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Intuitive method for constructing effective field theories

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-05-06 v1

Abstract

We derive a novel method for constructing effective field theories. Physically, the method is very close to the intuition behind effective field theories: One can integrate out the heavier scale directly from the path integral. We give a detailed recipe for the effective field theory construction, which is nearly identical to the construction of the so-called 1PI effective action. We also demonstrate the equivalence of the novel method to the commonly used procedure of matching Green's functions.

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@article{arxiv.2205.02687,
  title  = {Intuitive method for constructing effective field theories},
  author = {J. Hirvonen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.02687},
  year   = {2022}
}

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36 pages, 11 figures

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