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    In theoretical physics, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the study of the strong interaction between quarks mediated by gluons. Quarks are fundamental particles...
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  • Quantum chromodynamics binding energy (QCD binding energy), gluon binding energy or chromodynamic binding energy is the energy binding quarks together...
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    is a well-established non-perturbative approach to solving the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) theory of quarks and gluons. It is a lattice gauge theory...
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  • of the strong nuclear force, before being abandoned in favor of quantum chromodynamics. Subsequently, it was realized that the very properties that made...
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  • quantum chromodynamics (also perturbative QCD) is a subfield of particle physics in which the theory of strong interactions, Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD)...
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    Standard Model predicted. The theory of the strong interaction (i.e. quantum chromodynamics, QCD), to which many contributed, acquired its modern form in 1973–74...
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    Quantum chromodynamics (or QCD) is the portion of the Standard Model that deals with strong interactions, and QCD vacuum is the vacuum of quantum chromodynamics...
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    C. Sutton. "Quantum Chromodynamics (physics)". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Retrieved 12 May 2009. A. Watson (2004). The Quantum Quark. Cambridge...
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  • AdS/CFT correspondence (category Quantum gravity)
    with quantum chromodynamics, the fundamental theory of the strong force. It describes particles similar to the gluons of quantum chromodynamics together...
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    interactions between them. The strong interactions are described by quantum chromodynamics (QCD), based on "color" SU(3). The weak interactions require the...
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  • special unitary group). This is an example of flavour symmetry. In quantum chromodynamics, flavour is a conserved global symmetry. In the electroweak theory...
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    Quantum chromodynamics Quark model Weak interactions Electroweak interaction Fermi's interaction Weinberg angle Symmetry in quantum mechanics Quantum...
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    Strong interaction (category Quantum chromodynamics)
    bound the quarks together into protons and neutrons. The theory of quantum chromodynamics explains that quarks carry what is called a color charge, although...
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    electromagnetic force and weak forces (i.e. U(1) × SU(2)) as well as quantum chromodynamics, the theory of the strong force (based on SU(3)). Thus it forms...
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    situation where it is no longer valid. The one-loop beta function in quantum chromodynamics with n f {\displaystyle n_{f}} flavours and n s {\displaystyle n_{s}}...
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  • particle physics, which brings up the following quandary: why does quantum chromodynamics (QCD) seem to preserve CP-symmetry? In particle physics, CP stands...
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    theory in curved spacetime Quantum chromodynamics Quantum flavordynamics Quantum hadrodynamics Quantum hydrodynamics Quantum triviality Relation between...
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    contributed to the field of elementary particle physics, in particular to quantum chromodynamics and string theory. Together with Guido Altarelli, he introduced...
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    related to the particles' strong interactions in the theory of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Like electric charge, it determines how quarks and gluons...
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    most massive nuclei, at v = 264.3 Da. The chiral condensate in quantum chromodynamics, about a factor of a thousand smaller than the above, gives a large...
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  • gluon, traversing minuscule distance among quarks, is modeled in quantum chromodynamics (QCD). EWT, QCD, and the Higgs mechanism comprise particle physics'...
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  • channel Quantum chromodynamics Quantum cognition Quantum coherence Quantum computer Quantum cryptography Quantum dot Quantum electronics Quantum entanglement...
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    interactions between quarks and gluons as detailed by the theory of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). The strong force is the fundamental force mediated by gluons...
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    include the prevailing theories of elementary particles: quantum electrodynamics, quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and particle physics' Standard Model. Non-perturbative...
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    searching for a strong force gauge theory. This theory, now known as quantum chromodynamics, is a gauge theory with the action of the SU(3) group on the color...
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    Coupling constant (category Quantum field theory)
    Quantum field theory, especially quantum electrodynamics and quantum chromodynamics Gluon field, Gluon field strength tensor Zee, A. (2010). Quantum field...
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    in the strong interaction, the leading theory of which is called quantum chromodynamics or QCD. Much of his research focused on the problem of color confinement...
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  • Quark matter or QCD matter (quantum chromodynamic) refers to any of a number of hypothetical phases of matter whose degrees of freedom include quarks...
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    quarks are confined; in the QGP quarks are deconfined. In classical quantum chromodynamics (QCD), quarks are the fermionic components of hadrons (mesons and...
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    In quantum physics, a quantum fluctuation (also known as a vacuum state fluctuation or vacuum fluctuation) is the temporary random change in the amount...
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