Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the strong interaction in quarks and gluons. Describing the nucleus at the level of quarks and gluons is useful because nuclei are unique laboratories for studying the theory of this strong interaction. Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is complicated but techniques are being developed to solve it. The chapter discusses the computation of the potential between a static quark and an anti-quark. Using the path-integral Monte Carlo method, the exact vacuum energy can be obtained efficiently. The 3-quark potential to describe a baryon can be calculated in the Born-Oppenheimer approximation. String rearrangement in a 6-quark situation that leads to fundamental understanding of the short-range nucleon–nucleon interaction can also be studied.
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