Tian Yu Cao

From Current Algebra to Quantum Chromodynamics

A Case for Structural Realism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines complex physical, philosophical and historiographical issues relating to quantum chromodynamics for graduate students and researchers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 773g
• ISBN-13: 9780521889339
• ISBN-10: 0521889332
• Artikelnr.: 30620963

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The rise of current algebra (CA)
3. Sum rules
4. Saturation and closure
5. Scaling
6. Theorizations of scaling
7. The advent of quantum chromodynamics (QCD)
8. Early justifications and explorations
9. Structural realism and the construction of QCD
10. Historiographical issues in the CA-QCD narrative.