Asymptotic freedom: History and interpretation

Mar, 2008
22 pages
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Report number:
  • TTP08-12

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Abstract: (arXiv)
In this lecture, the early history of asymptotic freedom is discussed. The first completely correct derivation of \beta_0 in non-abelian gauge theory (Khriplovich, 1969) was done in the Coulomb gauge/ this derivation is reproduced (in modernized terms) in Sect. 2. A qualitative physical explanation of asymptotic freedom via chromomagnetic properties of vacuum (Nielsen, 1981) is discussed in Sect. 3.
  • lectures: Dubna 2008
  • asymptotic freedom
  • history
  • gauge field theory: nonabelian
  • Coulomb gauge
  • quantum electrodynamics
  • quantum chromodynamics
  • vacuum state: chromomagnetic
  • renormalization group: beta function