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

• 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.

• Feynman rulesRelated: Its color-carrying fields require specialized propagators and vertices.

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

• PentaquarkRelated: It governs the forces that bind pentaquark constituents.

• Yoichiro NambuRelated: Nambu’s proposal of a three-valued quark charge anticipated the color degree of freedom used in this theory.

• David GrossRelated: Asymptotic freedom helped establish it as the theory of the strong interaction.

• Down quarkRelated: It describes the forces binding down quarks inside protons and neutrons.

• Quark epochRelated: Its interactions governed the plasma and the emergence of hadrons.

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

• Gerard ’t HooftRelated: The renormalization methods apply to non-Abelian gauge theories such as QCD.

• QuantizationBroader topic: It applies field quantization to the strong nuclear interaction.

• Faddeev–Popov ghostBroader topic: Its gluon self-interactions make ghost loops and vertices essential in covariant gauges.

• TetraquarkRelated: Its dynamics determine whether four-quark configurations can form bound hadrons.

• Kenneth G. WilsonRelated: Wilson’s lattice methods made nonperturbative questions in this theory tractable.

• 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.

• Exotic starRelated: Its behavior at extreme density underlies proposals for quark matter in stellar cores.

• Field and string theory models and techniquesBroader topic: Its confinement problem motivates lattice and other nonperturbative methods.

• Hadron eraRelated: Its confinement dynamics enabled quarks to form hadrons during this epoch.

• Henry Way KendallRelated: It provides the modern theoretical account of the quark structure revealed by scattering.

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

• History of subatomic physicsBroader topic: It explains how the study of nuclear forces developed into a theory of quarks and gluons.

• 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.

• Symmetry-based models (mathematical physics)Broader topic: Its non-Abelian gauge symmetry fixes the structure of gluon interactions.

• Yang Chen-NingRelated: It applies the Yang–Mills framework to the color charge of quarks and gluons.