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Seymour school of physics and astronomy, university of manchester,manchester, m 9pl, u. The black book of quantum chromodynamics is an indepth introduction to the particle physics of current and future experiments at particle accelerators. The book offers the reader an overview of practically all aspects of the strong interaction necessary to understand and appreciate modern particle phenomenology at the energy frontier. Quantum chromodynamics edition 2 by walter greiner. Quantum chromodynamics 2nd revised and enlarged edition by walter greiner, stefan schramm, eckart stein. Quantum chromodynamics article about quantum chromodynamics. Qcd was constructed in analogy to quantum electrodynamics qed, the quantum field theory of the electromagnetic force. Saleh hamdan marked it as toread feb 29, the other side of asymptotic freedom is confinement. The book is a selfcontained introduction to perturbative and nonperturbative quantum chromodynamics qcd with workedout exercises for students of theoretical physics. Starting with the hadron spectrum, the reader becomes familiar with the representations of sun. He died on 6 october at the age of retrieved from s.
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