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

A coherent exposition of the techniques that underlie calculations of numerical predictions of experimental phenomena in particle physics.

John C. Collins (Author)

9781009401791, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 27 July 2023

392 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.565 kg

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. Originally published in 1977, this title has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.

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.

Subject Areas: Statistical physics [PHS]