QCD thermalization: Ab initio approaches and interdisciplinary connections

J Berges, MP Heller, A Mazeliauskas… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
Heavy-ion collisions at BNL's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and CERN's Large Hadron
Collider provide strong evidence for the formation of a quark-gluon plasma, with …

Neutrino electromagnetic interactions: a window to new physics

C Giunti, A Studenikin - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2015 - APS
A review is given of the theory and phenomenology of neutrino electromagnetic interactions,
which provide powerful tools to probe the physics beyond the standard model. After a …

Strong-field physics in QED and QCD: From fundamentals to applications

K Hattori, K Itakura, S Ozaki - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
We provide a pedagogical review article on fundamentals and applications of the quantum
dynamics in strong electromagnetic fields in QED and QCD. The fundamentals include the …

Quantum field theory in a magnetic field: From quantum chromodynamics to graphene and Dirac semimetals

VA Miransky, IA Shovkovy - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
A range of quantum field theoretical phenomena driven by external magnetic fields and their
applications in relativistic systems and quasirelativistic condensed matter ones, such as …

Dynamical mass generation in continuum quantum chromodynamics

JM Cornwall - Physical Review D, 1982 - APS
We study the formation of a mass gap, or effective gluon mass (and consequent
dimensionful parameters such as the string tension, glueball mass,< Tr G μ ν 2>, correlation …

QCD and strongly coupled gauge theories: challenges and perspectives

N Brambilla, S Eidelman, P Foka, S Gardner… - The European Physical …, 2014 - Springer
We highlight the progress, current status, and open challenges of QCD-driven physics, in
theory and in experiment. We discuss how the strong interaction is intimately connected to a …

Dimensional reduction and catalysis of dynamical symmetry breaking by a magnetic field

VP Gusynin, VA Miransky, IA Shovkovy - Nuclear Physics B, 1996 - Elsevier
It is shown that a constant magnetic field in 3+ 1 and 2+ 1 dimensions is a strong catalyst of
dynamical chiral symmetry breaking, leading to the generation of a fermion dynamical mass …

Open strings in background gauge fields

A Abouelsaood, CG Callan, CR Nappi, SA Yost - Nuclear Physics B, 1987 - Elsevier
The study of strings propagating in background fields has yielded interesting results in the case of
closed strings, where the c Page 1 Nuclear Physics B280 [FS 18] (1987) 599-624 North-Holland …

Phase diagram of QCD in a magnetic field

JO Andersen, WR Naylor, A Tranberg - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2016 - APS
Recent advances in our understanding of the phase structure and the phase transitions of
hadronic matter in strong magnetic fields B and zero quark chemical potentials μ f are …

Natural inflation on a steep potential with classical non-Abelian gauge fields

P Adshead, M Wyman - Physical review letters, 2012 - APS
We propose a model for inflation consisting of an axionic scalar field coupled to a set of
three non-Abelian gauge fields. Our model's novel requirement is that the gauge fields begin …