03102nam a22005295i 4500 978-3-031-53681-6 DE-He213 20251030112039.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240513s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031536816 978-3-031-53681-6 10.1007/978-3-031-53681-6 doi QC793-793.5 PHP bicssc SCI051000 bisacsh PHP thema Peigné, Stéphane. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 76739 Color in QCD [electronic resource] : An Introduction Featuring the Birdtrack Pictorial Technique / by Stéphane Peigné. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. VIII, 89 p. 12 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda SpringerBriefs in Physics, 2191-5431 This book introduces readers to the fascinating world of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and quarks and gluons, the elementary constituents of protons, neutrons, and all hadrons. Specifically, it focuses on the color of quarks and gluons, responsible for their mutual interactions via the strong force. The book provides an elementary introduction to the birdtrack technique, which is a powerful tool for addressing the color structure of QCD in a pictorial way. The technique shows how quark and gluon colors are combined and mixed in QCD. The author discusses color conservation, shows how to project on color states of systems of quarks, antiquarks, and gluons, how to derive their color charges. The book is enriched with many exercises integrated in the text to learn by doing. This book is primarily intended for particle physics students, graduates, and researchers working in the field of QCD. However, it requires no specific prerequisites in QCD, so it may also be of interest to students of mathematics, as an illustration of the use of the birdtrack pictorial technique in representation theory. Particles (Nuclear physics). 68036 Elementary particles (Physics). 68885 Quantum field theory. 68886 Mathematical physics. Particle Physics. 68039 Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory. 68887 Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics. 65563 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031536809 Printed edition: 9783031536823 SpringerBriefs in Physics, 2191-5431 67187 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53681-6 ZDB-2-PHA ZDB-2-SXP 59812 59812