edited by H Suganuma (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) , N Ishii (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) , M Oka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) , H Enyo (RIKEN/RBRC, Japan) , T Hatsuda (Tokyo University, Japan) , T Kunihiro (Kyoto University, Japan) , & K Yazaki (TWCU/RIKEN, Japan)

This book makes a global survey of nonperturbative aspects of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) from the viewpoints of mathematical, elementary-particle and hadron physics, including recent lattice-QCD results. It presents current, important progress in the following areas: the quark confinement mechanism, dynamical chiral-symmetry breaking, topologies in QCD (instantons, monopoles, vortices), SUSY QCD, nonperturbative methods (1/N_c, ladder QCD, AdS/CFT), QCD phase transition at finite temperature and density, quark–gluon plasma, and so on. For recent topics, the book also includes the experimental discovery of the penta-quark particle, the newest information on the QGP creation experiments, and theoretical progress on the baryonic three-quark potential and the high-density QCD.

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• Supersymmetric QCD
• Confinement Mechanism in QCD
• Nonperturbative Aspects in QCD
• Lattice QCD for Quark-Hadron Physics
• Hot and Dense QCD
• Recent Experiments on QCD (Quark Gluon Plasma & Penta-Quark System)