Asymptotic Freedom in Parton Language: the Birth of Perturbative QCD
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2025-01-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
History and Philosophy of Physics
Abstract
I review the contributions of Giorgio Parisi to perturbative QCD. Concentrated in a decade, they mark the transition of the theory of strong interactions from a set of loosely connected ideas based on models, to a quantum field theory that is now an integral part of the standard model of fundamental interactions. Parisi's contributions have established at a very early stage ideas, methods and tools that are now standard, and in several cases anticipated results that only became prominent in the XXIst century.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2501.13158,
title = {Asymptotic Freedom in Parton Language: the Birth of Perturbative QCD},
author = {Stefano Forte},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.13158},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
13 pages, no figures. To appear in the volume "From Quantum Fields to Spin Glasses: A journey through the contributions of Giorgio Parisi to theoretical Physics". Several typos corrected