An Introduction Featuring the Birdtrack Pictorial Technique Peigné, Stéphane. creator author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut SpringerLink (Online service) text sz 2024 1st ed. 2024. monographic eng

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access VIII, 89 p. 12 illus. online resource. 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. by Stéphane Peigné. Particles (Nuclear physics) Elementary particles (Physics) Quantum field theory Mathematical physics Particle Physics Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics QC793-793.5 9783031536816 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53681-6 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53681-6 240513 20251030112039.0 978-3-031-53681-6