Introduction to the Confinement Problem

This book addresses the confinement problem, which quite generally deals with the behavior of non-abeliangauge theories, and the force which is mediated by gauge fields, at large distances.The word “confinement” in the context of hadronic physics originallyreferred to the fact that quarks and gluons appear to be trapped inside mesons andbaryons, from which they cannot escape. There are other, and ...