Communications in Theoretical Physics ›› 2012, Vol. 58 ›› Issue (01): 79-134.

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Collective Perspective on Advances in Dyson-Schwinger Equation QCD

Adnan Bashir1,2,3, CHANG Lei2, Ian C. Cloet4, Bruno El-Bennich5,6, LIU Yu-Xin7,8, Craig D. Roberts2,7,9,10, Peter C. Tandy3   

  1. 1. Instituto de Física y Matemáticas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Edificio C-3, Ciudad Universitaria, Morelia, Michoacán 58040, México;
    2. Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA;
    3. Center for Nuclear Research, Department of Physics, Kent State University, Kent OH 44242, USA;
    4. CSSM and CoEPP, School of Chemistry and Physics University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005, Australia;
    5. Laboratorio de Física Teórica e Computacao Científica, Universidade Cruzeiro do Sul, 01506-000 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil;
    6. Instituto de Física Teórica, Universidade Estadual Paulista, 01140-070 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil;
    7. Department of Physics, Center for High Energy Physics and State Key Laboratory of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;
    8. Center of Theoretical Nuclear Physics, National Laboratory of Heavy Ion Accelerator, Lanzhou 730000, China;
    9. Institut für Kernphysik, Forschungszentrum Jülich, D-52425 Jülich, Germany;
    10. Department of Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois 60616-3793, USA
  • Received: 2012-01-17 Published: 2012-07-15
  • Contact: LIU Yu-Xin, Craig D. Roberts

Abstract: We survey contemporary studies of hadrons and strongly interacting quarks using QCD's Dyson-Schwinger equations, addressing the following aspects: confinement and dynamical chiral symmetry breaking; the hadron spectrum; hadron elastic and transition form factors, from small- to large-Q2; parton distribution functions; the physics of hadrons containing one or more heavy quarks; and properties of the quark gluon plasma.

Key words: confinement, dynamical chiral symmetry breaking, Dyson-Schwinger equations, hadron spectrum, hadron elastic and transition form factors, heavy mesons, in-hadron condensates, parton distribution functions, quark gluon plasma, UA(1)-problem