The Large-N_c Renormalization Group

dc.creatorDorey, Nick
dc.creatorMattis, Michael
dc.date1995-04-18
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dc.descriptionIn this talk we review how effective theories of mesons and baryons become exactly soluble in the large-N_c limit. We start with a generic hadron Lagrangian constrained only by certain well-known large-N_c selection rules. The bare vertices of the theory are dressed by an infinite class of UV divergent Feynman diagrams at leading order in 1/N_c. We show how all these leading-order diagrams can be summed exactly using semiclassical techniques. The saddle-point field configuration is reminiscent of the chiral bag: hedgehog pions outside a sphere of radius Λ^{-1} (Λbeing the UV cutoff of the effective theory) matched onto nucleon degrees of freedom for r < Λ^{-1}. The effect of this pion cloud is to renormalize the bare nucleon mass, nucleon-Δhyperfine mass splitting, and Yukawa couplings of the theory. The corresponding large-N_c renormalization group equations for these parameters are presented, and solved explicitly in a series of simple models. We explain under what conditions the Skyrmion emerges as a UV fixed-point of the RG flow as Λ--> \infty.
dc.descriptionTalk presented at the 1995 Int'l Workshop on Nuclear & Particle Physics, Seoul, Korea. Accompanied by uu-compressed figures, automatically inserted into LaTeX file
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9504328
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/9504328
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/45460
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleThe Large-N_c Renormalization Group
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