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QCD and Strongly Coupled Gauge Theories: Challenges and Perspectives

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We dedicate this document to the memory of Mikhail Polikarpov, who passed away in July 2013. Misha worked with us for decades as a convener of the “Confinement” section of the Quark Confinement and Hadron Spectrum Series. He guided and expanded the scientific discussion of that topic, inspiring and under taking new research avenues. From its initial conception, he supported the enterprise of this document and organized Sect. 8, writing the part on confinement himself. He attracted the XIth Conference on Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum to St. Petersburg (September 8-12, 2014; see http://phys.spbu.ru/confxi.html). His warm and kind personality, his high sense of humor, his ideas in physics, and his special energy in imagining and realizing new projects will be always a loss and an example for us. We also miss four other physicists who made lasting contributions to the field of strong interactions: Dmitri Diakonov, Nikolai Uraltsev, Pierre van Baal, and Kenneth Wilson. We remember Misha, Dima, Ken, Kolya, and Pierre with fondness and gratitude. In addition, S.G. would like to dedicate her work on this document to the memory of her mother and mentor, Gladys Strom Gardner. The authors thank Mikko Laine for collaboration during initial stages of the project. In addition, Véronique Bernard, Alex Bondar, Geoffrey T. Bodwin, Davide Caffarri, Gilberto Colangelo, Lance Dixon, Gernot Eichmann, Christoph Hanhart, Ulrich Heinz, Aleksi Kurkela, Vittorio Lubicz, Alexander Milov, Bachir Moussallam, Antonio Pineda, Brad Plaster, Massimiliano Procura, Joan Soto, Reinhard Stock, Ruth Van de Water, Ubirajara van Kolck, Julia Velkovska, and Richard Williams provided helpful correspondance and contributions during the preparation of this review. Finally, the Editors thank Małgorzata Janik for maintaining document and bibliography updates and for coordinating an editorial team of Jeremi Niedziela and Anna Zaborowska.