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The 16 pages that link to Asymptotic freedom, each with the reason it gives.

• Quantum chromodynamicsRelated: It makes quarks behave nearly freely at short distances.

• GluonRelated: It follows from gluon self-interaction and lets quarks behave nearly freely in hard collisions.

• Strong interactionRelated: It accounts for quarks behaving nearly freely in high-energy collisions.

• Color chargeRelated: At short distances, color-charged quarks interact more weakly.

• Quark–gluon plasmaRelated: It helps explain why interactions inside the plasma become weaker at sufficiently high temperatures.

• Color confinementCompared with: It is the short-distance counterpart to confinement at larger distances.

• Yang–Mills theoryRelated: Yang–Mills self-interactions generate the running coupling that enables this behavior in quantum chromodynamics.

• Bjorken scalingRelated: It makes the parton picture increasingly useful at large momentum transfer.

• Frank WilczekBroader topic: This is the phenomenon Wilczek, Gross, and Politzer discovered.

• David GrossBroader topic: Gross shared the Nobel Prize for discovering this behavior in the strong interaction.

• Yang–Mills existence and mass gapRelated: It supports the short-distance behavior expected of four-dimensional Yang–Mills theory.

• Gerard ’t HooftCompared with: Its discovery explained high-energy behavior in QCD, a consequence distinct from proving renormalizability.

• PartonRelated: It explains why partons can behave nearly freely during hard collisions.

• High-energy nuclear physicsRelated: It explains why energetic collisions can probe quarks and gluons directly.

• Hugh David PolitzerBroader topic: Politzer’s 1973 calculation established this defining behavior of the strong interaction.

• QCD matterRelated: It helps explain why sufficiently hot QCD matter can behave as deconfined constituents.