Snapshots of Hadrons, or the Story of How the Vacuum Medium Determines the Properties of the Classical Mesons Which Are Produced, Live and Die in the QCD Vacuum
Abstract
1. QCD Sum Rules: 20 Years After; 2. QCD Vacuum and Basics of the SVZ Method: 2.1 General ideas; 2.2. Getting started/Playing with toy models; 3. Vacuum Condensates; 4. Rho Meson in QCD; 5. Basic Theoretical Instrument -- Wilson's OPE; 6. Practical Version of OPE; 7. Low Energy Theorems; 8. Are All Hadrons Alike? 9. Ecological Niche; 10. New Developments: 10.1 Light-cone sum rules; 10.2 Heavy flavor sum rules; 11. Sum Rules and Lattices; 12. Vacuum Fluctuations are Subtle Creatures; 13. Instead of Conclusions.
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