Renormalization
Renormalization
£32.99
GBPMany 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. Originally published in 1977, this title has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.
- Exploits the findings that the structure of a quantum field theory often simplifies when one considers processes involving large momenta or short distances
- Demonstrates the practical power of the renormalization group and the operator product expansion
- Reissued as an Open Access title on Cambridge Core
Product details
July 2023Paperback
9781009401791
392 pages
229 × 152 × 21 mm
0.565kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Quantum field theory
- 3. Basic examples
- 4. Dimensional regularization
- 5. Renormalization
- 6. Composite operators
- 7. Renormalization group
- 8. Large-mass expansion
- 9. Global symmetries
- 10. Operator-product expansion
- 11. Coordinate space
- 12. Renormalization of gauge theories
- 13. Anomalies
- 14. Deep-inelastic scattering
- References
- Index.
