An introduction to the confinement problem. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jeff Greensite.
• Authors: Greensite, Jeff
• Contents: Introduction -- Global Symmetry, Local Symmetry, and the Lattice -- What is Confinement? -- Order Parameters for Confinement -- Properties of the Confining Force -- Confinement From Center Vortices I -- Confinement from Center Vortices II -- Confinement from Center Vortices III -- Monopoles, Calorons, and Dual Superconductivity -- Coulomb Confinement -- Ghosts, Gluons, and Dyson-Schwinger Equations -- Large-N, Planar Diagrams, and the Gluon-Chain Model -- The Vacuum Wavefunctional -- Anti-de Sitter Space and Confinement -- Symmetry, Confinement, and the Higgs Phase -- Concluding Remarks.
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 530.14/35; Gauge fields (Physics); Particles (Nuclear physics); Quantum chromodynamics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030515638
• Related ISBNs: 303051563X; 3030515621; 9783030515621
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 01, 2020).
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