Download or read book Phenomenology of Large Nc QCD written by Richard F Lebed and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002-09-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The generalization of QCD from three to NC colors, developed in 1974 by Nobel laureate Gerard 't Hooft, has proved to be an extraordinarily useful and robust theoretical extension for studying the behavior of strong interaction physics. This book is the proceedings of the first-ever meeting exclusively devoted to large NC QCD. The workshop brought together representatives of many subdisciplines for a “meeting of minds” on topics ranging from finite temperature and density to the lattice, perturbative QCD, instantons, mesons, baryons, and nuclear physics. Beginning with 't Hooft's keynote presentation, the contributions are designed to introduce uses of large NC methods in each specialty to a broader particle physics audience. Contents:Large N (G 't Hooft)Instantons and the Large Nc Limit of QCD (T Schäfer)Glueballs and AdS/CFT (J Terning)Regge Asymptotics in Multi-Colour QCD (G P Korchemsky)QCD Evolution Equations (A V Belitsky)Baryons (A V Manohar)Excited Baryon Production and Decays (C E Carlson)Heavy Baryons: A Combined Large Nc and Heavy Quark Expansion for Electroweak Currents (B A Gelman)Colourless Mesons in a Polychromatic World (A Pich)Large Nc Means Nc = 3 (M D Scadron)and other papers Readership: Graduate students, academics and researchers in high energy and nuclear physics. Keywords: