00000cam a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217613805126 Buklod 20230817120623.0 a r |||| u| ta 230817s2016 xx a rb |001 0|eng d 9789814434928 (iLib)UPD-00526470920 DLC DNIP rda eng DMLUC QC 173.7 P48 2016 Petrov, Alexey A. author. Effective field theories Alexey A. Petrov and Andrew E. Blechman. Singapore World Scientific [2016] xiii, 303 pages illustrations 24 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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.--Provided by publisher. Field theory (Physics) Quantum field theory. Gravitational fields. Blechman, Andrew E. author. Book FO UPD DNIP QC 173.7 P48 2016 Book