Code
3F007507
Duration
01 October 2007 → 30 September 2011
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Natural sciences
- Applied mathematics in specific fields
- Astronomy and space sciences
- Classical physics
- Elementary particle and high energy physics
- Materials physics
- Mathematical physics
- Quantum physics
Keywords
elementary particle physics
quantum field theory
gauge theories
Project description
Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is a Young-Mills gauge theory that describes the strong color interaction. At high energies, the coupling constant is small due to the asymptotic freedom, hence perturbation theory applies. At lower energies, non-perturbative effects can enter the game, e.g. condensates (nonvanishing vacuum expectation values). The proposed research plans to investigates such non-perturbative effects in an analytical way.