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Effective Field Theory

Physics MIT CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 26 lectures

Effective field theory is a fundamental framework to describe physical systems with quantum field theory. Part I of this course covers common tools used in effective theories. Part II is an in depth study of the Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET), an effective theory for hard interactions in collider physics.

Syllabus

  1. 1 Lecture 1: Introduction to Effective Field Theory (EFT)
  2. 2 Lecture 2: Dimensional Power Counting
  3. 3 Lecture 3: Field Redefinitions
  4. 4 Lecture 4: Matching and Decoupling
  5. 5 Lecture 5: Classic Operator Renormalization Group Equations (RGE)
  6. 6 Lecture 6: Chiral Lagrangians
  7. 7 Lecture 7: Chiral Loops
  8. 8 Lecture 8: Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET)
  9. 9 Lecture 9: HQET Matching & Power Corrections
  10. 10 Lecture 10: HQET Examples
  11. 11 Lecture 11: Renormalons
  12. 12 Lecture 12: More Renormalons
  13. 13 Lecture 13: EFT with Fine Tuning
  14. 14 Lecture 14: EFT with Fine Tuning Part 2
  15. 15 Lecture 15: Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) Introduction
  16. 16 Lecture 16: SCET Collinear Wilson Lines
  17. 17 Lecture 17: SCET Multipole Expansion
  18. 18 Lecture 18: SCET Beyond Tree Level
  19. 19 Lecture 19: SCET Beyond Tree Level 2
  20. 20 Lecture 20: SCET Wilson Coefficients
  21. 21 Lecture 21: SCET Sudakov Logarithms
  22. 22 Lecture 22: SCET for DIS
  23. 23 Lecture 23: SCET for Dijets
  24. 24 Lecture 24: SCETII
  25. 25 Lecture 25: SCET_2 Rapidity RGE
  26. 26 Lecture 26: SCET for LHC

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