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Quantum Chromodynamics

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In this chapter we present some selected topics in the quantum field theory of the strong interaction, Quantum Chromodynamics. After an introduction on the gauge symmetry in Sect. 1, we briefly present the Renormalisation Group Equation in Sect. 2. Afterwards we turn to asymptotic freedom in Sect. 3 and confinement in Sect. 4. Then, after briefly reviewing the QCD colour factors in Sect. 5, we describe the symmetries of the theory in Sect. 6: isospin, chiral and scale symmetries, and the vacuum structure is reviewed with an introduction about instantons. In Sect. 7 the phase diagram is presented. Finally, in Sect. 8 some phenomenological applications of perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics are reviewed: \(e^+e^-\) annihilation, deep inelastic scattering, factorisation, radiation and jets.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Tolga Altinoluk for help in producing Feynman diagrams. This work is supported by the European Research Council grant HotLHC ERC-2011-StG-279579; by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación of Spain under projects FPA2009-11951 and FPA2011-22776; by Xunta de Galicia (Consellería de Educación and Consellería de Innovación e Industria—Programa Incite); by the Spanish Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Programme CPAN and by FEDER.

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Armesto, N., Pajares, C. (2015). Quantum Chromodynamics. In: Merino, C. (eds) Lectures on Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 161. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12238-0_2

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