Lectures on Effective Field 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.

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

References in corpus (7)

• The Other Natural Two Higgs Doublet Model
• Bounds in 4D Conformal Field Theories with Global Symmetry
• Tasi 2009 lectures: The Higgs as a Composite Nambu-Goldstone Boson
• The Bases of Effective Field Theories
• The quantum mechanics of perfect fluids
• Quantum Field Theory of Fluids
• On LHC searches for CP-violating, dimension-6 electroweak gauge boson operators

Cited by in corpus (10)

• On the Structure of Anomalous Composite Higgs Models
• Effective Field Theory for Spontaneously Broken Symmetry
• XEFT, the challenging path up the hill: dim = 6 and dim = 8
• Screening and degenerate kinetic self-acceleration from the nonlinear freedom of reconstructed Horndeski theories
• Higgs boson form factor effects in $t\bar{t}$ production by $W^{-}{W}^{+}$ and $ZZ$ fusion
• Test of the triple Higgs boson form factor in ${\mu }^{-}{\mu }^{+}\to HH$
• Tests of Higgs boson compositeness through the HHH form factor
• Resonances in W_L W_L, Z_L Z_L and hh scattering from dispersive analysis of the non-linear Electroweak+Higgs Effective Theory
• An introduction to Goldstone boson physics and to the coset construction
• The Higgs boson structure functions as signposts of new physics