well in the real world with Nc= 3. The 1/Ncexpansion also plays a central role in the recently discovered connections between non-Abelian gauge and string theories, promising new ways to analyze the non-perturbative domain of gauge theories.This volume contains contributions from leading theorists and covers the recent developments in the 1/Nc expansion in QCD. The topics addressed include confinement, AdS/CFT correspondence and the string-QCD connection, topology in large Nc, lattice QCD, and a variety of applications to mesons and baryons.

NSTAR 2002
NSTAR 2002

Author: Steven A. Dytman

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 9812705171

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This book covers recent advances in the physics of nucleon resonances, including new experimental results from laboratories in the USA, Europe, and Asia, and new developments in effective field theories, quark models, and lattice gauge theory.

Consciousness and Being
Consciousness and Being

Author: Robert C. Trundle

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-02-14

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1532649703

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This book is of vital interest to anyone who yearns to know how science, theology, ethics, art, and politics do really afford objective truths. Not only that, but how these truths in seemingly clashing areas are interrelated by common sense and rooted in our incontrovertible consciousness of Being itself. Being itself, as the basis for truth, is defended against truth-denying modern philosophers who, having headed in the wrong direction with tragic costs of murderous ideologies, have completely misunderstood the simple origin of truth in the realist tradition of Aristotle, Aquinas, Etienne Gilson, and others. Their profoundness is not bamboozled by the covert and corrupting sophism of today's teachings. Anyone interested in surmounting these teachings that include political correctness and a false divide of fact from value, which paralyze the very modern ethics that helped to create them, should read this book. The book reveals how ethics, art, and politics can be as true as the sciences that inform them.

QCD as a Theory of Hadrons
QCD as a Theory of Hadrons

Author: Stephan Narison

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-01-31

Total Pages: 813

ISBN-13: 1009290312

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This 2004 book provides a pedagogical introduction to the perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The text introduces the basic theory of QCD and its historical development, covering pre-QCD ideas of strong interactions such as the quark and parton models, the notion of colours and the S-matrix approach. The author then discusses gauge theory, techniques of dimensional regularization and renormalization, deep inelastic scattering and hard processes in hadron collisions, hadron jets and e+e- annihilations. Other topics include power corrections and the technologies of the Shifman-Vainshtein-Zakharov operating product expansion. The final parts of the book are devoted to modern non-perturbative approaches to QCD and the phenomenological aspects of QCD spectral sum rules. The book will be a valuable reference for graduate students and researchers in high-energy particle and nuclear physics, both theoretical and experimental. This book has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.