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DIAGRAMMATIC ANALYSIS OF QCD GAUGE TRANSFORMATIONS AND GAUGE CANCELLATIONS

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-09-01 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

Diagrammatic techniques are invented to implement QCD gauge transformations. These techniques can be used to discover how gauge-dependent terms are cancelled among diagrams to yield gauge-invariant results in the sum. In this way a multiloop pinching technique can be developed to change ordinary vertices into background-gauge vertices. The techniques can also be used to design new gauges to simplify calculations by reducing the number of gauge-dependent terms present in the intermediate steps. Two examples are discussed to illustrate this aspect of the applications.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9503311,
  title  = {DIAGRAMMATIC ANALYSIS OF QCD GAUGE TRANSFORMATIONS AND GAUGE CANCELLATIONS},
  author = {Y. J. Feng and C. S. Lam},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9503311},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Latex, with 40 diagrams in a uuencoded postscript file. 27 pages in total.