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Anisotropic chromodynamics and the QCD ground state

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Anisotropic chromodynamics (ACD), a color gauge theory on a postulated anisotropic space-time proposed long ago, is seen to emerge as the effective theory of quarks and gluons on what most likely is the QCD ground state, the chromo magnetic liquid (CML). A description of both the kinematics and dynamics of ACD is presented, and a possible strategy for a systematic calculation of hadronic physics is outlined.

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  2. INFN, Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italia

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Preparata, G. Anisotropic chromodynamics and the QCD ground state. Nuov Cim A 103, 1073–1083 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02782741

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