Collins J.C. Renormalization. An Introduction to Renormalization, the Renormalization Group and the Operator-Product Expansion

Cambridge University Press, 1986 — 392 pp. — (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics). — ISBN: 9780521311779 (Paperback).Most of the numerical predictions of experimental phenomena in particle physics over the last decade have been made possible by the discovery and exploitation of the simplifications that can happen when phenomena are investigated on short distance and time scales. This book provides a coherent exposition of the techniques underlying these calculations. After reminding the reader of some basic properties of field theories, examples are used to explain the problems to be treated. Then the technique of dimensional regularization and the renormalization group. Finally a number of key applications are treated, culminating in the treatment of deeply inelastic scattering.Quantum field theory
Basic examples
Dimensional regularization
Renormalization
Composite operators
Renormalization group
Large-mass expansion
Global symmetries
Operator-product expansion
Coordinate space
Renormalization of gauge theories
Anomalies
Deep-inelastic scattering