Examination procedure
<p>Oral exam</p>
Prerequisites
The course is designed for fourth-year master’s students.
Prerequisite: An introductory course in Quantum Field Theory, Effective Field Theories part I
Syllabus
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
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