Continuous advances in QCD 2008 proceedings of the conference, William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, USA, 15-18 May 2008 (World Scientific, 2008)
"The Eighth Workshop 'Continuous Advances in QCD 2008', was held at William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute."--Page v
Includes bibliographical references
1. High-order calculations in QCD and in general gauge theories. NLO evolution of color dipoles / I. Balitsky. Recent perturbative results on heavy quark decays / J.H. Piclum, M. Dowling, A. Pak. Leading and non-leading singularities in gauge theory hard scattering / G. Sterman. The space-cone gauge, Lorentz invariance and on-shell recursion for one-loop Yang-Mills amplitudes / D. Vaman, Y.-P. Yao -- 2. Heavy flavor physics. Exotic cc̄ mesons / E. Braaten. Search for new physics in B[symbol]-mixing / A.J. Lenz. Implications of D[symbol]-D[symbol] mixing for new physics / A.A. Petrov. Precise determinations of the charm quark mass / M. Steinhauser --
- 3. Quark-gluon dynamics at high density and/or high temperature. Crystalline condensate in the chiral Gross-Neveu model / G.V. Dunne, G. Basar. The strong coupling constant at low and high energies / J.H. Kühn. Quarkyonic matter and the phase diagram of QCD / L. McLerran. Statistical QCD with non-positive measure / J.C. Osborn, K. Splittorff, J.J.M. Verbaarschot. From equilibrium to transport properties of strongly correlated fermi liquids / T. Schäfer. Lessons from random matrix theory for QCD at finite density / K. Splittorff, J.J.M. Verbaarschot --
- 4. Methods and models of holographic correspondence. Soft-wall dynamics in AdS/QCD / B. Batell. Holographic QCD / N. Evans, E. Threlfall. QCD glueball sum rules and vacuum topology / H. Forkel. The pion form factor in AdS/QCD / H.J. Kwee, R.F. Lebed. The fast life of holographic mesons / R.C. Myers, A. Sinha. Properties of Baryons from D-branes and instantons / S. Sugimoto. The master space of N = 1 quiver gauge theories : counting BPS operators / A. Zaffaroni. Topological field congurations. Skyrmions in theories with massless adjoint quarks / R. Auzzi. Domain walls, localization and confinement : what binds strings inside walls / S. Bolognesi. Static interactions of non-abelian vortices / M. Eto. Vortices which do not abelianize dynamically : semi-classical origin of non-abelian monopoles / K. Konishi. A generalized construction for lumps and non-abelian vortices / W. Vinci --