Ian Cloet

Hadron phenomenology and QCD's Dyson-Schwinger Equations
Monday July 30 to Thursday August 2

An understanding of how the coloured quarks and gluons of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) bind together to form the observed colour singlet hadrons remains one of the most important questions in all of nuclear physics. Key features of QCD which give rise to the observed hadron spectrum are dynamical chiral symmetry breaking and confinement, where the role of these mechanisms must be elucidated using experiment and the full machinery of nonperturbative quantum field theory.
These lectures will explore the interplay between experiment and theory using the Dyson-Schwinger equation approach and provide a perspective on progress toward answering these key questions concerning QCD's nonperturbative structure.