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FIZIKA B 7 (1998) 3, 171-202
 
THE GLOBAL COLOUR MODEL OF QCD FOR HADRONIC PROCESSES - A REVIEW
REGINALD T. CAHILL and SUSAN M. GUNNER
e-mail: Reg.Cahill@flinders.edu.au
, Susan.Gunner@flinders.edu.au
Department of Physics, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide
5001, Australia
Received 23 July 1998
Accepted 7 September 1998
The global colour model (GCM) of QCD is a quark-gluon quantum field theory that very
successfully models QCD for low energy hadronic processes. An effective gluon correlator
models the interaction between quark currents. Functional integral calculus allows the GCM
to be hadronised. The dominant configuration of the hadronic functional integrals is
revealed to be the constituent quark effect, and is identical to the truncated quark
Dyson-Schwinger equations (tDSE). However the GCM shows that hadronic physics requires
processes that go beyond the tDSE. In this review examples of meson and nucleon processes
are given. The GCM also plays a pivotal role in showing how QCD may be related to many
other hadronic models.
PACS numbers: 12.38.Lg, 13.75.Cs, 12.38.Aw
UDC 539.125, 539.126
Keywords: quantum chromodynamics, global colour model, constituent
quarks, hadronisation.
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