Quantum Chromodynamics

Resources

• General
  • QCD Made Simple. Frank Wilczek. Physics Today. Vol. 53 No. 8 (2000): 22–28.
• theory
  • Isotopic Spin and New Unstable Particles. Murray Gell-Mann. Physics Letters. Vol. 92 No. 3 (1953): 833–834.
  • An SU₃ model for strong interaction symmetry and its breaking I. George Zweig. CERN Report 8182/TH.401 (1964).
  • An SU₃ model for strong interaction symmetry and its breaking II. George Zweig. CERN Report 8418/TH.412. (1964).
  • A schematic model of baryons and mesons. Murray Gell-Mann. Physics Letters. Vol. 8 No. 3 (1964): 214–215. The word quark is introduced in this paper. A free version is available on the author's web presence at the Santa Fe Institute (which he founded). Another freebie can be found at the University of Bern in the Philosophy and History of Science Department.
  • Reliable Perturbative Results for Strong Interactions? H. David Politzer. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 30 No. 26 (1973): 1346–1349.
  • Asymptotically Free Gauge Theories, I. David J. Gross and Frank Wilczek. Physical Review D. Vol. 8 No. 10 (1973): 3633–3652.
  • Asymptotically Free Gauge Theories, II. David J. Gross and Frank Wilczek. Physical Review D. Vol. 9 No. 4 (1974): 980–993.
• internal structure of the proton
  • High-Energy Inelastic e-p Scattering at 6° and 10°. E. D. Bloom, D. H. Coward, H. DeStaebler, J. Drees, G. Miller, L. W. Mo, R. E. Taylor, M. Breidenbach, J. I. Friedman, G. C. Hartmann, and H. W. Kendall. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 23 (1969): 930–934.
  • Observed Behavior of Highly Inelastic Electron-Proton Scattering. M. Breidenbach, J. I. Friedman, H. W. Kendall, E. D. Bloom, D. H. Coward, H. DeStaebler, J. Drees, L. W. Mo, and R. E. Taylor. Physical Review Letters. Vol. 23 (1969): 935–939.
• quarks
  • Discoveries at Fermilab
    • The Top Quark
    • The Bottom Quark
  • The Discovery of the Top Quark. Tony M. Liss & Paul L. Tipton. Scientific American. (1997)
• tetraquark
  • Quark quartet opens fresh vista on matter: First particle containing four quarks is confirmed. Devin Powell. Nature. No. 498 (2013): 280–281.
  • Observation of a Charged Charmoniumlike Structure in e⁺e⁻→π⁺π⁻J/ψ at √s = 4.26 GeV. M. Ablikim et al. (BESIII Collaboration). Physical Review Letters. Vol. 110 No. 25 (2013): 252001.
  • Study of e⁺e⁻→π⁺π⁻J/ψ and Observation of a Charged Charmoniumlike State at Belle. Z.Q. Liu, et al. (Belle Collaboration). Physical Review Letters. Vol. 110 No. 25 (2013): 252002.
• Video on demand
  • Brady Haran
    • Quarks. Sixty Symbols. YouTube (2010). They are fundamental building blocks of the universe — but quarks were nearly called "aces" or "partons".
  • Physics for the 21st century (2010)
    • The Basic Building Blocks of Matter
    • The Fundamental Interactions