Effective Field Theories
eBook - ePub

Effective Field Theories

From the Ionian School to the Higgs Boson and Beyond

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Effective Field Theories

From the Ionian School to the Higgs Boson and Beyond

About this book

This book is a broad-based text intended to help the growing student body interested in constructing and applying methods of effective field theory to solve problems in their research. It begins with a review of using symmetries to identify the relevant degrees of freedom in a problem, and then presents a variety of methods that can be used to construct various effective theories. A detailed discussion of canonical applications of effective field theory techniques with increasing complexity is given, including Fermi's weak interaction, heavy-quark effective theory, and soft-collinear effective theory. Applications of these techniques to study physics beyond the standard model, dark matter, and quantum and classical gravity are explored. Although most examples come from questions in high-energy physics, many of the methods can also be applied in condensed-matter settings. Appendices include various factoids from group theory and other topics that are used throughout the text, in an attempt to make the book self-contained.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. 1. Introduction
  7. 2. Symmetries
  8. 3. Elementary Techniques
  9. 4. Effective Field Theories of Type I
  10. 5. Effective Field Theories of Type II. Part A.
  11. 6. Effective Field Theories of Type-II. Part B.
  12. 7. Effective Field Theories of Type-III. Fast Particles in Effective Theories
  13. 8. Standard Model as an Effective Field Theory
  14. 9. Effective Field Theories of Gravity
  15. 10. Outlook
  16. Appendix A Review of Group Theory
  17. Appendix B Short Review of QED and QCD
  18. Appendix C Useful Features of Dimensional Regularization
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index