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Lectures on Effective Field Theory

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-17 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In these 4 lectures, I give a brief introduction to the principles of effective field theory and discuss their application via 3 examples: (i) the Standard Model as an effective theory; (ii) non-linear sigma models and the composite Higgs; (iii) the quantum field theory of fluids.

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@article{arxiv.1506.05039,
  title  = {Lectures on Effective Field Theory},
  author = {Ben Gripaios},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.05039},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Lectures given at the 2015 NEXT school, 33 pp. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1503.02636

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