Date of Award
Spring 2006
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Physics
Committee Director
Ian Balitsky
Committee Member
Gail E. Dodge
Committee Member
Charles Sukenik
Committee Member
Anatoly Radyushkin
Committee Member
Glenn Williams
Abstract
The remarkable feature of QCD is that the coupling constant (the strength of the interaction) depends on the energy of the interacting particles. At high energies, the coupling constant vanishes and QCD becomes asymptotically free. However, at lower energy, the running coupling constant increases, leading to the confining strong-coupling theory at energies of the order of hadron masses. We study the essential effects of the running coupling constant and analyze the transition from high to low energies in different processes.
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DOI
10.25777/s0fg-ew45
ISBN
9780542580024
Recommended Citation
Babansky, Alexander.
"Running Coupling Constant and Transition From Low to High Energies in Quantum Chromodynamics"
(2006). Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Thesis, Physics, Old Dominion University, DOI: 10.25777/s0fg-ew45
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