2013

New and Old about Renormalons: in Memoriam Kolya Uraltsev

Shifman, M.

Understand

I summarize what we know of renormalons from the 1970s and 80s: their uses and theoretical status.

It is emphasized that renormalons in QCD are closely related to the Wilsonean operator product expansion (OPE) - a setup ideally suited for dealing with the factorially divergent series reflecting infrared dynamics.
I discuss a breakthrough proposal due to Uraltsev et al.
to use renormalons to evaluate nonperturbative (power) corrections in the processes without OPE.

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