Yang-Mills Fields and the Lattice.

Creutz, M.

Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

关键词: Lattice field theory;    Yang-mills theory;    Elementary particles;    Bag model;    Nuclear forces;   

RP-ID  :  DE200415007713

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

美国|英语

来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

The Yang-Mills theory lies at the heart of our understanding of elementary particle interactions. For the strong nuclear forces, we must understand this theory in the strong coupling regime. The primary technique for this is the lattice. While basically an ultraviolet regulator, the lattice avoids the use of a perturbative expansion. I discuss some of the historical circumstances that drove us to this approach, which has had immense success, convincingly demonstrating quark confinement and obtaining crucial properties of the strong interactions from first principles.