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What are some good resources to learn about perturbative and non-perturbative approaches to QCD, for example Lattice QCD, at an introductory level?

I am writing at an introductory level about the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon and part of that is the subsequent Lattice QCD that potentially verifies the results from the experiments that ...
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What's the difference between perturbative QCD, non-perturbative QCD, and gauge theory QCD?

I'm trying to get the ideal of QCD, and it turns out that there seems to be several versions, and some of which does not appear to agree with each other at a glance. What's the difference, and how ...
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Decay of some particle involved quarks vs mesons as outgoing states

Let's have decay width of some mother particle into the state which involves hadrons. For simplicity, let's assume that creation of hadrons (on diagram) is possible only through electroweak vertices (...
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