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The 80 pages that link to Quantum chromodynamics, each with the reason it gives.

• ProtonNarrower topic: It describes how gluons bind the proton’s quarks.

• GluonNarrower topic: It is the theory in which gluons are the force-carrying fields.

• HadronNarrower topic: This theory accounts for hadron structure and strong-force binding.

• Quark modelNarrower topic: Unlike the classification model, QCD supplies the fundamental dynamics binding quarks into hadrons.

• Color chargeNarrower topic: Color charge is the source of the interaction described by this theory.

• BaryonNarrower topic: It governs the forces binding quarks inside baryons.

• Quark–gluon plasmaNarrower topic: Its changing coupling with energy governs how quarks and gluons become deconfined.

• MesonNarrower topic: It describes the force that binds a meson's constituents.

• Nuclear forceNarrower topic: It is the underlying theory from which the residual force ultimately emerges.

• PionNarrower topic: Pion-mediated nuclear forces emerge from QCD’s interactions among quarks and gluons.

• Asymptotic freedomNarrower topic: Asymptotic freedom is a defining short-distance property of this theory.

• Color confinementNarrower topic: Its non-Abelian gauge dynamics produce the interactions that confine color charge.

• HadronizationNarrower topic: Its strong coupling at low energies makes hadronization impossible to calculate with ordinary perturbation theory.

• Lattice QCDNarrower topic: Lattice QCD numerically realizes this underlying theory rather than replacing it.

• Parton distribution functionNarrower topic: Its dynamics determine how parton content varies with the probing scale.

• Strong nuclear forceNarrower topic: The nuclear force is a residual effect of this underlying interaction.

• Heavy-ion collisionNarrower topic: It governs the matter and forces probed in heavy-ion collisions.

• Jet (particle physics)Narrower topic: Its interactions initiate showers that develop into jets.

• Neutron-star equation of stateNarrower topic: It underlies dense-matter physics, though its equations are difficult to solve at neutron-star densities.

• Strong CP problemNarrower topic: Its topology and quark masses produce the terms behind the puzzle.

• Parton modelNarrower topic: It supplies the modern dynamics underlying the model's constituents.

• Relativistic Heavy Ion ColliderNarrower topic: It supplies the theory RHIC measurements test under extreme conditions.

• AntiquarkNarrower topic: It governs antiquark color interactions and their binding inside hadrons.

• AxionNarrower topic: The strong CP problem and axion coupling arise within this theory.

• CharmoniumNarrower topic: It governs the binding and interactions of charmonium’s constituents.

• Strange quarkNarrower topic: It describes how strange quarks bind inside hadrons.

• Up quarkNarrower topic: It governs how up quarks interact and bind inside hadrons.

• Color superconductivityNarrower topic: Its color gauge interaction supplies the forces and symmetries involved in quark pairing.

• Frank WilczekNarrower topic: Wilczek’s result showed that this theory could explain the strong force’s observed behavior.

• Quark starNarrower topic: It governs the interactions that determine whether dense quark matter can exist.

• PartonNarrower topic: It describes how partons interact and evolve inside hadrons.

• QCD vacuumNarrower topic: The vacuum is QCD’s lowest-energy state, defined by this theory’s fields and dynamics.

• Richard E. TaylorNarrower topic: It later supplied the accepted theory of the quark dynamics probed experimentally.

• High-energy nuclear physicsNarrower topic: Its development gave nuclear physics a fundamental theory of strong interactions.

• Hugh David PolitzerNarrower topic: Its mathematical structure produces the running coupling Politzer analyzed.

• J/ψ mesonNarrower topic: It binds the J/ψ’s charm and anticharm constituents.

• Jerome Isaac FriedmanNarrower topic: It later provided the theory explaining how the revealed quark constituents behave.

• QCD matterNarrower topic: It is the fundamental theory governing QCD matter.