QCD
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1. QCD - Noun
2. QCD - Proper noun
Meaning
a theory of strong interactions between elementary particles (including the interaction that binds protons and neutrons in the nucleus); it assumes that strongly interacting particles (hadrons) are made of quarks and that gluons bind the quarks together
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A definitive observation of a glueball with the properties predicted by QCD would strongly confirm the theory.
All quarks and gluons in QCD interact with each other through the strong force.
Definition Quantum electrodynamics (QED) has one electron field and one photon field; quantum chromodynamics (QCD) has one field for each type of quark ; and, in condensed matter, there is an atomic displacement field that gives rise to phonon particles.
A large body of experimental evidence for QCD has been gathered over the years.
Behaviour of the strong force The strong force is described by quantum chromodynamics (QCD), a part of the standard model of particle physics.
Flavor SU(3) is an approximate symmetry of the vacuum of QCD, and is not a fundamental symmetry at all.