QCD and Chiral Symmetry
T. Hatsuda

    Lecture I :

  1. What is QCD ?
    • quarks and gluons
    • QCD phase structure
  2. perturbative QCD
    • running coupling
    • running masses
  3. symmetries and its dynamical breaking in QCD
    • gauge symmetry
    • chiral symmetry
    • dilatational symmetry
  4. non-perturbative approaches to QCD
    • models (bag model, NJL model)
    • chiral perturbation theory
    • QCD sum rules
    • Lattice QCD

    Lecture II :

  5. more on chiral symmery in QCD
    • Nambu-Goldstone theorem
    • current algebra and low energy theorems
    • explicit symmetry breaking
  6. basic concenpts of effective field theory
    • some examples (Fermi, Euler-Heizenberg)
    • effective field theory in QCD
  7. some applications
    • pion dynamics
    • nuclear force
    • pions in nuclei
    • hot/dense QCD

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