Asymptotic Freedom in the Infinite Momentum Frame

Jun, 1979
26 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 20 (1979) 1934
Report number:
  • MIT-CTP-790

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Abstract: (APS)
We study the renormalization of SU(N) Yang-Mills theory through one loop in the null-plane gauge. We choose as a measure of the effective coupling the off-shell four-gluon correlation function with all legs having zero transverse momentum. We find that, in addition to self-energy and vertex corrections, two-gluon exchange contributes to coupling-constant renormalization in an essential way. In this gauge, asymptotic freedom is due to a residual attraction between two gluons in the ultraviolet domain.
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: YANG-MILLS
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: SU(N)
  • PROPAGATOR: RENORMALIZATION
  • CORRELATION FUNCTION
  • MODEL: OFF-SHELL
  • GLUON GLUON: INTERACTION
  • INTERACTION: GLUON GLUON
  • EXCHANGE: GLUON
  • GLUON: EXCHANGE
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY: ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM