Proceedings of the Conference on Perspectives in Hadronic Physics: Ictp, Trieste, Italy 
Subtitle: 12-16 May 1997
Contributors: Sigfrido Boffi (Editor); Claudio Ciofi Degli Atti (Editor); Mauro Giannini (Editor)
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: March 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 562
ISBN-13: 9789810233211
Subjects: Particle & high-energy physics; Science/Mathematics; Particle Physics; Science; Solid State Physics; Nuclear Physics; Physics
First sentence: While the simplicity and elegance of QCD is very appealing theoretically, the phenomenological observations of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking and even more so of the confinement of colour charges turned it into a major calculational nightmare: it took almost twenty years after the discovery of asymptotic freedom to convincingly demonstrate that the QCD Lagrangian indeed implies these highly non-trivial collective phenomena.