Confinement, Duality, and Nonperturbative Aspects of QCD

Before you lies the proceedings oft he NATO Advanced Study Institute/Newton Institute Workshop Confinement, duality and non perturbative aspects of QCD . The school covered the most important techniques to study Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) andconfinement, fromlattice gauge theory, through Wilson s renormalisation group, to electromagnetic duality. The organisingcommittee existed of: Ian Drummond (DAMTP, Cambridge), Mikhail Shifman (Minneapolis), Peter West (King s, London), and Pierrevan Baal (Leiden), who acted as director oft he school. This summer school was the concluding activity ofa six month programme on Non perturbative Aspects of Qua ntum Field Theory taking place at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Ca mbridge, UK,whic h started in January 1997, organised by David Olive, Pierre van Baal, and Peter West. A large number ofthe lecturers also participated in the programme and a few programme participants were asked to present a seminar at the school. Not contained in these proceedings are the seminars by Peter Landshoff (DAMTP, Cambridge) on The Pomeron and Ludwig Faddeev (Steklov Math. Inst. , St. Petersburg) on Knot like solitons in 3+1 dimen sional field theory . In additiont o the lectures and seminars there were two poster sessions at which participants presented their work. Authors and titles ofthese posters are listed on a separate page. These pro ceedings address the longstanding question of understanding how quarks are confined w ithin subnuclear particles.

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Proceedings of a NATO ASI and Isaac Newton Institute Workshop held in Cambridge, UK, June 23-July 4, 1997

Inhalt
Hadronic Physics from the Lattice.- Monte Carlo Results for the Hadron Spectrum.- Physics from the Lattice: Glueballs in QCD; Topology; SU(N) for All N.- QCD on Coarse Lattices.- Finite Size Techniques and the Strong Coupling Constant.- Continuum and Lattice Coulomb-Gauge Hamiltonian.- Gribov Ambiguities and the Fundamental Domain.- Perfect Actions.- Nonperturbative Flow Equations, Low-Energy QCD, and the Chiral Phase Transition.- Light-Front QCD: A Constituent Picture of Hadrons.- Instantons in QCD and Related Theories.- Universal Behavior in Dirac Spectra.- Duality and Oblique Confinement.- Abelian Projections and Monopoles.- The Dual Superconductor Picture for Confinement.- Dual Lattice Blockspin Transformation and Perfect Monopole Action for Su(2) Gauge Theory.- to Rigid Supersymmetric Theories.- Non-Perturbative Gauge Dynamics in Supersymmetric Theories. A Primer.- Phases of Supersymmetric Gauge Theories.