Renormalization: an introduction to renormalization, the renormalization group, and the operator-product expansion

Most of the numerical predictions of experimental phenomena in particle physics over the last decade have been made possible by the discovery and exploitation of the simplifications that can happen when phenomena are investigated on short distance and time scales. This book provides a coherent expos...

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Main Author: Collins, John C. 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press [1984]
Series:Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009401807
Summary:Most of the numerical predictions of experimental phenomena in particle physics over the last decade have been made possible by the discovery and exploitation of the simplifications that can happen when phenomena are investigated on short distance and time scales. This book provides a coherent exposition of the 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. Then the technique of dimensional regularization and the renormalization group. Finally a number of key applications are treated, culminating in the treatment of deeply inelastic scattering
Item Description:First published 1984, reissued as OA 2023
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 380 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781009401807
DOI:10.1017/9781009401807