Quark confinement and the renormalization group

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1946, 2011, Pages 2718-2734

  Ogilvie, Michael C ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Quantum chromodynamics; Quark confinement; Renormalization group

Indexed keywords

BASIC CONCEPTS; DECONFINEMENT; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; QUARK CONFINEMENT; REAL-SPACE; RENORMALIZATION GROUP; RENORMALIZATION GROUP METHODS; STRING TENSION; SYMMETRY-BREAKING; WILSON LOOPS;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; QUANTUM THEORY;

STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

EID: 79959931152     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0379     Document Type: Article

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