Vacuum Structure and QCD Sum Rules

Content: 
Current Physics - Sources and Comments
Page ii

Front Matter
Page iii

Copyright page
Page iv

Preface
Pages v-vi

Acknowledgements
Page vii

1 - Introduction to QCD Sum Rules: Historical Survey and Physical Picture
Pages 1-15

2 - Foundations of the QCD Sum Rule Method and Sample Applications
Pages 17-23

QCD and Resonance Physics Theoretical Foundations
Pages 24-86
M.A. SHIFMAN, A.I. VAINSHTEIN, V.I. ZAKHAROV

QCD and Resonance Physics. Applications
Pages 87-157
M.A. SHIFMAN, A.I. VAINSHTEIN, V.I. ZAKHAROV

3 - Coefficients in the Operator Product Expansion
Pages 159-160

Wilson\'s Operator Expansion: Can it Fail?
Pages 161-187
V.A. NOVIKOV, M.A. SHIFMAN, A.I. VAINSHTEIN, V.I. ZAKHAROV

A Simple and Complete Lorentz-Covariant Gauge Condition
Pages 188-190
C. CRONSTRöM

Analytical Properties of the Quark Polarization Operator in an External Self-Dual Field
Pages 191-214
M.S. DUBOVIKOV, A.V. SMILGA

The calculation of power corrections in the fixed-point gauge
Pages 215-221
A.V. Smilga

Operator Expansion at Short Distance in QCD
Pages 222-235
W. HUBSCHMID, S. MALLIK

3.1 - Calculations in external fields in quantum chromodynamics. Technical review
Pages 236-239

Chapter II - Method Based on the Fock-Schwinger Gauge
Pages 240-262

3.1.2 - Non-singular terms in the Green functions and the operator product expansion
Pages 263-268

4 - Heavy Quarks in the Sum Rules. Pre-Coulombic Behavior
Pages 269-271

On Dynamics of Heavy Quarks in a Non-Perturbative QCD Vacuum
Pages 272-287
M.B. VOLOSHIN

How to Use Heavy Quarks to Probe the QCD Vacuum
Pages 288-291
H. LEUTWYLER

On the hyperfine splitting of the S-levels of heavy quarkonium
Pages 292-295
M.B. Voloshin

Pre-Coulombic asymptotic behavior of heavy-quarkonium levels
Pages 296-301
M.B. Voloshin

QCD Sum Rules for Heavy Quark Systems
Pages 302-339
L.J. REINDERS, H.R. RUBINSTEIN, S. YAZAKI

Stability of Charmonium Spectrum Calculations from QCD Sum Rules
Pages 340-344
L.J. REINDERS, H.R. RUBINSTEIN, S. YAZAKI

5 - Baryons
Pages 345-348

Calculation of Baryon Masses in Quantum Chromodynamics
Pages 349-373
B.L. IOFFE

Erratum
Pages 374-375

On the Choice of Quark Currents in the QCD Sum Rules for Baryon Masses
Pages 376-377
B.L. Ioffe

Baryons in QCD and Chiral Symmetry Breaking Parameters
Pages 378-383
L.J. REINDERS, H.R. RUBINSTEIN, S. YAZAKI

6 - Form Factors at Intermediate Q2
Pages 385-386

Sum Rules and the Pion Form Factor in QCD
Pages 387-391
V.A. NESTERENKO, A.V. RADYUSHKIN

Meson Widths and Form Factors at Intermediate Momentum Transfer in Non-Perturbative QCD
Pages 392-426
B.L. IOFFE, A.V. SMILGA

7 - Hadrons in External Fields: Static Characteristics (Magnetic Moments, Charge Radii and all That)
Pages 427-430

Nucleon Magnetic Moments and Magnetic Properties of the Vacuum in QCD
Pages 431-464
B.L. IOFFE, A.V. SMILGA

Quantum-chromodynamics calculation of gA
Pages 465-468
V.M. Belyaev, Ya.I. Kogan

Analysis of the behavior of the pion form factor at small Q2 by the method of QCD sum rules
Pages 469-472
V.A. Nesterenko, A.V. Radyushkin

8 - Multicolor Chromodynamics and the Sum Rules
Pages 473-486

9 - Survey of New Trends
Pages 487-489

QCD Sum Rules: New Frontiers
Pages 490-499
Andrei V. Smilga

Hadron Wave Functions and Hard Exclusive Processes in QCD
Pages 500-516
Viktor L. Chernyak