Collective Perspective on Advances in Dyson-Schwinger Equation QCD

Abstract

We survey contemporary studies of hadrons and strongly interacting quarks using QCD's Dyson-Schwinger equations,addressing the following aspects: confinement and dynamical chiral symmetry breaking; the hadron spectrum; hadron elastic and transition form factors, from small-to large-Q(2); parton distribution functions; the physics of hadrons containing one or more heavy quarks; and properties of the quark gluon plasma.