Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum

Abstract

These lectures contain an introduction to the following topics: 1) Phenomenology of the hadron spectrum; 2) The static Wilson loop in perturbative and in lattice QCD. Confinement and the flux tube formation; 3) Non static properties: effective field theories and relativistic corrections to the quarkonium potential; 4) The QCD vacuum: minimal area law, Abelian projection and dual Meissner effect, stochastic vacuum.

Comments: 70 pages, 20 figures, uses sprocl.sty. Lectures given at HUGS at CEBAF, 13th Annual Hampton University Graduate Studies at the Continuous Electron Beam Facility, May 26-June 12, 1998