Renormalization An Introduction to Renormalization, the Renormalization Group and the Operator-Product Expansion

• Main Author: Collins, John C. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 1984
• Subjects: Nuclear physics; quantum field theory; dimensional regularization; renormalization; composite operators; renormalization group; large-mass expansion; global symmetries; operator-product expansion; coordinate space; gauge theories; anomalies; deep-inelastic scattering
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Summary

Many numerical predictions of experimental phenomena in particle physics are made possible by exploiting the discovery that simplifications can happen when phenomena are investigated on short distance and time scales. This book provides a coherent exposition of the renormalization techniques underlying these calculations. After reminding the reader of some basic properties of field theories, examples are used to explain the problems to be treated. The technique of dimensional regularization and the renormalization group is then shown. Finally a number of key applications are demonstrated, culminating in the treatment of deeply inelastic scattering.

ISBN

9781009401807

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Open Access