Dual Superconductor Models of Color Confinement

Georges Ripka (auth.), Georges Ripka (eds.)354020718X, 9783540207184

Physicists who wish to understand the modeling of confinement of quantum chromodynamics, as exhibited by dual superconductors, will find this book an excellent introduction. The author focuses on the models themselves, especially the Landau–Ginzburg model of a dual superconductor, also called the Dual Abelian Higgs model. The book addresses graduate students and researchers, and is noteworthy for the remarkable clarity of its exposition.

Table of contents :
1 Introduction….Pages 1-5
2 The Symmetry of Electromagnetism with Respect to Electric and Magnetic Charges….Pages 7-31
3 The Landau-Ginzburg Model of a Dual Superconductor….Pages 33-77
4 Abelian Gauge Fixing….Pages 79-91
5 The Confinement of SU (3) Color Charges….Pages 93-107
Appendix A: Vectors, Tensors, and Their Duality Transformations….Pages 109-123
Appendix B: The Relation between Minkowski and Euclidean Actions….Pages 125-127
Appendix C: The Generators of the SU (2) and SU (3) Groups….Pages 129-132
Appendix D. Color Charges of Quarks and Gluons….Pages 133-135