Current Research in QCD: Areas, Problems & Info

[Bobhawke]

I'm interested to find out a bit more about current work that is going on in QCD.What are the main areas of research? What are the main problems that people are working on? Where could I find some further information about current research in QCD?

Thanks

 

[humanino]

This is a rather vast question. I will just copy/past the list of questions from the section "QCD" in the introduction to the NSAC long range plan from last year :

• What are the phases of strongly interacting matter, and what roles do they play in the cosmos?
• What is the internal landscape of the nucleons?
• What does QCD predict for the properties of strongly interacting matter?
• What governs the transition of quarks and gluons into pions and nucleons?
• What is the role of gluons and gluon self-interactions in nucleons and nuclei?
• What determines the key features of QCD, and what is their relation to the nature of gravity and spacetime?

http://www.sc.doe.gov/np/nsac/nsac.html
See also :
Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (their long range plan dates back from 2004)

 

[Count Iblis]

I think that people were doing "Lattice QCD" in the early 1980s or even earlier. Since then computers have become much more powerful. So, have any of the outstanding problems been solved this way?