Effective Field Theories in Particle Physics and Cosmology Lecture Notes of the Les Houches Summer School: Volume 108, July 2017

by Davidson, Sacha; Gambino, Paolo; Laine, Mikko; Neubert, Matthias; Salomon, Christophe

• ISBN13: 9780191889370
• ISBN10: 0191889377
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2020-08-20
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Sacha Davidson, CNRS Researcher, Laboratoire del'Univers et des Particules de Montpellier,Paolo Gambino, Professor of theoretical physics, University of Turin,Mikko Laine, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Albert Einstein Center, Institute for Theoretical Physics,Matthias Neubert, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz,Christophe Salomon, Directeur de Recherches au CNRS, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS Paris

Sacha Davidson, CNRS Researcher in Astroparticle Physics, Laboratoire del'Univers et des Particules de Montpellier, Montpellier, France.

Paolo Gambino, Professor of Theoretical Physics, National Institute of Nuclear Physics, University of Turin, Torino, Italy.

Mikko Laine, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Albert Einstein Centre, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland.

Matthias Neubert, Director of the Mainz Institute for Theoretical Physics, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.

Christophe Salomon, Research Director at CNRS, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France.

Table of Contents

1. Renormalization Theory and Effective Field Theories, Matthias Neubert
2. Introduction to Effective Field Theories, Aneesh V. Manohar
3. Effective Field Theory with Nambu--Goldstone Modes, Antonio Pich
4. Introduction to Effective Field Theories and Inflation, C.P. Burgess
5. Lectures on Soft-Collinear Effective Theory, Thomas Becher
6. Effective Field Theories forNuclear and (some) Atomic Physics, U. van Kolck
7. Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structure, T. Baldauf
8. Effective Theories for Quark Flavour Physics, Luca Silvestrini
9. Effective Field Theories for Heavy Quarks: Heavy Quark Effective Theory and Heavy Quark Expansion, Thomas Mannel
10. Heavy Quark Effective Theory: a predictive EFT on the lattice, Rainer Sommer
11. Effective theory approach to direct detection of dark matter, Junji Hisano
12. Solutions to Problems at Les Houches Summer School on EFT