Lectures on QCD: Foundations

P. Hasenfratz, F. Kleefeld, T. Kraus (auth.), Frieder Lenz, Harald Grießhammer, Dieter Stoll (eds.)3540625437, 9783540625438

This is a collection of pedagogically written articles on quantum chromodynamics. Based on lectures given over the past years to graduate students, the articles are ideally suited as an introduction into modern research. The book contains concepts and applications of lattice gauge theories, finite temperature field theory, an article on the method of sum rules in QCD, and so on. Furthermore axial anomalies, the Skyrme model and recent developments of supersymmetric QCD are discussed in depth. A second volume on phenomenology is in preparation.

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Table of contents :
Fascinating field theory: Quantum field theory, renormalization group, and lattice regularization….Pages 1-35
Lattice gauge theory and the structure of the vacuum and hadrons….Pages 36-89
Topological effects on the physics of the standard model….Pages 90-127
Semiclassical aspects of quantum field theories….Pages 128-156
Anomalies in gauge theories….Pages 157-169
QCD sum rules….Pages 170-187
The skyrme model….Pages 188-216
Introduction to supersymmetry and exact nonperturbative results in SUSY-QCD….Pages 217-271