QCD Vacuum Structure

Proceedings of the Workshop on QCD Vacuum Structure and Its Applications

Workshop on QCD Vacuum Structure and Its Applications

, American University Paris

, 01 – 05 June 1992

https://doi.org/10.1142/1923 | May 1993

Pages: 388

Edited by:
H M Fried (Brown University) and
B Müller (Duke University, USA)

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This volume contains the lectures presented at the Workshop on QCD Vacuum Structure and Its Applications, held in Paris, France, in June 1992. The structure of the vacuum state of quantum chromodynamics is one of the major unsolved problems in strong interaction physics. Although considerable progress has been made in the last decade in understanding various aspects of QCD vacuum structure, a unified picture is still elusive. This volume covers recent advances in the major fields of relevance to the problem of the QCD vacuum, such as quark confinement, chiral symmetry breaking, nonperturbative approaches, and QCD vacuum phenomenology. It provides the first comprehensive presentation of this subject, and will be valuable tool for theorists interested in nonperturbative QCD, hadronic structure, and relativistic nuclear physics.

Contents:

Thoughts on the Vacuum: Introductory Remarks (P Carruthers)
Renormalization and Confinement (J Polonyi)
The Method of Vacuum Correlators (H G Dosch)
The QCD Vacuum in the Field Strength Formalism (P A Amundsen & M Schaden)
Instantons in the Field Strength Approach to QCD (H Reinhardt)
QCD Based Potential Between Heavy Quarks (M Baker et al.)
Correlation Functions of the QCD Vacuum and Instantons (E Shuryak)
Schwinger-Dyson Equations: Dynamical Chiral Symmetry Breaking and Confinement (C D Roberts)
Vacuum Structure of Pure Gauge Theories on the Lattice (R W Haymaker et al.)
Light-Cone Quantized QCD (K Hornbostel)
Zeta Function Regularisation of the Vacuum Energy (E Elizalde)
The Infrared Structure of Hot QCD (M LeBellac & P Reynaud)
Top and Higgs Masses from Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry Breaking (D E Kahana)
Concluding Remarks: Vacuum Structure and Matter Genesis (R Vinh Mau)
and other papers

Readership: High energy physicists and nuclear physicists.

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QCD VACUUM STRUCTURE: Proceedings of the Workshop on QCD Vacuum Structure and Its Applications

HM FRIED and
B MÜLLER

Pages:1–374

https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814536141

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Preface
Welcome
Table of Contents
Part I: Confinement
- Thoughts on the Vacuum: Introductory Remarks
- Renormalization and Confinement
- The Method of Vacuum Correlators
- The QCD Vacuum in the Field Strength Formalism
- Instantons in the Field Strength Approach to QCD
- Confinement with Gaussian Gluon Fields
- Renormalization in the QCD Hamiltonian Method
- Gauge Consistency Constraints on Gluon Mass
- Transversally Confined, Acausal Gluons
- QCD Based Potential Between Heavy Quarks
- Macroscopic Model of the Colour Confinement
Part II: Chiral Symmetry Breaking
- Correlation Functions of the QCD Vacuum and Instantons
- Schwinger Dyson Equations: Dynamical Chiral Symmetry Breaking and Confinement
- Nonperturbative Solutions to the Dyson-Schwinger Equations of Pure QCD
- Chiral Symmetry, Broken Scale Invariance and the Nuclear Equation of State
- The Gluon Condensate in the Chiral Phase Transition
- Meson Masses in a Chirally Symmetric, Covariant Effective Quark Model without Free Quarks
- Nonlocal Condensates in a Simple Nucleon Model
- Nambu—Jona-Lasinio Models of Chiral Symmetry Breaking
- Photo-Nucleon Processes in Chiral Perturbation Theory
Part III: Nonperturbative Methods
- Vacuum Structure of Pure Gauge Theories on the Lattice
- What do Lattice Simulations Tell Us About the QCD Vacuum?
- Introduction to Lattice Gaugefixing and Efective Quark and Gluon Masses
- Light-Cone Quantized QCD
- Light Front Tamm-Dancoff Method: Hydrogen Atom and 2D Yukawa Model
- Chiral Symmetry and Confinement in Massless Two Dimensional Quantum Chromodynamics
- Large N_c QCD Solitons and their Interactions
- How Can QED₃ Help Us Understand QCD₄?
- Zeta Function Regularization of the Vacuum Energy
- Wigner Function in Field Theory: Phase-space Description of the Dirac Vacuum
- The Equal-time Wigner Transform of the Klein-Gordon Field and Pair Creation
Part IV: Thermal QCD and Applications
- The Infrared Structure of Hot QCD
- Transport Coefficients in Thermal QCD
- Medium Effects on Hadron Structure
- Surface Tension in Hot Lattice QCD
- Instability of Bubbles near the Hadron Quark-Gluon Plasma Phase Transition
- Ideal Gas of Strings and QCD at Hadronic Scales
- Collective Pion Emission and QCD Vacuum Structure
Part V: Beyond QCD
- Top and Higgs Masses from Dynamical Electroweak Symmetry Breaking
- Color-Sextet Quark Condensation in QCD
- Concluding Remarks: Vacuum Structure and Matter Genesis
List of Authors
List of Participants