Interactions and fields
Particle Physics
QCD Summary QCD: Quantum Chromodynamics is the quantum description of the strong force.
Gluons are the propagator of the strong force
Quarks and gluons carry colour charge. Gluons selfinteract:
Electromagnetic coupling constant Îą decreases as a charged particles get further apart. Strong coupling constant increases as further apart quarks become.
Hadrons can be described as consisting of partons: quarks and gluons, which interact independently
Only quarks feel the strong force.
Colour Confinement Quarks and gluons produced Energy required to separate in collisions hadronise: quarks quarks are confined hadrons are produced. to hadrons The decay products of the hadrons appear in the detector as jets. Table 2
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