QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS AND CHROMODYNAMICS TREATED THROUGH THOMPSON'S APPROACH

DOI10.1142/S0217751X06031508zbMATH Open1099.81054arXivhep-ph/0506191OpenAlexW3101805235MaRDI QIDQ5485768FDOQ5485768

Authors: Cláudio Nassif, P. R. Silva 

Publication date: 4 September 2006

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this work we apply Thompson's method (of the dimensions and scales) to study some features of the Quantum Electro and Chromodynamics. This heuristic method can be considered as a simple and alternative way to the Renormalisation Group (R.G.) approach and when applied to QED-lagrangian is able to obtain in a first approximation both the running coupling constant behavior of alpha(mu) and the mass m(mu).The calculations are evaluated just at d_c=4, where d_c is the upper critical dimension of the problem, so that we obtain the logarithmic behavior both for the coupling alpha and the excess of mass Delta m on the energy scale mu. Although our results are well-known in the vast literature of field theories,it seems that one of the advantages of Thompson's method, beyond its simplicity is that it is able to extract directly from QED-lagrangian the physical (finite) behavior of alpha(mu) and m(mu), bypassing hard problems of divergences which normally appear in the conventional renormalisation schemes applied to field theories like QED. Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is also treated by the present method in order to obtain the quark condensate value. Besides this, the method is also able to evaluate the vacuum pressure at the boundary of the nucleon. This is done by assumming a step function behavior for the running coupling constant of the QCD, which fits nicely to some quantities related to the strong interaction evaluated through the MIT-bag model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0506191

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zbMATH Keywords

renormalization groupbeta-functionquantum electrodynamics and chromodynamicsThompson's approach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Gamma, beta and polygamma functions (33B15)

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