Dual Superconductor Models of Color Confinement

Physicists who wish to understand the modeling of confinement of quantum chromodynamics, as exhibited by dual superconductors, will find this book  an excellent introduction. The author focuses on the models themselves, especially the Landau--Ginzburg model of a dual superconductor, also called the Dual Abelian Higgs model. The book addresses graduate students and researchers, and is noteworthy for the remarkable clarity of its exposition.

List of contents

Introduction.- The Symmetry of Electromagnetism with Respect to Electric and Magnetic Charges.- The Landau-Ginzburg Model of a Dual Superconductor.- Abelian Gauge Fixing.- The Confinement of SU (3) Color Charges.- Vectors, Tensors and Their Duality Transformations.- The Relation Between Minkowski and Euclidean Actions.- The Generators of the SU (2) and SU (3) Groups.- Color Charges of Quarks and Gluons.

Summary

Physicists who wish to understand the modeling of confinement of quantum chromodynamics, as exhibited by dual superconductors, will find this book  an excellent introduction. The author focuses on the models themselves, especially the Landau--Ginzburg model of a dual superconductor, also called the Dual Abelian Higgs model. The book addresses graduate students and researchers, and is noteworthy for the remarkable clarity of its exposition.

Product details

• Authors: Georges Ripka
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.10.2013
• EAN: 9783662144336
• ISBN: 978-3-662-14433-6
• No. of pages: 140
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 9 mm x 233 mm
• Weight: 252 g
• Illustrations: VIII, 140 p.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics; Lecture Notes in Physics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Electricity, magnetism, optics; C, Optics, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Quantum Physics, Nuclear physics, Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory), Physics and Astronomy, Classical Electrodynamics, Electricity, electromagnetism & magnetism, Electrodynamics, Particle and Nuclear Physics, Nuclear and Particle Physics, Particle & high-energy physics, Heavy ions, Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons, Quantum field theory, Elementary particles (Physics), Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Mathematical physics, Atomic & molecular physics