Resource Letter: Quantum Chromodynamics

TL;DR

This resource letter offers a comprehensive guide to the literature on Quantum Chromodynamics, covering fundamental concepts, experimental evidence, computational methods, and applications in nuclear physics, serving as an extensive reference for learners and researchers.

Contribution

It compiles and categorizes key literature on QCD, providing a structured overview for both newcomers and experts in the field.

Findings

Summarizes experimental evidence for color in QCD.

Details the role of QCD in the hadron spectrum.

Discusses lattice QCD and quark confinement theories.

Abstract

This Resource Letter provides a guide to the literature on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the relativistic quantum field theory of the strong interactions. Journal articles, books, and other documents are cited for the following topics: quarks and color, the parton model, Yang-Mills theory, experimental evidence for color, QCD as a color gauge theory, asymptotic freedom, QCD for heavy hadrons, QCD on the lattice, the QCD vacuum, pictures of quark confinement, early and modern applications of perturbative QCD, the determination of the strong coupling and quark masses, QCD and the hadron spectrum, hadron decays, the quark-gluon plasma, the strong nuclear interaction, and QCD's role in nuclear physics. The letter {E} after an item indicates elementary level or material of general interest to persons becoming informed in the field. The letter {I}, for intermediate level, indicates material of a somewhat more specialized nature, and the letter {A} indicates rather specialized or advanced material.