Naturalness, the autonomy of scales, and the 125 GeV Higgs

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2015.05.003zbMath1320.81103OpenAlexW1981498468MaRDI QIDQ493037

Porter Williams

Publication date: 11 September 2015

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2015.05.003

zbMATH Keywords

quantum field theoryrenormalizationeffective field theorynaturalnesshigh-energy physicsinter-level relations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Physics (00A79)

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