Effective Field Theories II

Period of duration of course
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Course info
Number of course hours
20
Number of hours of lecturers of reference
20
Number of hours of supplementary teaching
0
CFU 3
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Type of exam

Oral exam

Lecturer

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Prerequisites

The course is aimed at 4th year master students.

Prerequisite: an introductory course on Quantum Field Theory, Effective Field Theories part I

Programme

General Relativity as an Effective Field Theory

Renormalization Group flows, fixed points and critical surfaces

The naturalness of the electroweak scale

Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and the Goldstone Theorem

Non-linear realization of space-time symmetries 

The Effective Field Theory of Inflation

Educational aims

The aim is to introduce the modern approach to quantum Effective Field Theories (EFTs). By the end of the course, students will know how to construct and use them. Moreover, they will learn why EFTs today play an ubiquitous role in theoretical physics by inspecting several examples ranging from the Standard Model of particle physics to gravity and the cosmology of the early universe.

Bibliographical references

Steven Weinberg - The Quantum Theory of Fields, Volume 1, 2

Matthew Schwartz - Quantum Field Theory and the Standard Model

Riccardo Barbieri - Lectures on the Electroweak Interactions

Daniel Baumann, Liam McAllister - Inflation and String Theory