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Color in QCD - Stéphane Peigné

Color in QCD

An Introduction Featuring the Birdtrack Pictorial Technique
Buch | Softcover
VIII, 89 Seiten
2024 | 2024
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-53680-9 (ISBN)
CHF 59,90 inkl. MwSt

This book introduces readers to the fascinating world of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and quarks and gluons, the elementary constituents of protons, neutrons, and all hadrons. Specifically, it focuses on the color of quarks and gluons, responsible for their mutual interactions via the strong force. 

The book provides an elementary introduction to the birdtrack technique, which is a powerful tool for addressing the color structure of QCD in a pictorial way. The technique shows how quark and gluon colors are combined and mixed in QCD. The author discusses color conservation, shows how to project on color states of systems of quarks, antiquarks, and gluons, how to derive their color charges. The book is enriched with many exercises integrated in the text to learn by doing.

This book is primarily intended for particle physics students, graduates, and researchers working in the field of QCD. However, it requires no specific prerequisites in QCD, so it may also be of interest to students of mathematics, as an illustration of the use of the birdtrack pictorial technique in representation theory.

Stéphane Peigné graduated from École Polytechnique (Palaiseau, France) in 1991 and obtained his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics at the University of Orsay in 1995. After a postdoc in NORDITA (Copenhagen, Denmark), he joined CNRS as a permanent researcher in 1997, assigned to the LAPTH laboratory (Annecy) from 1997 to 2007, and to the SUBATECH laboratory (Nantes) since 2007.  

His research is devoted to high-energy QCD phenomenology, with a particular focus on parton energy loss through nuclear media. Between 2016 and 2021, he organized the QCD Master Class, a recurrent international school for young QCD theorists.


Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie SpringerBriefs in Physics
Zusatzinfo VIII, 89 p. 12 illus.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Atom- / Kern- / Molekularphysik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Hochenergiephysik / Teilchenphysik
Schlagworte color conservation • color in perturbative QCD • color multiplets • color of quarks and gluons • color pictorial technique • color structure of QCD • multiparton states • SU(N) representations
ISBN-10 3-031-53680-0 / 3031536800
ISBN-13 978-3-031-53680-9 / 9783031536809
Zustand Neuware
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