02900nam a22004815i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001600172072001600188072002300204072001500227100009000242245013000332250001800462264006900480300004400549336002600593337002600619338003600645347002400681490004200705520110900747650004001856650004301896650003301939650002601972650002901998650005502027650006402082710003402146773002602180776003602206776003602242830004902278856004602327912001402373912001402387999001702401978-3-031-53681-6DE-He21320251030112039.0cr nn 008mamaa240513s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315368169978-3-031-53681-67 a10.1007/978-3-031-53681-62doi 4aQC793-793.5 7aPHP2bicssc 7aSCI0510002bisacsh 7aPHP2thema1 aPeigné, Stéphane.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut97673910aColor in QCDh[electronic resource] :bAn Introduction Featuring the Birdtrack Pictorial Technique /cby Stéphane Peigné.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Springer,c2024.  aVIII, 89 p. 12 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aSpringerBriefs in Physics,x2191-5431  aThis 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. 0aParticles (Nuclear physics).968036 0aElementary particles (Physics).968885 0aQuantum field theory.968886 0aMathematical physics.14aParticle Physics.96803924aElementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.96888724aTheoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.9655632 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303153680908iPrinted edition:z9783031536823 0aSpringerBriefs in Physics,x2191-543196718740uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53681-6  aZDB-2-PHA  aZDB-2-SXP  c59812d59812