Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum
A special issue of Universe (ISSN 2218-1997). This special issue belongs to the section "High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 183
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2. Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS), D-02826 Görlitz, Germany
3. Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), D-1328 Dresden, Germany
Interests: quantum field theory; quantum statistics; quark gluon plasma; heavy ion collisions; compact stars
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Interests: dark matter; neutron stars; quark matter, QCD; nuclear physics
2. Physics and Biophysics Department, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, ul. Norwida 25, 50-375 Wrocław, Poland
Interests: biophysics; econophysics; entropy; time-series analysis; cross-correlations; ion-channel time-series analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Every even years since 1994, when the conference series on “Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum” was inaugurated in Como, Italy, a new meeting has brought together scientists working on strong interactions using different approaches, ranging from lattice QCD to perturbative QCD, from models of the QCD vacuum to QCD phenomenology and experiments, from effective theories to physics beyond the Standard Model.
The scope of the present edition of the conference held in Wroclaw, Poland, also includes the interface between QCD, nuclear physics and astrophysics, as well as the wider landscape of strongly coupled physics. In particular, it stimulates cross-fertilizing exchanges among theorists and experimentalists working on QCD, the physics of condensed matter and strongly correlated systems, as well as related fields, to their mutual benefits.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to collect new original contributions as well as reviews on various topics of quark confinement and the hadron spectrum. We welcome contributions exploring all aspects of this broad scientific field, from theories and simulations to experiments and astrophysical observations. Submit your paper and select the Journal “Universe” and the Special Issue “Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum” via the MDPI submission system. Papers will be published on a rolling basis, and we will be pleased to receive your contributions when they are ready to be submitted.
Prof. Dr. David Blaschke
Dr. Oleksii Ivanytskyi
Dr. Janusz Miśkiewicz
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- vacuum structure and confinement
- topology and confinement at the interface of particle physics and condensed matter
- light quarks
- heavy quarks
- deconfinement
- QCD and new physics
- nuclear and astro-particle physics
- strongly coupled theories and dark matter
- statistical analysis, machine learning and quantum computing for particle physics
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