2002/11/14 by Martin Lüscher · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Asymptotic freedom #Chiral perturbation theory #Color confinement #Gauge theory #Gluon #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Lattice QCD #Lattice field theory #Lattice gauge theory #Meson #Nucleon #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Perturbation theory (quantum mechanics) #Physics #QCD vacuum #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chromodynamics #Quantum field theory #Quantum mechanics #Quark #Quark–gluon plasma #hep-lat #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s00023-003-0916-z
published as Annales Henri Poincare 4 (2003) S197-S210 · Plenary talk, International Conference on Theoretical Physics, Paris, UNESCO, 22--27 July 2002; TeX source, 15 pages, figures included
arxiv created 2002/11/14 · openalex publication_date 2003/12/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
According to the present understanding, the observed diversity of the strong interaction phenomena is described by Quantum Chromodynamics, a gauge field theory with only very few parameters. One of the fundamental questions in this context is how precisely the world of mesons and nucleons is related to the properties of the theory at high energies, where quarks and gluons are the important degrees of freedom. The lattice formulation of QCD combined with numerical simulations and standard perturbation theory are the tools that allow one to address this issue at a quantitative level.