Effective Field Theory | Physics | MIT OpenCourseWare

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Prof. Iain Stewart

Departments

Physics

As Taught In

Spring 2013

Level

Graduate

Topics

Science
- Physics
  - Particle Physics

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Lecture 1: Introduction to Effective Field Theory (EFT)

Lecture 2: Dimensional Power Counting

Lecture 3: Field Redefinitions

Lecture 4: Matching and Decoupling

Lecture 5: Classic Operator Renormalization Group Equations (RGE)

Lecture 6: Chiral Lagrangians

Lecture 7: Chiral Loops

Lecture 8: Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET)

Lecture 9: HQET Matching & Power Corrections

Lecture 10: HQET Examples

Lecture 11: Renormalons

Lecture 12: More Renormalons

Lecture 13: EFT with Fine Tuning

Lecture 14: EFT with Fine Tuning Part 2

Lecture 15: Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) Introduction

Lecture 16: SCET Collinear Wilson Lines

Lecture 17: SCET Multipole Expansion

Lecture 18: SCET Beyond Tree Level

Lecture 19: SCET Beyond Tree Level 2

Lecture 20: SCET Wilson Coefficients

Lecture 21: SCET Sudakov Logarithms

Lecture 22: SCET for DIS

Lecture 23: SCET for Dijets

Lecture 24: SCETII

Lecture 25: SCET_2 Rapidity RGE

Lecture 26: SCET for LHC

Course Info

Instructor

Prof. Iain Stewart

Departments

Physics

As Taught In

Spring 2013

Level

Graduate

Topics

Science
- Physics
  - Particle Physics

Learning Resource Types

Lecture Notes

Lecture Videos

Problem Sets

Projects

Download Course

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