Nonperturbative Quantum Field Theory on the Lattice
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چکیده
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, the mass of the glueball, and αs(MZ ).
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