QCD and Nuclear Physics
A.H. Mueller (Physics Department, Columbia U)
TL;DR
This paper reviews how Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is applied in nuclear physics, focusing on proton structure and heavy ion collisions, and discusses effective theories and operator product expansion techniques.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive summary of QCD applications in understanding proton composition and high-energy nuclear collisions, highlighting recent theoretical approaches.
Findings
QCD helps determine proton flavor and spin content.
QCD models are used to analyze ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions.
Effective theories and operator product expansion are key tools in these analyses.
Abstract
The main part of this talk is a review and summary of how QCD is used in two main areas of nuclear physics, namely in determining the quark flavor and spin content of the proton and in ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions. Brief comments are made concerning effective theories in hadron physics and on the separation of various twists in using the operator product expansion to analyze hard processes.
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