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Nonperturbative Quantum Field Theory on the Lattice

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

These lectures provide an introduction to lattice methods for nonperturbative studies of quantum field theories, with an emphasis on Quantum Chromodynamics. Lecture 1 (Ch. 2): gauge field basics Lecture 2 (Ch. 3): Abelian duality with a lattice regulator (Ch. 4): simple lattice intuition Lecture 3 (Ch. 5): standard methods (and results) for hadron spectroscopy Lecture 4 (Ch. 6): bare actions and physics Lecture 5 (Ch. 7): two case studies, mass of the glueball and αs(MZ)\alpha_s(M_Z)

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9610132,
  title  = {Nonperturbative Quantum Field Theory on the Lattice},
  author = {T. DeGrand},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9610132},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

60 pages, LaTeX file. Postscript figures embedded using epsf. Lectures presented at 1996 TASI Summer School, TASI96

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