Asymptotic freedom: history and interpretation
History and Philosophy of Physics
2008-03-19 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Popular Physics
Abstract
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0803.2589,
title = {Asymptotic freedom: history and interpretation},
author = {Andrey Grozin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.2589},
year = {2008}
}