Ebook: Effective Lagrangians for the Standard Model

This book presents a detailed and pedagogical exposition of the effective Lagrangian techniques and their applications to high-energy physics. It covers the main theoretical ideas and describes comprehensively how to use them in different fields, such as chiral perturbation theory and the symmetry breaking sector of the standard model and even low-energy quantum gravity. The book is written in the language of modern quantum field theory. Some of the theoretical topics treated are: decoupling, the Goldstone theorem, the non-linear sigma model, anomalies, the Wess--Zumino--Witten term, and the equivalence theorem.

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XII
The Notion of Effective Lagrangian....Pages 1-21
Global Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory....Pages 23-39
The Non-linear ? Model....Pages 41-58
Anomalies....Pages 59-96
The Symmetries of the Standard Model....Pages 97-123
The Effective Lagrangian for QCD....Pages 125-173
The Standard Model Symmetry Breaking Sector....Pages 175-227
Gravity and the Standard Model....Pages 229-257
Back Matter....Pages 259-316

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Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-XII
The Notion of Effective Lagrangian....Pages 1-21
Global Symmetries in Quantum Field Theory....Pages 23-39
The Non-linear ? Model....Pages 41-58
Anomalies....Pages 59-96
The Symmetries of the Standard Model....Pages 97-123
The Effective Lagrangian for QCD....Pages 125-173
The Standard Model Symmetry Breaking Sector....Pages 175-227
Gravity and the Standard Model....Pages 229-257
Back Matter....Pages 259-316
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