Effective field theories /

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Author / Creator:	Petrov, Alexey A., 1971- author.
Imprint:	Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, [2015] ©2015
Description:	1 online resource (pages cm)
Language:	English
Subject:	Field theory (Physics) Quantum field theory. Gravitational fields. Field theory (Physics) Gravitational fields. Quantum field theory. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11251301

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Other authors / contributors:	Blechman, Andrew E., author.
ISBN:	9789814434935 9814434930 9789814434928 9814434922
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Petrov, Alexey A., 1971- Effective field theories. Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, [2015] 9789814434928 9814434922

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.