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THE DISCOVERY OF ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM AND THE EMERGENCE OF QCD

    This is a revised version of the talk delivered at the Euroconference on Quantum Chromodynamics, Montpellier, July 1998; the original version was published in Nucl. Phys. (Proc. Suppl.) 74, 426 (1999).

    https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812810458_0008Cited by:2 (Source: Crossref)
    Abstract:

    The following sections are included:

    • Introduction

    • The Theoretical Scene

      • Quantum field theory

      • The bootstrap

      • Symmetries

      • Experiment

    • My Road to Asymptotic Freedom

      • From N/D to QCD

      • How to explain scaling?

      • The plan

      • The Discovery of asymptotic freedom

    • Non-Abelian Gauge Theories of the Strong Interactions

    • The Emergence and Acceptance of QCD

    • Other Implications of Asymptotic Freedom

      • Consistency of quantum field theory

      • Unification

    • References