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It is widely believed that Quantum Chromodynamics is the correct underlying theory of the strong interaction. Such belief exists despite our rather limited ability to investigate the long wavelength limit, where the poorly understood effects of confinement set in. In fact, the very structure of the QCD vacuum remains a mystery, and it is hoped that a better understanding of this vacuum will shed considerable light on the nature of the confinement mechanism.
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Dedicated to the memory of Yossef Dothan, my teacher and friend.
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Schramm, A.J. (1991). The (First) Three B’s of the Skyrme Model. In: Fried, H.M., Müller, B. (eds) Vacuum Structure in Intense Fields. NATO ASI Series, vol 255. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-0441-9_28
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