@InertialObservr why doesn't the charge of W bosons make Electroweak theory as intractable as QCD is due to the color charge of gluons?
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That is, we have no consistent "weakly coupled" theory that tells us what goes on as this transition occurs, only above and below Λ. Below Λ, we have the theory of pions and other mesons, which is known as the "eightfold path"
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Wow, thank you for a concise answer. So if qcd is not very useful, what are we hoping to see at experiments like ALICE? The quark-gluon plasma should tell us something about deconfined quarks, what can we learn from that?
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i'm not an expert on this experiment, but I imagine what we hope to do is study the state of deconfined and asymptotically free quarks and gluons. We can learn a lot from, as quark and gluon color singlets are impossible to observe at current energies/temps (due to confinement)
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