Overview

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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Author:   Alexey A Petrov (Wayne State Univ, Usa) ,  Andrew E Blechman (Wayne State Univ, Usa)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.590kg
ISBN:  

9789814434928

ISBN 10:   9814434922
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   13 January 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Symmetries; Elementary Techniques; Effective Field Theories of Type-I; Effective Field Theories of Type-II; Effective Field Theories of Type-III; Supersymmetric Effective Field Theories; Effective Field Theories on the Lattice; Effective Field Theories of Gravity; Outlook.

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