This book provide s an elementary introduction to the method of QCD Spectral Sum Rules (QSSR) for non-specialists and experimental physicists, as well as a specialized review of QSSR developments over the last ten years.
Preface -- ch. 1. Chiral symmetry: spectral sum rules: MS_scheme and perturbative QCD -- ch. 2. A mini-review of some non-perturbative aspects of QCD -- ch. 3. SVZ expansion: theoretical foundations -- ch. 4. Methods for the evaluation of the Wilson coefficients of the condensates -- ch. 5. p Meson spectral sum rules and the detemination of the vacuum condensates -- ch. 6. Weinberg and axial-vector sum rules in QCD -- ch. 7. SU(2) chiral and flavour symmetry breakings: (pseudo) scalar and mixing sum rules -- ch. 8. The "strange" strange quark: SU(3) breakings from the light-meson systems -- ch. 9. Heavy quark systems -- ch. 10. Heavy-light quark systems -- ch. 11. Baryon systems -- ch. 12. Gluonia sum rules and low-energy theorems -- ch. 13. Exotics: hybrids or hermaphrodite mesons and four quark states -- ch. 14. Vertex sum rules, form factors and wave functions -- ch. 15. Weak decays: CP violation -- ch. 16. Determination of A to four loops and QCD formulation of the tau decay -- ch. 17. Further uses of the spectral sum rules in QCD -- ch. 18. QHD spectral sum rules for some composite models of electroweak interactions -- References -- Epilogue -- Appendix.
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