Swimming with Quarks

Abstract

These six lectures, given at the XI Mexican School of Particles and Fields held at Xalapa in August 2004, are on the subject of strong coupling QCD. How this colours and shapes the hadron world in terms of (i) the hadron spectrum, (ii) chiral symmetry breaking, (iii) dynamical mass generation and (iv) confinement, are the topics discussed.

73 pages, 70 figures

References in corpus (65)

• Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (in "The Review of Particle Properties" 2004)
• Observation of a narrow charmonium-like state in exclusive B+ -> K+ pi+pi- J/psi decays
• Observation of a New Narrow Charmonium State in Exclusive B+-->K+ pi+pi- J/psi Decays
• The Infrared Behavior of QCD Green's Functions - Confinement, Dynamical Symmetry Breaking, and Hadrons as Relativistic Bound States
• Evidence for Narrow S=+1 Baryon Resonance in Photo-production from Neutron
• ππscattering
• Diquarks and Exotic Spectroscopy
• Exotic Anti-Decuplet of Baryons: Prediction from Chiral Solitons
• Dyson-Schwinger equations: a tool for hadron physics
• pi- and K-meson Bethe-Salpeter Amplitudes
• A comprehensive lattice study of SU(3) glueballs
• Observation of an Exotic $S=+1$ Baryon in Exclusive Photoproduction from the Deuteron
• Roy equation analysis of pi pi scattering
• High-Precision Lattice QCD Confronts Experiment
• Scalar mesons above and below 1 GeV
• A low-lying scalar meson nonet in a unitarized meson model
• UNDERSTANDING THE SCALAR MESON $q\bar{q}$ NONET
• Non-perturbative Propagators, Running Coupling and Dynamical Quark Mass of Landau gauge QCD
• Observation of the DsJ(2317) and DsJ(2457) in B decays
• Observation of an Exotic Baryon with S=+1 in Photoproduction from the Proton
• A Diquark-Triquark Model for the KN Pentaquark
• Light Hadron Spectroscopy with Two Flavors of Dynamical Quarks on the Lattice
• The $\pi$, $K^{+}$, and $K^0$ electromagnetic form factors
• Evidence for Exotic Meson Production in the Reaction ${\pi }^{-}p\to \eta {\pi }^{-}p$ at 18 GeV/c
• Evidence for a narrow baryonic state decaying to K0s-p and K0s-pbar in deep inelastic scattering at HERA
• Proton-Antiproton Annihilation and Meson Spectroscopy with the Crystal Barrel
• A new measurement of K+(e4) decay and the s-wave pi-pi-scattering length a00
• Aspects and consequences of a dressed-quark-gluon vertex
• Mesons in a Poincare Covariant Bethe-Salpeter Approach
• What $\pi -\pi$ Scattering Tells Us About Chiral Perturbation Theory
• Measurements of the $D_{sJ}$ resonance properties
• Evidence for a Narrow Anti-Charmed Baryon State
• Determining the Gluonic Content of Isoscalar Mesons
• Chiral Analysis of Quenched Baryon Masses
• Bethe-Salpeter equation and a nonperturbative quark-gluon vertex
• The quark condensate from K_{e_4} decays
• Infrared Behavior of the Gluon Propagator on a Large Volume Lattice
• Observation of a Narrow Meson Decaying to Ds pi0 gamma at a Mass of 2.458 GeV/c^2
• ONE LOOP QED VERTEX IN ANY COVARIANT GAUGE: ITS COMPLETE ANALYTIC FORM
• Strong Decays of Light Vector Mesons
• Unquenching the scalar glueball
• Hypersensitivity to perturbation in the quantum kicked top
• Comparative Study of full QCD Hadron Spectrum and Static Quark Potential with Improved Actions
• Bethe-Salpeter Meson Masses Beyond Ladder Approximation
• Search for Theta(1540)^+ in exclusive proton-induced reaction p+C(N) \to Theta^+ \bar{K}^0 + C(N) at the energy of 70 GeV
• Concerning the quark condensate
• Landau-Khalatnikov-Fradkin Transformations and the Fermion Propagator in Quantum Electrodynamics
• Radiative Decay of Vector Quarkonium: Constraints on Glueballs and Light Gluinos
• A Study of the ηπ^{0} Spectrum and Search for a J^{PC} = 1^{-+} Exotic Meson
• Flavour Stability of the Chiral Vacuum and Scalar Meson Dynamics
• K-Matrix Analysis of the (${IJ}^{PC}=00^{++}$) Amplitude in the Mass Region up to 1550 MeV
• The narrow width of the Θ^+ - a possible explanation
• Pentaquark Symmetries, Selection Rules and another potentially Narrow State
• Infrared Behaviour of the Gluon Propagator: Confining or Confined?
• The Lost Tribes of Charmonium
• Are Four-Fermion Operators Relevant for the Fermion Mass Problem?
• N_f Dependence of the Quark Condensate from a Chiral Sum Rule
• The Infrared Behavior of QCD Propagators in Landau Gauge
• Regularization-independent study of renormalized non-perturbative quenched QED
• Long distance chiral corrections in B meson amplitudes
• Covariant QCD Modeling of Light Meson Physics
• Chiral extrapolation and physical insights
• Testing Chiral Symmetry Breaking at DAPHNE
• Four-Fermion Dynamics and Fermion Masses
• QCD Down Under: Building Bridges

Cited by in corpus (9)

• Explanation and Prediction of Observables using Continuum Strong QCD
• Commentary on rainbow-ladder truncation for excited states and exotics
• A lattice study of the masses of singlet 0++ mesons
• Quark propagator with two flavors of O(a)-improved Wilson fermions
• $\bar{q}q$ condensate for light quarks beyond the chiral limit
• Heavy-light mesons beyond ladder approximation
• Ordinary and exotic mesons in the extended Linear Sigma Model
• Non-perturbative field theoretical aspects of graphene and related systems
• Structure of hot strange quark stars: an NJL model approach at finite temperature