Ripka G. (Ed.) Dual Superconductor Models of Color Confinement

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2004. — 140 p. — (Lecture Notes in Physics 639). — ISBN: 978-3-540-40989-2 (eBook), 978-3-662-14433-6 (Softcover), 978-3-540-20718-4 (Hardcover).Physicists who wish to understand the modeling of confinement of quantum chromodynamics, as exhibited by dual superconductors, will find this book an excellent introduction. The author focuses on the models themselves, especially the Landau--Ginzburg model of a dual superconductor, also called the Dual Abelian Higgs model. The book addresses graduate students and researchers, and is noteworthy forthe remarkable clarityof itsexposition.The Symmetry of Electromagnetism with Respect to Electric and Magnetic Charges
The Landau-Ginzburg Model of a Dual Superconductor
Abelian Gauge Fixing
The Confinement of SU(3) Color Charges
Appendix A: Vectors, Tensors, and Their Duality Transformations
Appendix B: The Relation between Minkowski and Euclidean Actions
Appendix C: The Generators of the SU(2) and SU(3) Groups
Appendix D. Color Charges of Quarks and Gluons