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| Other authors / contributors: | Papavassiliou, Joannis, author.
Binosi, Daniele, author.
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| ISBN: | 9781009402415
1009402412
9781009402439
1009402439
9781009402446
1009402447
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| Notes: | "First published 2011, reissued as OA 2023."
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 02, 2023).
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| Summary: | Non-Abelian gauge theories, such as quantum chromodynamics (QCD) or electroweak theory, are best studied with the aid of Green's functions that are gauge-invariant off-shell, but unlike for the photon in quantum electrodynamics, conventional graphical constructions fail. The pinch technique provides a systematic framework for constructing such Green's functions, and has many useful applications. Beginning with elementary one-loop examples, this book goes on to extend the method to all orders, showing that the pinch technique is equivalent to calculations in the background field Feynman gauge. The Schwinger-Dyson equations are derived within the pinch technique framework, and are used to show how a dynamical gluon mass arises in QCD. Finally the volume turns to its many applications. This book is ideal for elementary particle theorists and graduate students. This 2011 title has been reissued as an Open Access publication on Cambridge Core.
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