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Introduction to the Pinch Technique

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-02-01 v2

Abstract

These notes are a short introduction to the pinch technique. We present the one-loop calculations for basic QCD Green's functions. The equivalence between the pinch technique and the background field method is explicitly shown at the one-loop level. We review the absorptive pinch technique in the last sections. These lectures are a compilation of relevant papers on this subject and are prepared for the third Modave Summer School in Mathematical Physics.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0801.4249,
  title  = {Introduction to the Pinch Technique},
  author = {Vincent Mathieu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.4249},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

45 pages, lectures given at the Third Modave Summer School in Mathematical Physics, September 2007. References added

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