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  • noun physics The property, in some gauge theories, of a strong interaction becoming arbitrarily weak at short distances

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  • That means that the interactions are getting weaker with increasing energy; this effect is known as antiscreening and may be explained by a heuristic argument in which you create ever bigger magnets which strengthen the interaction at longer distances in this case.

    The Reference Frame 2010

  • The antiscreening can never be amplified by new particles because it only comes from the gauge bosons themselves and their number can't change; there is always one gauge boson for one generator of the gauge group.

    The Reference Frame 2010

  • In QCD, instead of screening there is an antiscreening, not of electrical charge, but of its analog, the color charge-which is in no way related to what we normally think of as color.

    American Scientist Online 2009

  • In QCD, instead of screening there is an antiscreening, not of electrical charge, but of its analog, the color charge-which is in no way related to what we normally think of as color.

    American Scientist Online 2009

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