QCD VACUUM STRUCTURE
The Table of Contents for the full book PDF is as follows:
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 Nc 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