Quantum-ChromoDynamics (QCD) is the quantum field theory believed to describe the strong nuclear force.
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For mesons, or baryons, do sea quarks contribute to the angular momentum of the bound state?
The total angular momentum of a bound state of quarks, such as a meson say, can be done by studying the spin and orbital angular momentum of the 2 valence quarks.
What about the sea quarks why they ...
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What is the status of Witten's and Vafa's argument that the QCD vacuum energy is a minimum for zero $\theta$ angle?
The argument, which I reproduce here from Ramond's `Journies BSM', is originally by Witten and Vafa in ($\it{Phys}$. $\it{Rev}$. $\it{Lett}$. 53, 535(1984)). The argument is that for $\theta = 0 $ ...
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Possible implications of Quark Quartet
Today on Nature's website appeared a news about the discovery of a quark quartet (formed from two quarks and two antiquarks). They say that this particle containing four quarks is confirmed. This is ...
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Beta function of pure $SU(N_\text{c})$ Yang-Mills theory
What is the dependence of the beta function of pure $SU(N_\text{c})$ Yang-Mills theory on the number of colors? I guess
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Does quark color contribute to “spin degeneracy” for QGP calculations?
Like the title say, does quark color matter in counting contributions in a early universe plasma (QGP), as when adding up the total plasma energy density, or is it just spin? The book I have (Pathria) ...
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Decomposing a Tensor Product of $SU(3)$ Representations in Irreps
Can somebody explain in a simple way why, talking about representations, $3\otimes3=3\oplus6$, $3\otimes\bar{3}=1\oplus8$ and $3\otimes3\otimes3=1\oplus8\oplus8\oplus10$?
Here $3$ and $\bar{3}$ are ...
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Is there a non-technical way to understand why proving confinement is difficult?
As far as I understand, the basic reason why we are not able to solve QCD at low energies is because it is a strongly coupled quantum field theory, and a part from exceptional situations in simplified ...
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No mixing in light cone perturbation theory
In hep-ph/0609090, Triumvirate of Running Couplings in Small-x Evolution, Kovchegov et. al. calculated the running coupling correction to the Jalilian-Marian, Iancu, McLerran, Weigert, Leonidov and ...
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Can quark-gluon plasma ever be close to an ideal gas of asymptotically free quarks?
The question inspired by an upcoming colloquim at UCB.
A naive interpretation of quark asymptotic freedom seems to imply that at high enough energies they should be weakly interacting. On the other ...
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Lattice QCD and the 5th dimension
I was digging into Nielson-Ninomiya Theorem and doubler fermions, as well as solutions to these problems using Domain Wall Fermions and overlap lattice fermions, both of which make effective use of a ...
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Non-existence of gluon singlets: Any recent theoretical progress?
An unanswered question from last year (2012) on gluon singlets asked whether there is any theoretical explanation for the experimental absence of the ninth or colorless (singlet) gluon. This is the ...
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Does the number of left handed chiral quark superfields always equal half the number of quark flavours?
In Weinberg's "The Quantum Theory of Fields Vol III" page 267 we're told that $n_f = 2N_f$. Where $n_f$ are the number of flavours and $N_f$ is the number of left chiral quark superfields (or the ...
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Final-state baryons in $p \bar p$ collisions in Pythia
I'm trying to simulate inclusive $\chi_c$ production in $p \bar p$ collisions at very low energies (~ 5.5 GeV) using Pythia8 event generator. Leaving aside problems bounded with applicability of ...
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Gauge invariance of gg->gg scattering amplitude?
I'm trying to calculate the spin and color averaged gg->gg cross section, and I am stumbling upon gauge invariance:
Must the amplitude not be invariant under replacements $\epsilon_i \to \epsilon_i + ...
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How to integrate over rapidity for Parton Luminosities in LHC?
I want to make a comparison of parton luminosities between Tevatron and LHC. According to Factorization theorem the cross section in hadron colliders, as long as the partonic cross section has $\hat ...
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Cusp anomalous dimension in QCD
What is the "cusp anomalous dimension", starting from the basics? I came across this term while reading some QCD papers.
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CP-violation in weak and strong sectors
There is a possible CP-violating term in the strong sector of the standard model proportional to $\theta_\text{QCD}$. In the absence of this term, the strong interactions are CP-invariant. In the ...
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Cancellation of the quadratic divergence in QCD
I am currently reading about QCD in QFT-Peskin&Schroeder. When calculating 1-loop diagrams for QCD and using dimensional regularization, the 3-vertex boson loop, 4-vertex boson loop and ghost loop ...
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In a composite Higgs, should the Z0 decay at the same rate that the neutral pion?
I am sorry to ask a question that obviously is a sum of separate questions about a process: Should the decay rate of Z0 be related to the decay of the "higgs" composite field it is eating? And, should ...
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Macroscopic chromodynamics
Lately I've been reading about gamma ray lasing phenomena, and I've been wondering about the applications of this.
More concretely, the above fantastic question led me to wonder if we could somehow ...
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Does dark energy affect asymptotic freedom?
If the Hubble constant is extremely large, what will happen with quark confinement?
I guess that quarks will remain confined because of asymptotic freedom. But can gravity or dark energy have any ...
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What is new with quark-Gluon Plasma and the bubble formed at RHIC?
RHIC experiment results of forming Quark-Gluon Plasma and a possible bubble was news few months ago. I cannot find any follow up news after that. Does anybody know anything new in this front? I am ...
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Glueball mass in non-abelian Yang Mills theory
How can the glueball mass be calculated in Yang Mills theory?
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Is the axial gauge with a $\xi$ term useful in Yang-Mills theory?
i) Do people use axial gauge with a $\xi$ term? When $\xi\neq 0$, ghosts do not decouple, but maybe it's still useful?
ii) Is it proved that the term $\frac 1 {2\xi}(n.A)^2$ in the Lagrangian does ...
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Weak isospin and types of weak charge
My understanding is that QCD has three color charges that are conserved as a result of global SU(3) invariance. What about SU(2) weak? Does it have two types of charges? What I'm getting at is:
U(1) ...
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External ghost in QCD (specifically gluon-gluon scattering)
As a kind of followup question to my question of gauge invariance of gluon-gluon scattering (Gauge invariance of gg->gg scattering amplitude?), where I calculated gg->gg scattering with a unitary ...
