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Dynamical Effects of Instantons and Merons

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New Frontiers in High-Energy Physics

Part of the book series: Studies in the Natural Sciences ((SNS,volume 14))

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The dynamical effects of instantons and merons in QCD are reviewed. Instantons act like four dimensional color magnetic dipoles and make the coupling increase very rapidly. At a certain scale they break up into meron pairs and the coupling diverges,.

Research sponsored by the Department of Energy under Grant no. EY- 76-3-02-2220o

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  1. Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, USA

    Roger Dashen

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  1. Center for Theoretical Studies, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, USA

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Dashen, R. (1978). Dynamical Effects of Instantons and Merons. In: Perlmutter, A., Scott, L.F. (eds) New Frontiers in High-Energy Physics. Studies in the Natural Sciences, vol 14. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2865-0_27

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