QCD Effective Locality: A Theoretical and Phenomenological Review

Abstract

About ten years ago, the use of standard functional manipulations was demonstrated to imply an unexpected property satisfied by the fermionic Green’s functions of QCD and dubbed Effective Locality. This feature of QCD is non-perturbative, as it results from a full gauge invariant integration of the gluonic degrees of freedom. In this review article, a few salient theoretical aspects and phenomenological applications of this property are summarized.

Keywords

• non-perturbative QCD
• functional methods
• random matrices
• phenomenology of QCD