Renormalons as a Bridge between Perturbative and Nonperturbative Physics

Abstract

In two lectures, we overview the renormalon and renormalon-related techniques and their phenomenological applications. We begin with a single renormalon chain which is a well defined and systematic way to specify the character of corrections in inverse powers of the total energy to observables directly in Minkowski space. Renormalons demonstrate also presence of nonperturbative contributions. We proceed then to multirenormalon chains and argue that they are in fact not suppressed compared to a single chain. On one hand, this phenomenon might be a mechanism for enhancement of power corrections. On the other hand, the derivation of relations between power corrections to various observables becomes a formidable task and asks for introduction of models. In the concluding, third part we consider dynamical models for nonperturbative effects, both in infrared and ultraviolet regions, inspired by renormalons.

31 pages, LaTeX file. Talk presented at YKIS97, Kyoto, December, 1997

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