Quantum Chromodynamics John Christie & Jude Rowe Santa Rosa Junior College Physics 43 Spring 2009
What we will be discussing A Brief History of QCD What is QCD? Implications
History of QCD Early 1950’s: Discovery of Hadrons inside “Elementary Particles” Attempts to sort particles using QED, strangeness, led to Eightfold Way 1963: Theory of smaller particles inside Hadrons called partons, or Quarks.
Creation of QCD Δ++ particle and Ω- had three quarks with parallel spin, violating the Pauli exclusion principle Proposal by Han, Nambu, and Greenburg that these quarks had an additional degree of freedom, “color charge”. Experiments later verified existence of gluons, exchange particles that carry said “color charge”
What is QCD? QCD was created based on QED’s inability to explain all quark interactions Eightfold Way of MesonsColor Chart
Numerical Analysis To calculate QCD we use equations similar to Boltzman equations …faster computers are required in order to mathematically model and compute these interactions
Implications of QCD Defines a new quantum number through Asymptotic freedom Grand Unified Theory Increased demand on technology for research and verification of QCD
Proving QCD? Confinement prevents direct observation of free Quarks and Gluons Some verification of QCD using CERN (a few percent) Lattice QCD computations theoretically predict but not analytically prove QCD theory Phases of Quark Matter
Chemical Potential Temperature
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