TASI Lectures on Effective Field Theories

Abstract

These notes are a written version of a set of lectures given at TASI-02 on the topic of effective field theories. They are meant as an introduction to some of the latest techniques and applications in the field.

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• A Formalism for the Systematic Treatment of Rapidity Logarithms in Quantum Field Theory
• The Effective Field Theorist's Approach to Gravitational Dynamics
• Power-counting and the Validity of the Classical Approximation During Inflation
• Post-Newtonian corrections to the motion of spinning bodies in NRGR
• Enhanced Non-Gaussianity from Excited Initial States
• Factorization at the LHC: From PDFs to Initial State Jets
• Gravitational radiative corrections from effective field theory
• Next to leading order spin-orbit effects in the motion of inspiralling compact binaries
• Hamiltonian Truncation Study of the Phi^4 Theory in Two Dimensions
• Conservative dynamics of binary systems to fourth Post-Newtonian order in the EFT approach II: Renormalized Lagrangian
• Conservative dynamics of binary systems to fourth Post-Newtonian order in the EFT approach I: Regularized Lagrangian
• CoDEx: Wilson coefficient calculator connecting SMEFT to UV theory
• Effective field theory methods to model compact binaries
• Dissipative effects in the Effective Field Theory of Inflation
• Effective Field Theory of Black Hole Quasinormal Modes in Scalar-Tensor Theories
• On the Apparent Ambiguities in the Post-Newtonian Expansion for Binary Systems
• Les Houches Lectures on Effective Field Theories and Gravitational Radiation
• Cosmic Black-Hole Hair Growth and Quasar OJ287
• Gravitational radiation from inspiralling compact objects: Spin effects to fourth Post-Newtonian order
• Is the Effective Field Theory of Dark Energy Effective?
• STrEAMlining EFT Matching
• Constraints on Galactic Wino Densities from Gamma Ray Lines
• Resummed Photon Spectra for WIMP Annihilation
• Renormalization of initial conditions and the trans-Planckian problem of inflation
• Who You Gonna Call? Runaway Ghosts, Higher Derivatives and Time-Dependence in EFTs
• Effective action and linear response of compact objects in Newtonian gravity
• Factorization, Power Corrections, and the Pion Form Factor
• Dark Matter Absorption via Electronic Excitations
• Minimal Flavour Violation
• TASI Lectures on Effective Field Theory and Precision Electroweak Measurements
• The Lamb shift and the gravitational binding energy for binary black holes
• Effective field theory approach to fluctuation-induced forces between colloids at an interface
• An Introduction to Effective Field Theories
• Effective Theories and Electroweak Precision Constraints
• Manifestly Soft Gauge Invariant Formulation of vNRQCD
• When effective theories predict: the inevitability of Mercury's anomalous perihelion precession
• Renormalization Group Treatment of Nonrenormalizable Interactions
• An Effective Field Theory for Binary Cosmic Strings
• Renormalization and ultraviolet sensitivity of gauge vertices in universal extra dimensions
• Influence Through Mixing: Hotspots as Benchmarks for Basic Black-Hole Behaviour
• One Formula To Match Them All: The Bispinor Universal One-Loop Effective Action
• Probing Physics in the Standard Model and Beyond with Electroweak Baryogenesis and Effective Theories of the Strong Interactions
• Entanglement, Renormalization and Effective Field Theories