Introduction to the Confinement Problem

Jeff Greensite received his Ph.D. in 1980 from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and held post-doctoral positions at UC Berkeley, the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, before joining the faculty at San Francisco State University in 1984. His research specialty is in theoretical high energy physics. Dr. Greensite has published over two hundred research papers, mostly in the general area of quantum chromodynamics and lattice gauge theory, along with one textbook (An Introduction to Quantum Theory, IOP Publishing).

• Introduction.- Global Symmetry, Local Symmetry, and the Lattice.- What is Confinement?.- Order Parameters for Confinement.- Properties of the Confining Force.- Confinement From Center Vortices I.- Confinement from Center Vortices II.- Confinement from Center Vortices III.- Monopoles, Calorons, and Dual Superconductivity.- Coulomb Confinement.- Ghosts, Gluons, and Dyson-Schwinger Equations.- Large-N, Planar Diagrams, and the Gluon-Chain Model.- The Vacuum Wavefunctional.- Anti-de Sitter Space and Confinement.- Symmetry, Confinement, and the Higgs Phase.- Concluding Remarks.