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50 Years of Quantum Chromodynamics

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This paper presents a comprehensive review of both the theory and experimental successes of Quantum Chromodynamics, starting with its emergence as a well defined theory in 1972-73 and following developments and results up to the present day. Topics include a review of the earliest theoretical and experimental foundations; the fundamental constants of QCD; an introductory discussion of lattice QCD, the only known method for obtaining exact predictions from QCD; methods for approximating QCD, with special focus on effective field theories; QCD under extreme conditions; measurements and predictions of meson and baryon states; a special discussion of the structure of the nucleon; techniques for study of QCD at high energy, including treatment of jets and showers; measurements at colliders; weak decays and quark mixing; and a section on the future, which discusses new experimental facilities or upgrades currently funded. The paper is intended to provide a broad background for Ph.D. students and postdocs starting their career. Some contributions include personal accounts of how the ideas or experiments were developed.

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All-loop four-quark Bethe-Salpeter kernel

hep-ph · 2026-05-06 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

The all-loop bare perturbative part of the four-quark Bethe-Salpeter kernel is computed analytically in the large-Nf limit of massless QCD.

Hints for string breaking in QCD

hep-lat · 2026-07-08 · conditional · novelty 6.0

Direct measurement of chromo-electric flux-tube profiles in lattice QCD with physical quark masses indicates string breaking occurs at a quark-antiquark separation between 0.963 and 1.156 fm.

Mesonic modes in confining model at finite temperature

hep-ph · 2026-04-07 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

A modification to the Laplace transform of the quark propagator is introduced in a nonlocal model to align confining and deconfining regimes, allowing computation of meson screening masses over a wide temperature range and pole masses up to the transition.

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