Confinement8

Vacuum configurations (vortices, monopoles, calorons, …) and other lower-dimensional structures in the QCD vacuum; QCD vacuum wave functionals; eigenmode spectrum of covariant (Dirac, Laplacian) operators, connection to confinement and topology; ghost/gluon propagators and confinement criteria; new analytic approaches to confinement; numerical studies of the QCD string; renormalons and power corrections.

Chiral and soft collinear effective theories; sum rules; lattice; Schwinger-Dyson equations; masses of light quarks; light-quark loops; phenomenology of light-hadron form factors, spectra and decays; structure functions and generalized parton distributions; exotics and glueballs; experiments.

Heavy-light mesons, heavy quarkonia, heavy baryons, heavy exotics and related topics: experiments and theory; phenomenology of spectra, decays, and production; effective theories for heavy quarks (HQET, NRQCD, pNRQCD, vNRQCD, SCET); sum rules for heavy hadrons; lattice calculations for heavy hadrons; theory of heavy-quark masses.

QCD at finite temperature; quark-gluon plasma; lattice QCD and phases of quark matter; QCD vacuum and strong fields.

Hints on the confinement mechanism from supersymmetric and string theories; precision calculations in QCD with respect to experiments and possible new physics; applications of nonperturbative methods in QCD and other fields.

Nuclear matter; nuclear forces; quark matter; neutron and compact stars.