How to Use quantum chromodynamics in a Sentence

quantum chromodynamics

noun
  • But their theory of the strong force, quantum chromodynamics, didn’t behave in the usual way, and neither did the particles.
    Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2020
  • So, the work is an important landmark in terms of finding ways to up the precision of the results, and the outcome suggests that quantum chromodynamics is probably fine.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Then came the connection to the best current description of the strong nuclear force with the development of quantum chromodynamics (QCD).
    Priyamvada Natarajan, WSJ, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The results began to make more sense as physicists worked out the true theory that the quark model only approximates: quantum chromodynamics, or QCD.
    Quanta Magazine, 24 Feb. 2021
  • One of those alternatives is the axion, a particle first proposed as a way of solving problems in an unrelated area of physics called quantum chromodynamics.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2019
  • But the theory of the strong force, called quantum chromodynamics (QCD), is so complicated that no one has been able to predict exactly how matter will behave at high temperatures and densities.
    Quanta Magazine, 30 July 2019
  • If the muon and electron don't behave equivalently, then quantum chromodynamics, a major theory in physics, is irretrievably broken in some way.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 2 Dec. 2020
  • The theory of quarks and the strong nuclear force that binds them, quantum chromodynamics (QCD), is so unwieldy that theorists cannot calculate the effects through the usual series of ever smaller approximations.
    Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 14 Apr. 2021
  • The colorful theory became known as quantum chromodynamics, or QCD.
    Quanta Magazine, 19 Oct. 2022
  • One way is via lattice quantum chromodynamics (QCD), a technique that relies on massive computational power to numerically solve the effects of the virtual particles on muons.
    Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2021
  • In 2004 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics, with two other scientists, for his contribution to quantum chromodynamics—a theory about the strong interaction between certain subatomic particles.
    Christopher Levenick, WSJ, 20 Jan. 2021
  • This theoretical work revitalized the nearly moribund quantum field theory and gave birth to QCD (quantum chromodynamics), the theory of the strong interactions.
    Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 24 May 2013
  • Gradually, though, a deeper theory known as quantum chromodynamics (QCD) emerged.
    Quanta Magazine, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The strong nuclear has quantum chromodynamics, electromagnetism has quantum electrodynamics, the weak nuclear has quantum flavordynamics.
    Richard Panek, Twin Cities, 5 Oct. 2019

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