TY - JOUR
T1 - Persistent challenges of quantum chromodynamics
AU - Shifman, M.
PY - 2006/11/20
Y1 - 2006/11/20
N2 - Unlike some models whose relevance to Nature is still a big question mark, Quantum Chromodynainics (QCD) will stay with us forever. QCD, born in 1973, is a very rich theory supposed to describe the widest range of strong interaction phenomena: from nuclear physics to Regge behavior at large E, from color confinement to quark-gluon matter a,t high densities/temperatures (neutron stars) ; the vast horizons of the hadronic world: chiral dynamics, glueballs, exotics, light and heavy quarkonia and mixtures thereof, exclusive and inclusive phenomena, interplay between strong forces and weak interactions, etc. Efforts aimed at solving the underlying theory, QCD, continue. In a remarkable entanglement, theoretical constructions of the 1970's and 1990's combine with today's ideas based on holographic description and strong-weak coupling duality, to provide new insights and a deeper understanding.
AB - Unlike some models whose relevance to Nature is still a big question mark, Quantum Chromodynainics (QCD) will stay with us forever. QCD, born in 1973, is a very rich theory supposed to describe the widest range of strong interaction phenomena: from nuclear physics to Regge behavior at large E, from color confinement to quark-gluon matter a,t high densities/temperatures (neutron stars) ; the vast horizons of the hadronic world: chiral dynamics, glueballs, exotics, light and heavy quarkonia and mixtures thereof, exclusive and inclusive phenomena, interplay between strong forces and weak interactions, etc. Efforts aimed at solving the underlying theory, QCD, continue. In a remarkable entanglement, theoretical constructions of the 1970's and 1990's combine with today's ideas based on holographic description and strong-weak coupling duality, to provide new insights and a deeper understanding.
KW - Color confinement
KW - Hadron physics
KW - Quantum chromodynamics
KW - Review
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U2 - 10.1142/s0217751x06034914
DO - 10.1142/s0217751x06034914
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:33845332687
SN - 0217-751X
VL - 21
SP - 5695
EP - 5719
JO - International Journal of Modern Physics A
JF - International Journal of Modern Physics A
IS - 28-29
ER -